WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Drama: Designing Drama

EVERYTHING BUT THE ACTING DESIGN IN DRAMA AND THEATRE This book is about everything that happens on the stage except for the acting! Designing Drama will help you to costume actors and give them a set to perform on. It will guide you through the process that fills their world with sound and floods the stage with light. More than that, you will come to understand how the work of the theatre designer brings the world of the stage to life for the most important people in the theatre – the audience. Whether you are designing sound for a devised piece of drama, or costume for a scripted one, this book offers practical advice and activities to help you develop your knowledge, understanding and creativity. If you are a performer at heart, this book will help you to master the knowledge and skills needed to write about design in the exam. You will need a good level of knowledge for all the design elements that exam questions could be about. Performance and design work hand in hand to create the harmonious world of the stage. Designing Drama will help you to understand how to be part of this creative process from every angle. HOW TO GET THE MOST FROM THIS BOOK Practical guides to design roles These chapters introduce you to each design role and provide practical guidance, advice and activities to help you through the design process. They will give you a good grounding in your chosen design specialism, enabling you to develop your skills, boost your confidence and explore your creativity. Drama course content Refer back to the practical chapters as you move on to the chapters that cover design for each assessed component of the course: • Unit/Component 1: Devising Theatre (Chapter 5) • Unit/Component 2: Performing Theatre / Performing from a Text (Chapter 6) • Unit/Component 3: Interpreting Theatre (Chapter 7). SEt LIgHtiNg COsTumE SOunD 5 Everything But the Acting