The Crucible

The Crucible Downloadable Worksheets Contents Section A: Theatre Roles and Terminology Book page number 1 Task A1: Stage positioning 10–11 2 Learning checklist: Section A 21 Section B: Study of a Set Play: The Crucible 3 Test yourself B1: The features of drama 23 4 Task B2: When did it happen? 26 5 Test yourself B3: Who said that? 27 6 Task B8: Creating costumes to suit the characters 38 7 Task B22: Sample answers for Component 1, Section B, Question 1 46 8 Test yourself B5: Characterisation 48 9 Task B26: Characterisation focus on John and Elizabeth Proctor 50 10 Tasks B38 and B39: Experimenting with vocal and physical skills 64 11 Task B40: Revealing characterisation through vocal effects on dialogue 64–65 12 Task B41: Revealing characterisation through physical effects on dialogue 65 13 Task B52: Showing understanding of the play, characters and performance skills 76–77 14 Task B57: Design ideas for an extract and the whole play 88 15 Task B61: Sample answers for Component 1, Section B, Question 5 92–93 16 Test yourself B7: Performance and design 94 17 Learning checklist: Section B 95 Section C: Live Theatre Production 18 Tasks C6 and C9: Discussing vocal and physical skills 105 and 107 19 Task C14a: Analysing costume design, including hair and make-up 114 20 Task C14b: Analysing costume design, including hair and make-up 114 21 Task C14c: Analysing costume design, including hair and make-up 114 22 Task C23: How set design contributes to action, style and context 124 23 Task C27: How lighting contributes to a play’s action, style and context 128 24 Task C30: How sound design contributes to action, style and context 132–133 25 Test yourself C2: Theatre production 135 26 Test yourself C3: Technical vocabulary 136 27 Learning checklist: Section C 137 28 Learning checklist: Examination practice 152 pp10–11 SECTION A THEATRE ROLES AND TERMINOLOGY Stage positioning TASK A1 1 Imagine you are a set designer and the director has asked you to put the following items on stage: A A wide doorway, upstage centre B A pair of chairs and a table, centre stage C A small rug, downstage right D A window, upstage left E A kitchen sink, stage right. Use the diagram below to note where you would put them. Upstage Upstage Upstage right centre left Offstage Offstage right left Centre stage Downstage Downstage Downstage right centre left Audience 2 Now imagine you are an actor and you have been asked to do the following blocking. Note where on the stage you will be each time. A Enter through the wide doorway. B Make yourself a cup of tea. C Sit down on a chair. D Look dreamily out of the window. E Stand as close and centrally to the audience as you can. F Move as far away from the small rug as you can. 3 Copy a new version of the stage space and decide where you would position the characters at the end of Act 3, when Hale denounces the court (page 109). After you have marked where the characters and furniture are positioned, annotate the diagram by describing their stage positions. For example, if you have put Proctor downstage, you might write: Proctor: downstage left (or DSL). The Crucible Play Guide for AQA GCSE Drama © Illuminate Publishing 2019 p21 SECTION A THEATRE ROLES AND TERMINOLOGY LEARNING CHECKLIST: SECTION A Tick each aspect of theatre roles and terminology if you are confident of your knowledge. If you are unsure of anything, go back and revise. Do you know...? Director THEATRE MAKERS’ Performers Before BASIC During rehearsals rehearsals RESPONSIBILITIES THE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF Designers THEATRE MAKERS During performances THE Technicians Stage The manager difference NAMES FOR THE between DIFFERENT upstage POSITIONS ON and downstage STAGE Theatre Thrust in the round Where stage right How to locate Proscenium and stage Promenade left are where an object or arch character is on HOW TO DESCRIBE the stage when THE DIFFERENT told what its position is (such STAGING as downstage Traverse CONFIGURATIONS Advantages left or centre and stage) challenges End on How to identify the different staging configurations from a sketch or photograph The Crucible Play Guide for AQA GCSE Drama © Illuminate Publishing 2019 p23 SECTION B STUDY OF A SET PLAY: THE CRUCIBLE The features of drama TEST YOURSELF B1 Match the theatrical term with its correct application to The Crucible. Terms Relevance to The Crucible It is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It is an example of a historical drama. GENRE A designer must decide how STYLE to represent the four different settings of the play. CHARACTERS It is usually performed in a naturalistic fashion, with the actors speaking realistic, PLOT believable dialogue and wearing historically accurate costumes. PRACTICAL UNDERSTANDING The four acts of the play are presented in chronological order, each representing an episode in the tragedy of John Proctor. CONTEXT Key roles include the Proctors, Abigail Williams, Deputy Governor Danforth and Reverend Hale. The Crucible Play Guide for AQA GCSE Drama © Illuminate Publishing 2019 p26 SECTION B STUDY OF A SET PLAY: THE CRUCIBLE When did it happen? Task B2 Below are 12 key plot points from The Crucible. Put them in the order in which they occur in the play, numbering them 1 to 12. Mary Warren gives Elizabeth a poppet that she made. In court, Proctor urges Mary to tell the truth. Reverend Hale arrives carrying books. Proctor tells Elizabeth that he regrets confessing his sin to John Proctor and Rebecca her as she won’t let him Nurse are taken out to be forget it. executed. Mrs Putnam believes Tituba’s accusations about Goody Osburn. Reverend Hale tries to get the prisoners to confess that they Giles threatens to kill are witches so they will not Putnam. be executed. Danforth says that Proctor’s confession must be written down. Abigail accuses Mary Warren of envying her and Abigail tells John that she attacking her. knows he looks up at her window and thinks about her. Elizabeth tells Proctor that she believes that Abigail wants her dead so she can take her place. The Crucible Play Guide for AQA GCSE Drama © Illuminate Publishing 2019 p27 SECTION B STUDY OF A SET PLAY: THE CRUCIBLE Who said that? TEST YOURSELF B3 I never sold Based on your reading of the play and your understanding of the main characters, match each line 4 myself! I’m a good of dialogue with the correct character. girl! I’m a proper See if you can remember too in which act each line is spoken. girl! He come at me 3 by night and every day to I think I sign, to sign, to… 1 Because it is ought to say that I – my name! 2 I saw a kettle in the John, I counted grass where they were myself so plain, so dancing. Oh, how 7 poorly made, no 6 many times he bid me honest love could She wants kill you, Mr Parris. come to me! me dead. I knew 5 all week it would come to this! You think it God’s work you should never lose a 9 Oh, I marvel how child, nor grandchild such a strong man I cannot lie no either, and I bury all 10 may let such a sickly 11 more. I am with God, but one? wife be – I am with God. I never said my wife were a witch, Mr Hale; I only said she were reading And how do books! I saved her you imagine to help her 15 I’ll not have 14 cause with such life today! 13 your suspicion contemptuous riot? any more. I will not receive a Woman, plead 12 single plea for pardon 16 or postponement. with him! JOHN PROCTOR TITUBA ELIZABETH PROCTOR MARY WARREN ABIGAIL WILLIAMS REVEREND PARRIS GILES COREY REVEREND ANN PUTNAM DEPUTY GOVERNOR HALE DANFORTH The Crucible Play Guide for AQA GCSE Drama © Illuminate Publishing 2019 p38 SECTION B STUDY OF A SET PLAY: THE CRUCIBLE Creating costumes to suit the characters Task B8 Draw sketches of costume ideas for the following moments. • Act 1, page 31: Reverend Hale arriving from the town of Beverly. • Act 2, page 52: Mary Warren arriving back from a day in court. • Act 4, page 118: Elizabeth Proctor, after spending months in prison. The Crucible Play Guide for AQA GCSE Drama © Illuminate Publishing 2019 p46 SECTION B STUDY OF A SET PLAY: THE CRUCIBLE Sample answers for Component 1, Section B, Question 1 Task B18 Below are extracts from sample answers focusing on Act 4, pages 130–131, relating different design specialisms to the play’s context. Highlight them for: • Context • Design detail • Understanding of the play and characters. Costume Props For Proctor’s costume, I want to show how a Puritan In this extract, Proctor finally decides farmer in the 17th century would dress, but also to that he cannot allow the confession to reflect the hardships he has experienced in prison. be posted. At this time, a document like this would be handwritten on thick I would dress him in dark-brown breeches, a loose paper, possibly with uncut or rounded linen shirt and a russet wool jerkin. In Act 4, the edges. The confession has been written shirt would look filthy: a dull grey shade and by Cheever using a quill pen. The writing stained dark brown in places. The cuffs would be would be large and cursive, so that it frayed. His hair will be oily and tangled. Dark would make an impressive document make-up under his eyes will suggest he hasn’t when it is displayed to the village.

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