Author Question: You are a student in the Theatre Department at a local University for a BA in directing. After ... (Read 54 times)

AEWBW · **on:** Aug 27, 2018

You are a student in the Theatre Department at a local University for a BA in directing.

After graduating with your degree, you plan to start your career as a director and you are confident that you will be more successful in your job search than your friends that have graduated with an acting degree. Your belief that you will be more successful is most likely ______?A. Correct, Directors are more specialized and are in
higher need.
B. Incorrect, unemployment for directors is as high as
actors.
C. Correct, regional and Broadway theatres are more
prone to hire new directors.
D. Incorrect, there is a higher demand for actors over
directors.

Question 2

Why did historians deem popular entertainments unworthy of serious study for so long?

What will be an ideal response?

Li Jun · **Reply #1 on:** Aug 27, 2018

Answer to Question 1

B.

Answer to Question 2

The student could discuss the idea of popular entertainments being unscripted,
not comprised to a high enough degree of the sixth elements of Aristotle's Poetics, or of the
lack of intellectual integrity as enough grounds for historians to have ruled them un-
theatrical and not truly an art.