Thea 1 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

How are actors different than other performers? correct answers play someone else What is part of the Actor's Paradox? correct answers The actor is himself and the character How does the audience affect a play? correct answers By their emotional response to the performance Why is theatre called a "collaborative art?" correct answers It takes all types of artists to make a production Why are plays typically 2-3 hours long? correct answers -It is the time between lunch and dinner -...

Thea 1 Final Exam (All Units) Exam Study Guide. Dionysus - answerGreek God of wine and fertility Playwright - answerauthor of a play Pantomime - answerPrimitive people's instinctive rhythmic movements and the desire to imitate evolved into___________________________. Shaman - answerPantomimed rites of passage and various tribal traditions were performed by Subtext - answermeaning beneath the words Medicine Man, Storyteller - answerShaman's roll in the tribe of primitive people fire -...

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. De...

Art is distinguishable from "real life" by an artist's intention to create or craft something that will evoke a certain kind of response—an "aesthetic response"—from its audience. correct answers True One important characteristic separating the art of theatre from events in real life is art's relationship to time and space. correct answers True Theatre quite often resembles life and various performances within life. correct answers True Art is, by its nature, artificial. corre...

THEA 128B! Final Exam Study Guide Qs&As According to Peter Brook in The Empty Space, as long as one has the intent to create a fictional world, you only need three elements to create theatre: an actor,______, and a space. - ANS-An audience Aristotle wrote the treatise called ______, which described what he thought to be the components of a good tragedy. This formed the basis for all Western theatre criticism to come. - ANS-The Poetics An unspoken agreement between actor and audience conce...

On the line - when dialogue reveals the action Beneath the line - When dialogue conceals the action Function of Stage directions - To tell us who's there by naming characters as they speak, enter, react, and exit. imagination - the ability to create ideas or pictures in your mind empathy - getting into the feeling or letting the feeling get into us sympathy - We are with the character. We have taken sides. antipathy - We are against the character, even though we sometimes deny it. drama...

THEA 105 SP20 LESSON 1 QUIZ ACTUAL SOLUTION PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

unique experiences of live theatre correct answers -in person (live) -audiences heart beat sync up with each other -audience and performer are symbiotic (respond to each others energy) -physical space affects the experience of show -seating changes how you experience theatre what is live? correct answers -theatre = in person -tv/digital performance = real time -mediated = watching theatre performance thats not in person (ex. national theatre live) professional for profit theatre (bro...

trilogy correct answers three tragedies that make up a single unit Best known: Oresteia - the saga of Agamemnon Objectives of the scene designer correct answers responsible for the stage set: 1. help set the tone and style 2. establish locale and period 3. develop concepts consistent with the director's 4. provide central image or metaphor 5. scenery is coordinated with productions elements 6. solve practical design problems Role of the technical director correct answers person wh...

THEA 110 PASSED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Fill in the missing special quality of theatre The special quialities are lifelikeness, Ephemerality,_____________, Complexity of means, and Immediacty - ANS objectivity Theatre as a form is about _______ years old and maybe even older 2500 2450 100,000,000 10 years - ANS 2500