492·Drama · GCSE
Where the Audience Sits
Changes the Play
Staging and design knowledge mat for secondary schools (PDF)
Why the same scene plays differently in the round, on a thrust and behind an arch — and what a designer decides before a word is spoken. Five configurations drawn in plan; the designer's five decisions in the DfE's own words; how to answer a design question in four moves; three theatres photographed, three audience relationships; five lighting states and what each is for. Twelve terms to define, a model lighting answer, and the misconceptions that cost marks.
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One purchase covers the school that buys it. Print it, copy it, hand it round your department. Not for passing to other schools or uploading anywhere.
One landscape A4 page on one part of the drama course, built on the DfE's own subject content and Ofqual's national conditions rather than a board's paraphrase — so it holds whichever specification a department follows. It carries the five staging configurations in plan, the designer's five decisions, the four-move design answer, three theatres photographed and five lighting states — then the vocabulary, a worked exam-style answer and the misconceptions that cost marks.
Every photograph on the sheet is a real image of a real theatre or production, licensed for reuse and credited in the running foot; the figures are drawn in code for the sheet, and the one play extract is out of copyright and verified word for word. Nothing is reproduced from a specification, a mark scheme, an examiner report or a past paper.
Sold by subject: all four drama sheets for one price. A knowledge organiser stores a unit and is revised from afterwards; this is meant to be on the table while the work is happening.
- Written to The DfE GCSE drama subject content (DFE-00039-2015) and Ofqual's subject-level conditions (Ofqual/17/6198), quoted; no board's specification or mark scheme. Every photograph is licensed and credited on the sheet; the figures are drawn in code
- Intended for drama teachers — on the desk during the lesson, not a student revision guide
- Extent 1 page · 8 sections
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