Eduqas GCSE Drama techniques and roles overview quiz quiz

Operating the lighting board

Questioning a character in role to build their back-story and motivation

Marking the end of a scene

Surrounding the audience with the action

Ends a scene with a blackout

Juxtaposes two scenes on stage, cutting between them, to draw a connection or contrast

Plays a character in slow motion

Removes the set

It hides the turning point

It highlights a key turning point so the audience registers its importance

It speeds up the whole scene

It is only used in naturalism

An intact fourth wall and lifelike acting

The alienation effect, episodic structure and direct address

Storytelling purely through dance

A detailed realistic set

To remind the audience it is watching theatre

A believable, lifelike representation of reality behind a fourth wall

An illogical, meaningless world

Storytelling through ensemble movement

End-on

Thrust

In-the-round

Traverse

Scenes needing a detailed back wall

Confrontations or journeys, with audience on two opposite sides

Immersive promenade pieces

Anything requiring a tall set

Configurations have no effect

The marks are in the consequence: how it shapes sightlines, intimacy and meaning

Only the round is examinable

Reasons are only needed in devising

To create the lighting only

To shape the overall interpretation (the concept) and direct the performers and staging

To write the script

To call the cues during the show

They work independently of the director

Each creates one specialist element that serves the director's interpretation

They replace the director

They only design after the show opens

Listing more titles

Explaining the responsibilities and how the roles collaborate to serve one vision

Naming the actors

Describing the theatre building

Using as many as possible

Knowing its purpose and choosing it to serve the meaning and the audience

Naming it in Latin

Avoiding the written paper vocabulary