Free WACE Year 11 Drama Flashcard Review
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What is subtext?
The thoughts and feelings underneath what a character actually says; the actor reveals it through voice and movement.
Persona, stereotype and archetype: what is the difference?
A persona is the public face a character presents; a stereotype is a simplified social type; an archetype is a pattern that recurs across many stories.
What is status in a relationship?
The relative power between characters, which can shift during a scene and is shown through voice, movement and proxemics.
How is situation defined in Unit 1 realism?
A specified setting together with the given circumstances that shape behaviour.
Name the nine aspects of voice in the syllabus list.
Accent, articulation, emphasis, pace, pause, pitch, projection, tone and silence.
What does proxemics communicate?
The spatial relationship between characters, signalling closeness, conflict or status.
What is the audience's role in realism?
Passive viewers who watch through an imaginary fourth wall while the characters behave as if unobserved.
How is time usually structured in realism?
Linearly: events occur in chronological, cause-and-effect order within fictional time.
When and with whom did Stanislavski co-found the Moscow Art Theatre?
In 1898, with Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.
What is the magic if?
Asking 'What would I do if I were in this situation?' so the actor's imagination responds truthfully to the given circumstances.
What is the method of physical actions?
Stanislavski's later process in which specific physical tasks performed truthfully lead to believable thought and feeling.
How does improvisation support a realist rehearsal?
Actors improvise off-stage events or backstory to deepen belief in the given circumstances and relationships.
What three kinds of context does the syllabus name?
Historical, social and cultural context.
What theatre form did realism react against?
Melodrama, with its sensational plots, stock heroes and villains and exaggerated performance.
Name three nineteenth-century European realist playwrights.
Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg and Anton Chekhov.
What are character values?
The beliefs and priorities that guide a character's choices, shaped by their context.
Name three levels at which point of view operates.
The text (playwright's attitude), the character (their perspective) and the production (the creative team's interpretation).
What is a box set?
A realistic room built with three walls, leaving the fourth wall open to the audience.
List three conventions of linear narrative in realism.
Exposition, rising action caused by choices, and a climax followed by a resolution, all in chronological order.
Form versus style?
Form is the way the text is written (realism or non-realism); style is the way it is performed (representational or presentational).