TRINITY 2
Improvisation Skills.
Key Procedural Knowledge:
Practical Work:
Accepting, Blocking, Trust,
Trust exercises
Simply be, character objective, Emotional subtexts, whole group role play.
Key Disciplinary Knowledge:
Team building skills. Role of improvisation in devised drama.
Key Procedural Knowledge:
PLTs:
Creative Thinkers.
Team Workers.
Reflective Learners.
Self-Manager.
Character / Christian Values:
Creation, community, service, Resilience, Confidence, Determination.
Grit
MICHAELMAS 1
Continue Improvisation
Skills, for 3 weeks then into Shakespeare’s Theatre – Creating Tension
Key Procedural Knowledge:
Practical Work:
Accepting, Blocking, Trust,
Trust exercises
Simply be, character objective, Emotional subtexts, whole group role play,
Key Disciplinary Knowledge:
Team building skills. Role of improvisation in devised drama.
Key Substantive
Knowledge: Architecture of the globe theatre, Generating tension.
Laban techniques to govern style of movement and line delivery.
Using costume to support plot and themes of a performance.
PLTs:
Creative Thinkers
Team Workers
Reflective Learners
Self-Manager
Character / Christian Values:
Creation, community, service,
Resilience, Confidence,
Determination. Grit, Tolerance and Respect
MICHAELMAS 2
Shakespeare’s Theatre – Romeo and Juliet. – Creating Conflict.
Key Procedural Knowledge:
Practical Work:
Space, levels, Focus, body language, gesture, facial expression, Use of voice, journey of a scene, stage fighting techniques, Empathy, thought tracking, Showing subtext,
Key Substantive Knowledge:
Facts about the Elizabethan theatre and its position within British Culture.
Position of Romeo and Juliet as a canonical text and a signifier of division and social change.
Key Disciplinary Knowledge:
Architecture of the globe theatre, Generating tension. Laban techniques to govern style of movement and line delivery. Empathy, Script analysis – punctuation, line endings and imagery
PLTs:
Creative Thinkers
Team Workers
Reflective Learners
Self-Manager
Character / Christian Values:
Creation, community, service,
Resilience, Confidence,
LENT 1
1960’s to Now – Conventions of Modern British Theatre
Key Procedural Knowledge:
Practical Work:
Space, levels, Focus, body language, gesture, facial expression, Use of voice, Importance of the small, Monologue, Building Physical Theatre Motifs.
Performance preparation timetable.
Key Substantive Knowledge:
Overview of the progression of representation, style and genre in British Theatre from 1960 to the present.
Key Disciplinary Knowledge:
Realism, Stanislavsky, Brecht
Alienation, Physical theatre,
Genre,
Written Work:
Theatre company research
PLTs:
Creative Thinkers
Team Workers
Reflective Learners
Self-Manager
Character / Christian Values:
Creation, community, service,
Resilience, Confidence,
Determination. Grit, Tolerance,
Respect
LENT 2
1960’s to Now – Conventions of Modern British Theatre
Key Procedural Knowledge:
Practical Work:
Space, levels, Focus, body language, gesture, facial expression, Use of voice, Importance of the small, Monologue, Building Physical Theatre Motifs.
Performance preparation timetable.
Key Substantive Knowledge:
Overview of the progression of representation, style and genre in British Theatre from 1960 to the present.
Key Disciplinary Knowledge:
Realism, Stanislavsky Brecht
Alienation, Physical theatre,
Genre,
Written Work:
Theatre company research
PLTs:
Creative Thinkers
Team Workers
Reflective Learners
Self-Manager
Character / Christian Values:
Creation, community, service,
Resilience, Confidence,
Determination. Grit, Tolerance,
Respect
TRINITY 1
Blood Brothers – Context and Creating Character.
Key Procedural Knowledge Practical Work:
Space, levels, Focus, body language, gesture, facial expression, Use of voice, Analysis of the journey of a scene,
Key Substantive Knowledge:
Work of Willy Russell Historical Context, dramatic mission.
Key Disciplinary Knowledge:
Musical Theatre
Realistic Style
Stanislavsky
Hot seating
Interpreting Script to develop character.
PLTs:
Creative Thinkers
Team Workers
Reflective Learners
Self-Manager
Character / Christian Values:
Creation, community, service,
Resilience, Confidence,
Determination. Grit, Tolerance,
Respect