Theatre, Script Writing And Performance Question Paper
Theatre, Script Writing And Performance
Course:Bachelor Of Education (Arts)
Institution: Kabarak University question papers
Exam Year:2011
KABARAK UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS
2010/2011 ACADEMIC YEAR
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF EDUCATION ARTS
LITE 321: THEATRE, SCRIPT WRITING AND PERFORMANCE
DAY: THURSDAY DATE: 11/08/2011
TIME: 3.00 – 5.00 P.M. STREAM: SESS 5
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer THREE questions, one from Section 1 and two from
Section 2.
SECTION 1
1. Define and illustrate the following concepts in this course:
i. Theatre (10 mks)
ii. Performance (10 mks)
iii. Script (10mks)
TOTALS 30 MKS
2. With illustrations from any play you read as part of class requirement, discuss all
the steps a director goes through in preparing a script for production (30 mks)
3. Choose a role from a play and analyse it closely as if you were going to play the
character in a production (30 mks)
SECTION 2
4. Either (a) Consider at least three major characters in Sophocles’ King Oedipus and
discuss their relative importance and relationships among them (20 mks)
OR (b) Discuss the characters in Becket’s Waiting for Godot and what they mean
for the structure of the play (20 mks)
5. What are the similarities and differences in acting in life and acting onstage? Do
you think the two kinds of acting complement each other? (20 mks)
6. Referring to EITHER Sophocles’ King Oedipus and Ola Rotimi’s The Gods Are
Not to Blame OR Adrian Onyando’s Taming the Wild and The Epic of Gor Mahia,
review the relationship between any one play and its source text, paying attention
to the ways in which the former seeks to interpret or transcribe the latter (20 mks)
7. Consider any play you have read or discussed in this course and explain which
type of theatre space would be best for it (20 mks)
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