Drama · GCSE
Staging, design and the written paper
GCSE Drama knowledge mat
Where the Audience Sits Changes the Play
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.
£3.99All 4 GCSE Drama knowledge mats, one landscape sheet each
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- the whole sheet shown below, part-blurred
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One purchase, all 4 GCSE Drama sheets, £3.99 for the set: this one · Devising · Performing a text · Evaluating live theatre
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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
- One landscape A4 sheet · 8 sections
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