Centre Stage second edition is designed to provide students with a two-year course in Drama. It has been substantially rewritten for the revised NSW Drama syllabus and comprehensively covers the essential drama learnings in all state syllabuses across Australia.

Centre Stage second edition is written to help students discover, explore and develop the ways they can create, perform and appreciate drama. The book allows for students to develop knowledge, skills and understanding progressively, but also allows for chapters to be treated as discrete units of work, making it flexible enough to be used in any school Drama programme.

Key features

  • Two new chapters: Physical Theatre and Scripted Drama
  • Additional material on playbuilding and improvisation
  • New selection of Australian script extracts
  • Appendix of Student Resource Material including guidelines and examples showing how to write logbook entries, drama terminology checklists, self-evaluation sheets, audience evaluation sheets, sound and lighting cue sheets, costume and make-up design sheets and a glossary of drama and theatre terms
  • Performance tasks for each topic with photocopiable evaluation sheets that allow for assessment of student achievement of related outcomes as well as advice for the ongoing development of skills and understanding
  • Integration of ICT exercises, as well as literacy and numeracy skills-based activities.