Image above from Ruhleben Internment Camp, Germany, July 1917 - Drama Group "Typhoon"
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GCSE Drama Module – AQA Devising
Exploring Sexuality, Gender and Identity
Exploring Sexuality, Gender and Identity
“The practical work that they produced was a lot stronger than the work they have produced previously. It was more challenging, engaging and lot more inventive and imaginative. The risks they were forced to take meant that the end result was much better and more interesting than their previous assessments.”
Cuan Jacques Head of Drama Springwell Community School
Cuan Jacques Head of Drama Springwell Community School
National Drama are so impressed with this resource that they have featured it on their website.
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The set of source material that Gertie worked with was a suitcase given to
Professor Julia Hirst by the nephew of the man it had belonged to. The hidden suitcase had been found under the bed of an Oxford don after he had died.
Professor Julia Hirst by the nephew of the man it had belonged to. The hidden suitcase had been found under the bed of an Oxford don after he had died.
The suitcase contained:
- academic texts from 1960s to the 1980s on drag, cross dressing and transvestism;
- British and American transvestite or cross dressing magazines from the 1980s and 1990s;
- church organ music.
Gertie shared the ideas with Cuan Jacques, Drama and PSHE teacher at Springwell Community School in Staveley, Derbyshire and they both became enthused by the possibilities of a GCSE Drama resource and collaborated to produce this resource which meets all the requirements of the AQA Devising Module.
Image above is Marie Hoeg,
19th century Norwegian suffragist.
Image above is Marie Hoeg,
19th century Norwegian suffragist.
Students experience “input from a range of different sources and genres – from historical artefacts and pictures, to musicals, letters and Shakespeare. The sheer range of ideas is exciting and incredibly stimulating.”
Cuan Jacques Head of Drama Springwell Community School
Students explore mime, movement, role swapping, working with music and song while learning to use a traverse stage.
Image below of the Chavalier D'Eon (18th century)
Cuan Jacques Head of Drama Springwell Community School
Students explore mime, movement, role swapping, working with music and song while learning to use a traverse stage.
Image below of the Chavalier D'Eon (18th century)
Cuan Jacques’ Impact Testimony:
“The whole ambition of the unit of work was incredibly high and it pushed and challenged our students to create some really thought provoking and interesting work. The standard of performances was very strong – as the group themselves are not especially high achieving or academic. The group of boys, in particular, who devised a piece about a secret homosexual relationship between two footballers, were incredibly brave to develop something quite sweet, tender and even beautiful in places that could very easily have opened them up to abuse or name calling. That this story came from them and that they were comfortable and empowered to do this is testament to the power of the resources.”
“The whole ambition of the unit of work was incredibly high and it pushed and challenged our students to create some really thought provoking and interesting work. The standard of performances was very strong – as the group themselves are not especially high achieving or academic. The group of boys, in particular, who devised a piece about a secret homosexual relationship between two footballers, were incredibly brave to develop something quite sweet, tender and even beautiful in places that could very easily have opened them up to abuse or name calling. That this story came from them and that they were comfortable and empowered to do this is testament to the power of the resources.”
Frida Kahlo
