Eduqas A-Level Drama and Theatre: live theatre and design skills overview quiz quiz

Posture

Lighting angle

Pitch

Stage configuration

Because acting itself is never assessed anywhere in the Eduqas course, only written design work is credited

Because only design is assessed

Because it is too detailed

Because the marks are in specific, named choices tied to meaning and audience effect

Set, costume, lighting and sound

Acting, directing, writing, producing

Pitch, pace, pause, tone

Genre, style, period, theme

Only the weather conditions in which a particular scene of the play happens to be set

Character, status, time and place

The running time

The ticket price

Silhouette

Pace

Angle

Proximity

By lighting the whole stage equally and brightly so the audience can take in every part of the action at once

By turning all lights off

Lighting cannot direct focus

By lighting some areas and not others, for example a tight spotlight

Silence used deliberately

The condition of a costume, such as whether it looks new, worn, torn or stained

Stage levels

Facial expression

To pass the time pleasantly between the demanding practical workshops that make up the rest of the course

To understand how performance and design choices land on an audience and to gather material for analysis

To copy productions exactly

It is not required

The full plot of the production written out in as much scene-by-scene detail as you can manage

The ticket stub

Specific performance and design choices and their effect on the audience

The interval snacks

AO1

AO3

AO4

AO2

AO3

AO1

AO2

AO1 and AO2

Using as many long and impressive technical words as possible so the examiner can see your wide vocabulary

Precise, named choices, grounded in the text, with every choice tied to its effect on the audience

Listing as many skills as possible

Describing the plot