Final+Take+Home+Exam

THEA2100H Final Take Home Exam

Answer three of the following four questions and __post the three you have chosen to answer followed by your answers linked to your profile page__ no later than Thursday, Dec. 11 at 6:30pm, please.

1. Identify the features of __Angels in America__ that qualify it to be categorized as an example of theatricalism. In what ways does the play differ from the various video illustrations provided to you on the wiki schedule page for Oct. 23? Provide specific examples to support your opinions. And finally discuss how the video examples from the film demonstrate some of the unique features of the HBO film version of the work linked to Oct. 30 schedule page.

2. We spent considerable time in class seeing a DVD about the development, rehearsal, and presentation of 4 Broadway musicals. Discuss some of the major topics that were introduced on the DVD. Next discuss what you learned from the DVD about the making and development of these commercial ventures. How did they differ one from the other? What were some of the unique features of each? What were some similarities that they all seemed to share?

3. Watch the following recording of a live performance by a group of well-known NY actors, then identify and discuss the genre of the work citing specific moments when the genre is revealed through dialogue, story, and performance techniques and staging.

[|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AVifTdjtvE#t=38]

4. The videos that you were assigned to see regarding __Water by the Spoonful__ provide some revealing things about the purpose, development, and presentation of the play on stage. Comment on each of the videos that were assigned to be seen that help shape your opinion about the work. Knowing what you now know about production of a play from the work you’ve done on your final projects, what were some things you wish you could have seen that would have helped you to better understand __Water by the Spoonful__ and the production of it?