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CSET Multiple Subject: Theatre
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Answer 16 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Stage in the center of the audience
arena stage
environmental stage
blocking
proscenium arch
2. Japanese tradition - involves colorful and elaborate make - up - costumes - melodramatic ploltlines - and skillful action and dance - music - puppetry
thrust stage
melodrama
blocking
Kabuki theatre
3. A decorative arch that separates the stage from the audience
proscenium arch
comedy
arena stage
theatre in the round
4. Audience is on three sides of the stage
comedy
proscenium arch
thrust stage
character
5. 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
Kabuki theatre
blocking
melodrama
Aristotelian theatre
6. Light dramatic composition that uses highly improbable situations - stereotyped characters - violent horseplay - and broad humor.
theatre in the round
farce
open staging
thrust stage
7. Sentimental drama - hard - hearted villain - a suffering heroine and a noble hero. It ends with good triumping over evil
melodrama
tragedy
comedy
thrust stage
8. People looking from the sides - stage jets out into the audience
Kabuki theatre
plot middle
character
open staging
9. 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
plot middle
blocking
farce
proscenium arch
10. Tells how the characters work to solve the problem the ending - in which the problem is resolved
open staging
blocking
plot middle
Kabuki theatre
11. No clear distinction between characters and audience
theatre in the round
blocking
environmental stage
thrust stage
12. 360 degrees around - people sitting all around the stage
Kabuki theatre
comedy
tragedy
theatre in the round
13. The role played by an actor as he or she assumes another's identity
thrust stage
character
environmental stage
blocking
14. The 'what happens' in a story beginning - involves the setting - the characters and the problem they are facing
plot
blocking
environmental stage
arena stage
15. 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
Kabuki theatre
arena stage
tragedy
farce
16. The protagonist is victorious - Jaws would be a comedy today
melodrama
proscenium arch
comedy
plot