Theatre final
What does Shakespeare's Hamlet mean when he says the following? "Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines."
"I would rather have you speak honestly and believably than just shouting the lines out loud."
A question that is NOT one of the criteria by which to judge a play and a production is
"Were the intentions appreciated by the audience?"
A controlling idea, vision, or point of view that the director feels is appropriate to the play is called a directorial (CHAP 5)
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A medieval morality play is an example of (CHAP 5)
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Attempts to put onstage as exact a copy of life as possible, down to the smallest detail, are an example of (CHAP 5)
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In the nonprofit theatre, the person or group with the responsibilities of the producer is called the (CHAP 5)
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Line, mass, color, texture, balance. Which one of these is not considered one of the five elements of scene design? (CHAP 9)
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Performers would often speak toward the audience during this period, rather than to the character they were addressing on stage, since the theatres were lit as well as the stage and the actors wanted hold on to the audience's attention.(CHAP 4)
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller represents (CHAP 5)
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The best-known of his innovations, designer Josef Svoboda used screens in conjunction with actors; the actors were part of the film, and the film was part of the action. He called this (CHAP 9)
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The movement, pace, and rhythm of a play are NOT affected by the (CHAP 5)
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What does Shakespeare's Hamlet mean when he says the following? "Be not too tame neither, but let your discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature."(CHAP 4)
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Which of the following is NOT a responsibility of the dramaturg? (CHAP 5)
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Which of the following is NOT one of the responsibilities of a performer in the theatre?(CHAP 4)
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Which of the following is NOT the responsibility of the producer? (CHAP 5)
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Which of the following should an actor try to avoid if he or she is trying to connect meaningfully with the audience?(CHAP 4)
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________ is a kind of super realism. (CHAP 5)
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________ is the representation of an abstract theme or subject through the symbolic use of characters, actions, or other elements of a production. (CHAP 5)
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Augusto Boal is regarded as one of the most inspirational theatre practitioners of his day because
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One of the things that film can do that theatre cannot is
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With ________, although the stage space protrudes into the audience there is still a proscenium opening toward the back of that stage area, and there is a shallow stage area behind the proscenium as well that still allows for some scenic detail.
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________ use unusual structures as they are, with their original architectural elements intact, carving out special areas for acting and audience seating/viewing.
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Which of the following is NOT a feature of melodrama?
Even if the ending is sad, an optimistic worldview is present.
The main representative character in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House who to this day serves as a symbol of the modern woman is (CHAP 7)
Nora Helmer
________ is a Japanese director whose theatre emphasized physical movement, ensemble playing, and the combination of the new and the old, the traditional and the experimental.
Tadashi Suzuki
A hard-fought and relatively equal contest
a balance of forces
A light that is typically used to light the large cyclorama all the way upstage is
a strip light or flood light
Through the use of color, shadow, and intensity, lighting can suggest
a time of day. 2) a season of the year. 3) a place.
Walking sticks and parasols are examples of
accessories
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 serves as a parable or lesson?
allegory
In a proscenium theatre of 450 seats, there may be twenty rows of seats. In a(n) ________ theatre space with 450 seats, no one would be further away from the stage than about seven or eight rows, which offers much more intimacy in style of performance than other types of theatres.
arena stage
In which of the following is elaborate scenery impossible because it would block the view of the spectators?
arena stage
In which of the following is the playing space in the center of a square or circle, with seats for spectators all around?
arena stage
Which of the following is also known as theatre-in-the-round or circle theatre?
arena stage
Which of the following is NOT the responsibility of the producer?
arriving at a central metaphor for the underlying meaning of the play
Performers wore heavy make-up, elaborate costumes and employed stylized movement in which period?
asian theatre
The objectives of the scene designer do NOT include
assisting in the blocking of a production
________ is a South African playwright whose plays often attacked apartheid.
athol fugard
________ is the author of Master Harold¼and the Boys.
athol fugard
Theatre is an event in which the performers are in the presence of the
audience
________ was a Brazilian playwright and theorist noted for his theoretical work Theatre of the Oppressed.
augusto boal
A classic play from which country includes a mythical Aboriginal character?
australia
This director takes responsibility for shaping every element of production including the script.
auteur director
Auteur is a French word that means:
author
A(n) ________ is a show that has a story—which traces the fortunes of the main characters through a series of adventures with a beginning, middle, and end—and features more popular songs.
book musical
In Shakespeare's own day, women's parts were played by
boys
Roughly two-thirds life-size, this puppet requires three performers to operate it.
bunraku
In the United States, ________ has become synonymous with the type of sketch theatre comedy that relied heavily on sexual comedy and innuendo and was a precursor to American strip shows.
burlesque
In order to meet the aesthetic demands of a lighting design, the stage manager must
call all cues with an understanding of the pace and rhythm integral to the production.
One of the most famous Shakespeare festivals in the world, named for Shakespeare's birthplace, is located in
canada
Clothes have always indicated or signaled a number of things regarding the wearer, except for which of the following:
character flaws
The final and most significant crisis is referred to as the
climax
Which of the following is NOT a genre?
clowning
An outside force or new twist in the plot introduced at an opportune moment is a(n) (CHAP 6)
complication
Shows by Stephen Sondheim, such as Company and Assassins, are examples of the ________ form.
concept musical
When a musical is based around an idea rather than a story, it is called a
concept musical
The inns in Spain were called ________, and this name was given to the theatres that developed there.
corrales
"Site specific" theatre productions are, by definition, performed in which type of space?
created and found spaces
Multi-focus environments, where something is going on in more than one playing area simultaneously, are typically found in which kind of stage space?
created and found spaces
Which of the following is/are used by avant-garde theatres such as the Performance Group?
created and found spaces
Which of the following attempts to analyze a theatre event very closely?
critic
Which of the following attempts to go into greater detail in describing or analyzing a theatre event?
critic
Which of the following attempts to put the theatre event into a larger context?
critic
Which of the following will often try to explain how the theatre event fits into a category or genre, or into the body of the playwright's work?
critic
When one set of lights comes down at the same time that another set of lights come up, this is known as a
cross fade
Lighting changes typically programmed in a computerized control system are referred to as
cues
________ is an English avant-garde director who reinterpreted traditional texts with a focus on sociopolitical issues including feminism and gender.
deborah warner
Select the response that places the directing activities in the proper order.
developing a concept, casting, blocking/staging, technical rehearsal, dress rehearsal
The sound designer's primary collaborator on any theatrical production is the
director
Which of the following is NOT the responsibility of the stage manager?
discovering promising new plays and working with playwrights on developing their scripts
When a performer is required to play several roles in the same play, this is called
doubling
The objective of costumes are many. For example, costumes help establish the style of the production. Which of the following, however, is NOT one of a costumer's objectives:
draw attention to the skill of the designer
A critic should treat a play as an aesthetic object separate from its social, political, or cultural context.
false
A stitcher is a technician who patterns, pins, and drapes the fabric to fit the individual actor perfectly, whereas a draper is a technician who sews all the costumes.
false
After a play has had several previews, it often will go back into rehearsal prior to opening.
false
Although every actor needs to work on both inner and outer aspects of acting, it is best to develop all of the inner aspects of character development first that will allow the actor to more easily develop the physical movement and vocal aspects of the character.
false
Although it may be fun and exciting, circus training and clowning or juggling are not valuable forms of training for actors to use in their theatre work.
false
An auteur director adheres closely to the playwright's intent in the form of text and sequence of events.
false
Aphra Behn and Susanna Centlivre are two contemporary feminist playwrights.
false
Asian theatre training and the type of actor training that is common in the U.S. are virtually the same kind of training, focusing on the same kind of movement and vocal performance styles.
false
August Wilson's ten-play cycle of plays chronicles the Asian American experience in the U.S., beginning with the "gold rush" of 1849.
false
Because a "collective mind" is created when a large number of people are gathered into a group, the background of the individual spectator has little to do with the theatre experience.
false
Because artists are often accused of being "antisocial," "subversive," or "enemies of the state," and are thus outsiders, the art that they produce is often unrelated to the society in which it is produced.
false
Because costumes must stand out from the scenery in order to be seen, costumes are rarely designed to be consistent with the scenic design for a production.
false
Because the reviewer should represent the tastes of the general public, it is not important that he or she have a thorough background in theatre.
false
Because we no longer have a society that believes in the concept of "the Gods" as they did in ancient Greece, traditional Greek tragedies are no longer feasible to consider for contemporary productions.
false
Beyond the confines of Broadway and touring professional theatre, there is not a great deal of diversity available in theatre around the country in the early twenty-first century.
false
Common structure in musical theatre requires that every song have a segment that involves the chorus.
false
Computerized design, known technically as computer-assisted design (CAD), is very inflexible: the designer is often at a disadvantage when making instantaneous changes from what appears on the screen, even so she can, with some difficulty, indicate to the director and others alternative plans and features of a stage set.
false
Costume designers rarely meet the actors who will be wearing their costumes, leaving those responsibilities to the stage manager.
false
David Henry Hwang is the author of Angels in America.
false
Despite the popularity of the form, no musical has ever received the Pulitzer Prize.
false
Different kinds of performance spaces are appropriate for certain kinds of plays. A large-scale musical like Wicked would not be appropriate for a small arena theatre; however, it is appropriate to move a smaller-scale show into a large proscenium space so it can earn more money at the box office.
false
Digital sound technology will allows musical instruments to be connected through a theatrical sound system, but at this time it cannot yet interface with lighting or projection technology.
false
Each of us fills only one social role
false
El Teatro Campesino is one of the major theatres to arise in Native American theatre.
false
If a reviewer dislikes a particular production, it is probably best to avoid it.
false
In order to prepare a role properly, the actor or actress should always begin with an outer aspect—a walk, a posture, a peculiar vocal delivery—and then develop the inner life of the character.
false
It was not until the twentieth century that African American performers presented Shakespeare.
false
When nonhuman characters are written into a script it is typically because the producers do not want to create a stage prop when an actor can solve the problem nicely.
false
While Broadway theatres are all within the district near Times Square in New York City, the styles of their architecture and types of their stages vary considerably.
false
While fabric affects the silhouette, texture, and bulk of a costume, it has little symbolic value.
false
While it is often necessary for actors and actresses to make quick costume changes, this is a concern for the stage manager, not the costume designer.
false
While the latter part of the fifth century B.C.E. in Greece is considered to be a golden age for politics, philosophy, art, and architecture, for the theatre is was a time of decline.
false
While the trend toward diversity in the American theatre has given birth to many multiethnic, multicultural, and gender-based theatre companies representing groups with special interests, plays produced by these theatres rarely enter the mainstream of American theatre.
false
Women comprised the largest part of the audience in ancient Greece.
false
Women played an important role in the creation of Greek theatre during the classical period.
false
environmental theatre is the name given to the plethora of outdoor theatres that developed in the late 1960s and 1970s.
false
Rapid movements back and forth in time are called
flashbacks
The development of a ________ is an extremely important step in preparing for the show to begin rehearsals so the actors and director know how their patterns of movement will be affected by the placement of scenic elements and/or furniture.
floor plan or ground plan
When a beam of light is aimed at a particular area on the stage, it is said to be
focused
In the nonprofit theatre, which of the following is NOT a front-of-house responsibility?
raising money to finance the production
The slant of an auditorium's stage floor is called a
rake
When an element of theatre resembles observed reality, it is considered
realistic
Ordinary street clothes are an example of
realistic technique
Rooms of a real house is an example of
realistic technique
These are permanent, professional, nonprofit theatres that offer a season of first-class productions to their audiences each year.
regional theatres
Distinguishing major from minor characters is an analysis of which of the following?
relationships
A fairly complete sketch made by the scene designer, usually done in color, is called a
rendering
Visibility is the most obvious function of stage lighting. Which of the following is also a primary function of lighting?
reveal shapes and forms 2) assist in creating mood and reinforcing style 3) provide a selective focus and an artistic visual composition
Which of the following is frequently limited in terms of experience and theatrical background?
reviewer
Which of the following is usually restricted by time, space, or both?
reviewer
Which of the following usually works for a television station, a newspaper, or a magazine and reports on what has occurred at the theatre?
reviewer
Which of the following might offer an opinion about whether or not the event is worth seeing?
reviewer and critic
________ is a type of theatre in which sketches and vignettes alternate with musical numbers, but no single story carries through from beginning to end.
revue
A repetition or reenactment of a proceeding or a transaction which has acquired special meaning is called a
ritual
The phrase "willing suspension of disbelief" was coined by
samuel taylor coleridge
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
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of comedy?
sense that the universe is cruel and unfeeling
These puppets are silhouette figures—often made of leather—and are highlighted on a screen that is lit from behind.
shadow puppets
The first challenge to theatre as a dramatic medium came from
silent moveis
A bed like cement is an example of a
simile
General roles recognized by society, such as father, mother, child, police officer, store clerk, teacher, student, business executive, and so on are called
social roles
When a solitary character speaks to the audience, expressing in words a hidden thought, it is called a(n)
soliloquy
The amplification of sounds produced by a performer or musical instrument is called
sound reinforcement
When light from one area falls into an adjacent area, it is said to
spill
The fundamental action or conflict of the play is called the
spine
"Stethoscope" suggests which of the following?
status and personality
A "laboratory coat" is typical of which of the following categories?
status and personality
A full account of an event or series of events, usually told in chronological order, is called a
story
Which of the following is NOT a technique of comedy?
strong emphasis on suspense
The way in which a play is presented, the "manner in which the spine is articulated," is called the
style
"A love story" is a
subject
"The events of the Holocaust" is a
subject
"The story of Electra" is a (CHAP 6)
subject
A __________________ reinforces or runs parallel to the major plot in an episodic play.
subplot
A flag is a
symbol
A logo is an example of a
symbol
A swastika is an example of a
symbol
Language is a
symbol
The Statue of Liberty is a
symbol
In tragicomedy, the overview, or prevailing attitude, is a ________ of the serious and comic.
synthesis
The person responsible for seeing that the scenery, platforms, and other elements are built, painted, and installed onstage is called a
technical director
A ________ is a rehearsal where the performers are onstage with scenery, lighting, and sound for the first time and the primary focus is the mechanical and physical aspects of production
technical rehearsal
Plays that convey humanity's sense of alienation and its loss of bearings in an illogical, unjust, and ridiculous world are called theatres of
the absurd
In America, the interpretation of Stanislavsky's ideas by Lee Strasberg at the Actor's Studio has caused controversy, because many people feel that he emphasized
the emotional side of Stanislavsky's technique
Which one of the following is NOT one of Stanislavsky's four broad aims of actor training?
to make certain that an actor focuses on the character's inner life by excluding focus on anything else while on stage
Fresnel lighting instruments are most often used for
top lighting
The starting point and foundation for this type of director is the script.
traditional director
Dramatic action is the essence of drama, and even the word drama derives from the word dran, which means "to act" or "to do."
true
During the Elizabethan era, women were barred from performing on the legitimate stage.
true
England and numerous European countries invest significantly in the arts, and theatre specifically, to a far greater extent than the National Endowment for the Arts in the United States.
true
Even in today's world, replete with global communications and exchanges of ideas and commerce, there is a surprising lack of theatrical exchange around the world.
true
Even more contemporary actor training methods based on the books/teachings of Uta Hagen, Robert Cohen, Robert Benedetti, Sanford Meisner, and Stella Adler, to name a few, are still based on essential training methods introduced by Stanislavsky around the turn of the twentieth century.
true
Even though the two longest-running musicals in Broadway history were 1980s British imports, the modern musical theatre form is predominantly a product of American talent and creativity.
true
Great actors are often set apart by less tangible qualities such as a personal charisma or charm, or star quality, or a personal presence that captures an audience's attention and allows an actor to communicate directly or even kinetically with an audience.
true
In a climactic drama, the plot begins early in the story.
true
In addition to the costumes themselves, makeup and wigs are also part of the responsibilities of the costume designer.
true
In ancient Greek tragedy, choral sections were performed to the accompaniment of music and dance movements.
true
In our contemporary world it is important to recognize a feminist or woman's point of view in analyzing and understanding dramatic works as that viewpoint has not always been considered or respected throughout history but it is essential to the future development of dramatic works.
true
In the modern period, tragicomedy has become the predominant form of many of the best playwrights.
true
In their work for most regional professional theatres, the dramaturgs are responsible for examining new plays, researching plays the theatre is producing, and possibly working with playwrights on developing new scripts.
true
It was rare to see African American performers on the stage in nineteenth century America.
true
Sound effects in the theatre can be produced effectively with either advanced technology or with age-old manual theatrical mechanics, depending on the style of the production.
true
Sound travels more slowly than light
true
Split cross-fades are quite difficult to make consistent on a manual lighting console, but computerized light boards make this complicated timing easy to accomplish.
true
Strictly speaking, there was no Native American theatre tradition; rather, there were spiritual and social traditions that had theatrical elements.
true
The Boys in the Band was the first play that brought gay life to the forefront of mainstream audiences.
true
The Federal Theatre Project of the 1930s was created to help theatre artists through the Depression, and it included units for African Americans.
true
The Federal Theatre Project of the late 1930s also gave rise to a significant number of Cuban American plays, performed predominantly in Florida.
true
The Royal National Theatre alone in Great Britain has a current annual budget of $30 million, which is more than 1/4 of the entire National Endowment for all of the arts in the U.S.
true
The bringing together of cultures by population shifts and swift global communication, and the challenges to long-held beliefs characterized by the writings of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Albert Einstein, are reflected in the eclecticism and fragmentation of an inclusive, contemporary theatre.
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 makeup of a group will alter a theatrical event.
true
The musical Of Thee I Sing, 1931, satirized presidential elections in the U.S. as though they were some kind of beauty contest
true
The proliferation of film, television, DVDs, computer games, and other electronic forms of entertainment all present a challenge to the continuation of live theatre.
true
The true American musical, combining music, dance, and a singular dramatic story at the center, was first established in the late 1920s with the musical Showboat.
true
A stage set should tell the audience
when the play takes place. where the play takes place. what kind of characters the play is about.
In 1973, ________ adapted Euripides's The Bacchae for the National Theatre in England.
wole soyinka
________ is a Nigerian playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 and whose plays include Death and the King's Horsemen.
wole soyinka
A critic might offer background information about the
playwright,subject matter of the play,style of the production.
A selection and arrangement of scenes from a story is called a
plot
A ________ is a performance in front of an audience prior to the "official" opening of the play, when the director and the performers discover which parts of the play are successful and which are not.
preview
The dramaturg serves an increasingly important function particularly in regional theatre or period pieces, since their work encompasses research related to
previous productions of the same play,discovering promising new plays, the social and historical details surrounding the period in which a play takes place.
Some tragicomedies, such as Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well, have been called
problem plays
Which of the following is NOT a responsibility of a dramaturg?
production research to determine the style of the play that the director will employ
Theatre of all types exists at every level, from amateur community theatre to university training programs to professional, and at any time audiences might attend
productions of Shakespeare's classics. 2) visceral and unique avant-garde productions like Fuerza Bruta. 3) twentieth-century works by playwrights like Arthur Miller, August Wilson, Edward Albee, and Neil Simon.
in order to throw the voice into the audience so that it penetrates to the uttermost reaches of the theatre, the performer must
project
All the seats in the auditorium face in the same direction in which of the following?
proscenium stage
Giacomo Torelli invented the counterweight system for which type of theatre?
proscenium stage
In which of the following is the stage area usually deep, allowing for elaborate scenery?
proscenium stage
Most Broadway theatres were built in which configuration?
proscenium stage
Which of the following is also known as a "fourth wall" stage?
proscenium stage
the standard theatre throughout Europe and the United States from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century used
proscenium stage
A humorous use of words with the same sound but different meanings is the use of a(n)
pun
"To entertain royalty" is a
purpose
"To escape" is a
purpose
"To reinforce religious beliefs" is a
purpose
Which of the following is NOT a responsibility of the director?
raising money for the production
Contemporary film actors Geoffrey Rush and Cate Blanchett have appeared with this theatre company in Australia.
Melbourne La Mama Theatre
The adding machine by Elmer Rice is an example of
expressionism
________ was at its height during the first quarter of the twentieth century; it gave outward expression to inward feelings.
expressionism
Acquiring the special physical and vocal skills that stage performance demands is an ________ aspect of acting.
external
Until the early 1950s, most new plays written in the United States originated in regional theatres.
false
When a person watches a play, it is expected that they will ignore their own individual memories, emotional scars, and private fantasies.
false
When a play goes into dress rehearsals, last-minute changes are no longer possible.
false
When costumes are taken from inventory or rented from a costume house, this is known as rendering a costume.
false
Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers all were composers who worked in the ________ form.
musical comedy
________ is a form of musical entertainment that emerged in America in the 1920s and which features a light, comic story interspersed with popular music.
musical comedy
Which of the following is sometimes called "slice-of-life" drama?
naturalism
Which of the following is a 2009 Tony Award-winning musical concerning a mother who is struggling with a bipolar disorder and the effects her disease has on her family?
next to normal
Poetry that Romeo speaks to Juliet in Shakespeare's play is an example of
non-realistic technique
Abstract forms and shapes on a bare stage are examples of
nonrealistic technique
Shafts of light falling at odd angles, and colors in light used arbitrarily, are examples of
nonrealistic technique
One of the differences between acting in daily life and acting in theatre is that actors and actresses are always being
observed
An impediment that is put in a character's way is called a(n)
obstacle
When Horace Walpole said "This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel," he was probably NOT thinking
one should think about one thing profoundly and a thousand things well.
A(n) ________ is a drama set entirely to music.
opera
________ is a form which contains scenes of spoken dialogue that alternate with songs, and which generally features a romantic story set in some far-off locale.
operetta
The circular acting area of a classic Greek theatre is called the
orchestra
The Al-Kasaba Theatre, founded in 1970, is the most important theatre group in
palestine
A theatrical technique in which performers pretend to be using objects that are not actually present is called
pantomime
In ________ theatre, the emphasis is on education, personal development, or therapy.
participatory
The subject of theatre is always (CHAP 6)
people
At the heart of the theatre experience is the
performer-audience relationship
Stage right and stage left mean the right and left side, respectively, from the perspective of the
performers facing the audience
Roles that we assume with our family and friends, such as being a braggart, a martyr, a conspirator, and so on, are called
personal roles
Regardless of the level of intellectual study and training, it is important for actors to prepare before taking the stage often through various exercises such as
physical tension and relaxation exercises, simple movement exercises,various vocal exercises.
Which is not a characteristic of extraordinary characters?
pivotal but minor role
An anachronism involves
placing some character or event outside its proper time sequence.
__4__ Federica León __6__ Joshua Sobol __3__ Peter Handke __2__ Ariane Mnouchkine __5__ Deborah Warner __1__ Augusto Boal
1. Brazil 2. France 3. Germany 4. Argentina 5. England 6. Israel
__5__ Wole Soyinka __6__ Heiner Müller __1__ Athol Fugard __3__ Tom Stoppard __2__ George Ibrahim __4__ Yasmina Reza
1. South Africa 2. Palestine 3. England 4. France 5. Nigeria 6. Germany
Which of the following would NOT be considered slapstick comedy?
A woman watches her husband slowly die after giving him the wrong medication.
________ was at the heart of most plot complications in the commedia dell'arte. (CHAP 7)
Harlequin
Contemporary Asian theatre has evolved dramatically, and yet traditional theatrical forms from India, China, and Japan continue in popularity, including
Japanese nō, bunraku, and kabuki; Beijing opera, and Indian kathakali theatre styles.
________ devised a system that could be taught to others for achieving the kind of believability demanded by the new realistic drama being written in the late nineteenth century.
Konstantin Stanislavsky
The Beauty Queen of the Leenane, The Pillowman, and The Cripple of Inishmaan, all by the playwright ________, have been brought to Broadway in the past ten years.
Martin McDonagh
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
An intellectual or artistic movement that breaks with tradition and therefore seems ahead of its time is called ________; literally, it means "advance guard in a military formation."
avant-garde
Which 2004 musical featured puppets?
avenue q
A type of broad, exaggerated comedy that takes marriage and sex as objects of fun is called
bedroom farce
An all-purpose theatre space that can be converted into different arrangements is sometimes referred to as a(n) ________.
black box
________ is when a director decides where and when performers move and position themselves on the stage, this is called.
blocking/staging
A playwright, composer, or architect who envisions a work sets about putting the idea into a that will be recognizable to those who will bring the idea to ultimate realization. (CHAP 6)
blue print
A wireless microphone attached to a performer is called a ________ mike.
body
A ________ is a rehearsal where all the elements are put together, and the play is performed as if the audience were present, with no stops or interruptions and with full lights, scenery, costumes, and sound.
dress rehearsal
When sound effects are recorded and arranged in the order of their appearance in the script, the process is called
editing
Acting alternated between exaggerated and more natural styles in
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English theatre.
A conventional spot light that throws a sharp, concentrated light and allows for the shaping of the beam with shutters is called a(n)
ellipsoidal reflector spot light.
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
Because existentialism suggests that characters have no personal history before the play begins, no background, and therefore no specific causes for their action, the structure of an existentialist play is often lacking in
exposition
The technical term for revelation of background material in a play is (CHAP 7)
exposition
Lee Strasberg, who headed the Actor's Studio training in New York City for many years, established a style of training known as emotional recall that particularly emphasized a technique for prompting actor emotions that was almost identical to the method that Stanislavsky used later in his career.
false
Lorraine Hansberry is the African American author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Topdog/Underdog.
false
Minor characters in a play are always written as basic stock characters.
false
Once a society determines the characteristics of a social role, these characteristics cannot be changed.
false
Only something that actually attaches or pins to a costume piece is considered an accessory.
false
Performance art began as a form that predominantly combined ballet with special sound effects and limited visual design elements.
false
Postmodernism is an approach to drama that strives to achieve a correct interpretation of a play through extensive background research and intense bibliographic rigor.
false
Prior to 1874, when George II, the duke of Saxe-Meiningen, began supervising every element of his theatrical productions, the function of the director did not exist.
false
Samuel Taylor Coleridge coined this statement regarding a playwright's point of view: "The world is a comedy to those that think and a tragedy to those that feel."
false
Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansberry, and Edward Albee are the most notable American playwrights of the twentieth century avant-garde theatre movement.
false
The "British invasion" in a theatrical context refers to imported British musicals like The Sound of Music, South Pacific, Cats, Les Misérables, and Miss Saigon.
false
The African Grove Theater was the first black theatre company in the United States to produce major musicals.
false
The action of a play is generally confined to a "world" of its own—that is, to a fictional universe that contains all the characters and events of the play—and none of the characters or actions moves outside the orbit of that world. This is an example of limited time.
false
The book of a musical is sometimes referred to as the lyrics.
false
The most realistic makeup designs being used in the world of theatre are most often found in Japanese kabuki theatre presentations.
false
The persistent and dire predictions that live theatre would soon be dead, made obsolete by technological innovations such as radio, film, television and the computer have, for the most part, proven accurate.
false
The standard theatre throughout Europe and the United States from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century was the formal arena stage.
false
The subject of drama varies greatly, and at certain times throughout theatre history, drama has focused on human beings, but more often than not the subjects of drama are quite different.
false
The term "robot" was actually first used in an early twentieth-century play by Neil Simon.
false
Throughout theatre history, regardless of the predominant acting style of the day, the actors that were singled out as being the greatest of their generation were always those actors who made certain to overemphasize their emotions with excessive physical movement.
false
To this day the most common form of sound reproduction technology in the theatre is reel-to-reel tape.
false
Two periods that were particularly conducive to the creation of tragic drama were the eighteenth century (the age of enlightenment) and the nineteenth century (the century of progress).
false
Undergarments are not a concern of the costume designer.
false
Unfortunately the sheer diversity of the American theatre scene has become so fragmented that there is no longer enough audience support for live theatre to continue.
false
A conventional spot light that produces a soft-edged beam and allows for variable beam spread is called a(n)
fresnel spot light
Joshua Sobol is the Israeli dramatist who wrote an important play about the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, called
ghetto
________ had a chorus that sang and danced odes.
greek theatre
Aggressive, politically-oriented theatre produced by an activist in the streets is called ________ theatre.
guerrilla theatre
A firm material called lauan placed on a wooden or hollow metal frame, which can be painted and, in addition, have three-dimensional plastic moldings attached to it to create cornices, chair rails, and other features, is called a
hard flat
________ is the term for when characters and their activities are intended to resemble life, but a certain license is allowed.
heightened realism
Roman togas and soldiers' helmets primarily suggest which of the following?
historical period
Uniquely among the arts, theatre focuses on one thing and one thing only. What is this one thing?
human beings
When one person mimics or copies another's vocal patterns, gestures, facial expressions, posture, and the like, this is called
imitation
The emergence of the director as a separate creative figure can partly be attributed to the
increase in numerous forms of communication, which opened up a world of other cultures to examine and bring to life on stage.
When the performers combine the inner and the outer aspects of acting in a forceful and convincing way, they have used a process known as
integration
Learning how to make the feelings and emotions of the characters portrayed believable is an ________ aspect of acting.
internal
A strong design concept
is important to convey information, 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.
________ are a form of musical theatre that uses fairly contemporary popular music of a singular performer or music group and crafts a story to fit with the already popular music.
jukebox musicals
Another word that means "contrast in the connection of scenes" is
juxtaposition
Realism became the dominant form of European drama in the
late 19th century
When children use imitation, it is often a way of
learning
A light plot does NOT include the
length of light cues
Which of the following is NOT a convention of dramatic structure? (CHAP 6)
limited conflict
Bustles or corsets affect which of the following areas?
line,shape, and silhouette
The Donmar Warehouse, noted for active fringe theatre productions, is located in
london
Which of the following is a major responsibility of the stage manager?
maintain the lighting/sound/scene designer's and director's vision of rhythm and pace through the proper and consistent calling of all cues during the run
The use of a word that sounds like the right word but actually is a different word altogether is the use of a(n)
malaprop
Which of the following is a critical member of the lighting design team?
master electrician
Heart of darkness is an example of a
metaphor
Ice in his veins is an example of a
metaphor
The King of Swing is an example of a
metaphor
The ship of state is a
metaphor
When we say that one thing is like another, it is called a simile; when we say one thing is another, that is called a(n)
metaphor
The ________ was a variety show that featured white performers wearing blackface.
minstrel show
A small-scale, three-dimensional version of the set is called a
model
Sounds that are called for in the script are called
motivated sounds
The existence of wars, terrorism, natural disasters, and other intangibles are overwhelming issues in our contemporary world and therefore
the need for theatre and arts emphasizing human interaction are more important to our society.
The technical rehearsal is the time to establish
the safe operation of all scenic shifts. 2) all light cue levels and timing. 3) the placement and length of all sound cues.
Which of the following responses places these theatrical lighting practices in the proper chronological order?
the sun, candles and oil lamps, gaslight, limelight, incandescent lights, LEDs
The reenactment of material gathered from actual events is called
theatre of fact
The ________ was developed by the Greeks for their plays; it also was the type of stage used during Shakespeare's time.
thrust
A typical Elizabethan playhouse would have used
thrust stage
In which of the following does the audience sit on three sides, or in a semicircle, enclosing a stage, which protrudes into the center of the audience?
thrust stage
A rough sketch that provides the basis for further discussions between the director and the scene designer is called a
thumbnail sketch
A critic usually has more ________ than a reviewer.
time,space,knowledge
The word drama is derived from a Greek root, the verb dran, which means
to do, to act
A Trip to Coontown was the first black musical, conceived, written, produced, and directed by Bob Cole and William Johnson in 1898.
true
A first hand, a cutter/draper, and a stitcher are essential costume shop personnel working on the building/construction process of a costume.
true
A further development in contemporary theatre relates to the sheer diversity of multinational theatre, gender specific theatre, and political theatre.
true
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
A tableaux structure begins with characters arranged in a visual stage picture and the action, frequently nonverbal, proceeds from that tableaux until the end of the scene.
true
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
Along with expressionism, futurism, and surrealism, Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty and Jerzy Grotowski's poor theatre were among the most significant features of the avant-garde theatre movement.
true
Although masks can help express a character effectively they are not likely to appear at all in a play that is completely realistic in style.
true
Although not common, there are times when an audience may find themselves entering into a theatre audience space in a controlled fashion, as has been done by the Performance Group, the Daryl Roth Theatre, and others, in New York City.
true
Although the Federal Theatre Project was shut down by Congress in 1940, the thousands of African Americans who began working in theatre due to the Federal Theatre Project led to an eventual explosion of black theatre in the 1950's.
true
Although the business of theatre has a distinctly different organization between professional "for profit" and professional "not for profit" theatre entities, the actual artistic structure and process are very similar.
true
Although their societies were vastly different, both the Greek and Elizabethan theatres shared a strong connection between the type of theatre they presented and the times and social conditions they lived in.
true
An example of point of view in film might be the various angles of vision and perspectives that the camera selects for us.
true
An example of the postmodernist mixing of high and low art is the musical The Lion King.
true
Art may question society's views or reaffirm them, but it cannot escape them; the two are indissolubly linked.
true
As seen in some of Chekhov's plays it is possible to combine the climactic and the episodic forms.
true
Asian American theatre continues to thrive, as emerging playwrights Philip Kan Gotanda and Young Jean Lee are adding a more contemporary perspective to the already established works of David Henry Hwang and Tisa Chang.
true
August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fences is a family drama set in the 1950s
true
Black actor Paul Robeson had a record run of 296 performances in his 1943 production of Othello.
true
Both performance art and postmodernist approaches to theatrical production are more similar to the work of an auteur director, since the scripted dramatic work is subjugated to the creative vision and focus of the director.
true
Color can be used to indicate changes in character.
true
Live theatre is actually flourishing throughout the United States; even in areas where professional theatre may not be present, there are typically active college and university theatre programs in addition to numerous amateur community theatre groups.
true
Many believe that the opening of Fiddler on the Roof in 1964 marked the end of the golden age of "book" musicals, and yet forty years later the book musical once again has established a major presence in Broadway theatres.
true
Masks can be used to create stereotypes similar to stock characters.
true
Narrators in the most traditional sense remain outside the action of the play and typically comment on the action communicating directly with the audience.
true
Native Voices at the Autry, founded by Randy Reinholz and his wife Jean Bruce Scott, is one of the most important and prolific producers of new Native American plays.
true
No matter how knowledgeable a critic is about theatre, much of what he or she writes is simply opinion.
true
Off-Broadway shows are usually produced wherever inexpensive space is available—churches, lofts, warehouses, large basements—and are characterized by low-priced productions and a wide variety of offerings.
true
Off-Broadway theatre began in the 1950s as an alternative to Broadway and is located in smaller theatres outside the Times Square district.
true
One of the major playwrights to come out of the Cuban American theatre is Maria Irene Fornés.
true
One unique aspect of Maria Irene Fornés's play Fefu and Her Friends, described in the text, is that during one part of the play the audience is divided into four groups and taken to different locations to view scenes.
true
Opera was originated by men who thought they were imitating Greek drama.
true
Patterns as structure exist not only in dance but also in some plays, where the characters' movement and circumstances can be repetitive, as in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
true
Performance art has been at the center of a controversy over funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
true
Performance art has since undergone several shifts of emphasis as visual artists continue to explore the temporal nature of theatrical performance, and yet the vocal presentation of text continues to be dominated by the use of text as visual image.
true
Possibly the most important production of the postwar era was A Raisin in the Sun.
true
Realistic prosthetic makeup is used both for fantastical creatures like flying monkeys and in creating believable historical characters.
true
Recitatives in an opera are the transitional sections between arias that are essentially dialogue that is spoken/sung in a stylized fashion on a musical pitch.
true
Shakespeare is alive and well in the U.S., with some 150 Shakespeare festivals around the country—30 in California alone
true
Shingeki, or "new theatre," evolved throughout the twentieth century in Japan and eventually allowed female playwrights to actively take part, something that had previously been virtually nonexistent in Japan.
true
Some of the most important contemporary avant-garde works can be found off-off-Broadway in theatres such as Café LaMama, the Living Theatre, Mabou Mines, and the Wooster Group, among others.
true
The type of theatre scene once found almost exclusively in New York City has become firmly established in numerous leading cities, such as Chicago, throughout the country, with a mix of theatre that is similar to the Broadway/off-Broadway/off-off-Broadway theatre model in NYC.
true
The viewpoint of a theatre artist actually provides the audience with a key to understanding the actions and words of the characters on stage.
true
There is a very active theatre culture in Israel, which also includes numerous fringe theatre groups as found in Europe and the U.S., but most of the recent theatrical works explore the complexities of Middle Eastern politics and Israel's relationship with Palestine.
true
To perform in repertory means to present a series of plays over a given span of time.
true
Training in tai chi chuan can be valuable for an actor, as it serves as an excellent focused exercise for an actor's body awareness and, due to the graceful nature of the core regimen of movement, it also serves as a form of meditation to help the actor prepare.
true
Virtually all primitive forms of theatre used an arena style performance configuration.
true
We know that playwrights frequently write plays about a single family in classic climactic structure and they will also occasionally create two contrasting characters that are siblings or husband and wife in order to allow character traits to stand out more dramatically in the action.
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 a new play is being given its first production, the director will have a series of meetings with the playwright to iron out problems in the script.
true
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
turn table
When a performer closely resembles in real life the character to be enacted, this is known as
typecasting
Minor characters are
typically used as a dramatic device by the playwright to move the action along, typically used to be supportive or confidante-like characters for the central character in a play, usually those in which we see only one facet of their personalities.
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
________ was a series of variety acts—music, sketches, juggling, animal acts—that made up an evening's entertainment.
vaudeville
"The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel" is a
view point
"To portray a story in a comic manner" is a (CHAP 6)
viewpoint
"To present events as heroic" is a (CHAP 6)
viewpoint
A low platform on wheels upon which set pieces and even actors are brought onstage is called a
wagon