Free HSC Year 11 Drama Flashcard Review
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What is the difference between a dramatic form and a style?
A form is a recognisable type of drama made for a particular medium (theatre, audio, video or multidisciplinary drama); a style is a group of related works or practices that share distinctive conventions (realism, epic theatre, absurdism, physical theatre).
What is a convention?
An agreed practice that signals a form or style to an audience, such as direct address, a fourth wall, a placard or a freeze.
Name the four kinds of context the syllabus asks you to investigate.
Artistic, cultural, social and personal contexts.
What chain should you use to explain any form or style?
Context → conventions → meaning → audience response.
Which three things should you explain about a dramatic practitioner?
Their influences, their intentions and their innovations, and how these shape forms and styles.
What was Stanislavski's main intention, and one innovation?
Truthful, believable acting; innovations include given circumstances, objectives and the ‘magic if’.
What was Brecht's main intention, and one epic theatre convention?
To make audiences think critically about society; conventions include placards, direct address and songs that interrupt the action.
Give five elements of drama.
Any five of the thirteen in the NESA glossary: role, character, focus, tension, situation, space, time, structure, language, moment, atmosphere, belief, symbol.
Give five elements of production.
Any five of the six in the NESA glossary: set, costume, lighting, props, sound, technologies.
What is the dramatic journey?
The way an audience, character or narrative changes through a work or experience.
Distinguish adapting, reimagining and transforming a work.
A working distinction (the syllabus does not define the three separately): adapting changes the form; reimagining moves the work to a new context; transforming changes its purpose or point of view.
How does ‘evaluate’ differ from ‘explain’?
Explain shows cause and effect; evaluate makes a judgement using criteria and evidence, weighing strengths and limitations.
What is improvisation?
Spontaneous, unscripted dramatic action created in the moment, used to discover and test ideas, characters and relationships.
What does ‘yes, and…’ mean in improvisation?
Accept a partner's offer and add new information to it, so the scene keeps building rather than stalling.
Give four possible stimuli for devising.
Any four of: a photograph, object, news story, song, poem, artwork, place, personal memory or question.
Name three protocols for safe ensemble collaboration.
For example: a pause or stop signal, consent before physical contact, warm-ups before physical work, agreed decision-making, a way to step out of role.
What is ensemble cohesion?
The group working as one, with shared timing, focus and awareness, so the work feels like a single consistent world.
What is a directorial concept?
The central idea or interpretation that shapes how a work is structured, staged or performed, guiding choices to realise the creative intent.
Describe a simple, safe feedback protocol.
Performers name their intention; watchers give an ‘I saw…’ observation and an ‘I wondered…’ question about choices, not people; the group tests one suggestion.
How does blocking differ from proxemics?
Blocking is the planned movement and placement of performers on the stage; proxemics is the conscious use of space between actors, objects and the stage to indicate relationships, emotion and meaning.