Drama skills and techniques overview quiz - Edexcel GCSE Drama quiz

Pace

Projection

Posture

Pitch

Simply name an emotion on its own, such as writing 'the character should just look angry'

Describe the full plot of the scene from its beginning right through to the end

List out all of the character's spoken lines one after another in order

Name a choice and its effect, such as 'clenched fists to show suppressed rage'

The meaningful distance between performers

The speed at which an actor speaks their lines

The overall brightness of the stage lighting design

The particular fabric a costume is made from

By speaking their lines a great deal more loudly than usual

By placing one performer physically higher than another

By changing the colour of the lighting across the stage

By wearing noticeably brighter and bolder clothes

It always means that the actor has completely forgotten what their next line is

It has no real effect at all on the watching audience in the theatre

It can build tension or emphasis, sometimes carrying more meaning than the words

It permanently reduces the volume of the actor's voice for the rest of the scene

The detailed lighting plan drawn up for the whole production

Only the printed stage directions written and nothing else in the script

The total number of separate scenes that there are in a play

The meaning beneath the lines, what a character really thinks or feels

By combining skills that contradict the words, such as a warm line spoken with a cold tone

By simply saying all of the spoken lines a good deal louder than before

By standing completely still and totally silent for the entire length of the whole long scene

By deliberately ignoring all of the other performers on the stage

It is not actually any stronger than listing the skills out separately

Combined skills with a shared purpose create one clear, believable character

Listing the skills out one by one always earns you a great deal more marks here

Combining different skills together is firmly against the rules of the exam

A proscenium arch stage

A thrust stage layout

Theatre in the round

A traverse stage setup

Performing only the spoken lines themselves and never any of the silences in between

Changing the character completely and starting again from scratch in each new scene

Speaking every single line as loudly as you possibly can throughout the performance

Holding the character's physical, vocal and spatial choices consistently throughout

Control

Volume

Speed

Improvisation

Because emotions of any kind are simply not allowed to be shown on the stage at all

Because an audience can only see a visible bodily choice, not an internal feeling

Because translating it into an action always makes the whole scene noticeably shorter

Because the examiner marking the work cannot actually see the stage during the show