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Unit 4: Transform

5 dot points, in syllabus order. Each dot point has a focused answer, with exam-style questions and worked answers where available.

How can a director transform an inherited published text for a contemporary audience?

Transform an inherited published text through a directorial vision, manipulating dramatic languages to reframe its meaning for a contemporary audience

Transforming an inherited published text. Explains what counts as an inherited text (Greek, Elizabethan, Neoclassical), how a directorial vision reframes meaning, the difference between transformation and decoration, and how forming, presenting and responding apply across the practice-led project.

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What does it mean to work as a director and deviser, shaping the dramatic languages into a coherent vision?

Apply the skills of directing and devising to shape dramatic action, communicating a coherent directorial vision through the manipulation of the dramatic languages

Directing and devising. Explains the director's role, the directorial vision, blocking and the use of stagecraft, how devising generates original action, and how forming, presenting and responding work when the student is the maker shaping a whole work.

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How do you write an extended analytical response that evaluates dramatic action under exam conditions?

Respond analytically to dramatic action, evaluating how dramatic languages and theatre styles communicate meaning, in an extended written response under examination conditions

Responding through an extended analytical response. Explains how to read unseen stimulus, build an analytical argument about dramatic languages and theatre styles, evaluate meaning for an audience, and structure a justified response under the external assessment examination conditions.

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What inherited conventions must a director understand before transforming a historical text?

Analyse the inherited conventions of Greek, Elizabethan and Neoclassical theatre and explain how they shape the dramatic action a director must negotiate when transforming a text

Inherited theatrical conventions. Explains the chorus, masks and unities of Greek and Neoclassical theatre and the verse, soliloquy and open stage of Elizabethan theatre, and how understanding these conventions in forming, presenting and responding lets a director transform a text rather than merely relocate it.

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How does a practice-led project document and justify the transformation of a text?

Plan, realise and justify a practice-led project that transforms an inherited text, documenting how dramatic languages were manipulated to communicate a directorial vision

Practice-led project. Explains how practice-led inquiry works, how to document the realisation of a directorial vision, the balance of making and justifying, and how forming, presenting and responding combine in the IA3 practice-led project that transforms an inherited text.

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