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GCSE

Drama

Year Group

10 and 11

Unit title

Component 1: Understanding Drama (The Written Exam)

Links: 

Theatre Roles and Responsibilities

‘Get Into Theatre’: www.getintotheatre.org (also for careers)

 

Blood Brothers

The website of Willy Russell: www.willyrussell.com

Blood Brothers resource pack: www.chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk/media/76525/Blood-Brothers-Tour-Education-Pack.pdf 

 

Billy Elliot the Musical

The website of the stage production: www.billyelliotthemusical.com 


Drama

Year Group

10 and 11

Unit title

Component 2: Devising Drama (The Devised Performance and Logbook)

Links: 

Theatre Practitioners

Paper Birds: www.thepaperbirds.com 

Frantic Assembly: www.franticassembly.co.uk 

‘Five Truiths’ (a scene from Hamlet performed in the style of five different influential theatre practitioners): www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5DE67813461897E6 


Drama

Year Group

10 and 11

Unit title

Component 3: Texts in Practice (The Scripted Performances)

Links: 

Plays to Read

One Man, Two Guv’nors by Richard Bean

DNA by Dennis Kelly

Remote by Stef Smith

Girls Like That by Evan Placey

The Wardrobe by Sam Holcroft

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, adapted by Simon Stephens

Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale

 

Drama

Year Group

10 and 11

Unit title

General Links

Links: 

Streamed Performances

National Theatre at Home: www.ntathome.com 

 

Miscellaneous Resources

Theatre Centre: www.theatre-centre.co.uk/resources

 

 

A Level

Drama and Theatre

Year Group

12 and 13

Unit title

Component 1: Understanding Drama (The Written Exam)

Links: 

Theatre Roles and Responsibilities

‘Get Into Theatre’: www.getintotheatre.org (also for careers)

 

Antigone

‘Antigone: An Introduction’: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjrcNUOS2bc 

‘In Search of Greek Theatre #1: Antigone (2012) at the National Theatre’: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTCo7LKc-vU 

Clothing in Ancient Greece Wikipedia page: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing_in_ancient_Greece 

‘Historical Drama’ playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlS1ESmUb_tDWSYQ53VlanKVa6wH05G1J 

Greek Theatre OpenLearn course: www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/greek-theatre?track=2

‘Crash Course Theater and Drama’ playlist:  www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtONXALkeh5uisZqrAcPKCee 

 

Our Country’s Good

Bloomsbury publishing activity pack: www.bloomsbury.com/media/1hydaxyg/our-countrys-good_online_resource.pdf 

Character summaries: www.bourne-grammar.lincs.sch.uk/attachments/download.asp?file=1785&type=pdf

Costume design ideas: www.designresearchla.wordpress.com/category/costumes 

Set design video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB5ouZ6JGSQ

Lighting design video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn5tlyA_YEg 

 

Things I Know to be True

Resource pack: www.franticassembly.co.uk/resources/things-i-know-to-be-true-resource-pack 


 

Drama and Theatre

Year Group

12 and 13

Unit title

Component 2: Devising Drama (The Devised Performance and Logbook)

Links: 

Theatre Practitioners

Paper Birds: www.thepaperbirds.com 

Frantic Assembly: www.franticassembly.co.uk 

Cheek by Jowl (Artistic Director: Declan Donnellan): www.cheekbyjowl.com 

‘Five Truiths’ (a scene from Hamlet performed in the style of five different influential theatre practitioners): www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5DE67813461897E6 

Burt’s Drama Practitioners and Genres: www.burtsdrama.com/practitioners-and-genres 


Drama and Theatre

Year Group

12 and 13

Unit title

Component 3: Texts in Practice (The Scripted Performances)

Links: 

Plays to Read

One Man, Two Guv’nors by Richard Bean

Girls Like That by Evan Placey

The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

Colder Than Here by Laura Wade

The Zoo Story by Edward Albee

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, adapted by Simon Stephens

Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale


Drama and Theatre

Year Group

12 and 13

Unit title

General Links

Links: 

Streamed Performances

National Theatre at Home: www.ntathome.com 

 

Miscellaneous Resources

Theatre Centre: www.theatre-centre.co.uk/resources