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The set texts

4 dot points across 4 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How does context and original performance conditions inform your interpretation of the OCR set text, and how do you use it to earn AO3?

Context and performance conditions: the social, historical, cultural and theatrical context of the set text and the conditions of its original staging, used to inform (not decorate) a director's and designer's interpretation (AO3).
How the social, historical, cultural and theatrical context of the OCR set text, and the conditions of its original staging, inform a director's and designer's interpretation in the Deconstructing Texts paper, used to earn AO3 rather than as decoration.
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How do you answer the OCR set text paper as a designer, using set, lighting, sound and costume to realise an interpretation?

Designing for the set text: realising an interpretation through set and staging, lighting, sound, and costume and make-up, in the extract and whole-play questions of the Deconstructing Texts for Performance paper (AO2 and AO3).
How to answer the OCR Deconstructing Texts paper as a designer: realising an interpretation of the set text through set and staging, lighting, sound, and costume and make-up, each choice tied to its effect on the audience, to earn AO2 and AO3.
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How do you build and sustain a director's whole-play concept for the OCR set text, and communicate it to a contemporary audience?

Directing the set text as a whole: forming a production concept and realising it across key moments through casting, staging, pace and design, for a contemporary audience, in the Deconstructing Texts for Performance paper (AO2 and AO3).
How to answer the OCR Deconstructing Texts whole-play question: forming a director's production concept for the set text and realising it across key moments through casting, staging, pace and design, for a contemporary audience, to earn AO2 and AO3.
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What is the OCR Deconstructing Texts for Performance paper, and how do you answer on one set text as a director and designer?

Component 04 (H459/41 to 48), Deconstructing Texts for Performance: a 1 hour written paper on one set text, answered as a director and designer with an extract focus and a whole-play interpretation, assessing AO2 and AO3 (60 marks).
How to approach the OCR A-Level Drama and Theatre Deconstructing Texts for Performance paper (H459/41 to 48): a 1 hour closed-book exam on one set text answered as a director and designer, with an extract question and a whole-play interpretation, assessing AO2 and AO3 across 60 marks.
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