OCR A-Level Drama and Theatre: set practitioners and companies overview quiz quiz

Belief and empathy through truthful, motivated acting

Critical detachment that breaks the spell so the audience judges the events

Sensory overwhelm that bypasses the rational mind entirely

Pure laughter and comic release from start to finish

The alienation effect and placards

Objectives and given circumstances

The empty space and the holy actor

Sensory assault and ritual

Making the audience cry through deep emotional identification with the hero

A lighting state that signals a change of scene to the watching audience

Deliberate distancing that keeps the audience critical rather than absorbed

A vocal warm-up that prepares the ensemble before the performance begins

A type of stripped-back set used in epic theatre staging

An emotion memory drawn from the performer's own remembered past experience and feelings

A lifting move used to carry meaning in choreographed sequences

A physical or vocal action that crystallises a social relationship or attitude

Rigour and sensory intensity, an overwhelming transformative experience

Literal violence and gore staged graphically to shock the watching audience

Cruel dialogue between characters designed to wound and humiliate one another

Harsh criticism of actors by the director during the rehearsal process

Through naturalistic dialogue that mirrors how people really speak

Through non-verbal means: light, sound, movement, image and ritual

Through placards and captions that announce each scene to the audience

Through psychological objectives that drive the actor's truthful behaviour

Elaborate naturalistic sets that reproduce a real location in detail

Placards and captions that interrupt the action to address the audience

Choreographed physical sequences and lifts that carry meaning

Emotion memory recalled to fuel a wholly truthful inner performance

A stage must be fully designed before any rehearsal can usefully begin

Theatre needs elaborate lighting rigs and projection to shape the watching audience's attention

Actors must memorise their objectives and given circumstances first

Any bare space becomes a stage the moment a person crosses it while another watches

The actor's trained body and voice and a charged relationship with the audience

Expensive design and lavish costume to immerse the audience in the world

Projected captions that comment on the action and frame it critically

Recorded sound and underscore that carefully shape the mood of every single scene

Sheer length and the volume of background detail offered on each one

Justification (why the two suit the stimulus) and integration (fused into one coherent style)

The cost and scale of staging the chosen approaches in performance

The fame and reputation of the two practitioners selected and how widely they are studied today

Choosing famous practitioners purely for their well-known reputation

Using too much choreographed movement at the expense of spoken text

Staging them in separate blocks so the piece has no single identity

Writing far too much practitioner background instead of practical choices

Quoting a textbook definition of a practitioner method is strictly forbidden and is automatically penalised by examiners every time

A specific choice saves time in the exam and lets you cover more material

Examiners dislike theory and want only practical staging in every answer

The marks are in application: a technique earns AO1 and AO2 only when it becomes a choice with an audience effect