Theatre Arts Final
Study Guide
The following study
guide describes what you should know in order to be ready for our final, it
does not reflect the way the information will be provided to you. It is
important to study the material, and not the question itself.
This comprises one
half of your final, the other half being your 2-person scene to be performed
the week before finals.
1. Define
Etiquette in three ways:
·
As we have defined Etiquette in our Vocab
journals
·
Etiquette as it pertains to an Audience
·
Etiquette as it pertains to an Actor
1.
Describe
in your own words, what Improvisational Theatre is:
2.
Describe
in your own words, The 5 steps to the Motivated Sequence
3.
Describe in your own words, what Pantomime is:
4.
Describe in your own words, Character based
Storytelling and Situation based Storytelling:
5.
List and Describe all six of Aristotle’s
Elements of Theatre:
6.
What is a Stage?
7.
What are the two things the ‘House’ may refer
to?
8.
Describe in your own words, what Blocking is:
9.
What is Tableau?
10.
What are the 4 typical types of staging?
11.
Provide a description of Aristotle and his
effect on Theatre.
12.
Who is Thespis?
13.
On what stages did Greek plays take place?
14.
In the name of which god were the Greek plays
produced?
15.
Describe in your own words the following terms,
Tragedians and Comedians:
16.
Pick one of the Three Tragedians and describe
his impact on Greek drama.
17.
The majority of Roman plays were not original
plays, instead they were:
18.
Regarding the stage, Romans brought us what
physical change to the way plays were done?
19.
Regarding Theatre as an artform, Romans decided
that Theatre should no longer be a part of what?
20.
After the fall of Rome, actors were forced to do
what?
21.
Describe in your own words, Companies:
22.
The middle ages created what new form of play?
23.
What is widely regarded as the longest running
passion play in existence?
24.
The original actors in the middle ages were
really who?
25.
Who were the three most significant playwrights
of the Elizabethan Era?
26.
Christopher Marlowe was accused of being what in
his lifetime?
27.
What is the title of Christopher Marlowe’s most
famous play?
28.
Describe in your own words, what the Comedy of
Humours is, and what are the 4 components that comprise it?
29.
What type of theater staging became popular
towards the end of the Elizabethan Era?
30.
At the start of the 18th century, who
was finally allowed on stage:
Fill in the following Diagrams, each blank will be worth a
point.
a.
