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11–12Drama 11–12 Syllabus (2025)

Implementation from 2027
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Content

Year 12

Australian drama and theatre

Students explore how Australian practitioners use Loading , Loading  and Loading  to convey ideas and Loading  through the study of TWO prescribed Australian works. Students analyse dramatic Loading , experiment with dramatic elements and apply dramatic processes to Loading  and Loading  dramatic moments and explore Loading . Students Loading  and engage in meaningful theatrical experiences that consider Australian voices, perspectives and representations and critically reflect on Loading  with the ideas and images presented in the works.

Making
  • Investigate the Loading , cultural, social, political and personal contexts of Loading , forms and styles

  • Experiment with and adapt dramatic forms and styles to Loading  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 Loading , Loading  or relationships through embodied exercises

  • Experiment with dramatic elements to shape dramatic Loading  and meaning

  • Apply the Loading  to shape dramatic meaning and audience engagement

  • Explore and experiment with the dynamics of the actor–audience relationship and its impact on audience engagement

Performing
  • Use Loading  and Loading  to embody a character or role in artistic, cultural, social and personal contexts

  • Loading  scenes to explore the conventions and approaches used to develop characters and their roles

  • Loading  Loading  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

Critically reflecting
  • Analyse how Loading  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 Loading  and the development of dramatic works

  • Evaluate the impacts of dramatic form and style on dramatic meaning and audience engagement, including use of Loading 

  • Reflect on the ways dramatic elements are used to represent identities, environments and Loading 

  • Evaluate the ways the ideas, processes and practices of dramatic practitioners are applied in dramatic works to shape meaning and influence audience engagement

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