• Role/character: adopting a role and maintaining focus in role; communicating character traits and character choices through body language/movement and gestures; sustaining belief in character (e.g., using the first-person point of view while speaking); varying voice (e.g., diction, pace, volume, projection, enunciation)

• Relationship: developing and analysing relationships between and among characters in a drama

• Time and place: establishing a clear setting; sustaining belief in the setting

• Tension: identifying factors that contribute to tension or mystery in a drama

• Focus and emphasis: identifying the central theme and/or problem in a drama; drawing audience attention to specific aspects of the drama