ZIMSEC · A Level
Theatre Arts
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Form 5 · Lower 6 4 topics
- Elements of drama and dramatic structure Plot, character, theme, dialogue, conflict, setting, mood, spectacle, rhythm and the relationship with the audience.
- Theatre history and traditions Amakhosi Theatre Productions in Bulawayo (founded by Cont Mhlanga), Theatre in the Park and Reps Theatre in Harare, the Zimbabwe Association of Community Theatre (ZACT), the Children's Performing Arts Workshop (CHIPAWO), and festivals such as HIFA and Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo.
- Acting techniques and practitioners Realistic, truthful acting: given circumstances, objectives and super-objective, the magic "if", emotion memory, units and objectives, subtext, circles of attention, and later the method of physical actions.
- Directing, staging and design Proscenium arch (end-on, picture frame), thrust (audience on three sides), arena/in-the-round, traverse (audience on two sides), promenade and site-specific performance, open-air community spaces.
Form 6 · Upper 6 2 topicsExam year
- Theatre for development and community theatre Theatre used as a tool for education, participation and social change in communities – on health (HIV and AIDS, cholera), gender-based violence, child rights, environment, governance and peace-building.
- Playwriting, devising and arts management Developing an idea, characters with clear objectives and conflict, structure (scenes and acts), dialogue that reveals character and advances action, stage directions, and redrafting. Script layout: character names, dialogue and stage directions in italics or brackets.