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DRAMA AND THEATRE
Paper 3 Specimen Stimuli
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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
Cambridge Pre-U Certificate
For Examination from 2014
SPECIMEN PAPER
To be given to candidates at any point after the start of the course.
Paper 3 is marked 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
INSTRUCTIONS FOR CANDIDATES FOR DEVISED DRAMA
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 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.
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You must produce programme notes for the day of the performance. These should outline the content
of the piece and demonstrate how it develops your chosen stimulus.
This document consists of 5 printed pages and 1 blank page.
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STIMULI – SELECT ONE ONLY
1
Pictures
(a) Vision of Ezekiel (1912) by David Bomberg
(b) The Family (1988) by Paula Rego
2
Events in history
(a) General Pinochet and the ‘disappeared’ of Chile
(b) The Rwandan Genocide of 1994
3
Poems
(a) Postcards by Wendy Cope
(b) Instants attributed to Jorge Luis Borges
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Performers
(a) Akram Khan
(b) Billie Holiday
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Appendix
Stimulus 1 (a)
David Bomberg – Vision of Ezekiel (1912)
Stimulus 1 (b)
Paula Rego – The Family (1988)
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Stimulus 3 (a)
Postcards by Wendy Cope
(commissioned for broadcast by BBC World Service)
At first I sent you a postcard
From every city I went to.
Grüsse aus Bath, aus Birmingham,
Aus Rotterdam, aus Tel Aviv.
Mit Liebe. Cards from you arrived
In English, with many commas.
Hope, you’re fine and still alive,
Says one from Hong Kong. By that time
We weren’t writing quite as often.
Now we’re nearly nine years away
From the lake and the blue mountains,
And the room with the balcony,
But the heat and light of those days
Can reach this far from time to time.
Your latest was from Senegal,
Mine from Helsinki. I don’t know
If we’ll meet again. Be happy.
If you hear this, send a postcard.
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Stimulus 3 (b)
Instants attributed to Jorge Luis Borges
If I were able to live my life anew,
In the next I would try to commit more errors.
I would not try to be so perfect, I would relax more.
I would be more foolish than I've been,
In fact, I would take few things seriously.
I would be less hygienic.
I would run more risks,
take more vacations,
contemplate more sunsets,
climb more mountains, swim more rivers.
I would go to more places where I've never been,
I would eat more ice cream and fewer beans,
I would have more real problems and less imaginary ones.
I was one of those people that lived sensibly
and prolifically each minute of his life;
Of course I had moments of happiness.
If I could go back I would try
to have only good moments.
Because if you didn't know, of that is life made:
only of moments; Don't lose the now.
I was one of those that never
went anywhere without a thermometer,
a hot-water bottle,
an umbrella, and a parachute;
If I could live again, I would travel lighter.
If I could live again,
I would begin to walk barefoot from the beginning of spring
and I would continue barefoot until autumn ends.
I would take more cart rides,
contemplate more dawns,
and play with more children,
If I had another life ahead of me.
But already you see, I am 85,
and I know that I am dying.
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Copyright Acknowledgements:
Stimulus 1a
Stimulus 1b
Stimulus 3a
Stimulus 3b
© David Bomberg; Vision of Ezekiel; 1912.
© Paula Rego; The Family; 1988.
© Wendy Cope; Postcards; Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006; Faber & Faber; 2008.
© Jorge Luis Borges; Instants; Original poem is often attributed to Jorge Luis Borges. Alternative versions exist. All effort to trace a
copyright holder has been made.
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.
University of 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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