Year 8 Drama – Devising and Performing

The Year 8 Drama course is Inquiry-based, through practical exploration, students will develop deeper levels of understanding and look at the role of the theatre maker. Throughout the semester, Year 8 Drama will develop and extend students’ performance skills in the areas of voice, movement, mime, flashback, and narration.

Through examining theatrical realism, characterisation and blocking techniques, students will explore themes of identity and change in the Australian play ‘Lockie Leonard Human Torpedo’. They will work collaboratively in selecting, rehearsing, and performing three contrasting scenes from the play. In the following term, students will devise their performance work in response to representations of human situations, characters, behaviour, and relationships presented in visual texts, combining the elements of drama through improvisation and play-building.  Throughout this process, students will apply characterisation techniques, experiment with design technologies, and develop a performance vocabulary as they learn the basic principles of dramatic production.