Introduction to the Theatre
Textbook:
Cohen, Robert. Theatre. 4th ed.
Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing, 1997.
Course Philosophy:
Everyone should have an understanding
of Theatre "...whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold
the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image,
and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure..."
[Hamlet Act III; Scene II]
Grading: Points/grades:
1st test
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15%
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Midterm Test
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25%
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3rd Test
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15%
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Final Examination
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25%
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Production Participation
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15%
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Production
participation
Students
shall be expected to participate in the production of in-class presentations.
This means that students will have to act, design, direct, or do technical
work. Participation points shall NOT be awarded to those who do not
participate in these production efforts.
Participation
in in-class, group exercises cannot be "made-up".
Disruption of
class is unacceptable.
The first
instance will be reprimanded.
The second
instance will be cause for dismissal from class with a loss of participation
points for the day it occurs.
The third
instance will be cause for expulsion from the course.
Plagiarism and
cheating, the theft of another's ideas, will be prosecuted as harshly as
possible.
Quality Standards for SE110:
Introduction to the Theatre as taught by John O. Phipps-Winfrey
Test
materials [Cognitive Domain]:
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of the term theatron.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of a theater.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of the term dran.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of a company of actors.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of theatrical space.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of the term audience.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of acoustics.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of a troupe of players.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of acting.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of directing.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of set construction.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of set design.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of the phrase running a show.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of producing.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of directing.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of stage management.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of house management.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of playwriting.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of costuming.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of properties.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of duration.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of genre.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of comic vision.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of tragic vision.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of the personal vision of reality.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of dialogue.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of stage directions.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of personal vision of reality.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of theme.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of characters.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of flat characters.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of protagonist.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of antagonist.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of stock character.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of spine (throughline).
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of conflict.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of confrontation.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of crisis.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of climax.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of resolution (denouement).
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of plot.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of exposition.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of point of attack.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of build.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of anticlimax.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of epilogue.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of agon.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of allegory.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of anagnorisis/recognition.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of catharsis.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of comic relief.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of conventions.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of double plot, subplot, and simultaneous plot.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of hamarita/hubris.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of monologue.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of play-within-a-play.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of reversal/peripetia.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of soliloquy.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of sub-text.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of transition.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of blocking.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of stage business.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of stage movement.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of climactic structure.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of episodic structure.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of situational structure.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of tragicomedy.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of melodrama.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of farce.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of adaptations.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of epic theatre.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of the alienation effect.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of ritual.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of myth.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of sympathetic magic.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of the term shaman.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of ritual.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify The Ritual of Osirus.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify The Ritual of Dionysos.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of the dance circle.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of tragoi.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify Dionysos.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify a satyr.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the origins of satire.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the origins of tragedy.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the stated importance of the Epic
of Gilgamesh.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the plot of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the stated importance of the Hindu Vedas.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the time period in which Greek writing developed
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the plot of the Homeric Illiad.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the date given for the evolution of Homo Habilis.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the date given for the evolution of Cro-Magnon man.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the date given for the beginnings of prehistoric art.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the composition of Greek rituals.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of dithyrambos.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the number of Greek tribal orgia a year.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the sites of orgia celebrations.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the main costume element found in orgia.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the use of masks as a factor in orgia.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the use of drinking and drugs as a factor in orgia.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the area in Greece, which gave birth to Greek theatre.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of tetralogies.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify first actor.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the beginning number of chorus members.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify to identify the average number of chorus members at the end of
Greece's Golden Era of Theatre.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the average number of actors at the end of Greece's Golden Era of
Theatre
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify a method used for increasing vocal timbre that was used by the
Greeks.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of periaktoi.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) ekkylemma.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) deux et machina.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify a roman slapstick).
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the major hallmark of Roman theatre.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the major reasons for the fall of the Roman theatre.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of bacchanalia.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the time span of the Medieval theatre.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the author of The Birds.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the author of Oedipus Rex.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the first censor of Rome.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the era in which the Theater of Pompey was established.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the name of the "last roman playwright".
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the name of the "first Medieval playwright".
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of didactic.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of propaganda.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of vernacular plays.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of cycle (mystery) plays.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of morality plays.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the qualities and qualifications of medeival Actors.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the definition(s) of giuldsmen.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the medieval Wagon stage.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to
identify the sections of the medieval Fixed Stage
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to list
the components of tetralogies
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to list
the criteria used to judge tragic actors.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to list
the criteria used to judge comic actors.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to list
the qualities of the theatre as an activity.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to list,
at least, five theatrical crafts.
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The student shall demonstrate the ability to list
the qualities of a play.
