GCSE Drama

Anglesey

Event: GCSE Drama

Anglesey

Based at our Conway Centres: Anglesey we have an excellent range of facilities for both the Performing and Visual Arts. We offer high quality education aimed at encouraging creativity, providing opportunity & raising attainment.


The GCSE Drama Residential is an exciting three-day course designed to support students in the Devising component of their GCSE exam. Aimed at Year 10 and 11 pupils from schools across the UK, this highly practical weekend consists of a series of workshops led by professional theatre makers and educators. These experts work across a range of styles, with a strong focus on devising.


Students will be guided through the core elements of devising, from stimulus to performance, with workshops covering:


Creating Physical Theatre responses

Generating dialogue while avoiding clichés

Developing a visual performance language

Exploring abstraction in performance

Taking a structured, episodic approach to devising


The weekend is led by Daniel Cambridge, a teacher, actor, and theatre-maker with a long-standing association with the Conway Centre. A team of experienced practitioners will explore a variety of techniques and skills essential to devised theatre. Through this immersive experience, students will generate material that can be directly applied to their own exam work.

Regular tutors include:


Dr. Lindsey Brocklebank (Shockout Arts, Maelstrom)

Grace Goulding (Splendid, Rambert, New Adventures)

Dan Meigh (Off The Ground Theatre)

Chris Tomlinson (Turntable Theatre)

Desired Outcomes
  • Develop confidence as a performer and build deeper friendships through a shared residential experience
  • Gain competence in a range of devising styles and techniques
  • Generate material for the GCSE Drama Devised Component

Schedule

Friday
Schools arrive from 4.30pm - Welcome and
Induction, Room allocation
5.30pm - 6.30pm - Evening Meal 		7.30pm - 9.30pm - Session 1
All students together working in the Chapel.
Meet the tutors and take part in a large-scale workshop introducing the
different styles, working practises and expectations of the weekend.
Each school group will be split into 4 groups
for the remainder of the weekend.

9.30pm - Students to Social Spaces and school
staff to supervise bedtime. 
Saturday
8.30am - Breakfast
A carousel of 4 workshops. Each group will see
each of the tutors in turn.
9.30am - 12pm - Workshop 1 		12.30pm- 1.30pm - Lunch
1.30pm - 3.30pm - Workshop 2
3.30pm - 4pm - Break
4pm - 6pm - Workshop 3
    		6pm - 7pm - Dinner
7pm - 9.30 - Workshop 4.
All groups to assemble in the Chapel at 9pm to
share the work from their current workshop.
Sunday
Bespoke workshops for each of the schools -
through discussion over the weekend a final workshop will be decided upon which
fulfils the needs or desired outcomes of the teaching staff. These can be
tailored towards applying the skills and techniques learned over the weekend
directly to a chosen stimulus in order to consolidate learning and development.
 
The GCSE drama residential weekends at the
Conway Centre are an institution. Formed over 3 decades the weekends have
shifted and evolved with the needs of drama teachers and their students at the
heart of every weekend.  The Menai
experience is one of nurture and inspiration, built around a diverse set of
workshops from skilled practitioners and students are guaranteed to have fun,
be challenged, and learn invaluable skills for successful devising.  






 


 
What's included:
  • 2-nights’ accommodation.
  • Full board basis
  • Activity sessions with clear learning outcomes to each session.
  • Expert guidance from experienced and industry leads in creating performance material from a single starting point. 
Get in Touch

01248 714501

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16th - 18th January 2026 £220 + VAT per person
30th - 1st February 2026 £218 + VAT per person
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