THEA Exam 1 2025 Questions and
Answers
Cocktail Party Phrases - 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? - ANSWER✔✔-Community or group defined by some common
experience or common identifying qualities
Where does Theatre fit in society? - 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.
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, How is theatre valued in society? - 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 - 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 - 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 - ANSWER✔✔--Oldest example
of theatre is the ancient Greeks
-Discover the theatre being alive and with all its paradoxes and its ambiguities intact
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Answers
Cocktail Party Phrases - 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? - ANSWER✔✔-Community or group defined by some common
experience or common identifying qualities
Where does Theatre fit in society? - 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.
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, How is theatre valued in society? - 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 - 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 - 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 - ANSWER✔✔--Oldest example
of theatre is the ancient Greeks
-Discover the theatre being alive and with all its paradoxes and its ambiguities intact
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