200 Plays for GCSE and A-Level Performance: A Drama Teacher's Guide
How do I choose a play to perform with my students that meets the curriculum requirements and also interests my class?
What can I introduce my students to that they might not already know?

If you're asking these questions, this is the book for you!

Written specifically for drama teachers, this is a quick, easy-to-use guide to finding and staging the best performance material for the whole range of student abilities and requirements for 15 - 18-year-olds.

It suggests 200 plays suitable for students of all abilities and requirements, providing sound advice on selection and realisation, and opening up plays and playwrights you may have never known existed.

Structured in 2 parts, Part 1 consists of 8 easy-to-read chapters, explaining how to get the most out of the resource. Part 2 is a vast resource listing 200 plays suitable for study/performance at GCSE and A Level. The details of each play are set out in an easy-to-navigate chart that offers introductory information on:

Play
Playwright
Casting numbers
Gender splits
Ability
Genre description
Brief Summary
Exam level
Workshop ideas
Warnings/advice (where necessary)
Suggested scenes for study
Performance notes including lighting, sound, costume and space

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200 Plays for GCSE and A-Level Performance: A Drama Teacher's Guide
How do I choose a play to perform with my students that meets the curriculum requirements and also interests my class?
What can I introduce my students to that they might not already know?

If you're asking these questions, this is the book for you!

Written specifically for drama teachers, this is a quick, easy-to-use guide to finding and staging the best performance material for the whole range of student abilities and requirements for 15 - 18-year-olds.

It suggests 200 plays suitable for students of all abilities and requirements, providing sound advice on selection and realisation, and opening up plays and playwrights you may have never known existed.

Structured in 2 parts, Part 1 consists of 8 easy-to-read chapters, explaining how to get the most out of the resource. Part 2 is a vast resource listing 200 plays suitable for study/performance at GCSE and A Level. The details of each play are set out in an easy-to-navigate chart that offers introductory information on:

Play
Playwright
Casting numbers
Gender splits
Ability
Genre description
Brief Summary
Exam level
Workshop ideas
Warnings/advice (where necessary)
Suggested scenes for study
Performance notes including lighting, sound, costume and space

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200 Plays for GCSE and A-Level Performance: A Drama Teacher's Guide

200 Plays for GCSE and A-Level Performance: A Drama Teacher's Guide

by Jason Hanlan
200 Plays for GCSE and A-Level Performance: A Drama Teacher's Guide

200 Plays for GCSE and A-Level Performance: A Drama Teacher's Guide

by Jason Hanlan

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Overview

How do I choose a play to perform with my students that meets the curriculum requirements and also interests my class?
What can I introduce my students to that they might not already know?

If you're asking these questions, this is the book for you!

Written specifically for drama teachers, this is a quick, easy-to-use guide to finding and staging the best performance material for the whole range of student abilities and requirements for 15 - 18-year-olds.

It suggests 200 plays suitable for students of all abilities and requirements, providing sound advice on selection and realisation, and opening up plays and playwrights you may have never known existed.

Structured in 2 parts, Part 1 consists of 8 easy-to-read chapters, explaining how to get the most out of the resource. Part 2 is a vast resource listing 200 plays suitable for study/performance at GCSE and A Level. The details of each play are set out in an easy-to-navigate chart that offers introductory information on:

Play
Playwright
Casting numbers
Gender splits
Ability
Genre description
Brief Summary
Exam level
Workshop ideas
Warnings/advice (where necessary)
Suggested scenes for study
Performance notes including lighting, sound, costume and space


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350146617
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 07/01/2021
Pages: 184
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Jason Hanlan has built and led a drama department in a secondary school and been Head of Performing Arts. Over the last twenty-eight years he has directed/produced more than 40 shows, from the all singing, all dancing musicals to small intimate studio performance. He was LEA advisor for Surrey secondary drama and Lead Teacher for Drama in Berkshire. He has worked for AQA drama GCSE as a moderator and senior moderator for 12 years and, as part of this role, has been Coursework Advisor for teachers of GCSE Drama throughout the UK. He has been a senior moderator for AQA Performing Arts for four years and run teacher inset and training courses. He was previously Profesor De Teatro at Colegio Las Candelas Mendoza Argentina and is currently Asesor Académico del Programa de Arte de la Universidad Congreso. (Academic Consultant for the Arts at The Congreso University, Argentina).

Table of Contents

Foreword

Part 1

1. How to Use This Book
2. Know Your Students: The Skills Audit
3. Which Play? Guiding Students in Choosing the Best Material
4. Design Options
5. Performance Exams: Everything You Need to Know for a Smoothly Run Professional Exam
6. Performance Spaces: Intimate or Epic?
7. The Skills of the Actor: Language of the Theatre
8. Shakespeare

Part 2

200 plays

Index

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