§-Drama Q&A
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Drama Q&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 audience
Understand and manipulate dramatic tension, including the tensions of task, relationship, surprise and mystery, to create and sustain dramatic action and engage an audience
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 issues
Understand and apply the three interrelated drama processes, forming, presenting and responding, across making and analysing dramatic action in both units
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)
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 words
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 absorption
Understand and manipulate the dramatic languages, the elements of drama, the skills of drama, the conventions and stagecraft, to create dramatic action and communicate meaning
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 argument
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 condition
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 alternatives
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 conscience
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 languages
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 text
Plan, realise and justify a practice-led project that transforms an inherited text, documenting how dramatic languages were manipulated to communicate a directorial vision
Respond analytically to dramatic action, evaluating how dramatic languages and theatre styles communicate meaning, in an extended written response under examination conditions
Transform an inherited published text through a directorial vision, manipulating dramatic languages to reframe its meaning for a contemporary audience