For your lesson today please bring headphones so you can watch a production on your device.

The theme for this term's work is the concept of Power and Conflict, so let's use today to
revisit the importance of status in Drama. There are some questions below that I would like
you to answer to recap Status.

1. What is status in Drama? How do we define it?

It how high you are up the social class ladder. It can be defined by your posture, other
sorts of behaviours
2. What sorts of things give us status in life? For example, wealth can give status
A wife, nice house, nice cars
3. What sort of physical and vocal choices might you make to show high status
Look confident, not afraid of speaking to large crowd of people, loud and dominant voice
4. What sort of physical and vocal choices might you make to show low status
Look anxious, afraid of speaking up, weak

Once you have answered the previous questions, watch as much of the show below as you can
in the lesson, giving yourself enough time to answer the questions as you watch

The link is: https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/video?docid=do-9781350997691&tocid=do-

9781350997691_6120709224001
Username - HerefordCS
Password - Collection
(both username and password are case sensitive)
Please answer the following questions:

1. What is your favourite moment and why?

The Ending, because its good
2. Describe the relationship between Jim and Billy Bones in their first conversation
Billy Bones is irritated
3. Who has the higher status in the scene? What gives them that status?
Billy Bones
4. How do we know that? How do they show this?
5. Who has the lower status?
6. How do we know that? How do they show it?
7. There is a confrontation between Billy Bones and Squire Trelawney. Who SHOULD have the
status? Who actually HAS the status? How do you know that?
8. There is then a further confrontation between Billy Bones and Dr Livesey. Who has the
status in this scene? How do they take the status? What acting choices do they make?
9. Considering the whole extract that you saw, who would you say is the highest status
character? Why? How did they show that?
10. Considering the whole extract that you saw, who would you say is the lowest status
character? Why? How did they show that?