Theatre 1331 Final

City of Houston theatre rental

- Downtown Wortham - Hobby Center - Match (4 spaces) - Deluxe Theatre (5th ward)

Hobby Center

- Sarofim Hall: Broadway Across America/ TUTS - Open space for rentals

What does Hamlet (Shakespeare) mean when he speaks to the players and says?..."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:"...What Hamlet means is

All of the above: basically look believable and natural

Sound designers primary collaborator

Director

style

The way in which a play is presented, the "manner in which the spine is articulated,".

When an actor is walking away from the audience they are going...

Upstage

Not a responsibility of the director

anything financial

NOT the responsibility of the dramaturg

designing the program

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.

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Once a society determines the characteristics of a social role, these characteristics cannot be changed.

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Only something that actually attaches or pins to a costume piece is considered an accessory.

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Politics have had a minimal effect on theatre in the Middle East.

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Prior to 1874, when Georg II, the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen began supervising every element of his theatrical productions, the function of the director did not exist.

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Realistic prosthetic makeup is used for both fantastical creatures like flying monkeys or in creating believable historical characters.

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

false (the book refers to the story)

Musical

in addition to a traditional play, this type of performance includes sung text and dancing. Where the song tells the story.

Bustles or corsets affect...

line, shape, and silhouette

revue

performance presents sketches and vignettes alternating with musical numbers, with no single storyline, and sometimes revolves around a common theme rather than a traditional plot.

Which of the following is not one of the responsibilities of a performer in the theater?

to coordinate the elements and the vision of the production

There are two active components of European and British theatre. Of the following, which are the two components?

traditional/establishment, and alternative

Both German and Italian contemporary dramatists have seen their works produced in the United States. They have attracted attention because their works question the traditional values of Western society.

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Even though the three longest running musicals in Broadway history were 1980's British imports the modern musical theater form is predominantly a product of American talent and creativity.

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Full stage evocative scene designs can offer such an imaginative central image that stage design has even become an essential aspect of the major rock concert tours

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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.

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In addition to the costumes themselves, makeup and wigs are also part of the responsibilities of the costume designer.

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Native Voices at the Autry, founded by Randy Reinholz (Choctaw) and his wife, Jean Bruce Scott, is one of the most important and prolific producers of new Native American Plays.

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

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Shingeki or "new theatre" evolved throughout the 20th century in Japan and eventually allowed female playwrights to actively take part, which had previously been virtually nonexistent in Japan.

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The 18th century scholar who wrote about David Garrick's performance by saying..... "Instead of declaiming the verse in a thunderous, measured chant, this actor [Garrick] spoke it with swift and "natural" changes of tone and emphasis." Was actually saying exactly the same thing as Shakespeare's Hamlet did when he delivered his "Town crier" line.

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The Federal Theater project of the 1930's was created to help theater artists through the Depression and it included units for African Americans.

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The invention of Velcro and/or the use of Whopper Poppers have been a great help in quick backstage costume changes.

true

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.

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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.

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the play "Ghetto"

written by Israeli dramatist Joshua Sobol. It is about the Nazi occupation of Lithuania

Downtown Wortham Theatre

- Brown theatre: seats 2,000 (Grand Opera/Ballet) - Cullen Auditorium: Open Rental

Homeless Theatres

- Mildred's Umbrella: women's theatre - Classical Theatre Company - Dirt Dogs - Catastrophic - TBH: Spanish speaking - Lab Theatre: LGTBQ

Theatrical lighting practices in the proper chronological order

1) The sun 2) Candles and oil lamps 3) Gaslight 4) Limelight 5) Lights 6) LEDs

Heightened realism

Characters and their activities are intended to resemble life, but a certain license is allowed

Agnes de Mille

Choreographer for the production of Oklahoma!. It was considered a landmark production because it integrated dance, story, music, and lyrics into the entire piece.

Renaissance Theatre

Shakespear's comment on Hamilton

motivated sounds

Sounds that are called for by the script

Plays

core of theatrical performance, have set texts, are written by playwrights, and are performed by actors under the vision of a director

An enemy of credibility in a performance is:

exaggeration

Francois Delsarte's catalogued approach to gesture and emotion (seen frequently in the silent film era) was eventually discarded in favor of Consatantin Stanislavski's more useful techniques in creating natural realistic performances.

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Golden era of American musicals

mid 1940s-mid 1960s

Owned theatres

- The Alley - Stages - Main Street Theatre - AD Players - Ensemble Theatre - Rec. Room

Internal aspect of acting

- To acquire the special physical and vocal skills that stage performance demands. - To learn how to make the characters portrayed believable.

The Alley Theatre

- Upstairs: seats 800 - Downstairs: seats 300

Primary functions of lighting

- reveals shape and form - creates mood and reinforces style - provides a selective focus

scrim

A gauze or cloth screen which when painted and lit from the front appears solid, but when lit from behind becomes transparent

Thumbnail

A rough sketch that for the director and scene designer

Countries and national theatres

All countries except for the US have a national theatre. This is because the US government does not want to use tax money for theatre.

flat

Canvas stretched on wood with the side facing the audience painted to look like a solid wall

When an actor is moving towards the audience they are going...

Downstage

A musical that used a Mel Brooks film as its foundation, proving the potential connections between film and theatre?

The Producers

sound reinforcement

The amplification of sounds produced by a performer or musical instrument

Technical Director

The person responsible for seeing that the scenery, platforms, and other elements are built, painted and installed onstage

cross-fade

When one set of lights comes down at the same time that another set of lights come up

Opera

a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists.

Rendering

a fairly complete sketch usually done in color by the scenic designer

Robert Edmond Jones believed that a stage setting is incomplete until

a performer was on it

Operetta

a short opera, usually on a light or humorous theme and typically having spoken dialogue

between 18th and 19th century theatre

acting alternated between exaggerated and more natural styles

French 17th century theatre

actors wore a silly smile even in tragic scenes

floor plan (ground plan)

an extremely important step in preparing for the show to begin rehearsals so everyone knows how their movements will be effected by scenic elements and furniture.

Not the responsibility of a/the producer?

arriving at a central metaphor for the play

Contemporary film actor, Geoffrey Rush, began his career working in theatre in...

australia

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

Which multimillion-dollar entertainment organization recently began producing Broadway musicals?

disney

A MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) will only allow musical instruments to be connected through a theatrical sound system but at this time it cannot yet interface with lighting or projection technology.

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After a play has had several previews, it often will go back into rehearsal prior to opening.

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Because of censorship and governmental repression, theatre has not developed in Latin America.

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

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Even in today's world replete with global communication and exchange of ideas and commerce there is a surprising lack of theatrical exchange around the world.

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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.

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It was not until the twentieth century that African American performers presented Shakespeare.

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Lee Strasberg, who headed the Actor's Studio Training in New York City for many years established a style of training that particularly emphasized a technique for prompting actor emotions that was almost identical to the method that Stanislavski used later in his career known as emotional recall.

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Stanislavski completed most of his writings about acting technique based on his work with Russian Playwrights Eleonora Duse and Fyodor Chaliapin who were developing more realistic characters in their plays at this same time in history.

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Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansberry, and Edward Albee were the most notable American playwrights of the 20th century avant-garde theatre movement.

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Theatre activities in the Middle East have not been influenced by Western theatre.

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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.

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When costumes are taken from inventory or rented from a costume house, this is known as rendering a costume

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While fabric affects the silhouette, texture, and bulk of a costume, it has little symbolic value.

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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.

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In America, the interpretation of Stanislavski's ideas by Lee Strasberg at the Actor's Studio has caused controversy, because many people feel that he emphasized...

only the emotional side of the technique

Preview

performance before the "official" opening of a production where director and performers discover which parts of the play were successful and which were not

Asian Theatre

performers wore heavily stylized makeup that was richly colored and textured

A light plot does not include:

the length of light cues

The Al-Kasaba Theatre

the most important theatre group in Palestine, founded in 1970s

Stage left and stage right mean the left and right side from the perspective of...

the performers facing the audience

A Trip to Coontown was the first black musical and was conceived, written, produced and directed by Bob Cole and William Johnson in 1898.

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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.

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Along with expressionism, futurism, and surrealism, Antoin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty and Jerzy Grotowski's poor theatre were among the most significant features of the avant-garde theatre movement.

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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.

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Some of the most important contemporary avant-garde works can be found off-off Broadway in theatres such as Cafe La Mama, the Living Theatre, Mabou Mines, and the Wooster Group among others.

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The contemporary musicals Miss Saigon and Rent were based on the world famous operas Madame Butterfly and La Boheme respectively.

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The proliferation of film, television, DVD's, computer games etc. are electronic forms of entertainment that all present a threat to the continuation of live theatre.

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