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Set text study (Component 3)
Quick questions on Staging a set text as performer, director and designer - Eduqas A-Level Drama and Theatre Component 3
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What is the performer's toolkit?Show answer
As a performer you realise a character or moment through the voice (pitch, pace, pause, tone, volume, accent, emphasis) and the body (posture, gesture, movement, stillness, levels, proximity, eye contact). The skill is to make a specific moment's meaning or a character's status, emotion or objective visible and audible through these choices.
What is the director's toolkit?Show answer
As a director you set a concept (an interpretation and intended effect) and make staging choices: stage configuration, casting, blocking, pace and rhythm, the actor-audience relationship, and how design serves the idea. You can apply this to a single moment or sustain it across the play (as in a Section B essay).
What is the designer's toolkit?Show answer
As a designer you work in one discipline and make choices that build the world and carry meaning:
What is q1?Show answer
Name the three theatre-maker perspectives and one tool of each. [3 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Why must you stay in the role the question sets? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
As a director, explain how you would stage the opening of your set text to establish its world for an audience. [10 marks]
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