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DramaQ&A by dot point
A short Q&A bank for every QLD Drama syllabus dot point. Each question and answer is drawn directly from our worked dot-point page, so you can scan key concepts before opening the long-form answer.
Unit 3: Challenge
- Develop and communicate a dramatic concept that interprets a challenging issue through a chosen theatre style, justifying choices of dramatic languages for an intended audience1Q&A pairs
- Understand and manipulate dramatic tension, including the tensions of task, relationship, surprise and mystery, to create and sustain dramatic action and engage an audience4Q&A pairs
- Apply the dramatic languages and conventions of Brecht's epic theatre to make and present dramatic action that provokes critical reflection on social and political issues2Q&A pairs
- Understand and apply the three interrelated drama processes, forming, presenting and responding, across making and analysing dramatic action in both units3Q&A pairs
- Demonstrate the presenting process by performing an excerpt of a published text in a challenging style, applying the dramatic languages to realise its dramatic purpose for an intended audience (IA1)5Q&A pairs
- Apply the conventions of physical theatre, including ensemble, the expressive body and devised movement, to make and present dramatic action that communicates meaning through movement before words0Q&A pairs
- Understand and apply the conventions of Stanislavskian realism, including objectives, the magic if and emotion memory, and explain why challenging theatre styles reject its emotional absorption1Q&A pairs
- Understand and manipulate the dramatic languages, the elements of drama, the skills of drama, the conventions and stagecraft, to create dramatic action and communicate meaning4Q&A pairs
- Apply the conventions of Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty to make and present dramatic action that affects an audience viscerally rather than through rational, text-based argument0Q&A pairs
- Apply the conventions of Theatre of the Absurd to make and present dramatic action that challenges an audience's assumptions about meaning, language and the human condition0Q&A pairs
- Apply the conventions of Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, including Forum Theatre and the spect-actor, to make and present dramatic action that challenges oppression and explores alternatives4Q&A pairs
- Apply the conventions of verbatim and documentary theatre to make and present dramatic action drawn from real testimony that challenges audiences on issues of human conscience0Q&A pairs
Unit 4: Transform
- Apply the skills of directing and devising to shape dramatic action, communicating a coherent directorial vision through the manipulation of the dramatic languages2Q&A pairs
- Analyse the inherited conventions of Greek, Elizabethan and Neoclassical theatre and explain how they shape the dramatic action a director must negotiate when transforming a text2Q&A pairs
- Plan, realise and justify a practice-led project that transforms an inherited text, documenting how dramatic languages were manipulated to communicate a directorial vision2Q&A pairs
- Respond analytically to dramatic action, evaluating how dramatic languages and theatre styles communicate meaning, in an extended written response under examination conditions3Q&A pairs
- Transform an inherited published text through a directorial vision, manipulating dramatic languages to reframe its meaning for a contemporary audience2Q&A pairs