Year 12 Theatre Studies
Unit 3, Outcome 3
Analyse and evaluate ways in which a written playscript selected from the prescribed playlist
is interpreted in its production to an audience.
The main focus of this outcome has been to look at how a written playscript from the Unit 3
Theatre Studies Playlist was interpreted for a production in front of an audience.
You should be able to both analyse and evaluate the process of interpretation that took place
by actors and other members of the stagecraft team.
The main topics you need to revise are:
 The historical, social and cultural contexts in the written playscript
 The historical, social and cultural contexts n the production
 The theatrical styles in the written playscript
 The theatrical styles in the production
 How the acting and other stagecraft was used to interpret the written playscript
 How well the written playscript was interpreted in the production
You will need to demonstrate that you can write about the written playscript and the
production of it using ‘appropriate theatrical language, terminology and expressions.’
Please answer the following questions for homework. The questions in bold are the
important questions within each section. The questions before these are helping you to
answer them, so it is ok to repeat yourself from a prior question within the bold question.
If you have any questions at all, no matter how small, please feel free to contact me!
THE PLAY
1. What is the name of the play and who is it by?
2. Briefly describe the play.
3. What is the importance of this play, and why did the playwright want to share it with the
world?
STYLES
4. In the written playscript what theatrical style did you imagine the play to be performed in?
Describe the conventions of this style.
5. Describe what clues the written playscript implied for you to come to this conclusion.
6. What theatrical style was used in the performance? Describe the conventions of this style.
7. How did the actors use the theatrical style in performance?
8. Discuss the similarities and differences of the theatrical styles between the playscript and
the play in performance
CONTEXT
9. Describe the historical context of the world within the written playscript? Describe the social
context of the world within the written playscript? Describe the cultural context of the world
within the written playscript?
10. How has the setting or world of the playscript been interpreted within the performance you
saw?
11. Did the production capture the same feeling you got of the historical, social and cultural
world written within the playscript when you read it? If not, why?
12. How did the production you saw interpret the historical, social and cultural contexts
evident within the written playscript?
ACTING AND OTHER STAGECRAFT
13. How did the acting in the performance develop the characters and plot from the written
playscript? How effective was the acting in doing this?
14. Select two or three of the stagecraft areas (other than acting) that you think were a major
influence on the way the written playscript was interpreted in the production. List them and,
next to each one give four detailed examples of how each one enabled the world of the
playscript to come alive.
15. Evaluate the application of stagecraft in the performance
INTERPRETATION
16. Did the interpretation on stage live up to your predictions of what the written playscript
would be like in production? Why or why not?
17. Does the interpretation help you to develop a deeper appreciation of the playwrights
intentions?
18. How effectively was the written playscript interpreted in the production you saw?