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Theme: Roald Dahl (Devising)

Students will study the story and musical Matilda and explore the story line and characters. Students will explore this through, mime, characterisations, freeze frames, thought tracking and physical theatre techniques. Students will work on devising their own script for class performance giving freedom of creativity.  

Through teaching Musical Theatre, students will develop language and articulation skills as well as learning how to communicate clearly, expressively, and confidently in front of an audience. Incorporating drama techniques into the study of texts promotes a far greater level of engagement with the narrative, characters and themes on an intellectual, physical, emotional and creative level. 

This topic is teacher-led, but students create the bulk of the work through devising in order to explore the elements of Drama and the Actors’ toolkit. This topic is suitable for the age range and interests and links with the whole school trip to see Matilda. Links to Comp 1 Devising at GCSE. 

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Theme: Harry Potter (Script work)

Students will study the script of Harry Potter and the cursed child and explore the story line and characters. Students will explore this through Drama techniques such as role on the wall, mime, physical theatre and choral theatre in order to bring ‘page to stage’. Students will work on a scripted scene for performance. 

Using story and script to inform Drama performances can create a playful way of learning. It creates constructive and creative comprehension of the given matter and allows students to visualise and understand different stories and narratives. It also teaches them about the importance of stage directions and instructions regarding the positioning or movement of the actors. This topic is suitable for the age range and interests of students. This unit prepares learners for the skills required to learn and perform a character from script and is linked to component 2 script work at GCSE.