Theatre 100

A stage set should tell the audience

-where the play takes place. -when the play takes place -what kind of characters the play is about

How many stagehands are required behind the scenes for a performance of The Lion King on Broadway?

115?

How many walls of the set would spin around to reveal another location?

2- this is wrong

How many walls made up the background of the set?

3

How many characters/actors were in this production?

6

Who wrote Old Comedy, which made fun of social, political, or cultural conditions?

Aristophanes

This American playwright wrote a series of plays about the Black experience in America. Ten plays, one for each decade of the 20th century, chronicled stories diverse in location, plot, and characterizations.

August Wilson

Which of the following is NOT one of the elements of scene design?

collaboration

At the end of the play, Luke's organs are harvested for donation.

true

Critics were more influential than playwrights in formulating dramatic rules during the Italian Renaissance

true

Which of the following falls under the direction of the costume department?

wigs, hair, makeup, special effects, accessories, shoes

An African-American performance artist, this artist won considerable acclaim in the early 1990s for pieces dealing with racial unrest, in particular a work entitled Twilight: Los Angeles 1992.

Anna Deavere Smith

Which of the following statements about theatrical history is NOT correct?

It was not until the twenty-first century that theatrical techniques were affected by global influences.

A composer who has made a major impact on the American musical during the last decade, this artist won a Tony award for Best Musical in 2008 for his first major work, In the Heights.

Lin Manuel-Miranda

Which character has a head injury in the play?

Luke

Term that refers to Puerto Rican culture, particularly in New York, but elsewhere as well. It encompases a culture in which many Latino theatre groups were able to thrive and flourish.

Nuyorican

This category of theatre in the NYC scene can be found wherever inexpensive space is available and is characterized by low prices with a wide variety of offerings.

Off-off-Broadway

In the selection from Antigone that you read, her crime is best described as

Performing burial rites

The successful scene designer who says he does not like scenery, because he doesn't want to get "on top of the play." Artistically, he is more interested in the Big Idea of a piece.

Riccardo Hernandez

An early 20th century American musical by Hammerstein and Kern, this production dealt with serious material, including the then-controversial love story of a black woman and a white man.

Show Boat

Which of the following added a third actor to the play?

Sophocles

The oldest surviving theatre—constructed during the Italian Renaissance—which was designed as a miniature, indoor Roman theatre is the

Teatro Olimpico.

A postmodernist production will often mix periods, styles, and theatrical intentions, culminating in a presentation that mixes "high" art and popular concerns and techniques.

True

The scene designer's visual choices must support the movement and physical action of the play.

True

What was the sound effect at the end of Ibsen's A Doll House that was shocking to 19th century audiences?

a closing door ?

In the excerpt from Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, what is happening on the lawn outside of the bedroom?

a game of croquet

At the heart of the theatre experience is the

actor-audience relationship.

Late 20th century American musicals tended to fall into one of four categories. Which category listed below is NOT typical of that time frame?

book musicals

In which tragic form are the central figures of the play caught in a series of tragic circumstances?

both traditional and modern tragedy

The activity of a performer onstage, such as the opening of a letter or the making of a bed, is described by which term?

business

Which person blocks or stages the play?

director

A significant development in musicals of the 1970s and 80s was the ascendancy of which contributing artist within theatrical productions?

director-choreographer

When a play is performed as it will be before the public, complete with all production elements but without an audience present, it is called the

dress rehearsal

Commedia characters did not wear costumes.

false

Hrosvitha was a nun who lived in London during the Middle Ages. She wrote liturgical drama and is the first western playwright of record after the Dark Ages.

false

Italian pastorals imitated Greek satyr plays and were often overtly bawdy and sexual.

false

Next Fall was presented as a comedy with musical interludes.

false

Perspective is the illusion of depth in the painting that was introduced into scene design during the English Renaissance.

false

Realistic plays have constantly been plagued by censorship.

false

Scene Designer Dane Laffrey used a real airplane in his work for Once On This Island, having it disassembled, brought in to the theatre, and reconfigured as part of the set.

false

The 1967 production of Hair marked a shift in style of the American musical, from classic book musicals into sophisticated and technologically complex "jukebox musicals."

false

The Elizabethans perfected the art of painted scenery for the theatre.

false

The choregus is the lead actor in a Greek drama.

false

The development of melodrama in the 19th century featured suspenseful plots and surface effects designed to evoke fear, nostalgia, and other strong emotions.

false

The god Dionysus, to whom the Greek dramatic festivals were dedicated, was the god of war, death, and chastity.

false

The musical Porgy and Bess by Gershwin/Heyward was set in the African American community of Savannah, Georgia, and has a score so powerful that many people consider it an opera rather than a musical.

false

The plot and the story are essentially the same thing.

false

The word "genre" means an ability to "generalize about all human beings by observing a small portion of their actions."

false

Thespis is considered the first playwright.

false

This production was presented without an intermission

false

Which comic form has few intellectual pretentions; its humor arises as the result of ridiculous situations?

farce

This 2013 musical (moved to Broadway in 2015) was the first mainstream musical about a lesbian protagonist.

fun home

Costumes do NOT indicate the

innermost thoughts of the characters

Large scenic unit used for the staging of religious dramas in the Middle Ages.

mansion

A small-scale, three-dimensional version of the set is called a

model

Which of the following is NOT a necessary component of a theatrical event?

music

A ________ dramatizes a series of biblical events.

mystery play

Did the cast of this production have any racial diversity?

no

A late 19th century, romantic musical piece featuring melodic solos, duets, and choruses interspersed with dialogue.

operetta

Experimental theatre that initially incorporated elements of dance and the visual arts, this form is often based on the vision of an individual performer or director rather than a playwright.

performance are

What is Luke's mother addicted to?

pills

The scene-shifting method of changing wings and back shutters that was developed by Italian Giacomo Torelli is known as the

pole and chariot

The most renowned theatre building of the Italian Renaissance was the Teatro Farnese. It was revolutionary mainly because of its

proscenium-arch stage

A fairly complete sketch made by the scene designer, usually done in color, is called a

rendering

A main difference between a critic and a reviewer is that a reviewer

restricted time and space

Which of the following is NOT a component of commedia dell'arte?

scaena

A director's work begins here. It is through this process that the director shapes a concept to present to the rest of the production/design team

script analysis

It is very important for directors to create interesting visual compositions with the actors in space; this is known as creating effective

stage pictures

The leading antirealism movement of the late 19th century, this form's major proponents were French and called for drama that did not present mundane, day-to-day activities but rather the mystery of being and the infinite qualities of the human spirit.

symbolism

The most significant difference between film and theatre is

the relationship between the performer and the audience.

The putting aside of all literal and practical considerations in order to enter into the world of the drama is called

the willing suspension of disbelief.

Which of the following statements about Elizabethan private theatres is true?

they were open to the general public

The stage in an Elizabethan public theatre was most like a contemporary

thrust stage.

Which of the following was NOT an audience space in an Elizabethan public theatre?

tiring house

What does it mean to distress a costume?

to make it look weathered and worn

A designer's "ground plan" shows the exact locations of the scenic elements in a set.

true

Adolphe Appia and Edward Gordon Craig greatly influenced theatrical lighting design through their inclusion of light as an integral visual element in scene design.

true

As opposed to music and the visual arts, theatre is a fully collaborative art form involving different specialists who share a common vision for a unified production.

true

Edward Gordon Craig's unit set greatly influenced leading twentieth-century American designers.

true

Italian commedia dell'arte had no set text; it was improvisational.

true

Lysistrata's great plan is for women to withhold sex from their husbands and lovers in order to end the war.

true

Oklahoma! was one of the earliest examples of the American book musical, blending story, music, lyrics, and dances into a unified whole

true

One of the most famous family troupes of commedia dell'arte was the Gelosi Troupe, who featured actress Isabella Andreini among their group.

true

Originally an alternative to the exorbitant costs of producing theatre on Broadway, Off-Broadway provided a venue for new works by budding artists. This category of theatre has become an important contributor to the American theatre industry, producing numerous playwrights and directors over the last half-century.

true

Realism conveys everything onstage to resemble observable, everyday life to promote a strong sense of audience recognition and identification

true

Realistic plays often tackle subjects that are taboo, such as economic justice, gender double standards, and religious hypocrisy.

true

Roman entertainment considered to be an early form of ballet, was called Pantomime.

true

Saturday Night Live uses a format established in early vaudeville that was a popular form of entertainment in the early twentieth century.

true

Stock characters and dominant trait characters tend to appear most often in comedies or melodramas, due to their more two-dimensional nature.

true

The 1970s and 80s brought many productions from British composers and lyricists to the American musical stage, including productions such as Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, The Phanto of the Opera, and Les Miserables.

true

The American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1972 made it legal again for certain ceremonies, such as the sun dance, to resume. This led to the emergence of a Native American theatre.

true

The overriding concern of the neoclassicists was verisimilitude.

true

The plot of King Oedipus by Sophocles has a climactic structure.

true

The size and type of theatre space affects audience perception; therefore, this factor makes a big difference to both actors and the audience.

true

The term "playwright" literally means "play builder."

true

The term deus ex machina ("god from a machine") is used contemporarily to describe a playwriting device that allows for a coincidental resolution to the central conflict of the play.

true

The theatre of a time in history usually reflects the political and social climate of its day. This can be seen in the performance art and postmodernism of the early 21st century.

true

Theatrical activity was outlawed in England by the Puritans in 1642, which was the end of the English Renaissance.

true

When audiences today watch a play at one of our nation's many theatre festivals, they are sharing a kind of live theatre experience that has existed for 2,500 years.

true

What were Luke and Adam wearing during the breakfast scene?

underwear