HSC DramaPractice Examination 20

This paper covers

• Section I (core): how the gap between a play's original context and today's audience creates meaning
• Q2 Voice of Women: female friendship and rivalry; Q3 Approaches to Acting: training as a philosophy of theatre
• Q4 Verbatim: authenticity and the actor's portrayal of real people; Q5 Black Comedy: race, identity and comedy
• Q6 Multi-Discipline: devising from a stimulus; Q7 Significant Plays: the paradigm shift and its legacy; Q8 Japanese Theatre: the puppet, chanter and shamisen
• Balanced treatment of two plays or practitioners
• Original model essays with constructed workshop evidence

Students are permitted to bring into the examination the materials normally allowed for this subject. Answer all questions in the spaces provided.

This is an ATARMAxxing practice paper. It is not an official examination and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced by the VCAA, NESA or the QCAA.