Demonstrate understanding of live drama performance
This standard asks you to watch a live drama performance and explain how the various drama techniques you see on stage work together to create meaning. You need to identify specific moments and describe what the director and designers chose to do, then explain why those choices matter and what they communicate to the audience.
You explain what you saw on stage using some drama terminology, supported by basic evidence from the performance, but your explanations are simple and don't always clearly connect techniques to meaning.
You give detailed explanations of drama components with well-chosen examples from the performance; you confidently use drama terminology and show you understand how staging, acting, and design choices worked purposefully to affect the audience.
You make insightful connections between drama techniques, the director's concept, and the wider context of the performance; you use precise terminology throughout, select perfect evidence, and discuss both the intention behind choices and their specific impact on the audience.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.