The Contrast Rule: Choosing a Performance from Text
For Component 2 you choose a play to perform, but the choice is not free. Learn the rules for the text and the dual-axis contrast rule that keeps it different from your set text.
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Choose, but not freely 🎭
In Component 2 you perform two key extracts from a play you choose. The choice is free in one sense, but it must follow strict rules. This module covers the rules for the performance text and the contrast rule that keeps it different from the set text you study.
Words to know 🔑
Four terms run through this topic. Learn them first.
Set text and chosen text ⚖️
Your Component 2 play is measured against the set text you study for Component 3.
Both must differ 💡
The contrast rule works on TWO axes at once. Your chosen performance text must be by a DIFFERENT playwright AND in a DIFFERENT genre from your set text. It must also be a professional play at least forty-five minutes long. Getting only one axis different is not enough.
Match the term 🔗
- Performance from Text
- Key extract
- Set text
- Contrast rule
- Component 2, performing extracts from a chosen play
- A significant scene that you perform
- The play studied for the written exam
- Your chosen play must differ from the set text
Contrast with what? 🎯
What must your Component 2 performance text contrast with?
- Your Component 3 set text
- Your Component 1 devised piece
- Nothing; the choice is completely free
- The play a classmate chooses
Match the requirement 📜
- Different playwright
- Different genre
- Full runtime
- Key extracts
- Not the writer of your set text
- Not the same type of play as your set text
- At least forty-five minutes long
- Two significant scenes you perform
What must differ? ✅
Which TWO things must be DIFFERENT from your set text? Choose all that apply.
- The playwright
- The genre
- The number of extracts
- The language it is written in
Choose a text 🪜
An interactive activity.
Complete the sentences 🧩
In Component 2 you perform _____ key extracts from a play you choose. The play must be professional and at least _____ minutes long. It must contrast with your Component 3 _____ text by having a different _____ and a different _____.
Count the minutes 🔢
An interactive activity.
Spot the differences 🖍
An interactive activity.
Does it obey the rule? 🧭
An interactive activity.
Explain the rule ✍
An interactive activity.