Performance Analysis: SQA Higher Drama question paper Section 2 quiz quiz

8 marks

12 marks

20 marks

40 marks

A live theatre performance you have seen

A play you have only read

A film you watched at home

A performance described to you by someone else

Analysis and evaluation

Acting and directing

Set design and lighting design

Memorising and quoting the script

Summarising the plot of the play

Listing the names of everyone in the cast

Describing specific acting and production choices at particular moments

Predicting how the play will end

Describing what a choice looked like

Counting how many choices were made

Repeating the lines the actors spoke

A justified judgement of how effective a choice was for the audience

The ticket price of the production

The number of actors on stage

The length of the interval

What a choice communicated and how the audience responded

The acting was really good throughout

At the news, the actor dropped to a cracked whisper and held a long stillness

The play was very enjoyable overall

The set was nice to look at

It fills space when you run out of points

It is required to mention something negative in every answer

It shows genuine critical judgement and reads as more credible

It lets you avoid describing any successful choices

Memorise the whole script of a play

See a production and note memorable choices and their effects

Read a summary of a play online the night before

Avoid watching any theatre so your view is fresh

Describing without evaluating, and summarising the plot

Evaluating too many choices and being too specific

Using evidence and staying balanced

Naming the design elements and judging them

Colour, intensity and angle

Voice and movement, such as pace, pitch, stillness and gesture

Set, props and costume only

Ticket sales and audience numbers

Lighting, sound, set and costume

Motivation, objective and status

Blocking, proxemics and concept

Pace, pitch and projection

The plot of the play

The biography of the playwright

The history of the theatre building

The question and the effect on the audience