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Cambridge International Examinations
Cambridge Pre-U Certificate
DRAMA AND THEATRE
9801/03/PRE
Paper 3 Devised Drama
May/June 2015
PRE-RELEASE STIMULI
To be given to candidates at any point after the start of the course.
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READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST
In groups of between three and six candidates, you are required to devise and perform in a piece of drama
based on one of the eight stimuli provided in this booklet.
Please note the following:
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The minimum number of candidates per group is three, the maximum is six.
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You may perform in only one group piece and this piece should give each member of the group
approximately the same amount of exposure (about 5 minutes).
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Your group should take collective responsibility for the directorial concept and the script, as well as the
costume and set design.
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Your piece must last no less than 15 minutes and no longer than 30 minutes. If you are in a group of three
candidates, the piece would normally last for 15 minutes. If your group has six candidates in it, the piece
may last up to 30 minutes. If your group size is between three and six, adjust the time accordingly.
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If there are fewer than three candidates in your Centre you may include a non-assessed actor for the final
performance. However, only those candidates who are being assessed may contribute to the devising/
design process. The non-assessed actor must be a student from within your Centre and may not be a
teacher, or a contact from outside the Centre.
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You will be assessed, by one or two visiting Examiners, in a live performance of your piece. You must
produce programme notes and submit them to Cambridge two weeks before the day of the visit. The
notes should outline the content of the piece and how it develops your chosen stimulus. You may also
include any additional points which you think will assist the Examiner(s) in the understanding of the
performance.
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The visiting Examiner(s) will award a mark out of 40 divided as follows:
Concept and realisation of the piece
All the members of your group will receive the same mark.
20 marks
Performing skills
Each member of your group will receive an individual mark.
20 marks
This document consists of 5 printed pages and 1 blank page.
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STIMULI – SELECT ONE ONLY
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Pictures
(a) The Ghost of a Flea (c.1819–20) by William Blake
(b) Guernica (1937) by Pablo Picasso
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Events in history
(a) Nelson Mandela: from prisoner to president
(b) The Vietnam War
3
Poems
(a) Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
(b) Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith
4
Performers
(a) Laurence Olivier (1907–1989)
(b) Anna May Wong (1905–1961)
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Appendix
Stimulus 1(a)
The Ghost of a Flea (c.1819–20) by William Blake
Stimulus 1(b)
Guernica (1937) by Pablo Picasso
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Stimulus 3(a)
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
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Stimulus 3(b)
Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith
Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning.
Poor chap, he always loved larking
And now he’s dead
It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,
They said.
Oh, no no no, it was too cold always
(Still the dead one lay moaning)
I was much too far out all my life
And not waving but drowning.
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Copyright Acknowledgements:
Stimulus 1(a)
Stimulus 1(b)
Stimulus 3(a)
Stimulus 3(b)
© William Blake; The Ghost of a Flea; c.1819–20; painting, tempera heightened with gold on mahogany; 214 × 162 mm; Ref: NO5889;
The Tate Gallery, London 2011.
© Picasso, Pablo (1881–1973); Guernica; 1937; oil on canvas; 349.3 × 776 cm; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid,
Spain / Ref: XIR 10313; The Bridgeman Art Library.
© Maya Angelou; Still I Rise, in The Nation’s Favourite Poems of Celebration; BBC Worldwide Ltd; 2002.
© Stevie Smith; Not Waving but Drowning, in The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith; Penguin Books Ltd; 1985.
Permission to reproduce items where third-party owned material protected by copyright is included has been sought and cleared where possible. Every
reasonable effort has been made by the publisher (UCLES) to trace copyright holders, but if any items requiring clearance have unwittingly been included, the
publisher will be pleased to make amends at the earliest possible opportunity.
Cambridge International Examinations 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.
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