DRAMA

What will I learn?

This course equips you with the skills to become a confident and expressive performer and communicator.

Through Drama, you will learn and develop technical and performance skills across the core components of the discipline — including drama techniques, elements, conventions, and technologies.

You will also explore the history and evolution of drama, gaining theoretical knowledge and insight into a range of drama styles from different contexts, both past and present. Alongside this, you’ll build practical performance skills through collaborative activities that strengthen ensemble work, group movement, voice, and scene development.

You will be encouraged to ask questions, challenge yourself, and grow your confidence as both a performer and collaborator.

Drama fosters a range of transferable skills, such as creative thinking, communication, teamwork, focus, self-discipline, and time management — all valuable beyond the classroom.

Students will have opportunities to:

• Collaboratively devise and perform a class play.
  
  

• Audition for roles within a production.
  
  

• Learn about theatre roles and the use of technologies.
  
  

• Perform a production at the end of the semester for invited guests.
  
  

• Apply drama techniques, elements, and conventions in practice.
  
  

• Engage with diverse people, cultures, and ideas.
  
  

• (Optional) Participate in workshops led by NZ theatre professionals.
  
  

• (Optional) Attend professional theatre performances.
  
  

What should I have achieved?

No prior experience is required for this course.

Resources required:

There are no mandatory fees.

Optional workshops and shows may incur additional costs, subject to caregiver approval.