Year 8 Drama End of Semester Recall Test

The four Expressive Skills used in Drama are:

• Voice, Emotions, Gesture, Movement

• Rhythm, Voice, Focus, Energy

• Body, Energy, Space, Time

• Voice, Facial Expressions, Movement, Gesture

The aside in Melodrama is....

• The side characters in a play

• Where all the actors onstage freeze in a picture

• Inner thoughts the character shares with the audience

• Stage directions usually in (brackets)

Which of the following is an example of a Melodrama stock character?

• Shrek

• Villain

• Megamind

• Batman

Fixed point in Mime refers to…

• A performer locating a point with their body, and keeping it motionless in space

• When a performer stands still on one spot

• Something that was broken at the start of the play but is later fixed

• The space between the actor and the prop

The plural of tableau is ________

When we are talking about Dance, what does BERST stand for?

• Body, Expression, Romance, Soul, Time

• Body, Emotion, Rhythm, Space, Time

• Body, Energy, Rhythm, Space, Time

• Body, Energy, Relationship, Space, Time

There are currently 4 different forms of Mime: Japanese, Italian, Chinese and ______

What is an example of NOT holding focus or energy in performance?

• Breaking character to laugh

• Tap dancing

• Responding to mistakes in character

• Ignoring other performers who are laughing

The steps in the devising process are stimulus, brainstorm, improvise, script, ________, refine and perform!

The name for the brave character who saves the victim in Melodrama is known as the HERO or the _______