Elements of Drama
What element of drama do the following fall under:
Antagonist, Protagonist, King, Queen, Teacher, Student, Bully, Victim.
Role
Our Hall at Glenala is an example of WHAT stage type?
Proscenium Arch
Everything the audience sees, hears and experiences is called (what is the drama term)
Dramatic action
Identify the convention used in the example below.
"A performer is playing a character, leaves stage and returns in a later scene playing a different characters."
Multi-role AND/OR Multiple role taking
Show the element of drama TIME
Which element of drama refers to the emotional atmosphere experienced by the audience?
Mood
Lighting and sound are often used in stagecraft to help communicate WHICH 3 elements of drama.
Mood, Symbol & Tension
Name 4 different purposes you can have or use when making theatre.
Empathise, Empower, Celebrate, Entertain, Educate, Inform, Challenge, Provoke, Chronicle & Document.
Identify the conventions used in the example below (there are 4, extra points for the more you get).
"A performer looks to the audience and begins speaking to them, other characters do not here them."
Direct address, Soliloquy, Narration and Aside.
In a freeze frame, show the element of drama contrast.
Which dramatic element refers to the interactions between characters, ideas or the environment?
Relationship
What type of stage are they performing on?
Performers are on a rectangle stage, and the audience sits on two sides of the stage, with the performers between them.
Traverse
What is the primary purpose of a Soundscape?
To establish place, mood or symbol.
Identify the convention used in the example below.
"A scene is interrupted by another scene from 6 months earlier"
Flashback.
In a 10 second scene show a workplace issue using movement only - no language.
Movement scene.
Which element of drama refers to the manipulation of the performance area?
Space
Name the 4 types of tension.
Mystery, Surprise, Task & Relationships
Which dramatic style aims to provoke social change through critical thinking?
Epic Theatre / Theatre of social comment
Identify the convention used in the example below.
"The performance about school begins with Jordan Downey and her students, it then goes to Luke Winning and his students, it finishes on Kate Miles and her students."
Episodic structure
Using the element of drama focus, in a freeze frame, show an argument where the focus is supposed to be on ONE person. (Think about levels, proximity etc.)
Focus in scene
Name all 14 elements of drama.
Situation, Character, Relationship, Role, Tension, Mood, Focus, Symbol, Contrast, Time, Space, Place, Movement, Language.
What element of drama is used if:
Actors use a passport to represent the fact that they're a refugee.
Symbol.
Sociological context is one we have looked at in class, name other types of contexts you can use when making theatre. 100 points for each you can name
Philosophical, Historical, Personal, Cultural, Geographical & Political.
Fragmentation.
Tension at grad.