New Theatre Exam Review

Flat

A piece of theatrical scenery which is pained and positioned on stage to give the appearance of buildings or other backgrounds

Turntable

A revolving stage that is mechanically controlled and can be rotated in order to speed up the changing of a scene within a show

Wagon

A scenery wagon is a mobile platform that is used to support and transport movable scenery on a theatre stage

Dresser

A stagehand who is involved with maintaining costume quality at each performance.

Drop

A theatre curtain that is lowered or raised vertically rather than drawn to the side

Wash of Light

A wash is a general fill of light and color evenly across the stage through the use of lighting fixtures

________ is an English avant-garde director who reinterpreted traditional texts with a focus on sociopolitical issues including feminism and gender.

Deborah Warner

The objectives of the scene designer do NOT include

assisting in the blocking of the production.

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

A "laboratory coat" is typical of which of the following categories?

status and personality

First Hand

the first hand assists the costume manager and costume designer in creation of costumes and scenic soft goods for productions in theatre and dance.

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.

Visibility is the most obvious function of stage lighting. Which of the following is also a primary function of lighting?

All of these answers are correct

________ is a South African playwright whose plays often attacked apartheid.

Athol Fugard

________ is the author of Master Haroldand the Boys.

Athol Fugard

Which 2004 musical featured puppets?

Avenue Q

Line, mass, color, texture, balance. Which one of these is not considered one of the five elements of scene design?

Balance

Types of musical theatre

Book Musical Revue Musical Concept Musical Jukebox Musical Rock / Pop Musical

Costume designers rarely meet the actors who will be wearing their costumes, leaving those responsibilities to the stage manager.

False

Despite the popularity of the form, no musical has ever received the Pulitzer Prize.

False

The most realistic makeup designs being used in the world of theatre are most often found in Japanese kabuki theatre presentations.

False

Undergarments are not a concern of the costume designer.

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

________ 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

________ 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 Al-Kasaba Theatre, founded in 1970, is the most important theatre group in

Palestine

________ 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

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

Opera was originated by men who thought they were imitating Greek drama.

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

The book of a musical is sometimes referred to as the lyrics.

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

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

________ was a series of variety acts—music, sketches, juggling, animal acts—that made up an evening's entertainment.

Vaudeville

________ 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

Scrim

a scrimm is a very light textile made from cotton. It is lightweight and transluscent. It is often made for curtains.

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

Shows by Stephen Sondheim, such as Company and Assassins, are examples of the ________ form.

concept musical

Draper

creation of costumes; interpretation of original design work and custom patterning based on the design, construction process for the costumes as well as alterations

A rough sketch that provides the basis for further discussions between the director and the scene designer is called a

thumbnail sketch.

A further development in contemporary theatre relates to the sheer diversity of multinational theatre, gender specific theatre, and political theatre.

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

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

A stage set should tell the audience

All of these answers are correct.

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

rendering

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

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.

FALSE

Costume Shop

Fabrification and Fit of all garments for theatrical productions, as well as film and television shows.

Lighting instruments

Frensel (good for color), ERS (good for most uses), PAR can (good for saturation and outdoor), Strip Lights (used as footlights, spread evenly across a vertical place), Follow spot (very bright), LED,

A conventional spot light that produces a soft-edged beam and allows for variable beam spread is called a(n)

Fresnel spot light

Supervisor

Guest relations- providing an exceptional theatre experience, theatre operations, supervising staff, grounds management, concession operations, etc.

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

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.

________ 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 muscials

Who was in a show?

KYLE- Annie get your gun

Stage Lighting functions:

Mood, Selective Focus, Modeling and Visibility

Colossians 3:1-3

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

When light from one area falls into an adjacent area, it is said to

Spill

When sound effects are recorded and arranged in the order of their appearance in the script, the process is called

editing

To this day the most common form of sound reproduction technology in the theatre is reel-to-reel tape.

false

Which one of the following is NOT a collaborator of the costume designer:

fashion or style editor

Stitcher

manufactures and repaid, either by hand or machine, the costumes assigned

Which of the following is a critical member of the lighting design team?

master electrician

Sounds that are called for in the script are called

motivated sounds.

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