Role of the DIRECTOR (A Level Drama and Theatre)

This one page flowchart outlines the role of the professional theatre director, listing key terminology/considerations for students taking on the role of a director in A Level Drama and Theatre written examinations.

The resources seeks to comprehensively outline the key considerations in creating a vision/concept for a production, translating that into production decisions and highlighting how audiences then ‘read’ these decisions to make meaning.

The resource is targeted to A Level written examinations in Drama and Theatre which demand that students take the role of a director in staging of set texts, but is also a useful resource for the ‘live theatre’ section of the paper in which students will consider how the director of a piece of drama they have seen may have created meaning for an audience.

Key terminology is listed methodically, though students can be set the task of investigating these to create a glossary of vocabulary relating to theatre directing.

Originally created for AQA/OCR Drama and Theatre A Level but applicable to other boards.