Exam Practice Questions

5. Select a passage from a novel you have chosen to study which provides an effective introduction of an important character or characters. How would you use staging, design and acting to ensure that this introduction would have dramatic importance for the audience?

The most important introduction in this book is when Desiree is introduced to the audience. She is the main character in the book so it is important for her to be introduced to the audience in a meaningful way. The staging would very simple. Desiree would be laying on the ground in the center of the stage. Nobody would be around and there would be no props or set pieces.  The reason for this is because Desiree is in a dream. There would be a spot light on her. There would be a lot of sounds. One of them would be rolling thunder. The other would be big crashing waves. The reason why I would use these for her dream is because I would be trying to show the audience what happened to her when she was a child and she survived the big storm. For the lights I would want to have them flash to represent lighting. Desiree would be asleep but I would have her scream two or three times in this scene to show that she is scared. Then after a minute or two I would end this scene. The way that I would do this is while Desiree is dreaming is I would have all of this stuff going on and then at the end Mama Uralie would yell as loud as she could saying "Desiree wake up!" Then Desiree would get up and go with Mama Uralie. I think that doing these things would ensure that the character Desiree would have dramatic importance with the audience.