7–10Drama 7–10 Syllabus (2023)
The new Drama 7–10 Syllabus (2023) is to be implemented from 2026 and will replace the Drama 7–10 Syllabus (2003).
2025 – Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2026 – Start teaching the new syllabus
School sectors are responsible for implementing syllabuses and are best placed to provide schools with specific guidance and information on implementation given their understanding of their individual contexts. Schools may choose to implement the new syllabus during the planning and preparation phase.
Content
Stage 4
- DR4-MAK-01
creates meaning through experimentation with dramatic contexts, processes and elements
Explore artistic, cultural, social and personal contexts, protocols and intentions
Generate and rehearse ideas, images and stories to explore individual and collective identities, values and perspectives
Explore works, practices and practitioners to guide experimentation with dramatic conventions, forms and styles
Create dramatic action and meaning informed by the dynamic and evolving Cultural Knowledges of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander works, practices or practitioners
Use language appropriate to context to communicate and develop intention with collaborators
Create coherent devised and scripted theatrical works
Embody ideas in warm-ups, workshops, rehearsals and dramatic play
Seek, exchange and consider perspectives with others to co-construct drama
Manage voice, movement and equipment safely
Interact safely, respectfully and inclusively with others live and online, including gaining, giving and denying consent
Explore and apply protocols for creating dramatic action with respect for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Communities, practitioners and/or Knowledges
Explore and document creative and critical ideas through trial and error
Make, accept and extend offers of improvised dramatic ideas and action
Collaboratively respond to and develop ideas, stimulus and experiments in group-devising processes
Interpret and enact scripted or original roles, characters and situations
Explore the elements of drama in improvising, rehearsing and devising
Rehearse and refine the elements of performance
Explore how the elements of production shape and support the elements of drama
Choose and rehearse the elements of drama, performance and production to shape dramatic meaning and audience engagement in theatrical moments, transitions and journeys