HSC Drama Year 12 Notes

These are the 20 revision notes inside the HSC Drama Mastery Pack. Open any note to see what it covers before you buy.

1. Section I decoded: one mandatory question that works for both Australian topicsCore · Australian Drama and Theatre (Core Study): the mandatory Section I question

   The mandatory core question

2. Dramatic Traditions in Australia (1): Norm and Ahmed and The Removalists - New Wave realism, mateship, power and violenceCore · Topic 1: Dramatic Traditions in Australia

   Norm and Ahmed; The Removalists

3. Dramatic Traditions in Australia (2): The 7 Stages of Grieving and The Cake Man - First Nations voices, ritual and the episodic stageCore · Topic 1: Dramatic Traditions in Australia

   The 7 Stages of Grieving; The Cake Man

4. Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice (1): Fangirls and Single Asian Female - pop form, comedy and identityCore · Topic 2: Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice

   Fangirls; Single Asian Female

5. Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice (2): The Visitors and Neighbourhood Watch - history, memory and the theatrical imaginationCore · Topic 2: Contemporary Australian Theatre Practice

   The Visitors; Neighbourhood Watch

6. Staging Australian plays: space, stage image, character and audience as Section I evidenceCore · Australian Drama and Theatre (Core Study): the mandatory Section I question

   Staging for audiences

7. The Voice of Women in Theatre: comparing two female voices across contextsStudies · Topic 3: The Voice of Women in Theatre

   Comparing a List 1 and a List 2 play

8. Approaches to Acting: from training exercises to the actor's presence on stageStudies · Topic 4: Approaches to Acting

   Viewpoints, Lecoq, Meyerhold, Grotowski

9. Verbatim Theatre: testimony, truth and dramatic shape, plus your original verbatim pieceStudies · Topic 5: Verbatim Theatre

   Testimony, truth and dramatic shape

10. Black Comedy: humour, the controversial and catharsis across plays from different countriesStudies · Topic 6: Black Comedy

    Humour, the taboo and catharsis

11. Multi-Discipline Theatre: collaboration, improvisation and the highly visual stageStudies · Topic 7: Multi-Discipline Theatre

    Lepage and Ex Machina or McBurney and Complicité

12. Significant Plays of the 20th Century: epic, absurd, documentary and realist landmarksStudies · Topic 8: Significant Plays of the 20th Century

    Paradigm shifts in 20th-century theatre

13. Japanese Traditional and Contemporary Theatre: one traditional form and Tadashi SuzukiStudies · Topic 9: Japanese Traditional and Contemporary Theatre

    Noh, Kabuki or Bunraku with Suzuki

14. The vocabulary markers reward: elements of drama, elements of production and designCraft · Critically studying: elements, styles, experiential evidence and essay craft

    Elements of drama and production

15. Forms, performance styles, traditions and conventions: naming precisely what happens on stageCraft · Critically studying: elements, styles, experiential evidence and essay craft

    Forms, styles and conventions

16. Writing experiential learning: turning workshops into live theatrical momentsCraft · Critically studying: elements, styles, experiential evidence and essay craft

    Experiential learning as evidence

17. Decoding NESA Drama questions: key terms, 'could be staged', 'influenced your understanding' and comparisonCraft · Critically studying: elements, styles, experiential evidence and essay craft

    Unpacking the question

18. Building a sustained, logical and cohesive 800-word response in 45 minutesCraft · Critically studying: elements, styles, experiential evidence and essay craft

    The 20-mark extended response

19. Group Performance: the 30-mark devised piece, its three criteria and the 2025-2027 topic listPractical · Group Performance and Individual Project (practical components, not in the written paper)

    Group Performance

20. Individual Project: the five areas, the 300-word rationale and the logbookPractical · Group Performance and Individual Project (practical components, not in the written paper)

    Individual Project