1. Approaches to A Level Component 3
Text in Performance

2. Component 3 Text in Performance
Requirements
Section A: Set Text (from either pre-1956 list or post-1956 list)
40 marks
Staged questions with increasing number of marks
On one or two extracts from the text
Section B: Set Text (from either pre-1956 list or post-1956 list)
An essay response
Focus on how the text could be adapted/interpreted for a contemporary audience
Analysis and evaluation of live theatre seen in influencing creative decisions

3. Component 3 Text in Performance Requirements
For both Sections A and B:
Clean copies of the text are permitted
Structural support will be minimal
Learners will be expected to respond to all texts as designer, director and/or actor
Section C: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 40 marks
The minute extract from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will be published in the first week of March of the exam series year
A question on the specified extract analysing and evaluating how the text can be performed in the theatre

4. Component 3 Text in Performance:
Set Texts
A level 40% 120 marks
One complete performance text from the pre 1956 list:
The Trojan Women, Euripides
As You Like It, William Shakespeare
Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
Machinal, Sophie Treadwell
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams
One complete performance text from the post 1956 list:
Saved, Edward Bond
Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Dario Fo
Racing Demon, David Hare
Love and Information, Caryl Churchill
Chimerica, Lucy Kirkwood
One extract from:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon adapted by Simon Stephens

5. Approaches to the Set Texts
All texts for Component 3 should be taught as pieces to be performed.
Learners should understand how they have been constructed to be performed and not read in isolation.
They should also understand the craft of character development, interaction, plot development and construction.
Learners should experience practical work on the texts – working on staging scenes, character interaction, character development.
They should experience directorial methods used in rehearsal and consider why they are used

6. Approaches to the Set Texts
They should also understand how the texts can be staged using all technical aspects of theatre i.e. lighting, sound, set and props, costume, makeup and hair, multimedia (where appropriate).
Learners should also be aware of how texts can be adapted for a contemporary audience.
During the assessment they will be assessed on AO3 and AO4.
Learners should have experienced live theatre which can influence their ideas for staging their chosen texts.
Learners should understand the cultural, social and theatrical context of the texts.
See Component 3 Teaching Resource in your pack