A group collaboration in response to a stimulus leading to the creation of an original performance.

Working well together to achieve an end goal

The acto of staging or presenting a play

A person or theatre company that creates practical work or theories to do with performance and theatre.

Drama is created and shaped by the elements of drama which can include: role, character and relationships, situation, voice, movement, space and time, language and texts, symbol and metaphor, mood and atmosphere, audience and dramatic tension.

A journal used to record the journey you and your group have been through during your assessment.

A group collaboration in response to a stimulus leading to the creation of an original performance.

The starting point in a piece of devised drama

Abstract drama does not follow the linear sequence of a story. It is more concerned about representing the underlying feelings, moods, themes and ideas.

A method of teaching and learning drama where both the students and teacher are working in and out of role.

How the work is presented on stage.

How the plot or story of a play is laid out, including a beginning, a middle and an end. Plays may also include subplots , which are smaller stories that allow the audience to follow the journey of different characters and events within the plot.

A scripted text that depicts action via dialogues of acting characters and. authorial notes

Practice sessions or practice performance done prior to a real event or before viewing by an audience.

Contemporary Drama focuses on late 20th – 21st Century plays, and the analysis of their theatrical structures from the perspective of theatre artists – playwrights, actors, directors, and designers.

The person or group of people the play or performers are aiming for or trying to reach.

A particular manner of acting which reflects cultural and historical influences.

Choices made about the way to play the scene or character

Giving something meaning

1. Dramatic purpose is a term used to describe a scene or part of dialogue that serves a specific purpose to the plot. 2. The point of what you are doing.

Where the performance is taking place.

The process designed to intrigue the people who can help create a play—either studio executives, distributors, producers, or directors—to sign onto the project. A movie pitch can be a verbal or a visual presentation of a writer’s big idea,

How you advertise an event

The process of evaluatung the work you have done

A group collaboration in response to a stimulus leading to the creation of an original performance.

Stimuli The starting point in a piece of devised drama

Abstract drama does not follow the linear sequence of a story. It is more concerned about representing the underlying feelings, moods, themes and ideas.

A method of teaching and learning drama where both the students and teacher are working in and out of role.

How the work is presented on stage.

How the plot or story of a play is laid out, including a beginning, a middle and an end. Plays may also include subplots , which are smaller stories that allow the audience to follow the journey of different characters and events within the plot.

Japanese traditional puppet theatre

a category of puppet which is manipulated with rods.

A marionette is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings

The ways the attention of an audience can be drawn to certain elements of what is happening in a performance space.

How the puppet is moving through the space

Safety measures taken to ensure safe working

A style of drama in which real events are reconstructed through the dramatisation of the largely unaltered text of documentary sources

A practitioner and playwright whose work focuses around verbatim theatre

A term used to define any drama that does not focus on life-like representation on stage

The person or group of people the play or performers are aiming for or trying to reach.

The different ways in which dramatic meaning is communicated to an audience

The decisions made by theatre makers to communicate meaning through their work.

The point of your performance or the piece as a whole and how it is communicated to your audience.

The planning, rehearsal, and presentation of a work.

How the work is presented on stage.

A style or category. For example, tragedy, comedy, historical or Science Fiction.

A journal used to record the journey you and your group have been through during your assessment.

Evaluating your work, looking at what went well and what could be improved.