CSCC Thea 1100 Exam 1 || with 100% Verified Solutions.
What are the three categories of Art? correct answers Literary, Visual and Performing
What are the six major elements of theatre? correct answers Audience, Performers, Text or
Script, Director, Theatre Space, and Design Elements
TRUE or FALSE: Theatre is a collaborative art. correct answers True
TRUE or FALSE: Theatre is characterized by performances consisting/pertaining to a single
ethnicity/race. correct answers False, theatre is characterized by diversity and multiculturalism.
Define director. correct answers The person who rehearses and coordinates performers to ensure
that they interpret the text appropriately.
Define global. correct answers Having to do with any activity - political, economic, artistic,
cultural - in which nations and people around the world relate and interact.
Define multiethnic/multicultural. correct answers Referring to any nation, community, or group
in which people of various ethnic or cultural origins or beliefs coexist and interact.
What are some examples of performing arts? correct answers Theatre, dance, opera, and music.
Film also partakes of the performing arts.
Define text (or script). correct answers Story, incident, or event put into theatrical form.
Define theatre space. correct answers The place where performers and audiences come together.
TRUE or FALSE: Television is influenced by theatre and/or drama. correct answers True
TRUE or FALSE: Film does not often draw inspiration from theatre. correct answers False, film
has been greatly influenced by theatre.
TRUE or FALSE: Theatre and film have a close relationship, and many theatre artists have
worked in both media. correct answers True. A good example is the actress Meryl Streep.
TRUE or FALSE: Rock and Roll developed separately from theatre. correct answers False, Rock
and Roll is heavily influenced by theatre.
TRUE or FALSE: Today's world sees a small overall influence by theatre. correct answers False,
television, film, amusement parks, museums and sporting events all use elements of theatre
today.
TRUE or FALSE: The digital frontier brought about a separation of theatre and digital media.
correct answers False, the Internet and video games are clearly influenced by theatre.
, TRUE or FALSE: Every media form is influenced by theatre. correct answers True
Define genre. correct answers Categories of artworks, based on style, form, or subject matter.
Which physical elements of theatre do Rock and Roll performances emphasize? correct answers
Stage spectacle, lighting, and sound effects.
TRUE or FALSE: All art forms are selective. correct answers True, selectivity is one way of
distinguishing one art form from another.
What are various ways for art forms to be distinguished? correct answers Selectivity, time and
space.
TRUE or FALSE: Today's audience is uniform in terms of ethnicity and race. correct answers
False, as a reflection of contemporary society, today's audiences are diversified.
TRUE or FALSE: The audience participates in a theatre event. correct answers True, the
audience sends the performers signals such as laughter, silence and palpable tension, as well as
vicariously, through the mind and heart.
Define vicarious. correct answers Experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions
of another person.
Define willing suspension of disbelief. correct answers When the audience wants to believe in
the reality of what is happening onstage to the point where they willingly put aside all literal and
practical considerations.
Define aesthetic distance. correct answers The audience must be in some sense separated from
the performance, and must be aware that it is a work of art, in order to experience its aesthetic
qualities.
TRUE or FALSE: Throughout all of theatre's history, the audience was always diverse. correct
answers False, for the Restoration theatre in England during the late 17th century, the audience
consisted primarily of the upper classes. In Asian theatre, some eras were only for an elite
audience.
Define critic. correct answers An informed individual with a set of standards by which to judge,
who observes theatre and then analyzes and comments on it.
What are the two meanings of the world criticize? correct answers 1. To find fault
2. To understand and appraise correct answers
What is the difference between a reviewer and a critic? correct answers A reviewer usually
works for a newspaper, a magazine, or a television station, is restricted by time and space, and is
limited in experience and training. In contrast, a critic publishes their analyses in magazines and
