VALLE TH 210 COMPREHENSIVE ACTUAL EXAM
PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◉ Types of theater conventions . Answer: 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? . Answer: Art, Live, Collaborative, Performance,
Communication, Storytelling, Business
◉ Theater Etiquette . Answer: 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 . Answer: 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 . Answer: 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 . Answer: designed to make audience an active,
rather than a passive, participant
◉ promenade . Answer: when the audience move from place to place
during the performance
◉ Sleep No More . Answer: Retelling of Macbeth through a
surrounding, immersive experience with no dialogue
◉ willing suspension of disbelief . Answer: audience practice of
willingly accepting the content before them as real
, ◉ Breaking conventions . Answer: doing something directly against the
flow of the play
◉ 4th Wall/Breaking . Answer: Convincing people they are watching
something real requires hypnosis, and when you break the fourth wall,
you call attention to this hypnosis.
◉ Seance . Answer: an aspect of mentalism that purports to give its
audiences the feeling of contacting the spirits of the dead,
◉ Presentational acting . Answer: the actor acknowledges the audience
◉ Representational acting . Answer: he audience is studiously ignored
and treated as voyeurs.
◉ Plato's Allegory of the Cave . Answer: 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 . Answer: harmony, progress, clarity, logic and the
principle of individuation
◉ Dionysian . Answer: Disorder, intoxication, emotion, ecstasy and
unity
PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◉ Types of theater conventions . Answer: 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? . Answer: Art, Live, Collaborative, Performance,
Communication, Storytelling, Business
◉ Theater Etiquette . Answer: 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 . Answer: 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 . Answer: 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 . Answer: designed to make audience an active,
rather than a passive, participant
◉ promenade . Answer: when the audience move from place to place
during the performance
◉ Sleep No More . Answer: Retelling of Macbeth through a
surrounding, immersive experience with no dialogue
◉ willing suspension of disbelief . Answer: audience practice of
willingly accepting the content before them as real
, ◉ Breaking conventions . Answer: doing something directly against the
flow of the play
◉ 4th Wall/Breaking . Answer: Convincing people they are watching
something real requires hypnosis, and when you break the fourth wall,
you call attention to this hypnosis.
◉ Seance . Answer: an aspect of mentalism that purports to give its
audiences the feeling of contacting the spirits of the dead,
◉ Presentational acting . Answer: the actor acknowledges the audience
◉ Representational acting . Answer: he audience is studiously ignored
and treated as voyeurs.
◉ Plato's Allegory of the Cave . Answer: 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 . Answer: harmony, progress, clarity, logic and the
principle of individuation
◉ Dionysian . Answer: Disorder, intoxication, emotion, ecstasy and
unity
