Acting - Movement

Question 1

A Key Scene 1

Answer 1

When the Germans first appeared once the war had started.

Question 2

A Key Scene 2

Answer 2

The first charge in the war scene.

Question 3

A Key Scene 3

Answer 3

The first main character’s dearth once the war had started.

Question 4

A Key Scene 4

Answer 4

Albert in Devon and then war.

Question 5

What happened in Key Scene 1?

Answer 5

They walked more upright and stiffly in comparison to the farm boys from Devon who had happy, carefree movement.

Question 6

What happened in Key Scene 2?

Answer 6

• Supporting characters had smaller horses and had dummies on top of them.
• These dummies died first and were easily thrown off their smaller horses.
• The dummies were left scattered across the stage.

Question 7

What happened in Key Scene 3?

Answer 7

Lieutenant Nichols were killed during the charge and as he died, he was lifted onto the shoulders of two lesser men to exit the stage.

Question 8

What happened in Key Scene 4?

Answer 8

• When Albert was in Devon with his happy life, his movement was in a youthful and playful, childish way.
• However, after the war in his return, he acted slower in a more mature way without the fidgety movement from his youth.

Question 9

What impact did this have in Key Scene 1?

Answer 9

It showed a higher status and pride a they literally made themselves higher which compared to the boys from Devon who has happy, relaxed lives before the war, therefore walked lighter and more loosely.

Question 10

What impact did this have in Key Scene 2?

Answer 10

• Drew the audience’s eyes to the principle role, and their deaths weren’t viewed by the audience individually but as a whole to show the collectively large number of deaths the war caused.
• This created a morbid atmosphere with the bodies adding texture and depth.

Question 11

What impact did this have on Key Scene 3?

Answer 11

• It showed his status that he was a good person and didn’t die in vain and that he was symbolically being take up to heaven.
• The change in levels drew the audience’s attention towards Lieutenant Nichol’s who was a key character.

Question 12

What impact did this have on Key Scene 4?

Answer 12

• This showed how he was just a child when he signed up, supported by when they addressed him as boy and that he wasn’t physically or mentally ready to go to war.
• And also, how the war forced him to grow up and adapt to his surroundings
• i.e the threat of death and death everywhere.
• When he returned from the war, he had become a man, and therefore walked talker and with more authority.