11–12Drama 11–12 Syllabus (2025)
The new Drama 11–12 Syllabus (2025) is to be implemented from 2027 and will replace the Drama Stage 6 Syllabus (2009).
2026
- Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2027, Term 1
- Start teaching the new syllabus for Year 11
- Start implementing new Year 11 school-based assessment requirements
- Continue to teach the Drama Stage 6 Syllabus (2009) for Year 12
2027, Term 4
- Start teaching the new syllabus for Year 12
- Start implementing new Year 12 school-based assessment requirements
2028
- First HSC examination for the new syllabus
Content
Year 12
Students explore how Australian practitioners use dramatic forms, styles and conventions to convey ideas and perspectives through the study of TWO prescribed Australian works. Students analyse dramatic contexts, experiment with dramatic elements and apply dramatic processes to interpret and embody dramatic moments and explore dramatic meaning. Students create and engage in meaningful theatrical experiences that consider Australian voices, perspectives and representations and critically reflect on audience engagement with the ideas and images presented in the works.
Investigate the artistic, cultural, social, political and personal contexts of dramatic practitioners, forms and styles
Experiment with and adapt dramatic forms and styles to shape ideas and express Australian voices, perspectives and representations
Create and shape scenes and images to examine challenges and opportunities in Australian works
Explore the dramatic contexts of characters, roles or relationships through embodied exercises
Experiment with dramatic elements to shape dramatic intention and meaning
Apply the elements of production to shape dramatic meaning and audience engagement
Explore and experiment with the dynamics of the actor–audience relationship and its impact on audience engagement
Use voice and movement to embody a character or role in artistic, cultural, social and personal contexts
Enact scenes to explore the conventions and approaches used to develop characters and their roles
Stage dramatic action to experiment with characters’ perspectives and relationships within works
Shape the audience experience through deliberate actor choices and relationships
Interpret and perform characters or roles to realise creative intent and explore character relationships
Apply the dramatic elements in performance to stage interpretations of prescribed works
Analyse how dramatic works and practitioners shape meaning through the representation of values and assumptions in artistic, cultural, social and personal contexts
Analyse how perspectives, values and traditions influence dramatic processes and the development of dramatic works
Evaluate the impacts of dramatic form and style on dramatic meaning and audience engagement, including use of language
Reflect on the ways dramatic elements are used to represent identities, environments and culture
Evaluate the ways the ideas, processes and practices of dramatic practitioners are applied in dramatic works to shape meaning and influence audience engagement