Acting (Available for Face to Face and Remote Online Assessment)

Learners delve into characterisation and develop strong speaking skills in one of our most popular exams.

Our Acting Exam learners develop their vocal, physical and interpretive skills while they delve into characters and explore the background of dramatic texts. Alongside producing authentic performances of their chosen scenes, they also gain an understanding of the context and characters within them. 

Working through the grades takes our learners through the development of clear speaking and character portrayal to an understanding of a playwright’s style, the influence of theatre practitioners such as Stanislavski and a sensitive appreciation of subtext.

Learners can take an Acting exam in one of three ways:

Solo: one learner delivers two monologues on their own (three monologues for Grades 7 and 8)

Duologue: two learners perform two duologues (three duologues for Grade 7 and 8)

Combined: two learners perform one monologue each and one duologue together (three scenes in total).

Devising Drama (Available for Face to Face and Remote Online Assessment)

For those with creative flair, learners showcase their imagination from ideas through to performance.

For those that want to make their own work, our Devising Drama exams allow learners to create their own scenes from scratch. 

Provided with a list of themes to pick from, learners create the characters and write the scripts themselves. As they progress to the higher grades, learners will develop an understanding of dramatic structure and staging, using movement and mood, style and space. For their Level Three exams, learners will also perform short improvised scenes – unplanned and unscripted.

Learners can take a Devising Drama exam in one of two ways:

Solo: one learner delivers two scenes on their own (two scenes and an improvised scene at Grades 6, 7 and 8)

Duologue: two learners perform two scenes together (two scenes and an improvised scene at Grades 6, 7 and 8)

Miming (Available for Face to Face examination ONLY)

Explore the art of communication without using words and test the limits of body language and facial expressions.

Mime allow us to communicate without using a single word. 

Through single mimed activities and fully developed scenes, our learners work on coordination and control, physical awareness and precise movements of their body to articulate emotion and characterisation in their storytelling. They are also creating their own work, expanding their physical theatre skills as they assemble their own scenes. 

At the higher grades our learners are also discovering the work of famous mime artists like Charlie Chaplin and Marcel Marceau, and learning the history of one of theatre’s most influential forms, commedia dell'arte. 

Learners can take Miming exam in one of two ways:

Solo: one learner delivers two scenes on their own (three scenes at Grade 8)

Duologue: two learners perform two scenes together (three scenes at Grade 8) 

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