Number
AS90609
Version
3
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Achievement Standard
Subject Reference
Drama 3.3
Title
Devise, script and perform drama for solo, duo or trio performance
Level
3
Credits
Subfield
Drama
Domain
Drama Creation
5
Assessment
Internal
Status
Registered
Status date
10 November 2006
Planned review date
28 February 2009
Date version published
10 November 2006
This achievement standard requires devising, scripting and performing drama for solo, duo
or trio performance.
Achievement Criteria
Achievement
Achievement with Merit
Achievement with
Excellence
 Devise and script coherent
drama for solo, duo or trio
performance.
 Devise and script coherent
and effective drama for
solo, duo or trio
performance.
 Devise and script
coherent, effective and
compelling drama for solo,
duo or trio performance.
 Realise the intention of the
scripted drama through
performance in a
convincing way.
 Realise the intention of the
scripted drama through
performance in a
convincing way.
 Realise the intention of the
scripted drama through
performance in a
convincing way.
Explanatory Notes
1
This achievement standard is derived from The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum,
Learning Media, Ministry of Education, 2000, and relates to the strands Developing
Practical Knowledge in Drama and Developing Ideas in Drama, Level 8, p.47, and
Ngā Toi i roto i te Marautanga o Aotearoa, Learning Media, Ministry of Education,
2000.
2
Evidence must include a portfolio that includes a script and detailed statement of
intention for the drama. It must also include evidence of key decisions, collected
over an extended period, such as scenarios, annotated scripts, digital imaging,
conferencing notes, post-performance feedback, diagnostic recordings, and
milestone records. The portfolio is to be submitted to the assessor before the
performance.
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Number
AS90609
Version
3
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Definitions:
Devise means using improvisation as a key tool. Improvisation could be in the
context of exploring, developing, sequencing, shaping, or refining the drama. Devise
could also include using the tools of mapping, scenario, drafting and editing script,
and drama elements, conventions, techniques and technologies.
To script means to write down the format for performance.
Coherent means the script is able to be realised lucidly in the live performance.
Convincing means dramatically viable.
Compelling could mean highly engaging, fresh, innovative, powerful, tightly
structured.
4
The devised work could be:

monologue, duologue or three-person presentation

part of a group performance piece

a range of role-changed characters performed by one, two or three people

documentary drama

character or plot-driven drama

dream sequence

whaikōrero or pakiwaitara/story telling.
5
The devised work could use the following conventions:

structural – conventions that shape, or the sequence of events, eg narration,
choral work, visual images;

theatre – conventions that determine the relationship between the actor, the
audience and the off-stage world, eg performance space, mime,
exits/entrances, theatre technologies;

textural – conventions that record action/intention, eg textual layout, textual
notes/special vocabulary, prose, verse, stage directions, cast lists.
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
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