Drama flashcards

122 HSC Drama cards across 4 modules (58 definitions, 60 key facts, 4 fill-the-gap, 0 formulas). Each session gives you 20 cards, due cards first. Swipe right for easy, left for hard, down for again. Keyboard: Space to flip, 1 to 4 to rate.

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What this deck covers

Section I (Core): Australian Drama and Theatre (36 cards, 9 dot points)
Practical Components: Group Performance and Individual Project (24 cards, 6 dot points)
Performance and Production Skills (25 cards, 6 dot points)
Section II (Elective): Studies in Drama and Theatre (37 cards, 9 dot points)

Sample cards from this deck

Definition
Contemporary Australian theatre voices: HSC Drama core
Define Hotel Sorrento (Playbox, Melbourne, 1990)
Three sisters return to their family beach house on the Mornington Peninsula. One has written a controversial novel about the family. The play won the AWGIE Award and was filmed by Richard Franklin (1995).
Definition
Group Performance process: HSC Drama practical
Define Group size
Three to six students. Most schools form four or five-person groups.
Definition
Design elements: set, costume, lighting, sound: HSC Drama
Define Period and location
Naturalist period reconstruction, transposition to a different period, abstracted setting, no specific period.
Definition
Brecht and epic theatre: HSC Drama elective
Define Dramatic theatre
Plot. The audience is involved. The audience's reason is exhausted. The audience experiences emotion. The world is given. Human nature is fixed.
Definition
David Williamson and Australian political comedy: HSC Drama core
Define Don's Party (Pram Factory, 1971)
Set at a Melbourne dinner party on the night of the 1969 federal election. The host (Don) is a Labor supporter watching Labor lose to Gorton's Liberals. Eleven characters across the night. The play sketches the disappointed left, the genteel middle class, the failing marriages, and the casual sexism. Don's Party was filmed by Bruce Beresford in 1976, with Williamson's screenplay.
Definition
Individual Project Critical Analysis: HSC Drama practical
Define Form
An academic essay with an introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. Footnotes (or in-text citations, depending on the chosen referencing style) and a bibliography.
Definition
Director's vision and process: HSC Drama
Define A central question
What is the play really about, in this production? Hamlet about indecision, about political legitimacy, about grief, about madness. The central question shapes every decision.
Definition
Comedy of manners and Australian comedy: HSC Drama elective
Define George Etherege (around 1635 to 1692)
The Man of Mode (1676), a satire of London Restoration manners with the fop Sir Fopling Flutter and the rake Dorimant. Etherege defined the comic register that the others followed.
Definition
Indigenous Australian theatre: HSC Drama core
Define Ilbijerri Theatre Company
Founded 1991 in Melbourne. The name means "coming together for ceremony" in Woiwurrung. Ilbijerri is the longest-running Aboriginal-led theatre company in Australia, and has been a development pipeline for Indigenous playwrights including Jane Harrison, Andrea James, John Harding, and Glenn Shea. Now based at Arts House in North Melbourne.
Definition
Individual Project Design: HSC Drama practical
Define Chosen play
The portfolio is for a hypothetical production of a chosen play. The student is not producing the play (no actual production); the portfolio describes what the production would look like.