Oxford Cambridge And RSA Thursday 13 June 2019 – Morning

Oxford Cambridge and RSAThursday 13 June 2019 – MorningA Level Drama and TheatreH459/45 Deconstructing Texts for PerformanceSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet StreetTime allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes* 7 6 7 9 6 3 3 0 4 1 *No additional material is required for this QuestionPaper.*H45945*Please write clearly in black ink. Do not write in the barcodes.Centre numberCandidate numberFirst name(s) Last name INSTRUCTIONS Use black ink. You may use an HB pencil for annotation lines. Answer all the questions. Write your answer to each question in the space provided. If additional space isrequired, use the lined page(s) at the end of this booklet. The question number(s) mustbe clearly shown.INFORMATION The total mark for this paper is 60. The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ]. This document consists of 16 pages. OCR 2019 [601/8272/6]DC (ST) 173361/3OCR is an exempt CharityTurn over

2Answer all the questions.1As a director, describe and justify your vision for directing this extract to show its significancewithin the musical as a whole, and annotate how you would bring this out.[30]. OCR 2019

3JUDGE. You’re in a merry mood againtoday, barber.TODD (Joyfully).Pretty women!JUDGE.TODD.What we do forPretty women!Pretty women!(During the following, TODD smoothsbay rum on the JUDGE’s face, reachingbehind him for a razor)Blowing out theircandlesOr combing out theirhair –Then they leave –Even when theyleave youAnd vanish, theysomehowCan still remainThere with youthere Blowing out theircandlesOr combing out theirhair,Even when theyleave,They stillAre there,They’re there 5101520(Music continues under)JUDGE. How seldom it is one meets afellow spirit!25TODD (Smiling down). With fellow tastes– in women, at least.JUDGE. What? What’s that?TODD. The years no doubt havechanged me, sir. But then, I suppose,the face of a barber – the faceof a prisoner in the dock – is notparticularly memorable.JUDGE (With horrified realization).Benjamin Barker!(The factory whistle blows; theJUDGE in terror tries to jump upbut TODD slashes his throat, thenpulls the lever and sends the bodytumbling out of sight and down thechute. Music continues. For a longmoment, TODD stands crouchedforward by the chair, exhaling deeply.Then slowly he drops to his kneesand even more slowly holds up therazor, gazing at it. He sings)TODD.Rest now, my friend,Rest now forever.Sleep now the untroubledSleep of the angels OCR 20193035404550Turn over

4(Suddenly remembering, speaks)The boy.(He starts down the stairs. He stopsmidway, remembering his razor)55My razor!(He starts back up the steps just asJOHANNA has climbed out of thechest. She stands frozen)You! What are you doing here?Speak!JOHANNA (Deepening her voice). Oh,dear. Er – excuse me, sir. I saw thebarber’s sign. So thinking to ask for ashave, I –6065TODD. When? When did you come in?JOHANNA. Oh, sir, I beg of you.Whatever I have seen, no man shallever know. I swear it. Oh, sir, please,sir 70TODD. A shave, eh?(He turns chair toward her)At your service.JOHANNA. But, sir TODD. Whatever you may have seen,your cheeks are still as much in needof the razor as before. Sit, sir. Sit.(TODD sits JOHANNA in the chair. Ashe goes for the razor, simultaneouslythe factory whistle blows andMRS. LOVETT is heard screaming“Die! Die!” from the bakehousebelow. JOHANNA jumps up and runsout, TODD lunges after her, missesher. She runs away. TODD pauses;another scream from the bakehousesends him running down the stairs,and as he disappears into thepieshop, the company appears)COMPANY (Sings).Lift your razor high, Sweeney!Hear it singing, “Yes!”Sink it in the rosy skinOf righteousness!(Light comes up on the bakehouse,MRS. LOVETT is standing in horrorby the mouth of the chute from whichthe JUDGE, still alive, clutches herskirt. MRS. LOVETT tries to tug theskirt away from the vise-like grip) OCR 20197580859095100

5MRS. LOVETT. Die! Die! God in heaven– die!(The JUDGE’s fingers relax their grip;he is dead. Panting, MRS. LOVETTbacks away from him and for the firsttime notices the body of the BEGGARWOMAN. She pauses)105You! Can it be? How all the demonsof Hell come to torment me!(Looks hastily over her shoulder)110Quick! To the oven.(She starts to drag the BEGGARWOMAN to the oven as TODDenters, runs to her)TODD. Why did you scream? Does theJudge still live?115MRS. LOVETT. He was clutching,holding on to my skirt, but now – he’sfinished.(Continues dragging BEGGAR WOMANto oven)120TODD. Leave them to me. Open thedoors.(He starts to shove her toward the oven)MRS. LOVETT (Clutching the BEGGARWOMAN’s wrists). No! Don’t touchher!TODD (Pushing her to the oven doorsand leaning down to pick up theBEGGAR WOMAN). What is thematter with you? It’s only somemeddling old beggar –(MRS. LOVETT opens the oven doorsand the light from the fire illuminatesthe BEGGAR WOMAN’s face. Achord of music as TODD realizes whoshe is)125130135Oh no, Oh God “Don’t I knowyou?” she said (Looks up)140You knew she lived. From the firstmoment that I walked into your shopyou knew my Lucy lived!MRS. LOVETT. I was only thinking ofyou!145TODD (Looking down again, sings).Lucy MRS. LOVETT. Your Lucy! A crazy hagpicking bones and rotten spuds out OCR 2019Turn over

6of alley ashcans! Would you havewanted to know that was all that wasleft of her?150TODD (Slowly looking up). You lied to me.MRS. LOVETT (Sings).No, no, not lied at all.No, I never lied.155TODD (To the BEGGAR WOMAN).Lucy MRS. LOVETT.Said she took the poison – she did –Never said that she died –Poor thing,She lived –TODD.I’ve come home again 160165MRS. LOVETT.But it left her weak in the head,All she did for months was just liethere in bed –TODD.Lucy MRS. LOVETT.Should’ve been in hospital,Wound up in Bedlam instead,Poor thing!170175TODD.Oh, my God MRS. LOVETT.Better you should think she was dead.Yes, I lied ’cos I love you!180TODD.Lucy MRS. LOVETT.I’d be twice the wife she was!I love you!185TODD.What have I done? MRS. LOVETT.Could that thing have cared for youLike me?190(TODD rises, soft and smiling;MRS. LOVETT takes a step away inpanic. Waltz music starts)TODD.Mrs. Lovett,You’re a bloody wonder,Eminently practical and yetAppropriate as always.As you’ve said repeatedly, OCR 2019195

7There’s little point in dwelling on thepast.MRS. LOVETT.Do you mean it?Everything I did Iswear I thoughtWas only for thebest,Believe me!Can we still beMarried?TODD.No, come here, mylove 205Not a thing to fear,My love What’s deadIs dead.(TODD puts his arm around her waist;she starts to relax in her babbling,and they sway to the waltz, her armsaround his neck) OCR 2019200210215Turn over

82As a director, explain and justify how you could stage a performance of Sweeney Todd: TheDemon Barber of Fleet Street using both traditional and contemporary techniques.[30]. OCR 2019

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You lied to me. MRS. LOVETT (Sings). No, no, not lied at all. No, I never lied. TODD (To the BEGGAR WOMAN). Lucy MRS. LOVETT. Said she took the poison – she did – Never said that she died – Poor thing, She lived – TODD. I’ve come home again MRS. LOVETT. But it left her