TH210 Comprehensive Exam Valle Exam with complete
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Deaf Theatre West - Correct Answers actors do sign language while performing
Types-Examples of Conven ons - Correct Answers History of theater is about the change of
conven ons
Close examina on of theatrical conven ons tells a lot about culture
Women didn't appear on bri sh stage un l 1660
Black and white actors didn't share a stage in the US before the 20th century
antagonist/protagonist- we know them based on what they want and how it creates conflict
Stock characters- sta on in life, age, gender, occupa on, class
Changes in movement
Staging, design, and costumes
Deaf West Theater... actors do sign language while performing
Incorpora ng more disabled people (wheelchair or deaf)
Use of narrator
Individual actors play several roles
Actors changing costumes on stage
Loca ons: performed outside a theater
Engages a passive audience
What is "theatre"? - Correct Answers "A impersonates B as C looks on"
E que6e - Correct Answers the customary code of polite behavior in society or among
members of a par cular profession or group.
,Conven onal vs. Unconven onal - Correct Answers Conven onal: Conven ons of staging,
design and costumes
Unconven onal- costumes and displays are like nothing they've ever seen before
allows audience to enter a different realm, aware they will not understand those aspects
Immersive Theatre - Correct Answers s mulates all the senses, removal of the stage, audience
is part of the ac on, usually a chef there to set the scene with food and smells to immerse you
into the world of the play
Promenade - Correct Answers audience is right there and wearing masks over their faces and
can get up close, usually in a hotel and everything is part of the journey of the produc on
Sleep No More - Correct Answers a site-specific play that is not held in a tradi onal theatre.
This play is interac ve and the audience walks around at their own pace.
Willing Suspension of Disbelief - Correct Answers pretending that everything impending on
you is ge=ng in the way and pretending that the play is real
Actors pretend the audience doesn't exist
Audience pretends this is real
Examples of Breaking 4th Wall - Correct Answers Direct address- talks straight to the audience
usually at the beginningAside- character pauses in convo and rest of the play freezes while they
talk to the audienceSoliloquy- actor speaks their thoughts out loud, usually with the 4th
wall(representa onal)
Conven ons - Correct Answers Direct address- talks straight to the audience usually at the
beginningAside- character pauses in convo and rest of the play freezes while they talk to the
audienceSoliloquy- actor speaks their thoughts out loud, usually with the 4th
wall(representa onal)
, Proscenium Stage - Correct Answers The proscenium is o@en framed to accentuate the
impression of looking into
Breaking the 4th wall talks to the audience or camera
4th Wall/Breaking (aside/soliloquy) - Correct Answers Direct address- talks straight to the
audience usually at the beginning
Aside- character pauses in convo and rest of the play freezes while they talk to the audience
Soliloquy- actor speaks their thoughts out loud, usually with the 4th wall(representa onal)
Presenta onal vs. Representa onal - Correct Answers presenta onal= no 4th wall, playing TO
audience
representa onal= playing FOR the audience, there is a 4th wall
Seance - Correct Answers a mee ng at which a spiritualist a6empts to communicate with the
dead
Representa on - Correct Answers
Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Correct Answers ruminate on the nature of belief versus
knowledge. The allegory begins with prisoners who have lived their en re lives chained inside a
cave. Behind the prisoners is a fire, and between the fire and the prisoners are people carrying
puppets or other objects. These cast shadows on the opposite wall. The prisoners watch these
shadows, believing this to be their reality as they've known nothing else.
Apollonian versus Dionysian - Correct Answers Sons of Zeus, Order vs.Chaos, duality of
existence, Desire vs. Reason
Reason versus Chaos - Correct Answers Apollo represented Harmony, Order and Reason.
Dionysis represented chaos and disorder.
solu on NEW 2025/2026
Deaf Theatre West - Correct Answers actors do sign language while performing
Types-Examples of Conven ons - Correct Answers History of theater is about the change of
conven ons
Close examina on of theatrical conven ons tells a lot about culture
Women didn't appear on bri sh stage un l 1660
Black and white actors didn't share a stage in the US before the 20th century
antagonist/protagonist- we know them based on what they want and how it creates conflict
Stock characters- sta on in life, age, gender, occupa on, class
Changes in movement
Staging, design, and costumes
Deaf West Theater... actors do sign language while performing
Incorpora ng more disabled people (wheelchair or deaf)
Use of narrator
Individual actors play several roles
Actors changing costumes on stage
Loca ons: performed outside a theater
Engages a passive audience
What is "theatre"? - Correct Answers "A impersonates B as C looks on"
E que6e - Correct Answers the customary code of polite behavior in society or among
members of a par cular profession or group.
,Conven onal vs. Unconven onal - Correct Answers Conven onal: Conven ons of staging,
design and costumes
Unconven onal- costumes and displays are like nothing they've ever seen before
allows audience to enter a different realm, aware they will not understand those aspects
Immersive Theatre - Correct Answers s mulates all the senses, removal of the stage, audience
is part of the ac on, usually a chef there to set the scene with food and smells to immerse you
into the world of the play
Promenade - Correct Answers audience is right there and wearing masks over their faces and
can get up close, usually in a hotel and everything is part of the journey of the produc on
Sleep No More - Correct Answers a site-specific play that is not held in a tradi onal theatre.
This play is interac ve and the audience walks around at their own pace.
Willing Suspension of Disbelief - Correct Answers pretending that everything impending on
you is ge=ng in the way and pretending that the play is real
Actors pretend the audience doesn't exist
Audience pretends this is real
Examples of Breaking 4th Wall - Correct Answers Direct address- talks straight to the audience
usually at the beginningAside- character pauses in convo and rest of the play freezes while they
talk to the audienceSoliloquy- actor speaks their thoughts out loud, usually with the 4th
wall(representa onal)
Conven ons - Correct Answers Direct address- talks straight to the audience usually at the
beginningAside- character pauses in convo and rest of the play freezes while they talk to the
audienceSoliloquy- actor speaks their thoughts out loud, usually with the 4th
wall(representa onal)
, Proscenium Stage - Correct Answers The proscenium is o@en framed to accentuate the
impression of looking into
Breaking the 4th wall talks to the audience or camera
4th Wall/Breaking (aside/soliloquy) - Correct Answers Direct address- talks straight to the
audience usually at the beginning
Aside- character pauses in convo and rest of the play freezes while they talk to the audience
Soliloquy- actor speaks their thoughts out loud, usually with the 4th wall(representa onal)
Presenta onal vs. Representa onal - Correct Answers presenta onal= no 4th wall, playing TO
audience
representa onal= playing FOR the audience, there is a 4th wall
Seance - Correct Answers a mee ng at which a spiritualist a6empts to communicate with the
dead
Representa on - Correct Answers
Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Correct Answers ruminate on the nature of belief versus
knowledge. The allegory begins with prisoners who have lived their en re lives chained inside a
cave. Behind the prisoners is a fire, and between the fire and the prisoners are people carrying
puppets or other objects. These cast shadows on the opposite wall. The prisoners watch these
shadows, believing this to be their reality as they've known nothing else.
Apollonian versus Dionysian - Correct Answers Sons of Zeus, Order vs.Chaos, duality of
existence, Desire vs. Reason
Reason versus Chaos - Correct Answers Apollo represented Harmony, Order and Reason.
Dionysis represented chaos and disorder.
