VCE Drama - Performance Skills

What are the performance skills used for?

• To enhance performance and together create an actor’s presence.

• To get the actorr more jobs in theatre.

• To express and realise a character.

• To extract and to explore the dramatic potential of stimulus material.

Which of the following is NOT one of the four perofrmance skills in VCE drama...?

• Focus

• Climax

• Timing

• Actor-audience relationship

• Energy

Which performance skill is being described here...?

The ability of the actor to commit to their performance and to use concentration to sustain characters. It may also be used to create an implied character or setting through the manipulation of the audience’s attention towards a specific place.

• Energy

• Focus

• Actor-audience relationship

• Timing

Which performance skill is being described here...?

The way in which an actor deliberately manipulates the audience’s moods, emotions and responses

to the action. This may be done through the placement of the actor in relation to the audience, the way the actor addresses and engages the audience, and the emotional and intellectual response to the character’s situation.

• Focus

• Timing

• Actor-Audience relationship

• Energy

Which performance skill is being described here...?

The intensity an actor brings to a performance. At different times, an actor will use different levels of this performance skill to create different performance dynamics.

• Actor-Audience relationship

• Energy

• Focus

• Timing

Which performance skill is being described here...?

Used to control or regulate the pace of a performance. It may be manipulated in drama to build

dramatic tension, to evoke feeling, to coordinate effective synchronisation within an ensemble and to develop the comic potential of a scene.

• Focus

• Energy

• Actor-Audience relationship

• Timing