VALLE TH 210 COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION
TEST 2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
GRADED A+
◉ Types-Examples of Conventions . Answer: 1. Use of Narrator
2. Individual Actors play several roles
3. Actors changing costumes onstage
4. Locations
◉ What is "theatre"? Answer: A impersonates B as C looks on
◉ Etiquette . Answer: The customary code of polite behavior in society
or among members of a particular precession or group
◉ Conventional vs. Unconventional . Answer: Conventional -
relationship between actors and audience
Unconventional - abstract, expiramental, untraditional way of
preforming theatre
◉ Immersive Theatre . Answer: removal of stage, stimulates the senses,
audience is part of the action
,◉ Promenade . Answer: when the audience move from place to place
during the performance
◉ Sleep No More . Answer: immersive and promenade
◉ Willing Suspension of Disbelief . Answer: pretending its real even
with limitations of medium. Actors pretending the audience doesn't
exist.
◉ Examples of Breaking Conventions . Answer: breaking the fourth
wall, playing to the audience, fourth wall break
◉ Proscenium Stage . Answer: the frame or arch separating the stage
from the auditorium, through which the action of a play is viewed.
◉ 4th Wall/Breaking (aside/soliloquy) . Answer: When the character
speaks to the audience while other stuff is happening and the other
characters don't notice.
◉ Presentational vs. Representational . Answer: pres:Ml 4th wall,
playing to the audience
rep:playing for audience
, ◉ Seance . Answer: an aspect of mentalism that purports to give its
audiences the feeling of contacting the spirits of the dead, as might be
experienced in a successful Spiritualist séance.
◉ Representation in greek plays . Answer: Women were not allowed to
act in any of the plays but could attend them
◉ Plato's Allegory of the Cave . Answer: Plato uses the cave as a
symbolic representation of how human beings live in the world,
contrasting reality versus our interpretation of it. These two ideas reflect
the two worlds in the story: the world inside the cave, and the world
outside.
◉ Apollonian versus Dionysian . Answer: Apollo represents harmony,
progress, clarity, logic and the principle of individuation, whereas
Dionysus represents disorder, intoxication, emotion, ecstasy and unity
(hence the omission of the principle of individuation).
◉ Reason versus Chaos . Answer: Reference to Apollo and Dionysus
one of order and not. Were the same the comparisons as apollo vs
dionysus. grreks look to find a balance between them.
◉ 508 BC. Democracy . Answer: world first "democracy" but still had
slaves and women couldn't vote
TEST 2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
GRADED A+
◉ Types-Examples of Conventions . Answer: 1. Use of Narrator
2. Individual Actors play several roles
3. Actors changing costumes onstage
4. Locations
◉ What is "theatre"? Answer: A impersonates B as C looks on
◉ Etiquette . Answer: The customary code of polite behavior in society
or among members of a particular precession or group
◉ Conventional vs. Unconventional . Answer: Conventional -
relationship between actors and audience
Unconventional - abstract, expiramental, untraditional way of
preforming theatre
◉ Immersive Theatre . Answer: removal of stage, stimulates the senses,
audience is part of the action
,◉ Promenade . Answer: when the audience move from place to place
during the performance
◉ Sleep No More . Answer: immersive and promenade
◉ Willing Suspension of Disbelief . Answer: pretending its real even
with limitations of medium. Actors pretending the audience doesn't
exist.
◉ Examples of Breaking Conventions . Answer: breaking the fourth
wall, playing to the audience, fourth wall break
◉ Proscenium Stage . Answer: the frame or arch separating the stage
from the auditorium, through which the action of a play is viewed.
◉ 4th Wall/Breaking (aside/soliloquy) . Answer: When the character
speaks to the audience while other stuff is happening and the other
characters don't notice.
◉ Presentational vs. Representational . Answer: pres:Ml 4th wall,
playing to the audience
rep:playing for audience
, ◉ Seance . Answer: an aspect of mentalism that purports to give its
audiences the feeling of contacting the spirits of the dead, as might be
experienced in a successful Spiritualist séance.
◉ Representation in greek plays . Answer: Women were not allowed to
act in any of the plays but could attend them
◉ Plato's Allegory of the Cave . Answer: Plato uses the cave as a
symbolic representation of how human beings live in the world,
contrasting reality versus our interpretation of it. These two ideas reflect
the two worlds in the story: the world inside the cave, and the world
outside.
◉ Apollonian versus Dionysian . Answer: Apollo represents harmony,
progress, clarity, logic and the principle of individuation, whereas
Dionysus represents disorder, intoxication, emotion, ecstasy and unity
(hence the omission of the principle of individuation).
◉ Reason versus Chaos . Answer: Reference to Apollo and Dionysus
one of order and not. Were the same the comparisons as apollo vs
dionysus. grreks look to find a balance between them.
◉ 508 BC. Democracy . Answer: world first "democracy" but still had
slaves and women couldn't vote
