Assessment Type 2: Responding to Drama

For a 10-credit subject, students undertake one responding to drama task. 

For a 20-credit subject, students undertake two responding to drama tasks.  

Students demonstrate their understanding, analysis, and evaluation of professionally created dramatic works and/or events (such as workshops and masterclasses) in an oral, multimodal, or written response.  

Students choose to respond to one or more dramatic works and/or events in their response. They analyse and evaluate the contribution of practitioners to the artistic and cultural value of the works and events. Students should consider the intention and realisation of the professional dramatic artists’ creative choices in their response. 

Examples of tasks may include, but are not limited to: 

• a multimodal response analysing and evaluating a live theatre performance 
• an oral presentation that analyses and evaluates the experience of a workshop or masterclass by visiting professional performers to the school, and how the student artist might link the learning gained to inform and improve the development of their own practice 
• a tutorial presentation analysing the links between a theatre or screen production, a professional workshop, and the student’s development as an actor creating a character 
• a written review through the lens of a student-artist as designer or director that analyses and evaluates a theatre or screen production. 

A task should be a maximum of 5 minutes if oral or multimodal, or 800 words if written. 

For this assessment type, students provide evidence of their learning primarily in relation to the following assessment design criteria: 

• understanding and exploration 
• critical and creative thinking.