GCSE Drama Edexcel
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248 topics in 16 modules
☑️ An Inspector Calls 22 topics
- An Inspector Calls: Plot
- An Inspector Calls: Characters
- An Inspector Calls: Historical Context
- An Inspector Calls: Themes
- An Inspector Calls: Acting style and purpose
- An Inspector Calls: Actors' vocal and physical skills
- An Inspector Calls: Set and props
- An Inspector Calls: Lighting and sound
- An Inspector Calls: Costume
- An Inspector Calls: Use of stage space and spatial relationships
- An Inspector Calls: Intended impact and meaning for the audience
- An Inspector Calls: Potential for staging the text
- An Inspector Calls: Playwright's use of meaning
- An Inspector Calls: Playwright's use of genre
- An Inspector Calls: Playwright's use of structure
- An Inspector Calls: Playwright's use of character
- An Inspector Calls: Playwright's use of form
- An Inspector Calls: Playwright's use of style
- An Inspector Calls: Playwright's use of language
- An Inspector Calls: Playwright's use of stage directions
- An Inspector Calls: Theatrical conventions
- An Inspector Calls: Practices used in 21st-century theatre-making
☑️ The Crucible 22 topics
- The Crucible: Plot
- The Crucible: Characters
- The Crucible: Historical Context
- The Crucible: Themes
- The Crucible: Acting style and purpose
- The Crucible: Actors' vocal and physical skills
- The Crucible: Set and props
- The Crucible: Lighting and sound
- The Crucible: Costume
- The Crucible: Use of stage space and spatial relationships
- The Crucible: Intended impact and meaning for the audience
- The Crucible: Potential for staging the text
- The Crucible: Playwright's use of meaning
- The Crucible: Playwright's use of genre
- The Crucible: Playwright's use of structure
- The Crucible: Playwright's use of character
- The Crucible: Playwright's use of form
- The Crucible: Playwright's use of style
- The Crucible: Playwright's use of language
- The Crucible: Playwright's use of stage directions
- The Crucible: Theatrical conventions
- The Crucible: Practices used in 21st-century theatre-making
☑️ Theatre Conventions 8 topics
- Theatre Conventions: Roles of Theatre Makers
- Theatre Conventions: Theatre in Context
- Theatre Conventions: Form and Genre
- Theatre Conventions: Dramatic Structure
- Theatre Conventions: Conventions of Theatre
- Theatre Conventions: Style
- Theatre Conventions: Staging
- Theatre Conventions: Spaces on Stage
☑️ Government Inspector 22 topics
- Government Inspector: Plot
- Government Inspector: Characters
- Government Inspector: Historical Context
- Government Inspector: Themes
- Government Inspector: Acting style and purpose
- Government Inspector: Actors' vocal and physical skills
- Government Inspector: Set and props
- Government Inspector: Lighting and sound
- Government Inspector: Costume
- Government Inspector: Use of stage space and spatial relationships
- Government Inspector: Intended impact and meaning for the audience
- Government Inspector: Potential for staging the text
- Government Inspector: Playwright's use of meaning
- Government Inspector: Playwright's use of genre
- Government Inspector: Playwright's use of structure
- Government Inspector: Playwright's use of character
- Government Inspector: Playwright's use of form
- Government Inspector: Playwright's use of style
- Government Inspector: Playwright's use of language
- Government Inspector: Playwright's use of stage directions
- Government Inspector: Theatrical conventions
- Government Inspector: Practices used in 21st-century theatre-making
☑️ Characterisation and Performance 4 topics
- Characterisation
- Performance: Physical Performance Skills
- Performance: Interactions and Spacing
- Performance: Vocal Performance Skills
☑️ Design Conventions 5 topics
- Design Conventions: Sets
- Design Conventions: Lighting
- Design Conventions: Sound
- Design Conventions: Costume
- Design Conventions: Masks and Puppets
☑️ Twelfth Night 22 topics
- Twelfth Night: Plot
- Twelfth Night: Characters
- Twelfth Night: Historical Context
- Twelfth Night: Themes
- Twelfth Night: Acting style and purpose
- Twelfth Night: Actors' vocal and physical skills
- Twelfth Night: Set and props
- Twelfth Night: Lighting and sound
- Twelfth Night: Costume
- Twelfth Night: Use of stage space and spatial relationships
- Twelfth Night: Intended impact and meaning for the audience
- Twelfth Night: Potential for staging the text
- Twelfth Night: Playwright's use of meaning
- Twelfth Night: Playwright's use of genre
- Twelfth Night: Playwright's use of structure
- Twelfth Night: Playwright's use of character
- Twelfth Night: Playwright's use of form
- Twelfth Night: Playwright's use of style
- Twelfth Night: Playwright's use of language
- Twelfth Night: Playwright's use of stage directions
- Twelfth Night: Theatrical conventions
- Twelfth Night: Practices used in 21st-century theatre-making
☑️ Devising 7 topics
- Devising: What You Have To Do
- Devising from a Stimulus
- Devising: Developing Your Ideas
- Devising: Rehearsing and Refining
- Devising: Taking a Design Role
- Devising: Health and Safety
- Devising: Portfolio
☑️ Performance from a Text 3 topics
- Performing from a Text
- Performance from a Text: Performance Skills
- Performance from a Text: Design Skills
☑️ The Written Exam 2 topics
- Written Exams: Set Text Question
- Written Exams: Live Theatre Evaluation
☑️ 100 22 topics
- 100: Acting style and purpose
- 100: Actors' vocal and physical skills
- 100: Characters
- 100: Costume
- 100: Historical Context
- 100: Intended impact and meaning for the audience
- 100: Lighting and sound
- 100: Playwright's use of character
- 100: Playwright's use of form
- 100: Playwright's use of genre
- 100: Playwright's use of language
- 100: Playwright's use of meaning
- 100: Playwright's use of stage directions
- 100: Playwright's use of structure
- 100: Playwright's use of style
- 100: Plot
- 100: Potential for staging the text
- 100: Practices used in 21st-century theatre-making
- 100: Set and props
- 100: Theatrical conventions
- 100: Themes
- 100: Use of stage space and spatial relationships
☑️ 1984 22 topics
- 1984: Acting style and purpose
- 1984: Actors' vocal and physical skills
- 1984: Characters
- 1984: Costume
- 1984: Historical Context
- 1984: Intended impact and meaning for the audience
- 1984: Lighting and sound
- 1984: Playwright's use of character
- 1984: Playwright's use of form
- 1984: Playwright's use of genre
- 1984: Playwright's use of language
- 1984: Playwright's use of meaning
- 1984: Playwright's use of stage directions
- 1984: Playwright's use of structure
- 1984: Playwright's use of style
- 1984: Plot
- 1984: Potential for staging the text
- 1984: Practices used in 21st-century theatre-making
- 1984: Set and props
- 1984: Theatrical conventions
- 1984: Themes
- 1984: Use of stage space and spatial relationships
☑️ Blue Stockings 22 topics
- Blue Stockings: Plot
- Blue Stockings: Characters
- Blue Stockings: Historical Context
- Blue Stockings: Themes
- Blue Stockings: Acting style and purpose
- Blue Stockings: Actors' vocal and physical skills
- Blue Stockings: Set and props
- Blue Stockings: Lighting and sound
- Blue Stockings: Costume
- Blue Stockings: Use of stage space and spatial relationships
- Blue Stockings: Intended impact and meaning for the audience
- Blue Stockings: Potential for staging the text
- Blue Stockings: Playwright's use of meaning
- Blue Stockings: Playwright's use of genre
- Blue Stockings: Playwright's use of structure
- Blue Stockings: Playwright's use of character
- Blue Stockings: Playwright's use of form
- Blue Stockings: Playwright's use of style
- Blue Stockings: Playwright's use of language
- Blue Stockings: Playwright's use of stage directions
- Blue Stockings: Theatrical conventions
- Blue Stockings: Practices used in 21st-century theatre-making
☑️ DNA 22 topics
- DNA: Plot
- DNA: Characters
- DNA: Historical Context
- DNA: Themes
- DNA: Acting style and purpose
- DNA: Actors' vocal and physical skills
- DNA: Set and props
- DNA: Lighting and sound
- DNA: Costume
- DNA: Use of stage space and spatial relationships
- DNA: Intended impact and meaning for the audience
- DNA: Potential for staging the text
- DNA: Playwright's use of meaning
- DNA: Playwright's use of genre
- DNA: Playwright's use of structure
- DNA: Playwright's use of character
- DNA: Playwright's use of form
- DNA: Playwright's use of style
- DNA: Playwright's use of language
- DNA: Playwright's use of stage directions
- DNA: Theatrical conventions
- DNA: Practices used in 21st-century theatre-making
☑️ Dr Korczak's Example 22 topics
- Dr Korczak's Example: Plot
- Dr Korczak's Example: Characters
- Dr Korczak's Example: Historical Context
- Dr Korczak's Example: Themes
- Dr Korczak's Example: Acting style and purpose
- Dr Korczak's Example: Actors' vocal and physical skills
- Dr Korczak's Example: Set and props
- Dr Korczak's Example: Lighting and sound
- Dr Korczak's Example: Costume
- Dr Korczak's Example: Use of stage space and spatial relationships
- Dr Korczak's Example: Intended impact and meaning for the audience
- Dr Korczak's Example: Potential for staging the text
- Dr Korczak's Example: Playwright's use of meaning
- Dr Korczak's Example: Playwright's use of genre
- Dr Korczak's Example: Playwright's use of structure
- Dr Korczak's Example: Playwright's use of character
- Dr Korczak's Example: Playwright's use of form
- Dr Korczak's Example: Playwright's use of style
- Dr Korczak's Example: Playwright's use of language
- Dr Korczak's Example: Playwright's use of stage directions
- Dr Korczak's Example: Theatrical conventions
- Dr Korczak's Example: Practices used in 21st-century theatre-making
☑️ Chosen Live Theatre Example 21 topics
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Plot
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Characters
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Historical Context
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Themes
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Acting style and purpose
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Actors' vocal and physical skills
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Set and props
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Lighting and sound
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Costume
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Use of stage space and spatial relationships
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Intended impact and meaning for the audience
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Playwright's use of meaning
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Playwright's use of genre
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Playwright's use of structure
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Playwright's use of character
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Playwright's use of form
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Playwright's use of style
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Playwright's use of language
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Playwright's use of stage directions
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Theatrical conventions
- Chosen Live Theatre Example: Practices used in 21st-century theatre-making
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An Inspector Calls
An Inspector Calls: Plot
An Inspector Calls: Plot
Introduction and Exposition:
- The play begins on an evening in spring 1912. The Birlings, a prosperous industrial family, are having a dinner celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling to Gerald Croft.
- Arthur Birling, a successful businessman, his wife Sybil, an aristocratic lady, and their two children, Sheila and Eric are present. Gerald Croft, the son of Arthur's competitor, is also with them.
- Arthur gives a speech about the importance of self-reliance and spurns the idea of community, unaware of the forthcoming interrogation.
Rising Action:
- An Inspector Goole arrives and starts interrogating every member of the family, saying that a girl named Eva Smith, also known as Daisy Renton, committed suicide by drinking disinfectant.
- First, Arthur is interrogated. He fired Eva Smith because she asked for higher wages.
- Next, Sheila is questioned. She made Eva lose her job at a shop because she was jealous of her.
- When it's Gerald's turn, it emerges that he knows Daisy Renton. He had a summer-long affair with her.
- The Inspector then moves on to Eric. Eric met Eva at a bar and later discovered that he made her pregnant.
- Finally, Sybil, who denies recognizing Eva, is revealed to have turned down her application for help from a charity Sybil runs.
Climax:
- This brings out secrets and guilt in each character causing disruption in the family.
Falling Action:
- As the Inspector leaves, he warns the Birlings of the disastrous consequences of not learning from their actions.
- Gerald then learns there might not be an Inspector Goole on the police force.
Conclusion:
- The family, much relieved, begin to think the investigations were a hoax, and everything goes back to how it was before.
- But then a call from the police station reports that a girl has died, and an officer is on his way to question them. The play ends leaving the audience in suspense.
By understanding the plot progression, the prevailing themes of class, age, gender, and responsibility are more easily unearthed, helping you to refine your comprehension and analysis of 'An Inspector Calls'.
Question: Who is the last person to be interrogated by Inspector Goole and what is revealed during their questioning?
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