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GCSE Drama & A-Level Drama and Theatre GCSE Drama & A-level Drama and Theatre Jessica Lober Newsome Qualifications Manager Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. Introduction • Approach • Principles • Accreditation • Support • Resources Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. GCSE Authur Miller The Crucible Willy Russell Blood Brothers Patrick Barlow The 39 Steps Carl Grose (Kneehigh Theatre) Hansel and Gretel Malorie Blackman/Dominic Cooke Noughts and Crosses William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream AS and A-level (List A) Sophocles Antigone William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing Carlo Goldoni The Servant of Two Masters Henrik Ibsen Hedda Gabler Bertolt Brecht The Caucasian Chalk Circle Dario Fo Accidental Death of an Anarchist Jez Butterworth Jerusalem A-level (List B) Federico García Lorca Yerma Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie Steven Berkoff Metamorphosis Caryl Churchill Cloud 9 Timberlake Wertenbaker Our Country's Good Polly Teale Brontë Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. GCSE Structure Component 1: 40% 80 1 hour 45 minute written exam marks Understanding • Section A: multiple choice (4 marks) Drama • Section B: set play (46 marks) Written Paper • Section C: production seen (30 marks) Component 2: 40% 80 Devising Devising Drama marks • Devising log (60 marks) Practical • Devised performance (20 marks) Marked by the teacher, postally moderated Component 3: 20% 50 Performing from a text Texts In Practice marks • Performance of Extract 1 (25 marks) Practical • Performance of Extract 2 (25 marks) Marked by a visiting examiner from AQA Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. A-level Structure Component 1: 40% 80 3 hour written exam marks Drama and • Section A: list A play (25 marks) Theatre • Section B: list B play (25 marks) Written Paper • Section C: production seen (30 marks) Component 2: 30% 60 Devising marks Creating Original Practical study of a practitioner Drama • Working notebook (40 marks) Practical • Devised performance (20 marks) Marked by the teacher, postally moderated Component 3: 30% 60 Performing from a text marks Making Theatre Practical study of a practitioner Practical • Practical exploration of 3 extracts from 3 plays; performance of 1 (40 marks) • Reflective report (20 marks) Marked by a visiting examiner from AQA Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. Choice of practitioners • Mike Alfreds • Eclipse • Headlong • Propeller • Antonin Artaud • Marianne Elliott • Nicholas Hytner • Punchdrunk • Steven Berkoff • Vicky Featherstone • Nicholas Kent • Malcolm Rippeth • Alecky Blythe • Polly Findlay • Kneehigh Theatre • Josie Rourke • Augusto Boal • Dario Fo & Franca • Ralph Koltai • Shared Experience • Bertolt Brecht Rame • Mike Leigh • Rae Smith • Peter Brook • Forkbeard Fantasy • Phyllida Lloyd • Max Stafford-Clark • Bruiser Theatre • Frantic Assembly • David Mamet • Konstantin Stanislavski Company • Gareth Fry • John McGrath • Talawa • Alison Chitty • Gecko • Vsevolod Meyerhold • Tamasha • Complicite • John Godber • Bill Mitchell • Julie Taymor • Paule Constable • Rupert Goold • Katie Mitchell • Theatre Alibi • Gordon Craig • Graeae Theatre • John Napier • Unicorn Theatre • Bob Crowley Company • Rufus Norris • Deborah Warner • DV8 • Jerzy Grotowski • Richard Pilbrow • 1927 • Declan Donnellan • Handspring Puppet • Tom Piper • Gregory Doran • Company • Mic Pool Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. Your questions answered Proportion of practical Choosing extracts Co-teaching AS and A-level Performance lengths 3 year GCSE courses Group sizes Clean copies/open book Recording Devising log performances x of x Version 3.0 Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. Contact points for more information • Advice [email protected] 01483 556 301 • CPD [email protected] 0161 957 3646 • AQA Website – register for updates Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. .
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