ietran tdacigu- can you work out the name
of the text we are going to be studying?
LO: to meet Rita and Frank in the opening
scene,evidencing what we learn about them through
language;
:To introduce ourselves to stagecraft.
Home Learning- I will
tell you at the end…it’s
a surprise 
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Explore the ways dramatic devices are used in
two important scenes or episodes in the
drama text.
Use examples from the drama text in your
response.
It is worth 20 marks
You have two hours to write the response
The response should be up to 1000 words
•What does this word mean to you?
•Write down all the different things it might suggest.
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Setting: Frank’s office (1980s).
Rita makes a clumsy first entrance.
The audience are made aware that Frank has
a drink problem.
Frank
Rita
How do we know this?
Extension 1: If you can, show a triple of responses from the
quotes that you have chosen to reinforce a Grade C answer.
Extension 2: Choose a selection of quotes from all over the
extract that we have read and explain them, trying to build
up a more developed picture of each character.
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Frank
‘various papers and books’
& ‘walls lined with books’Well read, knowledgeable,
wealthy?
‘hurriedly’-Nervous
‘jubilantly…reveals a bottle
of whiskey’ & ‘ we should
recognise the voice of a
man who shifts a lot of
alcohol’ & ‘I don’t need
determination to get into a
pub’- Alcoholic, secretitive
‘some silly woman’s
attempts to get into the
mind of Henry James’Prejudiced
‘Darling’- Caring
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Rita
‘another knock at the
door’- Impatient
‘I’m comin’ in, aren’t I?
it’s that stupid bleedin’
handle…’Brash/unrefined
‘going to the chair by the
desk and dumping her
bag’ & ‘it’s very erotic,’ &
‘this was the
pornography of its day,
wasn’t it?’- Unaware of
social situations
‘do you get a lot of
students like me?’Knows her position in life
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Setting-
•Are you able to work out if any of
our evidence relates to these
aspects of stagecraft?
•How do you know?
◦ Where? When? Time of day? Lighting? Sound effects? Stage
design?
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Action -
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Characters-
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Language/Dialogue-
◦ Can wevary the action to create suspense?
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Who is involved in the scene?
Do the characters reveal certain emotions in the scene?
Do they do anything out of character?
Do they speak in short or long exchanges?
How is their relationship conveyed?
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Is there any repetition?
Are any words used in entertaining ways (e.g.puns/jokes)?
Is there any irony?
Is there any dramatic irony (where the audience knows
more than a character)?
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The response to the contemporary drama
task must show that students can:
• respond to the chosen drama text critically
and imaginatively
• evaluate writers’ different ways of
expressing meaning and achieving effects
• support ideas by choosing evidence from
the drama texts.
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What do you think is going to happen to the
characters of Rita and Frank?
How might the theme of education link into
this relationship?
Home Learning: Watch ‘Educating Rita’, the film, and answer the
following sheet on stagecraft, and pick out what dramatic
devices are used to present the characters of Rita and Frank.
'In order to be able to change something,
we will first have to realise that it needs a
change...'