THEA EXAM 1 STUDYGUIDE ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Cocktail Party Phrases - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Theatre is a collaborative art...Many
artist combine efforts to work on one project.
2. Theatre is the most human of the arts.
3. Conflict is the essence of drama.
4. In theatre, you might see actors most of all but they sure ain't the whole shooting match
How do we define society? - CORRECT ANSWER Community or group defined by
some common experience or common identifying qualities
Where does Theatre fit in society? - CORRECT ANSWER A showcase and a forum; a
medium through which a society displays its ideas, fashions, moralities, and entertainments,
and debates its conflicts, dilemmas, yearnings, struggles.
How is theatre valued in society? - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Provides a stage for
political revolution, social propaganda, for civil debate, artistic expression, religious
conversion, mass education, and even for its own self criticism
Major differences between Theatre and Film - CORRECT ANSWER It is a living art
form. It is live art that continually forms before our eyes and is continually present to an
audience even as it is presented by its actors. The quality of "presentness" defines every
Pg. 4 Theatrical Paradoxes - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Spontaneous, yet it is rehearsed
2. Participatory, yet presented
3. Real, yet simulated
4. Understandable, yet obscured
, 5. Unique to the moment, yet repeatable
6. Actors themselves, yet they are characters
7. Audience believe, yet it doesn't believe
8. Audience is involved yet it remains apart
Introduction to the process and function of our lecture meetings - CORRECT
ANSWER -Oldest example of theatre is the ancient Greeks
-Discover the theatre being alive and with all its paradoxes and its ambiguities intact
-For this class, theatre is an idea and space, an audience, and its performers
The author of our text and why knowing the author matters - CORRECT ANSWER -
Robert Cohen
-works in theatre; admiration for theatre; bias
Different usages of the term Theatre and aspects of each - CORRECT ANSWER a
place where something is seen
(Greek word theatron, or "seeing place")
KNOW THIS: *Greek theatre (4th cent. BC) typically seats up to 17,000 audiences (orchestra
is where the actors are, the inner circle)
used to describe:
-the building (where plays are put on)
-architecture
-structure
-space for dramatic performance (place where "something is seen")
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Cocktail Party Phrases - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Theatre is a collaborative art...Many
artist combine efforts to work on one project.
2. Theatre is the most human of the arts.
3. Conflict is the essence of drama.
4. In theatre, you might see actors most of all but they sure ain't the whole shooting match
How do we define society? - CORRECT ANSWER Community or group defined by
some common experience or common identifying qualities
Where does Theatre fit in society? - CORRECT ANSWER A showcase and a forum; a
medium through which a society displays its ideas, fashions, moralities, and entertainments,
and debates its conflicts, dilemmas, yearnings, struggles.
How is theatre valued in society? - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Provides a stage for
political revolution, social propaganda, for civil debate, artistic expression, religious
conversion, mass education, and even for its own self criticism
Major differences between Theatre and Film - CORRECT ANSWER It is a living art
form. It is live art that continually forms before our eyes and is continually present to an
audience even as it is presented by its actors. The quality of "presentness" defines every
Pg. 4 Theatrical Paradoxes - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Spontaneous, yet it is rehearsed
2. Participatory, yet presented
3. Real, yet simulated
4. Understandable, yet obscured
, 5. Unique to the moment, yet repeatable
6. Actors themselves, yet they are characters
7. Audience believe, yet it doesn't believe
8. Audience is involved yet it remains apart
Introduction to the process and function of our lecture meetings - CORRECT
ANSWER -Oldest example of theatre is the ancient Greeks
-Discover the theatre being alive and with all its paradoxes and its ambiguities intact
-For this class, theatre is an idea and space, an audience, and its performers
The author of our text and why knowing the author matters - CORRECT ANSWER -
Robert Cohen
-works in theatre; admiration for theatre; bias
Different usages of the term Theatre and aspects of each - CORRECT ANSWER a
place where something is seen
(Greek word theatron, or "seeing place")
KNOW THIS: *Greek theatre (4th cent. BC) typically seats up to 17,000 audiences (orchestra
is where the actors are, the inner circle)
used to describe:
-the building (where plays are put on)
-architecture
-structure
-space for dramatic performance (place where "something is seen")
