GCSE Drama Specification Specification for first teaching in 2016
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GCSE Drama8261
Non-exam assessment (NEA) for summer 2025
NEA work samples for this subject are now submitted online using Centre Marks Submission on Centre Services. Read the guidance on submitting NEA.
3.3 Texts in practice
This subject content is assessed practically.
Each student must choose to be assessed as a:- performer or
- lighting designer or
- sound designer or
- set designer or
- costume designer or
- puppet designer.
Costume designers may choose to include make-up and/or hair and/or masks. Set designers may choose to include design of props.
Each student must choose one specialism only for all the Texts in practice content.
Students may choose the same or a different specialism to the one chosen for the Devising drama content.
Students must learn how to contribute to text-based drama in a live theatre context for an audience.
Students must draw on and demonstrate a practical understanding of the subject content listed in Knowledge and understanding .
They must develop their ability to:- interpret texts
- create and communicate meaning
- realise artistic intention in text-based drama.
For assessment, students must perform or create realised designs for two extracts from one play which contrasts to the set play studied in Component 1.
See Component 3: Texts in practice for details.