Speech and Drama

Course summary

The core skills being developed in this qualification are: • the ability to recognise and understand the interrelationship between performer, designer and director. • the understanding that texts and extracts studied may represent a range of social, historical and cultural contexts. • the ability to analyse and evaluate their work and the work of others. • the ability to understand how performance texts can be interpreted and performed. The aims and objectives of this qualification are to enable students to: • develop and apply an informed, analytical framework for making, performing, interpreting and understanding drama and theatre. • understand the place of relevant theoretical research in informing the processes and practices involved in creating theatre and the place of practical exploration in informing theoretical knowledge of drama and theatre. • develop an understanding and appreciation of how the social, cultural and historical contexts of performance texts have influenced the development of drama and theatre. • understand the practices used in 21st-century theatre making.