GCSE Drama Recap

What is a traverse stage?

• A stage where the audience sit all around

• A stage where the audience move from stage to stage

• A stage where the audience sit on 2 sides

• A stage where the audience sit on one side

Blood Brothers was written in the...

• 1970's

• 1980's

• 1990's

• 2000s

Give one way that the economic recession affected working-class people in the 1960's and 1970's

How does Edward benefit from his middle-class upbringing?

• He receives a better education

• He goes to University

• He gets a high status job

• All of the above

Explain how the differences between Liverpool and Skelmersdale might influence your set design.

Select all of the answers that are accurate. Social context is shown in Blood Brothers when...

• Mickey loses his low-paid job and is forced to go on the dole.

• Mr Lyons fires his employees at the factory, but he keeps his job.

• Mrs Lyons is desperate to have a child because she feels she has failed as a woman

• The children run around playing games and imitate violent behaviours from popular American Movies

How does the play resemble a tragedy?

• Russell uses song to move the action along

• The story is based on the downfall of its main character

• The twins lie about a film they are going to see

Write a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages a director might face when using an entirely naturalistic set design in Blood Brothers

How might an actor playing Mickey use his performance skills to show that he is a child?

Tick the statements that are correct about The Narrator

• He helps tell the story of Blood Brothers

• His social status gives him power

• The Narrator lacks emotion and this makes him sinister

• He moves silently around the stage

• He is anxious and fearful