OCR A Level Drama and Theatre H459/31 Analysing Performance. QUESTION PAPER AND ANSWERS. RATED A

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Choose one theme and answer both questions on that theme. Theme 1: Conflict Your answer to each question should be about one performance text you have studied from the list below. You must write ab... out a different performance text for each question. Black Watch – Gregory Burke Hamlet – William Shakespeare Necessary Targets – Eve Ensler Oh What a Lovely War – Joan Littlewood The Long and the Short and the Tall – Willis Hall Write the name of the performance text at the start of each answer. 1 Explain how your design concept reinforces the theme of conflict for a performance text you have studied. Justify your ideas with examples from the opening scenes. [15] AND 2 Explore the ways an actor playing a major character could demonstrate emotional tensions in a performance text you have studied. Justify your ideas with examples from at least three scenes. [15] 3 © OCR 2021 H459/31 Oct21 Turn over Theme 2: Family dynamics Your answer to each question should be about one performance text you have studied from the list below. You must write about a different performance text for each question. A Day in the Death of Joe Egg – Peter Nichols House of Bernarda Alba – Federico García Lorca King Lear – William Shakespeare Live Like Pigs – John Arden The Caucasian Chalk Circle – Bertolt Brecht Write the name of the performance text at the start of each answer. 3 Explain how you would direct a character to respond to a changing situation in a performance text you have studied. Justify your ideas with examples from the opening scenes. [15] AND 4 As an actor, explain how you would use physicality to emphasise a difficult relationship in a performance text you have studied. Justify your suggestions with examples from at least three scenes. [15] Theme 3: Heroes and villains Your answer to each question should be about one performance text you have studied from the list below. You must write about a different performance text for each question. Amadeus – Peter Shaffer Caligula – Albert Camus Frankenstein – Nick Dear Othello – William Shakespeare The Love of the Nightingale – Timberlake Wertenbaker Write the name of the performance text at the start of each answer. 5 Discuss how an actor could convey the persona of a villainous character in a performance text you have studied. Justify your ideas with examples from the opening scenes. [15] AND 6 Explain how you would direct a key character to emphasise their belief that they have heroic qualities in a performance text you have studied. Justify your ideas with examples from at least three scenes. [15] Please turn over for Section B 4 © OCR 2021 H459/31 Oct21 Oxford Cambridge and RSA Copyright Information OCR is committed to seeking permission to reproduce all third-party content that it uses in its assessment materials. OCR has attempted to identify and contact all copyright holders whose work is used in this paper. To avoid the issue of disclosure of answer-related information to candidates, all copyright acknowledgements are reproduced in the OCR Copyright Acknowledgements Booklet. This is produced for each series of examinations and is freely available to download from our public website (www.ocr.org.uk) after the live examination series. If OCR has unwittingly failed to correctly acknowledge or clear any third-party content in this assessment material, OCR will be happy to correct its mistake at the earliest possible opportunity. For queries or further information please contact The OCR Copyright Team, The Triangle Building, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 8EA. OCR is part of the Cambridge Assessment Group; Cambridge Assessment is the brand name of University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), which is itself a department of the University of Cambridge. Section B At the start of your answer write the name, venue and date (month and year) of the live performance you have seen. 7* Analyse how design elements communicated the Director’s intentions in the live performance you have seen. [30] END OF QUESTION PAPER Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations GCE Drama and Theatre H459/31: Analysing performance Advanced GCE 2021 Mark Scheme (DRAFT) This is a DRAFT mark scheme. It has not been used for marking as this paper did not receive any entries in the series it was scheduled for. I [Show More]

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