AQA A-Level Drama and Theatre knowledge overview quiz quiz

The director

The playwright

The performer

The stage manager

Genre is the manner of staging; style is the type of play

Genre is the type of play; style is the manner of staging

They are two words for the same thing

Genre applies only to comedy and style only to tragedy

Proscenium arch

Thrust

In the round

Traverse

Thrust

Promenade

Proscenium arch

Traverse

Colour, intensity and angle

Fabric, cut and condition

Diegetic and non-diegetic

Levels, rostra and revolves

Diegetic sound is always recorded in advance, whereas non-diegetic sound is always performed live on stage

Diegetic sound is heard by the characters; non-diegetic sound is for the audience only

Diegetic sound is always loud and intrusive, whereas non-diegetic sound is always kept soft and quiet

There is no real difference between the two terms and they can be used interchangeably in any essay

The choice of colour used in the stage lighting design across the whole production

The speed and pace at which an actor delivers their spoken lines on the stage

The meaningful use of distance between actors, and between actors and audience

The order in which the scenes of a play are arranged from the opening to the close

Because only the director ever creates any of the meaning in the finished production at all

Because every play is always written collectively by a large committee rather than one author

Because it is the audience, and not the company, that actually writes the play during the run

Because a single moment can carry meaning through several makers' choices at once

Moving from clean, well-cut clothing to worn, torn, faded clothing

Keeping exactly the same clean and well-pressed costume on the character throughout the whole play

Adding progressively brighter and more vivid colours to the character's outfit in each new scene

Removing the character's costume entirely so that they appear with no clothing at all on stage

It is far more intimate and immersive than staging a production in the round ever is

It supports illusion and spectacle but is more distant

It automatically removes every possible sightline problem for the whole of the audience

It forces the audience to get up and move along with the action throughout the performance

I would use some lighting to help to set the general mood of the scene nicely for all of the watching audience members

The lighting in this particular moment of the performance would look really quite nice and effective

I would use cold blue light at low intensity from a high side angle to isolate the character and suggest despair

I would just make the whole of the stage area go dark at this point in the scene for the audience