#gcses drama

[candy8448]

So when i was doing drama revision yesterday for section C of the written paper, i decided to start commentating on the version of macbeth i was watching for it to my friends and:

[somuchwatersoclosetohome]

irl story time

my rekindling of in9/r&s content fixation coincided with a big Life Rut and inspired (read: inexplicably possessed) me to do a lot of random shit like start writing again

so i also have my past self to thank for me going to an improv class tomorrow hahaha??? i love pain and putting myself through unnecessary strife????

[stariel-and-stuff]

JUST ORDERED MY SNAILS T-SHIRT!!! I haven’t got Grian merch (or any merch tbh I’ve only ever bought his) since those Mumbo Sahara shirts, I’m so happy!!

[i-ideate]

some elizabeth art

elizabeth proctor her suffering is plentiful and her woes are many

[plasticfishies]

i have a three page essay due first thing tomorrow yet here i am on tumblr instead

[silliestplant]

I just know Higgs took GCSE drama

[stargazostli]

Drama exam in 9 hours and 13 minutes

wish me luck?

[eli-is-an-idiot]

GCSE DRAMAAAAAA

this post is brought to you by my growing insanity after rereading an inspector calls for my drama gcse in a single afternoon

(inspired by @thebrokenpaintbox on this post)

[spoonietimelordy]

I really really don't like this new fandom mindset that stories must be empty and devoided of intertextuality for them to be liked by most people. Even the most mainstream medias have layers. You think casual marvel movie viewers know shit about comics? No they don't. And yet you will find a ton of ref to them in the movies.

[archerygun]

In the spirit of confusing the fuck out of the new Year 11s, here’s an old GCSE shitpost I dug out while I was making my Halloween costume. Based on the assertion that Inspector Goole would fucking floor the Blood Brothers narrator in a fight. (He’s coming after him for being mean to the poor). North on North violence if you will.

[candy8448]

GCSEs FIRST DAY

Im gonna make a gcses rambles masterlist of all the gcses rambles maybe

I need an outlet

Anyways FIRST DAY OVER!

RS and Drama!

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I dont think it has actually sunk in that these are the real things and not mocks. Im so glad that my school does mocks every year because i am feeling weirdly calm about this

I feel like it will finally settle in once we finish everything then im gonna be like oh no that was real??

Our school surprisingly did something nice for us??? A tonna free bagles we could put butter, jam or honey on, and then a bunch of types of energy bars and juices (and i think coffe?? Idk) and whoa :0 i bet that is only gonna last today cuz this school isnt capable of commiting to something when it actually makes their students happy

Rs was exhausting. I did the questions all over the place answering them weirdly and wherever and :0 and i was so stressed about time because this is the only exam that i ever run out of time on but eventually i manged to get it done 2 mins before the end.

That first christianity 12 marker was a godsent (haha lol) it was so open that i could have rambled on forever, both of them really. The islam was harder but really better than i thought :0 (so many people was panicking thinking they got ashura wrong, including me a bit, so that was kinda funny)

I despise rs with a passion for personal reason so im so glad it is one of the subjects that finish first ^_^

I need to rant about the drama for a bit so hang on till i go eat-

SO

Our school goes period 1, p2, break, p3, p4, lunch, p5 (and p6 after school on some days for only yr 11s)

Usually exams are either p1 and 2 or p3 and 3, but we have p3 and 4 being drama lessons, then right before lunch, we started the exam, then it went on for 15mins after school and like???

What??? What is this timing why did they think of doing this????

Its like the final boss battle of drama gcses lol

(They gave us a breaktime before it at least, but we couldnt get food. It was weird seeing the hall completely empty with only us 14 students doing drama)

In the exam hall only 7 of us were in there cuz the rest go to a different room and i really love the quiet of when there are only a tiny vit of us in the hall. When all of us are in there its much louder cuz of everyone's shuffling hut with only us 7, it basically completely and utterly silent, its nice, i can think.

For our mocks we've answered on lined sheets of paper, but this time they had such a wacky answer booklet??? It threw all of us off which is so unfair. Also nobody ever informs the drama department in my school of anything so we were really confused for a lot of the time =_=

Why does it look like this??? No other subject looks like this???

But anyway the questions were really good, the time management was more stressful than yhe actual questions

(For ppl who wanted to know, we did blood brothers, then for section c we did macbeth since we are already doing it in english and we were running out of time to learn what to do for section c)

[winter-depressed-belle]

I HAVE RETURNED FROM HELL!!! 🗣️

[rubber-glovs]

ITS ONLY 2AM??? IT FEELS LIKE 4AM WHAT

[kats-fizz]

never put the gcse drama takers on a school trip because why are we belting the blood brothers soundtrack

[marlinspirkhall]

Reminder to pick up your invisible props after improv so you don't trip over them. Statistically, most slapstick accidents occur after the show has finished.

[justalesbianwithsomegayshit]

When did we decide great art had to be painful? I did GCSE drama (age 14-16) and as a part of it you have to do an improvised piece. Theoretically it can be anything as long as you explain how you came up with it. The reality is that they are all about trauma, and not even trauma most of them have experienced. Kids stand up and talk about bullying they never experienced, their loving parents watch as they talk about the dad who walked out, straight kids talk about how awful it is to be gay, while lesbians talk about sending to nudes to boys? And it's so common that there's tiktok Jokes about it because there's never even a question that you could create something fun or even slightly happy. A good project has to be sad. It has to be scene after scene of trauma so you can show off all your emotions. Somehow happiness, excitement and joy aren't considered.

We did three "classic texts" at the same age, a Shakespeare, a text and a play. We could've done Much Ado about Nothing. We could've done Pride and Prejudice. We did Macbeth, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and An Inspector Calls. Someone commits suicide in every one of those plays.

I try and watch the "best films of all time" but so many of them are unending misery. I know I should watch Happy together, In the mood for love or grave of the fireflies. I know they are cinematic masterpieces. I just believe that Mamma Mia, The parent trap and But I'm a Cheerleader are as well.

Why was there this expectation that great art had to be painful. Why do we teach kids that the only way to create is to exploit pain before a lot of them have had the chance to experience, understand or process it fully enough to be comfortable in front of an audience?

When I write, I write what brings me joy. My favourite paintings are bright and beautiful. My favourite films are funny and sometimes sad but always joyful. I love Abbott Elementary and Call the Midwife but they will never be considered the same league as Game of Thrones or Black Mirror. I do not understand why.