Theatre Final
Who is considered the first important Greek dramatist?
Aeschylus
Which of the following might be thought of as an example of incorporating theatre or the theatrical in everyday life?
All of the above A trial in a courtroom A wedding A funeral
Which of the following is not a performing art?
All of the above are performing arts dance theatre sculpture
Because of the power of an audience's mental and emotional participation in a theatrical event, those in authority may fear the effect theatre can have. This fear sometimes results in
Censorship
Of the following, which did NOT include women in their ranks?
Elizabethan acting companies
A harsh red light from below an actor's face can create a disturbing mood, but you would only find that kind of light in a nonrealistic production
True
Walking sticks and parasols are examples of
accessories
A strong design concept
all of the above is important to convey info should compliment the directorial concept is a unifying idea carried out visually is important when the time and place of a play have been shifted
Greeks put _____________ in the middle of the orchestra
an alter to Dionysis
Elaborate scenery on/in a(n) ____ is impossible because it would block the view of other audience members.
arena
Which tragic form questions the meaning of life and the reason for humanity's suffering?
both traditional and modern tragedy
One type of comic form, parody, that relies on gross exaggeration and occasional vulgarity is
burlesque
The __________________is a special interest to experimental or avant-garde practitioners.
created, found
An open-ended, serial structure that is often associated with female playwrights is ____________ structure
cyclical
Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, is noted for his work as a(n)
director
Which comic form has few intellectual pretensions; its humor arises as the result of ridiculous situations?
farce
One of the following is NOT a collaborator of the costume designer:
fashion or style editor
Shakepeare's plays typically included subplots, which are
secondary plots that reinforce or runs parallel to the major plot.
Another term for a through line is
spine
Which person maintains quality control of all production elements after opening?
stage manager
A "laboratory coat" is typical of which of the following categories?
status and personality
The oldest surviving theatre--constructed during the Italian Renaissance--which was designed as a miniature, indoor Roman
teatro olimpico
English female playwrights of the 1690s were known informally as
the "female wits"
In Greek theatre, what is the skene?
the building upstage from the playing area
In which comic form does an idea or concept turn the accepted notion of things upside down?
All of these are correct Farce Satire Burlesque
In which tragic form are the central figures of the play caught in a series of tragic circumstances?
Both traditional and modern tragedy
Which type of Japanese theatre uses puppets operated by three performers?
Bunraku
______________ is the coordinator of all the elements of the production and is responsible for the unifying vision of the production.
Director
Costume designers rarely meet the actors who will be wearing their costumes, leaving those responsibilities to the stage manager.
False
Despite global influences, contemporary theatre tends to maintain the uniform and traditional styles of the country of production.
False
Diversity in theatre tends to reflect the homogenous "melting pot" philosophy of our culture.
False
Governments of the eighteenth century began to relinquish control and deregulate theatre.
False
In regards to the elements of a performance, the scenery, costumes, light, and sound are considered optional and part of "space".
False
Kabuki drew its material from kathakali plays
False
Only something that actually attaches or pins to a costume piece is considered an accessory.
False
Satire relies on knockabout physical humor, gross exaggerations, and occasional vulgarity
False
The Elizabethans perfected the art of painted scenery for the theatre.
False
The Greek amphitheatre is the first example of a proscenium theatre space.
False
The Romantics strictly adhered to prescribed artistic rules
False
The choregus is the lead actor in a Greek drama
False
The dramaturg is another name for a director
False
The first significant dramatic criticism, The Poetics, was written by Horace
False
The god Dionysus, to whom the Greek dramatic festivals were dedicated, was the god of war, death, and chastity.
False
The protagonist is the good guy
False
The word genre means "an ability to generalize about all human beings by observing a small portion of their actions."
False
To this day the most common form of sound reproduction technology in the theatre is reel-to-reel tape.
False
Traditional tragedy assumes a basically optimistic view of the universe, placing faith in the ability of humanity to overcome adversity
False
Tragedies are an ancient form of drama and have not been written since the nineteenth century
False
While fabric affects the silhouette, texture, and bulk of a costume, it has little symbolic value.
False
Thrives on exaggeration, broad physical humor, elaborate plots, and stereotyped characters
Farce
In _____________, the main characters are able to escape their fate and the play ends happily for all.
Neither traditional nor modern tragedy
Which type of performance space utilizes the greatest amount of scenery and stage machinery?
Proscenium
employs wit and irony to expose evil and foolishness
Satire
A warm golden red light from below an actor's face could establish a suggested light source of a campfire or candles on a table in a completely realistic production.
True
Acting is a part of our everyday lives.
True
As in England, most spanish acting troupes were sharing companies
True
Despite the popularity of medieval religious drama, secular theatre and drama also existed in the Middle Ages
True
Humanism was a major focus of Renaissance literature
True
In a traditional tragedy, the hero or heroine is caught in circumstances from which there is no escape and which inevitably lead to a fateful end
True
In the US, an actor is trained in a holistic way: physically, mentally, and spiritually
True
Italian commedia dell'arte had no set text; it was improvisational
True
Kabuki plays feature beautiful scenic effects and also include the first known use of a revolving stage.
True
Kabuki was performed first by all-female troupes, then by boys, and finally by all-male companies.
True
Masks can be used to create stereotypes similar to stock characters.
True
No one knows how theatre began, and where or when it originated
True
Realistic prosthetic makeup is used both for fantastical creatures like flying monkeys and in creating believable historical characters.
True
Sanskrit drama typically included both serious and comic elements, as well as a number of different locations and characters
True
Saturday Night Live uses a format established in early vaudeville that was a popular form of entertainment in the early twentieth century
True
Sound travels more slowly than light.
True
The improvisational elements of Italian commedia dell'arte were built around rough outline called scenarios
True
The lighting designer can only use the following four controllable properties of light—intensity, color, distribution, and movement/change—in setting the lights for any cue in the theatre.
True
The most important job of the director is to interpret the play and create a concept
True
The most significant difference between film and theatre is the relationship between the performer and the audience.
True
The overriding concern of the neoclassicists were verisimilitude
True
The plot of a play is the systematic ordering of events in a script from page 1 to the end of the play.
True
The speeches of the Greek chorus were sung and danced
True
The three great Greek tragic playwrights are Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
True
Theatre is the fountainhead of all drama
True
There were a number of significant female playwrights during the Restoration era.
True
When a costume is created in the costume shop under the supervision of the designer, this is known as building a costume.
True
When audiences today watch a play at one of our nation's many theatres, they are sharing a kind of live theatre experience that has existed for 2,500 years
True
two ideas essential to tragic drama are the notion that the world is potentially cruel and unjust, and the concept that human beings are capable of confront...
True
What were three questions Stanislavski associated with psychophysical actions?
What? Why? How?
A main difference between episodic and climactic forms of structure is that episodic construction emphasizes
a broader view with a cumulative effect
Theatre grew out of ritual, which is
a reenactment of actions that have acquired special meaning
Eleanora Duse is noted for her work as a(n)
actor
At the heart of the theatre experience is the
actor-audience relationship
The degree of separation between the object or event that an artist creates and the audience that observes it is called
aesthetic distance
Which of the following are common theatrical metaphors used in everyday life?
all of the above she/he is a prima donna she/he loves being in the spotlight she/he is always on stage
Which of the following provides the most intimate performance space?
arena
Ensemble actin emphasizes the
artistic unity of a group performance
The objective of the scene designer does NOT include
assisting in the blocking of the production
In which type of dramatic structure does the plot or action of the play begins very late in the story
climactic structure
The final and most significant crisis is referred to as the
climax
Which of the following is not a hallmark of a postmodern production?
closeness
Full-length secular plays during the Spanish Golden Age were known as
comedias
One of the primary genres; devoted to provoking amusement and laughter
comedy
A type of play that pokes fun at the social conventions of the upper class is called a
comedy of manners
Points out the foibles and peculiarities of the upper class
comedy of manners
Lighting changes typically programmed in a computerized control system are referred to as
cues
Which person casts the actors?
director
Which person develops a concept for the production?
director
Stories of everyday people, often centered on the family
domestic drama
The French dramatic form developed in the eighteenth century that was a serious play but did not fit neoclassical definitions of tragedy was known as
drame
Stage right and stage left mean the right and left side, respectively, from the perspective of the
performers facing the audience
The ___________________ determines the detail of the script
playwright
The selection and arrangement of scenes that actually happen onstage is called the
plot
The scen-shifting method of changing wings and back shutters that was developed by Italian Giacomo Torelli is known as the
pole-and-chariot system
The amplification of sounds produced by a performer or musical instrument is called
sound reinforcement
Art forms that exist space and are created to last over time
spatial arts
It is very important for directors to create interesting visual compositions with the actors in space; this is known as creating effective
stage pictures
"Stethoscope" suggests which of the following?
status and personality
A full account of an event or series of events, usually told in chronological order, is called a
story
"Viewpoints" theory is an approach to acting that originated in the United States and combines dance and stage movement with concepts of
time and space
Which of the following was NOT an audience space in an Elizabethan public theatre?
tiring house
Which of the following is NOT one of the responsibilities of a performer in the theatre?
to coordinate the elements and the vision of the production
We often attend theatre performances because of its sheer excitement as well as to be amused. However, another over-looked aspect is
to learn about the human condition
The word criticize has at least two meaning. One is "to find fruit". Another meaning is
to understand and appraise
is premised on the fact that the world can be cruel and unjust
tragedy
Mixes serious and comic matter in the same play
tragicomedy
Canvas stretched on wood with the side facing the audience painted to look like a solid wall is called a
flat
Which of the following is NOT the responsibility of the dramaturg?
hiring the director and performers
Which two forms of Asian theatre include long narrow bridges ( the hashigakari and hanamichi) used for actor entrances
no and kabuki
Which of the following is NOT associated with the "front of the house"
raising money for the production
Permanent, professional, non-profit theatres that offer first-class to their audiences is called
regional theatre
which of the following is not an example of experimental avant-garde theatre by young playwrights avant-garde?
regional theatre
A fairly complete sketch made by the scene designer, usually done in color, is called a
rendering
Characters that embody the quintessential characteristics of a group are known as ____________ characters.
representative
The Strum und Drang (storm and stress) movement was the forerunner of
romanticism
Which comic form relies on sophisticated language to attack evil and foolishness?
satire
A gauze or cloth screen that, when painted and lit from the front, appears solid, but when lit from behind becomes transparent, is called a
scrim
Also called _____________ this is the blueprint for a production in which the playwright transforms the raw material-the incident, the biographical event, the myth----into a drama, a sequence of events that features characters speaking and interacting with one another
script
Indonesian shadow plays are often referred to as
wayang
In Greek theatre, what is the parados
entrances
Similar to tragedy, but with an optimistic world view
heroic drama
Sound that recreates the noises of everyday life and help create the verisimilitude of a play, but are not specifically called for by the script, are called
Environmental sounds
A text is always a script
False
_______________ instruments produce have a lens system that produces soft edge spots of light
Fresnel
A conventional spot light that produces a soft-edged beam and allows for variable beam spread is called a(n)
Fresnel spot light
In response to the new realistic drama of the late nineteenth century, ________ devised a system to teach performers how to achieve the necessary believability.
Konstantin Stanislavski
In ____________, the language used in the play is prose
Modern tragedy
Who wrote King Oedipus?
Sophocles
The most significant difference between film and theatre is
The relationship between the performer and the audience.
In ________________, the hero or heroine is a person of social stature: a king, a queen, a general, a nobleman,etc
Traditional tragedy
In ___________________, the hero or heroine is a person of social stature: a king, a queen, a general, a nobleman, etc.
Traditional tragedy
A first hand, a cutter/draper, and a stitcher are essential costume shop personnel working on the building/construction process of a costume
True
High-tech lights often used by rock musicians move up and down and from side to side, change colors, and change the sharpness and width of a beam of light and allow for numerous decorative or atmospheric patterns, are now used industry-wide. Such lights are called
automated lights
The program developed by Vsevolod Meyerhold that emphasizes physical exercises and circus-like control of the body is known as
biomechanics
Which of the following is NOT a performance technique developed by Stanislavski?
biomechanics
The arrangement and movements of performers relative to each other and to the stage space is called
blocking
Because of the availability of new technology such as Youtube and personal websites, ____________________ represent a new source of theatre criticism.
bloggers
A wireless microphone attached to a performer is called a ________ mike.
body mic
Charles Macklin and David Garrick both rebelled against the
bombtastic, conventionalized style of acting
A main task of the modern-day director is to
draw disparate elements together to create a unified whole
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
When sound effects are recorded and arranged in the order of their appearance in the script, the process is called
editing
The dramatic structure that piles up people, places, and events is called.
episodic
The imparting of details about the past that are essential but not covered by the action onstage is known as
exposition
In order for a performer to convincingly play a role, he or she must synthesize the inner and outer aspects of training through a process called
integration
Shadow puppets are actually made of what material
intricately carved leather
The dramaturg's responsibility(s) is/are:
is as the literary advisor to a play
A main difference between a critic and a reviewer is that a reviewer
is restricted by time and space
In which way is the approach of Lee Strasberg different from the approach of acting teachers like Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, and Uta Hagen?
it emphasizes the inner aspects of acting
A contemporary trend in musical theatre is a genre referred to as the _________________, in which a story is written around already popular rock music
jukebox musical
A light plot does NOT include the
length of light cues
Which of the following is NOT a convention of common climactic dramatic structure?
limited conflict
Bustles or corsets affect which of the following areas?
line, shape, and silhoutte
Which of the following is a critical member of the lighting design team?
master electrician
Originally meant "song drama" or "music drama"
melodrama
The dramatic form that emphasizes suspense and excitement and is primarily escapist in form that emphasized visual spectacle and special effects is known as
melodrama
"Centering" involves finding the place where all the lines of force in the body come together. It is located, roughly, in the
middle of the torso
In_______________, the language used in the play is prose.
modern tragedy
A _______ uses religious characters and religious themes to teach a lesson
morality
Ornate, professionally staged, mythological allegories that were intended to praise the monarch during the Jacobean period were known as
mosques
Theatre is an Art Form is:
most closely related to music as both are performing arts
Sounds that are called for in the script are called
motivated sounds
Which of the following is NOT an essential aspect of dramatic structure?
mutually agreeable forces
A ___________ dramatizes a series of biblical events
mystery
Noah's Ark is a _____________ play
mystery
In a noncommercial theatre, the managing director is akin to the _____________ in a commercial theatre.
producer
Which person is responsible for raising money to finance a production?
producer
In order to throw the voice into the audience so that it penetrates to the uttermost reaches of the theatre, the performer must
project
Dr. Larsen spoke about the FMU theatre space. She talked about how versatile it was. Though technically it could be any space with some building. What kind of spaces was it designed as?
proscenium and arena
A "fourth wall theatre" describes a(n)
proscenium stage
The person responsible for seeing that the scenery, platforms, and other elements are built, painted, and installed onstage is called a
technical director
art forms that exist only for a specific period of time
temporal arts
In Greek theatre, what is the orchestra?
the playing area
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
One characteristic of ________________ is that each performance is unique and occurs in the presence of an audience.
theatre
Developed by the Greeks, the ______________ was also the type of theatre space used during Shakespeare's time.
thrust
In one form or another, the ___ has been the most widely used of all the theatre spaces.
thrust
The stage in an Elizabethan public theatre was most like a contemporary
thrust
Which type of performance space in the medieval period was called a platform stage or trestle stage?
thrust
Which type of performance space was originally built into hillsides in Greece?
thrust
A circular revolving unit that is set into the floor, and which can turn mechanically to bring one set into view as another disappears, is a
turntable
If an actor is near the edge of the stage closest to the audience, and she turns her back and walks away from the audience, she is walking
upstage
Which of the following best describes the way audiences participate in theatrical performances?
vicariously
A low platform of wheels upon which set pieces and even actors are brought onstage is called a:
wagon
