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Those who took/plan on taking Drama at GCSE/A level/Degree... Please read.
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Hai.
I was just really curious to all of those people who took Drama at GCSE/A level/Degree what do you learn about.
More importantly for those doing it at GCSE/A level (where do you do it?) what do you plan on doing when your course ends? Are you going on to do Drama at degree or are you going to an acting school? Where? When. Educate meeeee.
Lastly, what do you plan to be/do when all of this is finished.
It worries the shit out of me knowing that people reply/read/post in this forum about once every 12 years so please reply because I'm interested/curious/check out all of the forward dashage!
I was just really curious to all of those people who took Drama at GCSE/A level/Degree what do you learn about.
More importantly for those doing it at GCSE/A level (where do you do it?) what do you plan on doing when your course ends? Are you going on to do Drama at degree or are you going to an acting school? Where? When. Educate meeeee.
Lastly, what do you plan to be/do when all of this is finished.
It worries the shit out of me knowing that people reply/read/post in this forum about once every 12 years so please reply because I'm interested/curious/check out all of the forward dashage!
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I did both courses at school and they were offered as options you could choose. At GCSE, we learnt about different acting and directing techniques. We learnt a bit about certain pracitioners and what they did. You also had to learn a bit about the technical side of theatre as well as rehearse, be in and put on plays.
For A-level, there were set texts you had to study and analyse with regard to how you might direct, stage or act in them. There were set pracitioners you had to study in detail. Look at their work and what influence they had on theatre/drama. We studied Brecht for example. Also you had to specialise in one aspect of theatre, could be acting, directing, lighting, set design, stage management etc. Then you had to do an individual project as well as a group piece.
I went on to do a degree in English Language that had no relevence to my previous drama experience. I am now a producer at a local radio station.
If you want to go on to study drama past school, why not look at going to University or somewhere like Central School for Speech and Drama or RADA?
I hope that helps
MUR
basically, as the woman at college said 'its plays plays plays, reading them, acting them, directing them, staging them'
so far in gcse weve done a couple of plays but mostly improv stuff.
i've got an audition with the national youth theatre in february but mainly i'm doing it, firstly cos i love it and secondly cos next year im doing all academic subjects apart from drama.
i doubt i'll do it any further than a-level though. will be a shame, i had a short film we made on the bbc last year and we've done small productions and i was in a comedians tour of greenwich as well
edited to add
+ i also do an after school girls drama workshop where we make our own plays, we may be performing the current one at the albany theatre
i did it cause when i picked my A levels i had no idea what i wanted to do, and so just picked ones i thought i'd enjoy/do well at.
Did you enjoy/do well at it?
i got me an A and made some really great friends. so yes
is it because i'm a dramaqueen?
i did do it for A level, and applied to do it at uni, before i went to the auditions and met the other people who'd applied, and they put me off.