WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Drama - Designing Drama


Book Description

The Student Book provides comprehensive support for the design route through the WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Drama specification, covering all lighting, sound, set and costume options // The clear and accessible layout will help you engage with and fully understand key design ideas and information. // Written by an experienced author and drama teacher in collaboration with expert consultants working professionally in each of the design areas. // Includes a variety of features including Assessment Checks, Tasks and Design Tips, with key terminology identified and defined throughout. // Numerous diagrams, sketches, plans and photographs help you visualise the practical elements of being a drama designer. // Provides a range of practice questions with exemplar answers and extensive advice on exam preparation.




WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Drama - Designing Drama: Lighting, Sound, Set & Costume Design


Book Description

The Student Book provides comprehensive support for the design route through the WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Drama specification, covering all lighting, sound, set and costume options // The clear and accessible layout will help you engage with and fully understand key design ideas and information. // Written by an experienced author and drama teacher in collaboration with expert consultants working professionally in each of the design areas. // Includes a variety of features including Assessment Checks, Tasks and Design Tips, with key terminology identified and defined throughout. // Numerous diagrams, sketches, plans and photographs help you visualise the practical elements of being a drama designer. // Provides a range of practice questions with exemplar answers and extensive advice on exam preparation.




WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Drama


Book Description

Written by an experienced senior examiner and teacher, and endorsed by WJEC/Eduqas, this vibrant student book provides invaluable support in an accessible and engaging style for all three components of the new specification, including: All aspects of devising and performing and on rehearsal techniques. / Creating a portfolio of supporting evidence and on choosing suitable extracts from a text. / Evaluating and helping improve students' own devised performance. / Understanding key theatre practitioners and genres, with suggested practical activities / Focused introductions to the set plays. / Support and advice for technical students who choose set, lighting or sound design.




DNA


Book Description

This new Student Edition of Dennis Kelly's popular play DNA contains introductory commentary and notes by Clare Finburgh Delijani, which gives an in-depth analysis of the play's context and themes. As well as the complete text of the play, this new Methuen Drama Student Edition includes: · An introduction to the playwright and social context of the play · Discussion of the context, themes, characters and dramatic form · Overview of staging and performance history of the play · Bibliography of suggested primary and secondary materials for further study. Dennis Kelly's play DNA centres on friendship, morality and responsibility in odd circumstances. When a group of young friends are faced with a terrible accident, they deliberately make the wrong choices to cover it up and find themselves in an unusually binding friendship where no one will own up to what they've done.




Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Drama: Designing Drama


Book Description

Endorsed by Edexcel, this Student Book supports you through the GCSE Drama design options of costume, lighting, set and sound design. / The clear and accessible layout will help you engage with and fully undersatnd key design ideas and information. / Written by an experienced author and drama teacher in collaboration with expert consultants working professionally in each of the design areas. / Separate chapters for each of the four design elements give a solid foundation on which to develop the required exam skills. / Numerous diagrams, sketches, plans and photographs help you visualise the practical elements of being a drama designer. / Provides a range of practice questions with exemplar answers and extensive advice on exam preparation.




WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Drama Study & Revision Guide


Book Description

Written by an experienced drama teacher, this practical Study & Revision Guide provides essential guidance for the non-examined assessment components of the course as well as for the written exam. // Separate sections are included for Devising Theatre, Performing from a Text and Interpreting Theatre components, helping you successfully complete your coursework and develop your exam skills. // Covers key theatre practitioners with clear information on Brecht, Stanislavski, Mitchell, Berkoff and Rice. //All WJEC and Eduqas set texts are covered with summary notes and activities. // Performance and design options are covered. // 'For your Portfolio' helps you build the evidence you need for the Devising Theatre portfolio - rehearsal notes, mind maps and annotated scripts. // 'Assessment Objectives' show you which elements of the assessment criteria you are working towards. // 'Tips' for each topic provide hints and advice to produce successful work. // Numerous stage sketches and production photographs help visualise the practical elements of theatre.




School Play


Book Description

Fifteen-year-old Charlie has serious ambitions - to mess with teachers' heads, to front a gang, to ride the motorbike that blows all competition out of the water. But when the new music teacher, Miss Fry, arrives, things start to change.




Hard to Swallow


Book Description

Hard To Swallow has become a much used play in schools across the globe. This play, an adaptation of Maureen Dunbar’s award winning book and film “Catherine”, charts her daughter’s uneven battle with anorexia and the family’s difficulties in coping with it all. “This play reaches moments of almost unbearable intensity… naturalistic scenes flow seamlessly into sequences of highly stylised theatre… such potent theatre!” Vera Lustig, The Independent “HARD TO SWALLOW uses simple narrative and a series of stylised visual tableaux to build a powerful and sometimes harrowing chronicle of Catherine’s long and ultimately unsuccessful fight against anorexia nervosa... uncompromising and sensitive... its ability to raise our awareness of a condition about which we remain woefully ignorant defines it as an important piece of work... it should be compulsory viewing for anyone connected with the education of teenagers.” Mick Martin: Times Educational Supplement




A Day in the Death of Joe Egg


Book Description

The play centres on a British couple, Bri and Sheila, who are struggling to save their marriage whilst trying to raise their only child, a small girl named Josephine, who has cerebral palsy. She uses a wheelchair and is nonverbal, which her parents see as unable to communicate. Caring for her has occupied nearly every moment of her parents' lives since her birth, taking a heavy toll on their marriage. Sheila gives Josephine as much of a life as she can, while Bri wants the child institutionalised and has begun to entertain chilling fantasies of killing himself and Josephine.




One Man, Two Guvnors


Book Description

Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from his fiancee's dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who's been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. Holed up at The Cricketers' Arms, the permanently ravenous Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with one Stanley Stubbers, who is hiding from the police and waiting to be re-united with Rachel. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart. Simple. Based on Carlo Goldoni's classic Italian comedy The Servant of Two Masters, in this new English version by prize winning playwright Richard Bean, sex, food and money are high on the agenda.




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