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Theatre OAE Exam Questions And Answers
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Elements of Acting - Answer✔relaxation, concentration, imagination, and observation
Magic If - Answer✔This term refers to the question, "What would I do if the events in this play
were happening to me?"
Alexander Technique - Answer✔developed by Frederick Matthias Alexander as a tool to
rehabilitate body alignment. Focuses on tension and stress in the body. Recognizing habitual
movement patterns/postures.
James-Lange theory of emotion - Answer✔Emotions are a result of physiological response to
external stimuli. Exp: We become tense and our heart races and we interpret that as fear
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion - Answer✔Emotion results in a physiological response. Exp: We
feel fear and then our heart races
Delsarte System of Expression - Answer✔Holding of specific poses to convey emotion or
attitudes
Meisner Technique - Answer✔Acting technique designed to create honest characters in
imaginary circumstances. Reacting truthfully and letting change happen on its own.
role playing - Answer✔Acting out a role that is different from who you are
- childrens games
- improv
- historical reenactment
Character Analysis - Answer✔understanding the role of a character in a story via the character's
actions, traits, relationships, and personality
Character development/externals - Answer✔elements that an actor can use in their
environment to aid in creating specific characters. costumes, vocal change, makeup,
mannerisms
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Auguste Character Type - Answer✔an anarchist, a joker, a fool
Contra-Auguste Character - Answer✔Mediator between the whiteface character and the
Auguste character
Dynamics of Drama - Answer✔book by Bernard Beckerman that introduces a new method of
script analysis
active and reactive segments - Answer✔from the dynamics of drama - scripts are broken into
segments
crux - Answer✔The most important or decisive point of a script
Decrescence - Answer✔the change or reaction to the change that was brought by the crux
3 types of objectives - Answer✔objective (characters goal), super-objective (goal for the whole
play), sub-objective (small changes)
Catharsis - Answer✔Emotional release
denouement - Answer✔the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the
plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
emotional memory - Answer✔The technique of calling upon your own memories to understand
a character's emotions.
level - Answer✔height of an actor's head onstage
Heretical approach to directing - Answer✔the directors job is to make the production exciting
to the audience
history of directing - Answer✔ancient Greece - choregus, the leader of the chorus, directed
ancient Roman - organized by a wealthy patron
Medieval - "master of secrets" responsible for special effects and directing
the keeper of the register was the director, responsible for maintaining the integrity of the
script
Modern Role of Director - Answer✔artistic and managerial roles. they must interpret a script,
cast actors, design the production, conduct rehearsals, and coordinate everything
Neo-Classicism - Answer✔extravagant costumes and scenery, melodrama, defined genres of
tragedy or comedy
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Theatre OAE Exam Questions And Answers
|Latest 2025 | Guaranteed Pass.
Elements of Acting - Answer✔relaxation, concentration, imagination, and observation
Magic If - Answer✔This term refers to the question, "What would I do if the events in this play
were happening to me?"
Alexander Technique - Answer✔developed by Frederick Matthias Alexander as a tool to
rehabilitate body alignment. Focuses on tension and stress in the body. Recognizing habitual
movement patterns/postures.
James-Lange theory of emotion - Answer✔Emotions are a result of physiological response to
external stimuli. Exp: We become tense and our heart races and we interpret that as fear
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion - Answer✔Emotion results in a physiological response. Exp: We
feel fear and then our heart races
Delsarte System of Expression - Answer✔Holding of specific poses to convey emotion or
attitudes
Meisner Technique - Answer✔Acting technique designed to create honest characters in
imaginary circumstances. Reacting truthfully and letting change happen on its own.
role playing - Answer✔Acting out a role that is different from who you are
- childrens games
- improv
- historical reenactment
Character Analysis - Answer✔understanding the role of a character in a story via the character's
actions, traits, relationships, and personality
Character development/externals - Answer✔elements that an actor can use in their
environment to aid in creating specific characters. costumes, vocal change, makeup,
mannerisms
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Auguste Character Type - Answer✔an anarchist, a joker, a fool
Contra-Auguste Character - Answer✔Mediator between the whiteface character and the
Auguste character
Dynamics of Drama - Answer✔book by Bernard Beckerman that introduces a new method of
script analysis
active and reactive segments - Answer✔from the dynamics of drama - scripts are broken into
segments
crux - Answer✔The most important or decisive point of a script
Decrescence - Answer✔the change or reaction to the change that was brought by the crux
3 types of objectives - Answer✔objective (characters goal), super-objective (goal for the whole
play), sub-objective (small changes)
Catharsis - Answer✔Emotional release
denouement - Answer✔the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the
plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
emotional memory - Answer✔The technique of calling upon your own memories to understand
a character's emotions.
level - Answer✔height of an actor's head onstage
Heretical approach to directing - Answer✔the directors job is to make the production exciting
to the audience
history of directing - Answer✔ancient Greece - choregus, the leader of the chorus, directed
ancient Roman - organized by a wealthy patron
Medieval - "master of secrets" responsible for special effects and directing
the keeper of the register was the director, responsible for maintaining the integrity of the
script
Modern Role of Director - Answer✔artistic and managerial roles. they must interpret a script,
cast actors, design the production, conduct rehearsals, and coordinate everything
Neo-Classicism - Answer✔extravagant costumes and scenery, melodrama, defined genres of
tragedy or comedy
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