unit 3 text in context
1 a) evaluate your contribution to the performance by tracing key moments during the journey from first reading of the play to final rehearsal.
b) Evaluate how specific rehearsal techniques were used within the group to help develop two characters.
2 Discuss the impact on your audience of one design element in your performance
b) Analyse the contributions made to the play in performance by two members of your group.
3 Evaluate the reaction of your audience to two specific moments from the play in performance
b Discuss your directors interpretation of the play and its impact upon your audience.
SECTION B
On one live production you have seen
4 a) Evaluate how effectively two performers used acting techniques in order to engage you during the performance.
b) Discuss the visual impact of the performance, giving two examples to show how this was achieved.
5. Evaluate the way the passage of time and/or a change of location were achieved during the performance.
b) Discuss the visual impact of the performance, giving two examples to show how this was achieved.
6 a) Evaluate how effectively theatrical devices used in the performance made the play relevant to you as a member of the audience.
b) Discuss to what extent the performance you have seen was presented as a product of our time.
These are practice questions for year 12.Use your notes as a guide to help you write these essays. Give them in to Lydia or Debby for marking.
UNIT 6 EXAM for year 13
1b) The Trojan Women by Euripes
i) Suggest ideas for the reaction of your chorus to the entrance of Talthybius with the body of Astyanax. (4)
ii) Outline your approach to two of the challenges faced by your designer in this extract. (6)
iii) Outline your rehearsal techniques for the performer playing Talthybius in this section, paying attention to the impact of his entrance.(10)
Use pages 99/101/103/105 as the extract to help you.
2b) The Trojan Women by Euripides
i) How would you make your production of the Trojan Women appeal to amodern audience? Give reasons for your decisions.
ii) As a director, discuss your overall approach to the chorus in The Trojan Women.
SECTION B
3a) Theatre should be about the way we live now, not the way we used to live
Discuss this statement, in the light of the production you have seen, to show your understandingof how you think the impact of the play has altered since its original performance.
3b) referring to the production you have seen, discuss how an audience might have reacted to this staging of the play in any one previous time period you have researched.
This are practice questions to help you revise and use your notes to guide you in the exam. Give them to Debby to mark.
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