Text in Performance overview quiz - WJEC A-Level Drama and Theatre Component 3 quiz

1 hour 30 minutes, 20 per cent

2 hours, 30 per cent

2 hours 30 minutes, 40 per cent

3 hours, 50 per cent

AO1 and AO2 only

AO1 and AO3

All four equally with no AO3

AO3 and AO4

An extended essay on a second set text

Shorter, structured questions on one complete set text

A question on a printed extract from a third text

A devised performance

A detailed plot summary

A list of unrelated staging ideas

A sustained directorial or design concept across the whole play

Avoiding any audience effect

One of your two complete set texts

A play you devise yourself

An extract from a third contrasting text, printed in the paper

A live production you watched

One complete set text must be written before 1956 and one after 1956

Both set texts must be written after 1956

All texts must be Greek tragedies

There is no date rule

To analyse the text as literature

To summarise the plot for the examiner

To write as a performer, director or designer making staging choices

To review whether you enjoyed the play

Set, costume, lighting and sound

Proxemics and the stage form

Vocal and physical choices such as pace, pause, posture and movement

Ticket pricing and the venue

Proxemics, stage form, levels and focus

Lighting angle and colour

An actor's vocal pitch

The costume's fabric

A quotation from a critic

A note of the play's date

A diagram

Its effect on the audience

The production: the company's staging, performance and design choices

The plot and themes of the play

Whether the tickets were good value

The playwright's biography

Listing as many moments as possible

Avoiding any specific detail

A reasoned evaluative judgement of how successfully a moment created meaning

Retelling the whole production in order

Sections A and B (the two complete set texts)

Only Section C

All three sections fully annotated

None of the sections

To show command of the whole text and the concept developing from beginning to end

To fill more space

Because the start of the play is unimportant

To avoid using the open book

Making specific, justified choices

Citing precise moments

Using accurate design vocabulary

Retelling the plot instead of staging the text