This is a challenging and engaging course that allows students to work collaboratively creating new devised work as well as encouraging individual research skills. It is a chance to explore the history of theatre and develop an understanding of how theatre makers communicate to an audience. The course will allow students to perform, create, design and evaluate whilst exploring the work of established practitioners such as Brecht, Stanislavski, Artaud, Complicite and many more. Students will also have an opportunity to apply the skills and understanding they have learnt to creating their own original work. Component 1: Devising (40% of overall A level): Students will work in collaboration to create an original performance and can either explore performative or design elements working from given stimulus in light of a chosen practitioner (for example Artaud or Brecht). This component is assessed internally based on practical performance and a log of the devising process. Component 2: Text in performance (20%): You will explore a scripted text and in it you will perform one key extract from a given text as well as performing a monologue/duologue from a different text. These two performances are marked by an external examiner. Component 3: Theatre makers in practice (2hr 30 min written exam - 40%): It is a written exam but the content is delivered practically. The exam will explore the roles of directors and designers as well as considering different approaches to interpretation of a set text. This unit explores different approaches to drama and theatre and explores theatrical movements through history and the approaches of a variety of different theatre practitioners.