Speech and Drama

Course summary

Spread over two years, the Performing Arts course covers a wide spectrum of performance based units in order for learners to experience every medium of drama and theatre. Learners will develop the technical and interpretative skills necessary to work in many areas of the performing arts. Learners will explore the means and processes of characterisation, interpret texts, develop performance material for performance through rehearsal as well as participating in presenting live performances of the rehearsed material. Although the emphasis is on practical work, the course does contain elements of both theory and