UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF THE CARIBBEAN

THEATREIDEPENDENT STUDY ASSIGNMENTFEBRUARY 12, 2014ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS ON THIS PAPER1. Write short notes on any FOUR of the following:

a) Theatre as imitation and ritual

b) Soliloquy

c) Tragedy

d) Farce

e) The Proscenium Theatre

f) The arena Theatre

g) Lighting and Sound

h) The director and the producer

i) The plot

j) Stage directions

2. Discuss the genre of comedy and at least four comic devices.

3. Identify and evaluate at least four reasons why audiences attend the Theatre.

4. Theatre cannot exist without an actor. In light of this quotation discuss, using appropriate examples from a play that you have seen, the importance of the actors to any play.

5. Discuss the usefulness and values to both the individual and the society in studying Theatre.6. Discuss the thematic and structural importance and effects of four of the following to a play that you have seen:

a. The lighting

c. The sete. stage properties

b. Sound effects

d. costumef. Movement

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