QCE Drama Units 3&4 Notes

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1. The four dramatic languages: forms and styles, conventions, elements, skills3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — How can we use drama to challenge our understanding of humanity?

   The dramatic languages

2. Role, character and relationship on the page and in performance3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — How can we use drama to challenge our understanding of humanity?

   Elements of drama I

3. Tension, mood, contrast and dramatic focus3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — How can we use drama to challenge our understanding of humanity?

   Elements of drama II

4. Time, place, space, situation, symbol, language and movement3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — How can we use drama to challenge our understanding of humanity?

   Elements of drama III

5. What unites the styles: purpose, non-realism and social commentary3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — How can we use drama to challenge our understanding of humanity?

   Theatre of Social Comment

6. Brechtian conventions: gestus, historification, placard, narration and the broken fourth wall3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — How can we use drama to challenge our understanding of humanity?

   Epic theatre

7. Disconnected and non-communicative speech, cyclical form and futility3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — How can we use drama to challenge our understanding of humanity?

   Theatre of the Absurd

8. Forum and image techniques, direct address and audience agency3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — How can we use drama to challenge our understanding of humanity?

   Theatre of the Oppressed and political theatre

9. Extreme variation from serious to comic, stock character and word play3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — How can we use drama to challenge our understanding of humanity?

   Satire and exaggeration

10. Selecting and describing a key moment so an element's manipulation is visible3 · Unit 3 AOS1 — How can we use drama to challenge our understanding of humanity?

    Analysing key moments

11. Chorus, mask, ritualised movement and speech, and the Greek performance context4 · Unit 4 AOS1 — How can you transform dramatic practice?

    Greek theatre

12. Soliloquy, aside, direct address and the thrust stage relationship with audience4 · Unit 4 AOS1 — How can you transform dramatic practice?

    Elizabethan theatre

13. Unities, decorum and stock character in the neoclassical inheritance4 · Unit 4 AOS1 — How can you transform dramatic practice?

    Neoclassicism

14. Stylistic characteristics and philosophies of Contemporary performance4 · Unit 4 AOS1 — How can you transform dramatic practice?

    Contemporary performance

15. Privileging image over spoken text: movement sequence, tableau and poetic image4 · Unit 4 AOS1 — How can you transform dramatic practice?

    Physical and Visual theatre

16. Reframing meaning, transforming context and purpose for a 21st century audience4 · Unit 4 AOS1 — How can you transform dramatic practice?

    Reframing and transforming

17. Climactic, cyclic, episodic, hybrid, linear, non-linear and non-narrative structures4 · Unit 4 AOS1 — How can you transform dramatic practice?

    Form and structure

18. Contemporary conventions: puppetry, projected image, integration of media, soundscape4 · Unit 4 AOS1 — How can you transform dramatic practice?

    Puppetry, projection and multimedia

19. Multiplicity of meanings and the audience's role in making dramatic meaning4 · Unit 4 AOS1 — How can you transform dramatic practice?

    Audience as co-creator

20. Articulating, evaluating and justifying a directorial vision with stagecraft4 · Unit 4 AOS1 — How can you transform dramatic practice?

    Directorial vision