Drama flashcards
21 TCE Drama cards across 5 modules (5 definitions, 16 key facts, 0 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
Exploring and Devising (6 cards, 4 dot points)
Live Theatre Analysis (2 cards, 2 dot points)
Making and Performing (2 cards, 2 dot points)
Presenting and Reflecting (3 cards, 3 dot points)
Skills Development (8 cards, 5 dot points)
Sample cards from this deck
Definition
Theatre Genres and Forms - TCE Drama (Tasmania)
Define Verbatim theatre
Verbatim theatre is a genre in which the script is built from the exact recorded words of real people, drawn from interviews, testimony or transcripts and performed as spoken, so the work's authority rests on its authenticity.
Key fact
Analysing Live Performance - TCE Drama (Tasmania)
Tell me about Analyse effect and cause, not enjoyment
Live theatre analysis is assessed on your ability to identify how meaning and effect were created, not on whether you liked the show. Every point should pair a specific choice with its effect on the audience and a judgement of how well it served the production's intention.
Key fact
Brecht and Epic Theatre - TCE Drama (Tasmania)
Tell me about Distancing is purposeful, not careless
Every Brechtian device serves one goal, keeping the audience critically engaged rather than emotionally absorbed. When you justify a choice in a reflection, name the technique and the thinking it is meant to provoke, for example a caption that removes suspense so attention shifts to a character's economic choices.
Key fact
Ensemble and Solo Performance - TCE Drama (Tasmania)
Tell me about Both ensemble and solo are required
Drama 3 externally assesses ensemble work, solo work and a written exam, and ensemble assessment needs a group of at least three candidates. You cannot specialise in only group or only solo performance; the course deliberately tests both your collaborative stagecraft and your ability to carry a stage alone.
Definition
Character Development and Role - TCE Drama (Tasmania)
Define Hot-seating
Hot-seating is a role-building technique in which an actor, staying in character, answers questions from the group, testing and deepening the character's backstory, motivations and consistency.
Definition
Theatre Styles and Conventions - TCE Drama (Tasmania)
Define Fourth wall
The fourth wall is the imagined invisible barrier between the actors and the audience in naturalistic theatre, through which the audience observes the action as if watching real life unobserved. Non-naturalistic styles often deliberately break it.
Key fact
Writing the Theatre Analysis Essay - TCE Drama (Tasmania)
Tell me about Build every paragraph on choice, effect, evaluation
The strongest theatre analysis paragraphs name a specific choice, explain its effect on the audience, and evaluate how well it served the production's intention.
Key fact
Stanislavski and Psychological Realism - TCE Drama (Tasmania)
Tell me about The system is a toolkit, not a script
Stanislavski's system is a set of tools for generating truthful behaviour, the magic if, given circumstances, objectives, units, emotion memory and the method of physical actions. You select whichever tool unlocks a moment; you are not required to use all of them at once.
Key fact
Production Roles and Design Elements - TCE Drama (Tasmania)
Tell me about Every design element is a deliberate sign
In theatre, nothing the audience sees or hears is neutral; it all signifies. A bare stage, a green light, a torn coat, a sudden silence, each is a choice that the audience reads.
Definition
Elements of Drama and Terminology - TCE Drama (Tasmania)
Define Proxemics
Proxemics is the use and meaning of physical distance and spatial relationships between performers, and between performers and audience, as a way of communicating relationship, status and tension.