Number
AS90009
Version
2
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Achievement Standard
Subject Reference
Drama 1.4
Title
Perform an acting role
Level
1
Subfield
Drama
Domain
Drama Performance
Registration date
Credits
7 November 2003
4
Assessment
Date version published
Internal
7 November 2003
This achievement standard involves preparing for and performing an acting role in a
scripted production for an audience.
Achievement Criteria
Achievement
Achievement with Merit
Achievement with
Excellence

Actively participate in the
production process.


Actively participate in the
production process,
showing a focused
commitment.

Communicate a role,

demonstrating appropriate
use of voice, movement,
and space.
Communicate a role,

demonstrating appropriate
and effective use of voice,
movement, and space.
Communicate a role with
impact, demonstrating
appropriate, effective and
accomplished use of
voice, movement, and
space.

Sustain a role throughout
performance.

Sustain a role with
conviction throughout
performance.

Sustain a role with
presence and conviction
throughout performance.

Interact appropriately with
other characters.

Interact appropriately and
consistently with other
characters.

Interact appropriately and
consistently with other
characters.
Actively participate in the
production process,
showing commitment.
Explanatory Notes
1
This achievement standard is derived from The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum,
Ministry of Education, 2000, and relates to the strands Developing Practical
Knowledge in Drama and Developing Ideas in Drama, Level 6, and Ngā Toi i roto i te
Marautanga o Aotearoa, Learning Media, Ministry of Education, 2000.
Number
AS90009
Version
2
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Scripted production could be an existing script or a devised script, but the student’s
assessed performance should be based on a written script. A scripted production
could include: excerpts, thematic approaches, full-length plays.
3
Actively participate in the production process includes: attending rehearsals, learning
lines to meet deadlines, willingness to accept direction, acknowledgement of group
cooperation to enable a production to be realised.
4
Commitment includes: positive approach to the production and other members of the
production group.
5
For assessment, the student will perform before an invited audience, eg another
class, wider school community, family and friends, or any other group for which the
production is intended.
Quality Assurance
1
Providers and Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by the
Qualifications Authority before they can register credits from assessment against
achievement standards.
2
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against
achievement standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to
those achievement standards.
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0226