The following are common curriculum units, topics, genres and themes for middle drama levels:
- Greek Tragedy
- Character work
- Play scripts
- Commedia dell’Arte
- Drama games
- Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theatre
- Improvisation
- Ritual in drama
- Melodrama
- Use of symbol in drama
- Play structure
- Shakespeare
- Character motivation and objectives
- Stylised movement
- Language skills
- Stanislavksi’s system of acting
- Directing / blocking the actor in the space
- Vocal skills
- Anti-realistic theatre techniques
- Movement and gesture in drama
- Elizabethan Theatre
- Group-devised performance making / playbuilding
- Theatresports™ Games
- Analysis / evaluation / reflection of performance work
- Professional theatre reviews
- Mood
- Make-up
- Prop building
- Use of space
- Tension and conflict in drama
- Non-Western forms of theatre (eg. Kabuki, Bunraku, Noh etc.)
- Set design
- Comedy: satire / slapstick /farce / black comedy
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