EdExcel -- A2 -- Drama & Theatre Studies

Hi!

The group performance in A2 is devised. So your teacher should give you a stimulus and then you create your own original piece of theatre from that. You then have to write a 3,500 Written Supporting Evidence document explaining your devised piece

The unit is a lot of hard work but it's sooo much fun and very rewarding once you know what you're doing (and if you've got a good drama teacher) lol xx

Hey year 13 is a lot harder than year 12 but it's a lot of fun in my opinion. As someone previously said its a devised group piece with a stimulus your teacher gives you (though we found our own one). It is very fun.
How come you performed your group piece and monologue months apart? Just curious as everyone I know and me performed it on the same night?

Oh, ok thanks, it doesn't sound that bad....apart from the Written Supporting Evidence
How strict are they on marks? I've gone over most of my coursework, not by much but still
and I'm really worried as everyone in my drama class WPC is shorter then mine, yet they have 500 words.



You found your own?

The same night? Was your drama class really small or something?
IDK it is just the way my college does it, we have group performance in March and monologues in May.
There was three drama groups performing and they were like 45-50 minutes each.

Thanks for the reply!

Oh, ok thanks, it doesn't sound that bad....apart from the Written Supporting Evidence
How strict are they on marks? I've gone over most of my coursework, not by much but still
and I'm really worried as everyone in my drama class WPC is shorter then mine, yet they have 500 words.



You found your own?

The same night? Was your drama class really small or something?
IDK it is just the way my college does it, we have group performance in March and monologues in May.
There was three drama groups performing and they were like 45-50 minutes each.

Thanks for the reply!

Honestly, the Written Supporting Evidence is fine! The EdExcel specification has a list of questions for you to use in your SWED, so I just worked from that! My teacher also didn't give my group a stimulus, so if your teacher doesn't give you one, I would definitely suggest your group finding one yourselves, before you start devising!

As for marks, it's your drama teacher that marks this unit, then it get's externally moderated! In Year 12, you get an examiner to grade your performance whereas in Year 13, your teacher marks your performance and coursework! So it really depends on what your teacher is like, but just make sure to do all the corrections and suggestions they give you, as they are the ones you're trying to please!

and don't worry about your WPC... I think you're allowed to go 10% over the word count but i'm not entirely sure, so don't take my word for it!

Don't stress about it, I'm sure you've done fine! My Year 12 coursework wasn't even marked or checked before it was submitted (due to problems with the drama department) and I still managed to achieve an alright grade! Good luck with your monologue

Yeah but I think it depends on on your school/college. We did the Syrian refugee crisis and took our stimulus from the poem Home by Warsan Shire.
Ah okay that sounds cool I didn't know that was allowed! Yeah there's only 9 of us in our drama group, so last year there were 3 monologues and 3 duologues, and we did one group performance we were all in

Oh, thanks that makes me feel better!

Hope your right about the ten percent!

Thank You! My exam is on the 26th, and our drama teacher has been of sick for the last 2 weeks and won't be in for our exam, which was why I was worried about our drama coursework deadline. We have the other drama teacher trying to help us so hopefully I will do fine!

When is your exam? Good Luck

I'm studying woyzeck and im so so lost about like 90% of the section b questions so if you have any tips or ideas i would really appreciate that!

hey guys, does anyone have any timing plans/suggestions for each section of the exam?

Like suggested timings for Section A, B and C?

THANKUUU

Section C 55 minutes
Section B 55 minutes
Section A 40 minutes

what are you doing for the exam, as in texts and performance?x

I think it means you can't bring in any external printed things. You're allowed to bring in printed 1000 words for performance. We were told to send it to our teacher so he could check before, then he would print it and give it to us.

Idk about you, but i find C and B easy, but A the hardest bit tbf

I saw Doctor Faustus at the RSC and it was amazing. The version of Macbeth I saw was very modern, had allusions to middle east so is perfect for comparison. Woyzeck is amazing too!

Last year questions were so nice!
Section A is a bitch

I figured, if i get 20/30 and 25/30 and then even no marks on Section A, thats still a B in the exam!x

Doesn't the London production have Kit Harrington in it?

I can look at one for you if you like, I've had a few teachers mark over 20 essays of mine and they've all had fairly good marks (apart from the earl ones)

How do you know how you did in Unit 3? x

I need help!! Mainly with section B to be honest, but no-one in our class has any idea at all what we're doing!

My Lysistrata interpretation is set in no particular time or place, to demonstrate that the message of the play is universal. I know I have to write about the different elements and mention similarities/differences to OPC and links to Greek theatre etc. but I am so confused of how to get good marks!

I have a 9 step formula that can get you top marks if you want me to share it with you?i do it in order and get about 24 marks

I have a 9 step formula that can get you top marks if you want me to share it with you?i do it in order and get about 24 marks

It does indeed, which is a bonus:' It'll be interesting to see his portrayal of Faustus:-)

and aaw thankyou for offering! We could send eachother essay plans for Section C because that's a question we're all going to have to do?:'

and a drama teacher/examiner who was helping us for a couple of months, told us her final judgements for unit three... but obviously the marks can change as it depends on what the moderator thought... so I THINK i've still done well for unit three ahahah, fingers crossed