Would someone be able to make my GCSE Drama Live Theatre essay? AQA exam board

Describe how one or more actors used their vocal and physical skills to create a dramatic effect for the audience. Analyse and evaluate how successful they were in creating dramatic effect for the audience.
You could make reference to:
vocal skills, for example pitch, pace and tone of voice
physical skills, for example body language and facial expression
a scene or section and/or the production as a whole.
Small Island is a play set in post-war Britain and follows the stories of three people: Hortense, Queenie and Gilbert. It is based on the book ‘Small Island’ by Andrea Levy and is directed by Rufus Norris and adapted by Helen Edmundson. It tells the story of different people’s experiences of post war Britain, with Hortense and Gilbert arriving in England from Jamaica and Queenie, who lets out a room in her house for them. I watched this play in September 2023, all these characters have a very effective dramatic effect on the audience and show great skill within their acting.
Firstly, Leah Harvey, who plays Hortense in the play, creates a very effective dramatic effect by using hand gestures, facial expressions and proxemics to portray her displeasure at the state of her room. When Gilbert shows Hortense the room they will be living in, Hortense is appalled and displeased at the size and utilities the room has to offer. When Hortense says ‘This place is disgusting!’, Leah Harvey holds her hands primly and tightly towards the side of her torso, clasping them together. This shows the audience that Hortense does not want to touch anything inside the room because it is not up to her usual standards of cleanliness and tidiness. She purses her lips to show she believes the room is disgusting and raises her eyebrows with her eyes facing away from Gilbert and towards centre stage right. By
raising her eyebrows, Harvey demonstrates that Hortense believes she is above Gilbert in this scenario, and has higher standards than Gilbert. In addition, Harvey stands away from Gilbert towards centre stage right to show how she is disappointed and displeased in his choice of room and does not want to be anywhere near him. Moreover, Harvey uses volume and emphasis to show her feelings towards Gilbert’s choice of housing. She becomes much louder when she says ‘disgusting!’ and emphasises her ‘t’s’ to punctuate her annoyance. By becoming louder, she reflects Hortense’s rising feelings of anger towards Gilbert. The audience shares Hortense’s discomfort and displeasure through these physical and vocal skills Harvey uses which makes the audience feel as though they are experiencing this surprise and disgust at the state of her room.
Secondly, Leah Harvey creates dramatic effect in the play by using pace, breath control, volume, posture and body movements. Firstly, in the scene where Queenie is giving birth to her baby, Hortense is very shocked and surprised but also gets prepared to jump into action. Leah Harvey does this by moving to upstage right and shaking out her whole body to get ready to birth Queenie’s baby. She charges over to Queenie with an upright and tense posture and takes short, sharp intakes of breath while doing so to make Hortense seem anxious but focused on the task at hand. Before Harvey comes over to Queenie, she whispers to Queenie ‘Mrs Bligh…are you with child?’. Harvey quietly and slowly whispers this and emphasises the word ‘you’ to show the sheer impossibility of Queenie being pregnant, considering the timeframe that Bernard was away for. The audience feels anxious for Hortense because it is evident she has never been in this position before but they also feel excited for the outcome due to Harvey shaking of her whole body and her sharp intakes of breath.
Thirdly, Aisling Loftus plays Queenie in the play and creates dramatic effect by using dramatic pauses, projection and eye contact to show her disappointment and astonishment towards Bernard. When Bernard returns home from the war, he asks Queenie where his father, Arthur, is. Arthur died a couple of months prior to this and Bernard doesn’t seem to know this. Queenie exclaims that ‘You thought he was still alive’. Aisling points her finger accusingly at Bernard and shakes her finger to portray Queenie’s powerful anger. She emphasises ‘You’ and projects her voice to show how Bernard has been very absent in her life, to the point where he didn’t even know his father had died. After saying this line, she pauses, making strong eye contact with him and slowly moving towards him, to intimidate him. This acting style is really effective because it puts the audience in Bernard’s position, as he is slowly being intimidated by Queenie, the audience are too.
Fourthly, Loftus creates dramatic effect in the play when she uses pace, hand gestures, gait and facial expressions. When Queenie is with Michael, she talks about herself in the third person because she does not recognise herself. She says ‘This woman isn’t me… this woman is as sexy as a starlet on a silver screen’ . When saying this, Loftus projects her voice out to the audience and reaches both her hands out towards centre stage towards the audience to convey her need to be this new woman, and Loftus uses this raw, emotional speech to the audience to allow them to feel this feeling of lust with her. She paces across the stage from downstage left to downstage right to show her restlessness and excitement at this new persona. She looks up to centre stage wistfully and has her eyes wide and her eyebrows raised to show hope and surprise at her new personality.
‘Small Island’ is a moving play that will stay with me forever and Aisling Loftus and Leah Harvey created a very strong dramatic effect with their physical and vocal skills.