DRAMA

You may use drawings and/or diagrams to illustrate any of your answers if you
wish.
1.
The extract is from the beginning of the play. What theme(s) or issue(s) is
the writer introducing?
Explain and justify your answer with reference to the text.
Extract 1
Extract 2
Extract 3

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2.
Choose
one
character who has an important role in communicating the
same theme(s) or issue(s).
Write this character’s name here .
What is
this character’s attitude
to the theme(s) or issue(s)?
Explain and justify your answer with reference to the text.

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3.
Explain how you would want the actor playing the character you chose in
Question 2 to communicate
this attitude
through voice
and
movement.
Justify with reference to different points in the extract.

4.
Choose
another
character from the extract. In a practical exploration of
the extract, which
two
drama activities would help an actor develop this
character?
Give a detailed explanation of how the activities helped the characterisation
process.

Drama
Respond to 4 of the first 6 questions, plus #7

1. Analyze Nora’s problem, and Nora’s role in that problem. Use support from the play.
2. Analyze Ms. Warren’s problem, and determine its causes. Use support from the play.
3. What is the trick of ‘six characters who need (?) to search for an author’ — and why does Pirandello dramatize this ‘dramatic’ human condition?
4. What is the meaning of Wilson’s fences? Illustrate.
5. How much do the troubles of Nora — or Helmer — seem like ones you can recognize today? Or have social conditions changed?
6. How much is/are the problem(s) of Mrs Warren relevant today? Why?
7. Which part of the reading or lecture is foggiest?

Drama
Respond to 4 of the first 6 questions, plus #7

1. Analyze Nora’s problem, and Nora’s role in that problem. Use support from the play.
2. Analyze Ms. Warren’s problem, and determine its causes. Use support from the play.
3. What is the trick of ‘six characters who need (?) to search for an author’ — and why does Pirandello dramatize this ‘dramatic’ human condition?
4. What is the meaning of Wilson’s fences? Illustrate.
5. How much do the troubles of Nora — or Helmer — seem like ones you can recognize today? Or have social conditions changed?
6. How much is/are the problem(s) of Mrs Warren relevant today? Why?
7. Which part of the reading or lecture is foggiest?