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CSET Multiple Subject: Theatre
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Answer 16 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Light dramatic composition that uses highly improbable situations - stereotyped characters - violent horseplay - and broad humor.
blocking
arena stage
plot
farce
2. Japanese tradition - involves colorful and elaborate make - up - costumes - melodramatic ploltlines - and skillful action and dance - music - puppetry
plot
plot middle
Kabuki theatre
melodrama
3. No clear distinction between characters and audience
tragedy
thrust stage
environmental stage
blocking
4. Positions and movements - designed and directed by the director to focus the audience's attention on the important place or person during every moment of the play
blocking
environmental stage
proscenium arch
tragedy
5. The 'what happens' in a story beginning - involves the setting - the characters and the problem they are facing
plot
Kabuki theatre
farce
proscenium arch
6. Drama that describes the development of a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force (destiny - circumstances of society) and reaches a sorrowful and disastrous conclusion
plot
blocking
tragedy
comedy
7. A decorative arch that separates the stage from the audience
thrust stage
blocking
proscenium arch
open staging
8. The role played by an actor as he or she assumes another's identity
open staging
character
plot
plot middle
9. The protagonist is victorious - Jaws would be a comedy today
comedy
farce
arena stage
plot
10. Stage in the center of the audience
arena stage
blocking
character
melodrama
11. Audience is on three sides of the stage
open staging
thrust stage
plot middle
blocking
12. 360 degrees around - people sitting all around the stage
environmental stage
tragedy
arena stage
theatre in the round
13. Tells how the characters work to solve the problem the ending - in which the problem is resolved
plot middle
character
environmental stage
melodrama
14. People looking from the sides - stage jets out into the audience
plot
character
comedy
open staging
15. Sentimental drama - hard - hearted villain - a suffering heroine and a noble hero. It ends with good triumping over evil
melodrama
theatre in the round
character
arena stage
16. Involved constraining stories to fit within the 3 unitis of time - place - and actions everything should take place in one time (no flashing forward or backwards in time). everything should take place in one place - action - either tragedy or comedy
Aristotelian theatre
character
plot middle
plot