RHS Sixth Form Curriculum 2020-2022

Course outline

WJEC EDUQAS

This highly practical specification provides learners with the opportunity to work as either performers and/or designers on three different performances. This is an exciting, rigorous and dynamic course. Overall students will study 5 different texts, and assessments vary from live performance, portfolios and written exams. Students are able to submit acting or technical pieces for examinations.

Component 1: Theatre Workshop (20%)

Learners participate in the creation, development and performance of:

• One reinterpretation of an extract from a text, using the working methods and techniques of either an influential theatre practitioner or a recognised theatre company.

Students will also complete a creative log that justifies and explains their ideas for performance

Component 2: Text in Action (40%) Learners participate in the creation, development and performance of:

• One devised piece using the working methods and techniques of a second different influential theatre practitioner or recognised theatre company

• One extract from a text in a contrasting style to the devised performance.

Component 3: Text in Performance (40%) Learners explore:

• Two complete performance texts from different historical periods

• One extract from a third contrasting text.

In Components 1 and 2 learners are given the opportunity to develop performing and/or design skills as appropriate to their interests. Alongside course study, Sixth Form Drama students are offered the opportunity to watch some of the best live performances in various theatres around the country including Chichester Festival Theatre and the Bristol Old Vic. Students are offered the opportunity to attend a weekend residential in London which includes a National Theatre backstage Tour and a selection of Professionally Led Drama School workshops. Students have the chance to work with visiting theatre companies including Frantic Assembly and Kilter Theatre Company and also to participate in workshops with visiting practitioners. A Level students are encouraged to participate in school productions as well as producing their own performances.

Recent alumni have gone on to train at nationally and internationally recognised Drama schools and Universities such as : Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Bard College New York and both Royal Holloway and Goldsmith Universities. Many students go on to pursue professional careers in the theatre, television and film, both as actors and behind the scenes as directors, producers and technicians. Recent alumni have enjoyed careers in the West End and English National Opera as well as establishing their own theatre companies.

Drama is equally important in such fields as: Law; Medicine; Teaching; Advertising; PR; Logistics; Events Management. Top business and finance firms appreciate Drama and Theatre students for their inherent leadership, problem-solving, and people management competencies. Many of our students have been awarded places at illustrious universities including those of the Russell Group and Oxbridge.

“Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it; it is a rehearsal for the revolution.”