Theatre Practitioners: SQA Advanced Higher Drama practitioners quiz quiz

As biographies to memorise

As working methods to apply

As a list of dates

As optional background reading

Brecht

Artaud

Stanislavski

Lecoq

Acting as if you were this character in these circumstances

A lighting effect

A type of stage make-up

A rule about scene length

The brightest light cue

The longest speech in the play

The first scene's setting

The character's overriding want across the whole play

Because emotion is banned on stage

Because truthful emotion arises from pursuing a genuine want, not from being produced to order

Because objectives are easier to remember

Because audiences dislike emotion

Total emotional absorption

To forget they are watching a play

Critical awareness and thought about the play's argument

To join the performers on stage

The alienation or distancing effect that makes the familiar strange

A method of emotion memory

A type of set construction

A rule about costume colour

A curtain call

A gesture or image that exposes a social relationship

A musical interval

A lighting board

Emotion memory

The magic if

The through-line of action

Episodic structure and direct address

Literal violence on stage

An assault on the senses and emotions to reach the audience beneath reason

A play about cruel characters

Cruel treatment of actors

Stripping theatre to the trained actor and the live encounter

Spending little money on tickets

Only performing tragedies

Using as much scenery as possible

Programme notes

The interval

The body, movement, ensemble and stage image

The ticket price

Memorising biographies

Application: showing how a theory shapes choices or illuminates a production

Listing every play a practitioner wrote

Drawing their portraits

Because the dissertation must engage with at least one influential practitioner

Because the Performance bans practitioners

Because only one is ever examined

Because depth is optional