Valle TH 210 Comprehensive Exam QUESTIONS
ALONG WITH 100% ACCURATE AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
1. Deaf Theater West: Non profit sign language theater based in Los Angeles.
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2. Types of theater conventions: slow motion.
Soliloquy (a solo speech by an actor that gives an insight into what they
are thinking) adding narration.
Use of an 'aside' (when a character directly addresses the audience to comment
within a scene) breaking into song (as in Musical theatre)
Using a chorus to comment upon the action.
3. What is theatre?: Art, Live, Collaborative, Performance, Communication, Storytelling,
Business
Theater Etiquette: Dress for the
4.
occasion. ... Be on time. ...
Go to the restroom before you sit down, or at the intermission, not during the
performance. ... Unwrap any cough drops or candy before the show begins. ...
Do not fidget. ...
Keep your shoes
on.
5. Conventional theatre: enacted as if it is in a room, three walls are physical - the stage'
- and the fourth
Is between the actors and the audience.
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, 6.Unconventional theatre: The presentation of live performance to an audience who
could be seated, standing or promenade (walking around), who are accommodated (present)
in an area essentially ditterent to an area in which traditional live perfor- mance is presented
7. Immersive Theatre: designed to make audience an active, rather than a passive,
participant
8. Promenade: when the audience move from place to place during the performance
9. Sleep No More: Retelling of Macbeth through a surrounding, immersive experience
with no dialogue
Willing suspension of disbelief: audience practice of willingly accepting the
10.
content before them as real
11. Breaking conventions: doing something directly against the flow of the play
4th Wall/Breaking: Convincing people they are watching something real requires
12.
hypnosis, and when you break the fourth wall, you call attention to this hypnosis.
13.Seance: an aspect of mentalism that purports to give its audiences the feeling of
contacting the spirits of the dead,
14. Presentational acting: the actor acknowledges the audience
15. Representational acting: he audience is studiously ignored and treated as
voyeurs.
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ALONG WITH 100% ACCURATE AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
1. Deaf Theater West: Non profit sign language theater based in Los Angeles.
•
2. Types of theater conventions: slow motion.
Soliloquy (a solo speech by an actor that gives an insight into what they
are thinking) adding narration.
Use of an 'aside' (when a character directly addresses the audience to comment
within a scene) breaking into song (as in Musical theatre)
Using a chorus to comment upon the action.
3. What is theatre?: Art, Live, Collaborative, Performance, Communication, Storytelling,
Business
Theater Etiquette: Dress for the
4.
occasion. ... Be on time. ...
Go to the restroom before you sit down, or at the intermission, not during the
performance. ... Unwrap any cough drops or candy before the show begins. ...
Do not fidget. ...
Keep your shoes
on.
5. Conventional theatre: enacted as if it is in a room, three walls are physical - the stage'
- and the fourth
Is between the actors and the audience.
1/
12
, 6.Unconventional theatre: The presentation of live performance to an audience who
could be seated, standing or promenade (walking around), who are accommodated (present)
in an area essentially ditterent to an area in which traditional live perfor- mance is presented
7. Immersive Theatre: designed to make audience an active, rather than a passive,
participant
8. Promenade: when the audience move from place to place during the performance
9. Sleep No More: Retelling of Macbeth through a surrounding, immersive experience
with no dialogue
Willing suspension of disbelief: audience practice of willingly accepting the
10.
content before them as real
11. Breaking conventions: doing something directly against the flow of the play
4th Wall/Breaking: Convincing people they are watching something real requires
12.
hypnosis, and when you break the fourth wall, you call attention to this hypnosis.
13.Seance: an aspect of mentalism that purports to give its audiences the feeling of
contacting the spirits of the dead,
14. Presentational acting: the actor acknowledges the audience
15. Representational acting: he audience is studiously ignored and treated as
voyeurs.
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12
