The document provides guidance for an advanced performance practice unit, instructing students to research a practitioner and material, keep a detailed rehearsal log and schedule, and develop their chosen piece over three weeks before presenting their final performance. Students are assessed based on their research, rehearsal documentation, performance skills, and a post-performance evaluation. The unit aims to help students take ownership of their learning and preparation through independent work developing material in the style of their chosen practitioner.

1. Unit 5
Advance Performance Practice
Choosing Material

2. Assessment focus
• You can take charge of your own learning by
completing all the following tasks before next
lesson.
1. Detailed record of progress in lessons (log book)
2. Practitioner and Material Research – beyond
what you have been shown, what extra research have you
done?
3. Rehearsal/Production Schedule

3. 1. Record of Progress
• Detailed record of progress which indicates how you
have developed and applied performance skills
• This is your log book – not all of it needs to be
written, it could include
• Images (your own or from internet)
• Drawings, diagrams etc (e.g. showing spacial
awareness, proxemics, stage layout, movements)
• Script excerpts (see me if you need extra)
• Photos (I have taken some already but can take more
during the process)
• Audio recordings etc.

4. 2. Practitioner and Material Research
• The chosen material should be suitable to the style.
• Also you need to include your research into your chosen
practitioner and the performance material – the context and
implications of its use should be clear – you know the form it
should take and why.
• Do include:
• Biographical writing about the playwright
• Reviews of previous performances of the work
• Images of previous productions
• Personal reasons for approaching the subject matter
• Context of performance – esp. If not a modern play
• Detailed description of the intentions of the performance and the
skills that should be explored and demonstrated.

5. Rehearsal and Production Schedule
• Record the plan and targets for each session
we have left and any additional ones you hold.
• Like Unit 2 (Planning), you also need to create
and keep up to date a record of the rehearsal
process, up to and including the performance
date.
• Date/Area of Focus/Progress/Action
required/Deadline/Achieved/

6. Mark weighting
1. Detailed record of progress
2. Practitioner and Material Research
3. Rehearsal/Production Schedule
These all make up around 30% of the total marks.
50% of the marks are for your performance – and your skills in
performance and communicating your intentions to the
audience.
The remaining 20% is through an evaluation, completed after the
performance.

7. Groups
• The exam board suggest that you choose your
own groups to work in for this project.
• You will need to work with those who want to
explore the same type of practitioner as you,
be it naturalistic, abstract, political or physical
based work.
• The groups should be no larger than six in
number.
• Recap from assessment criteria

8. 2 quick tasks
• Get into small groups – three or four
• Task 1. Create a poster which summarises one of
the practitioners we have studied so far, showing
all the essential elements of their work in the
Theatre.
• Task 2. Create an 6-8 question quiz for the other
teams about one of the chosen practitioners –
the answers do not have to be literal, it could be
asking them to perform the answers physically.

9. Time Management
• Over to you for the next chunk of the lesson
• Explore the possibilities of who you could
work with
• Begin to sketch out a schedule plan to be
made into a template neat - electronically
• Make notes on initial ideas for practitioners
and plays to study
Next lesson after Xmas we start rehearsing in
earnest.

10. Schedule:
• We have 3 full weeks when we return before
performance week. (Remember much of the evidence
is through how you select appropriate material and develop
it in rehearsal, using the appropriate techniques and style of
the practitioner!)
• Performance Date: Thursday 26th January
• You will need to rearrange any college commitments for that day so
that we can rehearse all morning and perform in the
afternoon/early evening.
• We can perform in a location of your choosing but it needs to suit
all groups in the context of the performance afternoon/evening.