DRAMA

Drama: Bring Your Story to Life

🌟 Your Stage, Your Story: Step into a world where your imagination takes center stage! In our Drama course, it’s all about bringing your unique ideas to life. Whether you’re scripting a comedy, a drama, or an epic adventure, this is your platform to shine.

🎭 Act, Create, Collaborate: Join a troop where everyone’s abilities are celebrated. Here, you’ll not only act but also create and collaborate, building a performance that’s truly yours. It’s a journey of learning, paced perfectly for each participant.

🚀 A Safe Space to Grow: We provide a nurturing environment where you can experiment and express without fear. It’s not just about acting; it’s about growing confidence, forging friendships, and honing life skills like problem-solving, communication, and teamwork.

💫 A Year of Creative Exploration: This year-long odyssey culminates in a grand showcase at our purpose-built Theatre at YourDNA Creative Arts Lusher Rd. Imagine the lights, the audience, your story unfolding on stage!

🌈 Experience the Magic of Drama: Come, be a part of our drama family. Laugh, learn, and let your creativity soar. It’s more than a course; it’s an unforgettable experience that’s as fun as it is transformative. Lights, camera, action – your stage awaits! 🎉✨

 

Drama

Your ideas, your way and supporting others to bring ideas to life. In this program, students of all abilities create and act in their own performance. Learning and skills development is paced to suit the students in a safe and supportive environment.

The experience of working on your own ideas and learning the skills to make it happen builds confidence and personal relationships as well as problem solving, communication and cooperation skills. It is a lot of fun too. The drama program consists of a year-long creative process that culminates in an end-of-year performance at the Karralyka Theatre, Ringwood.

Drama Principles – Training, Creating, Rehearsing & Performing

You can imagine
Invent, share, practice and show your own ideas

You can choose your character
You make the decision about who you would like to play and then work with the others to bring the characters to life

You can learn new skills
We build the understanding and the skills step by step so you can feel comfortable about learning

You can create the play
We build the play over time, working together to create an original play

You can rehearse
Learn performance skills and practice so you can all be confident

You can perform
You can perform your play to family, friends and interested others

Course Content and Structure

In term 1 the student’s focus on ensemble based skills such as awareness, group dynamics and self-confidence. In term 2 the students build performance skills and participate in theatre-based training including: physical movement, vocal projection and articulation, improvisation, stage combat, clowning and Alexander technique. These skills are not only beneficial in telling the amazing stories in the play; they are also valuable social and life skills. They also devise the performance piece that they will present at the end of the year.

In terms 3 and 4, the students develop their performance skills further, refining the script and rehearsing the play. The focus then turns to the public performance, bringing all the exciting elements of costume, lighting, sound and set design together. Regular visits to the theatre allow for a smooth transition into the performance space. The students perform their devised play twice (once during the day and once at night). Both performances are followed by a community forum which allows the audience to interact with the cast and crew. The year ends with a viewing of the performance footage and a DVD of the performance to take home to friends and family.

Focus

  • Drama and performance
  • Theatre and stage production
  • Improvisation and story building
  • Body awareness and rhythm
  • Musical performance
  • Collaboration and teamwork
  • Communication and skills for life

Previous Performances

  • YourDNA is Finding Neverland
  • YourDNA ‘s Forrest Gump The Untold Story
  • YourDNA ‘s Night at the Museum