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Valle TH 210 Comprehensive Exam With Complete Solutions Latest Update
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lOMoARcPSD|22014731Valle TH 210 Comprehensive Exam With Complete
Solutio ns Latest Update Deaf Theater West - correct answers Non profit sign language theater based in Los Angeles.
Types of theater conventions - correct answers 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.
What is theatre? - correct answers Art, Live, Collaborative, Performance, Communication, Storytelling, Business
Theater Etiquette - correct answers Dress for the 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.
Conventional theatre - correct answers enacted as if it is in a room, three walls are physical - the stage's - and the fourth is between the actors and the audience.
Unconventional theatre - correct answers 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 different to an area in which traditional live perfor- mance is presented
Immersive Theatre - correct answers designed to make audience an active, rather than a passive, participant
promenade - correct answers when the audience move from place to place during the performance
Sleep No More - correct answers Retelling of Macbeth through a surrounding, immersive experience with no dialogue
willing suspension of disbelief - correct answers audience practice of willingly accepting the content before them as real
Breaking conventions - correct answers doing something directly against the flow of the play
4th Wall/Breaking - correct answers Convincing people they are watching something real requires hypnosis, and when you break the fourth wall, you call attention to this hypnosis.
Seance - correct answers an aspect of mentalism that purports to give its audiences the feeling of contacting the spirits of the dead,
Presentational acting - correct answers the actor acknowledges the audience
Representational acting - correct answers he audience is studiously ignored and treated as voyeurs.
Plato's Allegory of the Cave - correct answers explores the notion of belief, illusion, knowledge and Truth. Shadows play a role in the illustration of our ability, or inability to be freed from illusion through wisdom and reason.
Apollonian - correct answers harmony, progress, clarity, logic and the principle of individuation lOMoARcPSD|22014731
Dionysian - correct answers Disorder, intoxication, emotion, ecstasy and unity
Reason vs. Chaos - correct answers Need to create a balance between the two in order to establish harmony. Concept of Duality
508 BC. Democracy - correct answers -World's First Democracy founded by Greece
-There were still slaves and women did not have the right to vote**
Greek theater audience - correct answers Early Greek theaters were probably little more than open areas in city centers or next to hillsides where the audience, standing or sitting, could watch and listen to the chorus singing about the exploits of a god or hero.
Thespis - correct answers Ancient poet. First actor to appear on stage as an actor.
orchestra - correct answers Circular dancing place where actors and chorus performed
Aristotle: Two types Drama - correct answers Simple (a unified construct of necessary and probable actions accompanied by Peripeteia - a change of fortune) and Complex (peripeteia and anagnorisis - recognition, take responsibility for their change in fortune)
Aristophanes - correct answers an ancient Greek dramatist remembered for his comedies (448-380 BC)
Peripeteia - correct answers he turning point in a drama after which the plot moves steadily to its denouement.
Anagorisis - correct answers the point in the plot especially of a tragedy at which the protagonist recognizes his or her or some other character's true identity or discovers the true nature of his or her own situation
Hamartia - correct answers to miss the mark" or "to err"
Hubris - correct answers the intentional use of violence to humiliate or degrade
Aristotle states that the purpose of tragedy is to arouse "terror and pity" and thereby effect the catharsis of these emotions - correct answers Sarah Kane (Censorship) - correct answers Representations of violence and sexuality are more disturbing than the real thing
Censere - correct answers Latin orgin word to censorship
Ekkyklema - correct answers platform on wheels used to bring out characters from inside the building
Ob Skene - correct answers behind the backdrop (off stage)
Lysistrata (Aristophanes) - correct answers Comedy that tells of a heroic woman who rallies the women of Greece to withhold sex in effort to end the Peloponnesian War. Themes: Sex, gender relations, women's roles
Techniques: Double entendre.
Jeremy Collier - correct answers English Theatre critic, had a huge problem with the lack of morals in Restoration Theatre.
A Vision of the Golden Rump - correct answers A play about King George's large posterior
Made in 1737 by anonymous (had to stay anonymous, otherwise King George would kill him)
Leads to The Theatrical Licensing Act
Theatrical Licensing Act 1737 - correct answers All plays must be approved by Lord Chamberlain
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