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Theatre Practitioners
Quick questions on Studying influential theatre practitioners: SQA Advanced Higher Drama
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What are the major traditions?Show answer
You should know the broad map: Stanislavski and the realist tradition that builds truthful character from objectives and given circumstances; Brecht and epic theatre, which keeps the audience critically distant; and the physical and experimental tradition, from Artaud's theatre of cruelty to the devised, body-led work of modern companies. These are not the only practitioners, but they mark out the main approaches to the actor, the audience and the stage.
What is q1?Show answer
Why does the course study practitioners as methods rather than biographies? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Name the three broad traditions a candidate should know. [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
What does it mean to apply a practitioner rather than recite one? [1 mark]
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