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WACE Drama Practice Exams with Worked Solutions
20 full-length papers · worked solutions for every question
The 20 practice exams inside the WACE Drama Mastery Pack, each set out like the real paper with a separate worked-solution guide. Open any paper to see what it covers.
- unseen realist kitchen drama
- stage space and audience impact
- voice to show relationships
- context of the set text
- site-specific design
- realism and representational style
- blocking for status
- non-realist chorus piece
- rehearsal activity for movement
- practitioner approach for an actor
- dominant theme
- principle of design: contrast
- presentational style and direct address
- ensemble as environment
- promenade staging
- elements of design across scenes
- character motivation
- director's vision for a teenage audience
- voice: projection and tension
- site-specific promenade transitions
- symbol of the signal lamp
- absurdist two-hander
- status and proxemics
- tone and inflection
- symbol in the set text
- balance in design
- circular structure and repetition
- relocating a set text
- magic realism
- lighting and sound transitions
- given circumstances
- rehearsal process for relationships
- theatre space choice
- heightened versus realistic language
- non-linear time in design
- epic theatre devices
- placards and direct address
- point of view
- character values
- multimedia design
- Section One: original epic script extract with placards, chorus and narrator
- Section Two: five role-based questions for any Australian or World set text
- verbatim-style monologues
- audience as participants
- actor gesture and stillness
- historical context
- repetition in design
- Section One: original verbatim-style script with audience participation
- Section Two: five role-based questions for any Australian or World set text
- naturalistic family conflict
- subtext and pause
- director blocking
- dominant theme
- costume to show character journey
- Section One: original naturalistic two-sister script in four timed scenes
- Section Two: five role-based questions for any Australian or World set text
- physical theatre
- ensemble movement
- Frantic Assembly or Lecoq-style rehearsal
- character journey
- emphasis in design
- Section One: original physical theatre text with a three-part movement score
- Section Two: five role-based questions for any Australian or World set text
- musical theatre form
- song as heightened language
- time non-linear
- significance for a teenage audience
- sound design
- Section One: original small musical with invented lyrics and split time
- Section Two: five role-based questions for any Australian or World set text
- contemporary realism
- online communication on stage
- facial expression and pace
- context of the set text
- set design and scale/proportion
- Section One original video-call script extract (Three Squares)
- Section Two five role-based questions, choose two
- Greek-style chorus
- mask and movement
- focus
- practitioner approach
- lighting and atmosphere
- Section One original masked-chorus script extract (The Gathering Stone)
- Section Two five role-based questions, choose two
- comedy of manners
- timing and pace
- status shifts
- character values
- costume period detail
- Section One original 1920s Perth dinner-party script extract (A Most Suitable Arrangement)
- Section Two five role-based questions, choose two
- dream-play structure
- symbol literal and metaphorical
- transitions
- director's vision
- site-specific space
- Section One original sleepwalking dream-play script extract (Sleepwalker's Map)
- Section Two five role-based questions, choose two
- two-world staging
- puppetry or object theatre
- relationships across worlds
- given circumstances
- contrast and balance
- Section One original diver-and-shipwreck script extract (Breath Hold)
- Section Two five role-based questions, choose two
- tragicomedy
- tone shifts
- audience laughter and tension
- dominant symbol
- lighting colour
- original roadhouse script extract
- status and inflection
- Epic symbol design
- form and style
- documentary-style staging
- projection and multimedia
- point of view to shape audience impact
- actor articulation
- historical context
- original 1970s radio broadcast script extract
- Epic and presentational conventions
- balance in design
- texture and era
- intimate black-box piece
- silence and stillness
- Uta Hagen-style object exercises
- character motivation
- sound volume and duration
- original hospital waiting-room script extract
- subtext and pitch
- scale/proportion in design
- final image
- Artaudian sensory staging
- atmosphere on entry
- space and audience proximity
- theme interpretation
- repetition
- original blackout ritual-theatre script extract
- physical approaches in rehearsal
- sensory overload and stillness in design
- actor–audience relationship
- storytelling theatre
- narrator and direct address
- gait, weight and energy for multiple roles
- significance of the set text
- set design for transitions
- original fishing-family storytelling script extract
- multiple roles and in-view transformation
- line in costume design
- ensemble rehearsal
Included in the WACE Drama Mastery Pack
20 full-length practice exams with worked solutions, 20 revision notes, 64 practice questions and 200 flashcards.
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