Subject Code: 2DRM20
Length of course: Full year
Credit points and TAS status: 20 Credit TAS
Recommended Background: Successful completion of Stage 1 Drama A or Stage 1 Drama B.

Precluded combinations with current MHS SACE subjects:
None

Course Outline
Students acquire the skills and understanding to generate creative and imaginative solutions to the challenge of staging theatrical works. Drama values the exploration of all forms of learning, integrating the creative with the physical and the intellectual.

Students analyse texts and other materials, performances, and their own learning. As students experience diverse perspectives and challenge their own imaginations, they have the opportunity to develop confidence in their own ideas.

Topics Covered
  • Collaborative researched exploration and dramatic presentation of a listed practitioner or dramatic work
  • Individual study of listed practitioner or text, providing that one text and one dramatic work is covered during the course
  • Folio of individual evaluation and analysis of dramatic works including a report on the Group Production and review of professional theatre or its equivalent.
  • Production role or Individual Investigation on a teacher negotiated topic.

Assessment:
  • School Based Assessment 70%
    • Group Analysis and Creative Interpretation 20%
    • Review and Reflection 30%
    • Interpretative Study 20%
  • External Assessment 30%
    • Group Performance or Individual Investigation and Presentation

Additional Costs:
Costs for excursions that include tickets and transport to see live performances

Further information on post school pathways: