Theatre Unit 2

The running crew includes which of the following jobs:

. All of these are running crew jobs

What is the major difference between a review and criticism?

A review is an opinion and a criticism is a detailed analysis

When we watch a production of Hamlet, we enjoy the acting and the spectacle, but also find ourselves contemplating its themes, like the idea of revenge. What term describes this phenomenon?

Aesthetic distance

Playwriting is a limited form of storytelling, so to build a story, a play script is limited to:

All of these

Which of the following may be an antagonist?

All of these

Rather than rating a particular production, literary criticism has more to do with delving into a play's:

All of these are correct.

Producing a large-scale production, such as a musical, may include which of the following theatre professionals?

All of these may be included.

This theatre professional is in charge of the overall creative vision or goal of the ensemble. This person will often choose which plays to produce, who will direct them, and who will design them.

Artistic Director

In a repertory theatre, which two of following members of a theatre ensemble carry the most responsibility for getting the administrative, creative, construction, and production teams on the same page to produce what appears to be an effortless theatre experience?

Artistic Director, Stage Manager

Which book written by an American author has been the most frequently censored book in the United States since its publication in 1951, primarily because the main character takes the Lord's name in vain almost 300 times?

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Saling

Some members of the American public want to be warned about the content of a particular play and to restrict the content of plays so that certain ideas will never be heard, even by those who desire to hear them. This restriction is known as:

Censorship

Complete the equation: Desire + obstacle + lack of compromise = ________.

Conflict

Which of the following is introduced in the middle of the play?

Crisis

Which members of the theatre ensemble participate in concept meetings?

Director and designers

Which of the following is not an example of a major dramatic question (MDQ) ?

Does Hamlet avenge his father's death

Although each person in a theatre audience is an individual, as a group their feelings, reactions, and thoughts can be manipulated in three ways. Which of the following is not one of these ways?

Dramatic criticism

____________________ offers the reader a discriminating, often scholarly interpretation and analysis of a play, an artist's body of work, or a period of theatre history.

Dramatic criticism

At the beginning of a formula plot, information about the characters and setting is conveyed through several structural components. Which is not one of them?

Enlightenment

In the last part of a formula plot, the end, what is the sequence of the structural components to bring the play to a close?

Enlightenment, climax, denouement

Which structural component of a formula plot does the playwright use first to draw the audience into the play?

Event that changes the balance of the basic situation Statement of the protagonist's decision or goal

Freedom of speech allows a playwright to write a script in which the government is criticized, changes are demanded, or which advocates violence for removing leadership from power.

False

Playwrights, like actors, can join closed-shop unions in which all employees must belong so meaningful strikes for better wages are possible.

False

The primary motive behind many reviewers today is to promote a play to help the theatre survive in an environment of intense competition from film and television entertainment.

False

Three of the most productive questions for analysis were proposed by Greek philosopher Aristotle: What is the artist trying to do? How well has the artist done it? Is it worth doing?

False

Which of the following is not true of a "rehearsal report"?

It is written by the director

This theatre professional reads and evaluates scripts, acting as a liaison between playwrights, agents, and the theatre. This person often writes grant applications to help support new play development and stage readings of new plays.

Literary Manager

Which of the following accurately describes a difference between the Writer's Guild of America (WGA) and the Dramatists Guild of America (DGA)?

Members of WGA have power when demanding higher pay. Members of the DGA have little power to demand higher pay.

Which of the following statements most accurately describes how playwrights handle a theme?

Playwrights allow the theme to reveal itself during the writing process.

Which of the following statements accurately describes how the playwright differs from others key leaders in the theatre ensemble?

Playwrights are the primary artists and get top billing in the program, even above the director.

If the story is the chronological sequence of events, then the _____________________ is the causal and logical structure that connects events.

Plot

This type of theatre makes no attempt to offer a realistic illusion onstage, and the actors openly acknowledge the audience and sometimes even invite members to participate.

Presentational theatre

This theatre professional financially backs the theatre or orchestrates funding through grant money and ticket sales.

Producer

Which of the following members of the theatre ensemble manage the budget?

Producer, artistic director

This theatre professional designs, builds or purchases all the objects the actors handle while on stage, such as pens, fans, cigars, and umbrellas.

Prop master

This department of the theatre company promotes the plays, which might include setting up an interview with the director at the local radio station or arranging times for actors to tour area schools as a part of the theatre's outreach program.

Publicity department

Which specific technique does the playwright use to heighten the drama and seriousness of the action in the middle of a formula plot?

Rising action

This theatre professional often uses a computer to aid in creating the stage elements that make up the physical appearance of the stage.

Set Designer

What are parentheticals?

Short descriptions of how a line of dialogue is to be performed.

Aristotle deconstructed plays into six basic elements. Which one was essential in ancient tragedies but is optional in theatre today?

Song

This theatre professional designs and records various effects that range from synthesized rhythms and pre-show music, to the noises of the onstage doorbell or offstage ambulance sirens.

Sound Designer

Aristotle contended that the least important element of a play was:

Spectacle

This theatre professional not only runs the show during the performance but also helps the director throughout the rehearsal process by taking notes, recording blocking, scheduling rehearsals, and assisting during auditions.

Stage Manager

The hidden meaning behind the words, the real reason a character chooses to speak, is called:

Subtext

A ____________________ is a post-performance discussion where the audience gets a chance to meet and ask questions of the director, actors and playwright.

Talk-back

This theatre professional supervises the construction crews, as well deals with the designers' drawings, paintings, blueprints, scale models, and sketches.

Technical Director

Playwrights love the music of language. When they write dialogue to be spoken at a particular speed, they are concerned with its ________.

Tempo

What is the last thing to happen just before the theatre doors are locked for the night?

The ghost light is rolled onto the stage

What is the main difference between a non-formula plot and a formula plot?

The non-formula plot grows naturally from characters' motivations and needs.

Which of the following statements about playwrights is FALSE?

The playwright "builds" the play's outline which the director, actors, and designers then use to inspire their own versions of the dialogue, stage set, portrayal of characters, etc.

Theatre is typically the first of the arts to have its content restricted. There are many reasons for this. Which of the following is not one of them?

Theatre rouses the emotions of single individuals instead of entire groups of people.

Which of the following is a job of the house manager?

To deal with any seating problems and to make sure the play begins on time.

Some of the rules of theatre etiquette include: not texting, tweeting, taking photos or recording video during a play; not talking; and not arriving late.

True

The duties of the dramaturg may include acting as a literary advisor or serving as the expert in theatre history who helps the director understand specifics about a play's performance history

True

When we watch a production of Hamlet, we know that the actors playing Gertrude and Hamlet will not actually die after being poisoned. What term explains our decision to go with the flow?

Willing suspension of disbelief

The characters' deeds and their responses to circumstances, which in turn affect the course of the story, are called:

actions

To sanitize a script in order to remove anything that might be deemed offensive:

bowdlerize

The time the actors arrive at the theatre is known as their ____________________, and the time the play starts is called ____________________.

call/curtain

Which of these situations does the First Amendment guarantee?

expressing a factually wrong or politically incorrect opinion

An innovation of realism, the ____________________ is an imaginary barrier between actors and the audience.

fourth wall

A theatre's ____________________, written by the artistic director, declares in clear and concise terms the theatre's purpose and key objectives. It can also state what type of theatre is to be produced—from comedies and classics to thought-provoking, socially relevant plays or perhaps even new plays by up-and-coming playwrights

mission statement