ICSE Class 10 Sample Paper 2024 Drama

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ICSE 2024 EXAMINATION

SPECIMEN QUESTION PAPER

DRAMA

Maximum Marks: 100

Time allowed: Two hours

Answers to this Paper must be written on the paper provided separately.

You will not be allowed to write during the first 15 minutes.

This time is to be spent in reading the question paper.

The time given at the head of this Paper is the time allowed for writing the answers.

Attempt all questions from Section A, two questions each from Section B and Section C.

The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets[ ].

SECTION A
(Attempt all questions from this Section.)

Question 1
Choose the correct answers to the questions from the given options. [20]
(Do not copy the question, write the correct answers only.)

(i) The ancient Greeks called their theatre performance space _________.
(a) Parados
(b) Theatron
(c) Altar
(d) Skene

(ii) Greek playwrights like Aeschylus were called didaskolas, a term that meant
__________.
(a) coordinator
(b) manager

(c) teacher
(d) director

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(iii) People refer to every person involved in a theatrical production, including the
audience.
(a) Correct
(b) Incorrect
(iv) __________ is also called an experimental stage.
(a) Central Stage
(b) Proscenium stage
(c) Black box
(d) Thrust Stage
(v) An actor is said to be three quarter right, when standing between _________.
(a) Left profile and full back
(b) Right profile and full back
(c) Left profile and full front
(d) Right profile and full back
(vi) In the picture below:
Statement I: The lady with folded hands is in full-front position.
Statement II: The lady in the striped dress is in one-quarter right position.

(a) Statement I & II are true
(b) Statement I & II are false

(c) Statement I is correct, but II is incorrect.
(d) Statement I is incorrect, but II is correct.

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(vii) When an actor goes off the script, due to a forgotten dialogue or a prop
malfunction or any other mistake, it is called __________.
(a) Aside
(b) Improvisation
(c) Ad-libbing
(d) None of the above

(viii) Jatra, the famous Bengali folk theatre form resembles __________.
(a) Tamasha of Maharashtra
(b) Nautanki of Uttar Pradesh
(c) Yakshagana of Karnataka
(d) Bhavai of Gujarat

(ix) __________ is a folk theatre form that originated and is predominantly found
in Karnataka.
(a) Jatra
(b) Kathakali
(c) Nautanki
(d) Yakshagana

(x) If an actor has to perform to an audience seated all around the stage, that type
of staging is called ___________.
(a) Theatre in the round
(b) Black box stage
(c) Alley Stage
(d) Thrust stage

(xi) The Play has 2 actors. One is in the rear stage, and the other has audiences
seated on all 3 sides of the stage. What kind of staging is this?
(a) Proscenium
(b) Site Specific

(c) Thrust Stage
(d) None of the above

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(xii) Statement I: Mr. Alfred Doolittle is Eliza’s Father.

Statement II: Mr. Alfred Doolittle remains a bachelor till the end of the play.

(a) Statement I & II are true

(b) Statement I & II are false

(c) Statement I is correct, but II is incorrect.

(d) Statement I is incorrect, but II is correct.

(xiii) __________ is an old friend of the family, dying of tuberculosis.

(a) Krogstad

(b) Torvald

(c) Kristine

(d) Dr. Rank

(xiv) Col. Pickering, in his army days, has travelled to India.

(a) True

(b) False

(xv) The inside pace of an actor expressed through the modulations, intonations and
accents of the dialogue delivered is called __________.

(a) movement

(b) internal rhythm

(c) blocking

(d) speech variations

(xvi) ___________ describes the meaning behind a dramatic scene or picture.

(a) Picturisation

(b) Composition

(c) Body positions

(d) None of the above

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(xvii) When an actor is on the left of the stage, closest to the audience, that position
is called __________.

(a) Downstage right

(b) Downstage left

(c) Full front

(d) One quarter left

(xviii) Sound effects like a thunder-clap or rain pelting on a tin roof, are called
__________.

(a) Framing effects

(b) Atmospheric sounds

(c) Transitional music

(d) Spot effects

(xix) In Indian Street Theatre ___________ is one of the best known playwrights and
actors from the JANAM (Jana Natya Manch) troupe, in the 1970’s.

(a) Girish Karnad

(b) Safdar Hashmi

(c) Nandita Das

(d) Badal Sircar

(xx) String puppetry is commonly called ___________ as one of the first figures to
be made was the Mother Mary.

(a) Leather puppets

(b) Marionette

(c) Bunraku

(d) None of the above

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SECTION B
(Answer any two questions from this Section.)

Question 2

Below is an excerpt from the Greek tragedy ‘Antigone’ by Sophocles.

CHORAGOS: [The leader of the Chorus]
But I can no longer stand in awe of this,
Nor, seeing what I see, keep back my tears.
Here is Antigone, passing to that chamber
Where all find sleep at last.

ANTIGONE: Look upon me, friends, and pity me
Turning back at the night’s edge to say
Good-by to the sun that shines for me no longer;
Now sleepy Death
Summons me down to Acheron (river in Hades), that cold shore:
There is no bridesong there, nor any music.

CHORUS: Yet not unpraised, not without a kind of honor,
You walk at last into the underworld;
Untouched by sickness, broken by no sword.
What woman has ever found your way to death?

(i) Using a diagram of an Alley Stage, block the above characters onto an Alley [6]
Stage.

(ii) Differentiate between and Alley stage and a Central stage. [6]

(iii) What are the body positions? Explain with the help of a diagram. [8]

Question 3

(i) Define the term ‘Actor’. [6]

(ii) What is ‘rhythm’ in theatre? [6]

(iii) Movements of an actor express volumes about the character. [8]
Highlights four principles of movement an actor should observe.

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Question 4

(i) Briefly explain any two folk theatre forms from the options below. [6]

1 3

2 4

(ii) What is the mood in the scene below? [6]
How is mood connected to picturisation in theatre?

(iii) As a Director who has to dramatise the scene above, explain how you would [8]
give the blocking instructions for each character, and their body language. (For
example: Character 9, has to sit on the left side of the first row, his eyes looking
stage left, one arm across his knees and the other hand holding a tobacco pipe.)

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Question 5

Write a 2-3 page dialogue on any one of the conflict scenarios mentioned [20]
below.

Explain a setting of the scene, give names to your characters and a title.

The mother and her teenage son are having an argument about excessive time
spent on his mobile phone. The mother is a coding programmer who works
from home at all odd hours, for an overseas client.

or

Mrs. Pillai, secretary of a residential colony, goes to the police station with a
complaint about loud music coming from a bachelor apartment. The bachelor
happens to be her daughter’s boyfriend, a courtship that Mrs. Pillai does not
approve of.

SECTION C
(Answer any two questions from this Section.)

Question 6

(i) A Lighting designer has the power to alter the emotions of the audience. [10]
Briefly explain the functions of a lighting designer.

(ii) As a lighting designer, what colour lighting would you use to compliment the [10]
following emotions and briefly explain why?

(a) Anger

(b) Happiness

(c) Envy

(d) Sorrow

(e) Love

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Question 7

(i) Sketching is one of the main functions of a costume designer. Explain three [10]
other functions.

(ii) For the characters Christine (Doll’s House) and Ismene (Antigone), a specific [10]
type of make-up is needed. What is it called? Describe two other types of make-
up.

Question 8

(i) A Musical theatre production has a cast of 54 actors. The play is performed on [10]
a thrust stage with elaborate lighting, sound, costumes, make-up and set design.
What are the functions of a stage manager to carry out for this production?

(ii) What is a framing effect in sound? Explain three other functions of a sound [10]
designer.

Question 9

(i) Write short notes on any four of the following: [10]
(a) Tech rehearsals
(b) Cyclorama
(c) Asymmetrical design
(d) Black box stages
(e) Balanced stage pictures
(f) Voice control

(ii) From the initial Script reading to the Grand rehearsal, there’s a lot of processes [10]
before a production can be staged. Explain.

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