VCE Drama (Year 11)

VCE Drama (Year 11) on VCE Vault: 8 lessons written for Year 11 (VCE, Victorian Certificate of Education), each with worked examples, practice questions and Aari, an AI tutor. The first 4 lessons are free; the whole subject is a one-off A$12.99.

Lessons

Unit 1 — Performance Styles and Contemporary Drama Practices

• Performance Styles — Naturalism, Non-naturalism, Epic and Physical Theatre (free) — Identify the features of major performance styles and contemporary drama practices, and explain how each shapes what the audience experiences.
• Creating and Presenting a Devised Performance (free) — Use a play-making process to create and present a devised performance from stimulus, applying a chosen performance style.
• Analysing Your Own Devised Performance (free) — Analyse and evaluate how you used the play-making process, expressive skills, dramatic elements and conventions in your devised performance.
• Analysing a Professional Drama Performance — Analyse how actors in a professional performance use expressive and performance skills, conventions and production areas to create meaning.

Drama Skills

• The Actor’s Toolkit — Expressive Skills, Performance Skills and Dramatic Elements (free) — Use and describe expressive skills, performance skills and dramatic elements in your own performances.
• Year 11 Drama Skills Check — Bridge to Units 3 and 4 — Consolidate Units 1–2 skills and understand how they lead into the Year 12 ensemble and solo performance tasks and examinations.

Unit 2 — Contemporary Drama Practices and Australian Identity

• Using Australia as Inspiration — Stories, Places and Voices — Use Australian stories, people, places, events and issues as stimulus for devised drama that explores Australian identity, respecting cultural protocols.
• Analysing and Evaluating an Australian Drama Performance — Analyse and evaluate how an Australian drama performance uses contemporary drama practices to explore Australian identity.