OCR As Level Drama And Theatre Paper 5 Question Paper

Download the official OCR AS Level Drama and Theatre H059/05 Exploring Performance question paper for the June 2025 examination series. This examiner-authentic OCR PDF contains the complete OCR Drama and Theatre assessment covering acting, directing, set design, lighting, sound design and live theatre evaluation across multiple dramatic themes and performance texts.

The paper is divided into three thematic sections: Conflict, Family Dynamics and Heroes and Villains. Students are required to apply practical theatre knowledge from the perspectives of actors, directors and designers while analysing dramatic relationships, emotional conflict, physicality, family tension and stagecraft within studied plays.

Theme 1: Conflict includes questions on showing conflicting emotions through acting techniques and using set design to emphasise the theme of conflict. Performance-text options include Black Watch, Hamlet, Necessary Targets, Oh! What a Lovely War and The Long and the Short and the Tall.

Theme 2: Family Dynamics focuses on lighting and sound design for dramatic family moments and acting techniques used to communicate relationships between family members. Students may analyse texts including King Lear, The House of Bernarda Alba, Live Like Pigs, The Caucasian Chalk Circle and A Day in the Death of Joe Egg.

Theme 3: Heroes and Villains explores physicality, directing techniques and human weakness through theatrical performance. Performance texts include Othello, Frankenstein, Caligula, Amadeus and The Love of the Nightingale.

Section B requires students to evaluate a live theatre performance they have seen, focusing on the effectiveness of stage-space usage in engaging the audience. Candidates must analyse staging, actor movement, audience positioning, spatial relationships and overall theatrical impact using evaluative performance terminology.

The paper strongly develops analytical discussion, theatrical interpretation, design analysis and practical theatre understanding using OCR’s performance-based assessment model. This OCR H059/05 June 2025 question paper is ideal for timed exam practice, mock examinations, theatre-analysis revision and OCR AS Drama and Theatre preparation.

Perfect for students preparing for the 2026 OCR examination series, teachers creating classroom assessments and tutors supporting OCR Drama and Theatre revision. Pair this paper with the official OCR H059/05 June 2025 mark scheme for complete examiner-guided preparation and assessment practice. Fully compatible with desktop, tablet and mobile PDF viewing.

This document is designed for OCR AS Level Drama and Theatre students preparing for the 2026 examination series, especially candidates studying acting, directing, set design, lighting and live theatre evaluation. It is particularly useful for learners aiming to improve theatrical interpretation, evaluative discussion, performance terminology and extended-response exam technique.

It is also highly valuable for teachers, tutors, revision-course providers and independent learners who require authentic OCR exam material for classroom assessment, mock examinations, theatre workshops and targeted OCR Drama and Theatre revision.