VALLE TH 210 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2025/2026
Deaf Theater West - ANS Non profit sign language theater based in Los Angeles.
Types of theater conventions - ANS 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? - ANS Art, Live, Collaborative, Performance, Communication, Storytelling,
Business
Theater Etiquette - ANS 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. ...
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, Keep your shoes on.
Conventional theatre - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS designed to make audience an active, rather than a passive,
participant
promenade - ANS when the audience move from place to place during the performance
Sleep No More - ANS Retelling of Macbeth through a surrounding, immersive experience
with no dialogue
willing suspension of disbelief - ANS audience practice of willingly accepting the content
before them as real
Breaking conventions - ANS doing something directly against the flow of the play
4th Wall/Breaking - ANS Convincing people they are watching something real requires
hypnosis, and when you break the fourth wall, you call attention to this hypnosis.
Seance - ANS an aspect of mentalism that purports to give its audiences the feeling of
contacting the spirits of the dead,
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2025/2026
Deaf Theater West - ANS Non profit sign language theater based in Los Angeles.
Types of theater conventions - ANS 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? - ANS Art, Live, Collaborative, Performance, Communication, Storytelling,
Business
Theater Etiquette - ANS 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. ...
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, Keep your shoes on.
Conventional theatre - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS designed to make audience an active, rather than a passive,
participant
promenade - ANS when the audience move from place to place during the performance
Sleep No More - ANS Retelling of Macbeth through a surrounding, immersive experience
with no dialogue
willing suspension of disbelief - ANS audience practice of willingly accepting the content
before them as real
Breaking conventions - ANS doing something directly against the flow of the play
4th Wall/Breaking - ANS Convincing people they are watching something real requires
hypnosis, and when you break the fourth wall, you call attention to this hypnosis.
Seance - ANS an aspect of mentalism that purports to give its audiences the feeling of
contacting the spirits of the dead,
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
