CBSE Class 12 Theater Studies Sample Paper 2018

1. Who is a ‘Drama Therapist’?

Ans -who usually works in consultation with a team of medical professionals to treat and rehabilitate people with disabilities

2. Besides voice and speech, identify one of the principle means of expression.

Ans - the body language

3. How is audience response controlled?

Ans -empathy/detachment/aesthetic distance

4. Bharatendu Harish Chandra at the age of 20 wrote his first dramaopera.Name it.

Ans - Valmiki Pratibha ( The Genius of Valmiki)

5. ‘Poverty is the cause of all evil’. In which of G.B. Shaw play is this highlighted?

Ans- Major Barbara

6. ‘Set is the space background environment to enact a play’.In the light of the above statement explain what should the stage designer aim at?

Ans-occupied by audience and actors during the play/gives background environment to enact the play/designing of set depends on intuition, description and observation of the designers

7.What are the two performing wings of the National School of Drama?

Ans. Repertory / theatre in education

8. ‘When true silence falls, we are stil left with an echo. ‘How does it hold true for Herald Printer’s plays.

Ans -two silences in Pinter’s plays/it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness/his stage direction indicates-pause and silence/his pause is called Pinter pause/actors and directors find these elements daunting

9. What is meant by the term ‘Catharsis’? Who coined this term?

Ans -purgation and purification/ coined by Aristotle

10. Lighting though technical it also has a creative aspect in theatre.Elucidate.

Ans -integral part of thee play now/added so much expressiveness to stage craft/thoughts and inner conflicts are highly accentuated with creative lighting/ focus on character/diff areas are intensified and toned down accordingly

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