May 2025 Pearson Edexcel: GCSE (9–1) Drama 1DRO/3B – Component 3: Theatre Makers in Practice – Merged Question Paper & Mark Scheme

May 2025 Pearson Edexcel: GCSE (9–1) Drama 1DRO/3B – Component 3: Theatre Makers in Practice – Merged Question Paper & Mark Scheme P77013A ■■■■ 2 Go to page 36 Questions 7a and 7b – Answer BOTH questions in relation to ONE performance you have seen. SECTION A Answer ALL questions that relate to the ONE performance text studied for examination purposes. There are five questions in total for each performance text. Text studied Question/Extract Page 100 Questions 1a to 1c Go to page 3 Extract Go to page 5 1984 Questions 2a to 2c Go to page 9 Extract Go to page 11 Blue Stockings Questions 3a to 3c Go to page 14 Extract Go to page 16 DNA Questions 4a to 4c Go to page 19 Extract Go to page 21 The Free9 Questions 5a to 5c Go to page 25 Extract Go to page 27 Gone Too Far! Questions 6a to 6c Go to page 31 Extract Go to page 33 SECTION B P77013A ■■■■ 3 Turn over SECTION A: BRINGING TEXTS TO LIFE 100, Diene Petterle, Neil Monaghan and Christopher Heimann Answer ALL questions. Write your answers in the spaces provided. You are involved in staging a production of this play. Please read the extract on pages 5–8. 1 (a) There are specific choices in this extract for performers. (i) You are going to play the Guide. Explain two ways you would use physical skills to play this character in this extract. (ii) You are going to play Sophie’s mother. She is patient. As a performer, give three suggestions of how you would use performance skills to show this. You must provide a reason for each suggestion. (b) There are specific choices in this extract for a director. (i) As a director, discuss how you would use one of the production elements below to bring this extract to life for your audience. You should make reference to the context in which the text was created and first performed. Choose one of the following: • costume • props/stage furniture • sound. (ii) Sophie wanted to be special. As a director, discuss how the performer playing this role might demonstrate this to the audience in this extract and the complete play. You must consider: • voice • physicality • stage directions and stage space. (4) (6) (9) (12) P77013A ■■■■ 4 (c) There are specific choices in this extract for designers. Discuss how you would use one design element to enhance the production of this extract for the audience. Choose one of the following: • lighting • set • staging. (14) (Total for Question 1 = 45 marks) TOTAL FOR SECTION A = 45 MARKS P77013A ■■■■ 5 Turn over Sophie 100, Diene Petterle, Neil Monaghan and Christopher Heimann. This play had its first performance at the Soho Theatre, London in February 2003. This extract is taken from the first section of the play. How are we supposed to know? It’s so difficult . . . all those years . . . to pick out one single moment? Guide I appreciate your difficulty . . . but you must try. Nia What if we choose wrongly? Guide All decisions are final. 5 Ketu And if we don’t decide? A beat. Guide (darkly) It’s ...not an option you want to consider. There is nothing in your experience that could come close to the suffering you’d endure. (Smiles.) So . . . 10 Silence. No one? I’m surprised. I often get people who know straight away. As if they’d thought about it at length during their lives. He happens to look at SOPHIE. 15 Sophie Why are you looking at me? Guide Am I? Sophie You know what happened to me. Guide I assure you I don’t. And I don’t need to know