Theatre 1340 Review for Test #1

When a costume is created in the costume shop under the supervision of the designer and shop supervisor, this is known as

Building

The master electrician is a crucial member of the lighting team, as he or she is responsible for

Complete prep of all lights and accessories

When a lighting designer manipulates the audience's focus through changes in light cues, it is known as visual

Composition

The slant of an auditorium or stage floor

Rake

Which person coordinates light, sound, and scene changes during the performance, as well as the entrances and exits of the performers?

Stage Manager

Person who rehearses the performers and coordinates their actions

Stage manager

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

Stage pictures

A full account of an event or series of events, usually in chronological order, is called a

Story

In _______, the situation becomes irretrievable; there is no turning back, there is no way out.

Modern and traditional tragedy

Sound called for in the script that usually comes from recognizable sources is called

Motivated sounds

The type of lighting fixture that can tilt, pan, rotate, change colors, and change focus is referred to most often as

Moving, automated lights

In a(n) ______, action occurs on several stages simultaneously.

Multifocal

Use of electronic media in live theatrical presentations

Multimedia theatre

Actors on a stage presenting characters in dramatic action

Performers

Theatre, dance, opera, and music

Performing Arts

The main character's chief opponent

Antagonist

Costumes and lighting

Design aspects

Person who creates the script

Playwright

At the heart of the theatre experience is the

Actor - Audience - relationship/ Acting

Stage right and stage left mean the right and left side, respectively, from perspective of the

Actor facing the audience

The degree of separation between the object or an event, which an artist creates and the audience observes, is called

Aesthetic Distance

Which of the following provides the most intimate performance space?

Arena

The program developed by Vsevolod Meyerhold that emphasizes physical exercises and circus-like control of the body is known as

Biomechanics

What term is used when all lights are shut off at once?

Black out

A flexible theatre that can be converted into different arrangements

Blackbox

The arrangement and movements of performers relative to each other and to the stage space is called

Blocking

A wireless microphone attached to a performer is called a

Body mic

A group of characters in classical Greek drama that, in song and dance, commented on the action of the main plot and reacted to events in the story

Chorus

In which type of dramatic structure is the construction of the plot very tight?

Climatic Structure

In which type of dramatic structure is the plot or action of the play begin very late in the story?

Climatic Structure

Which type of dramatic structure features a restricted numbers of characters?

Climatic Structure

The final and most significant crisis is referred to as the

Climax

One of the primary genres; devoted to provoking amusement and laughter

Commedia Dell'arte

The type of performance space associated with street theatre is the

Created or found space

Which of the following uses unusual structures with their original architectural elements intact, carving out special areas for acting and viewing?

Created or found space

Which of the following terms is used when one set of lights comes down at the same time that another set of lights comes up?

Cross-fade

Which person blocks or stages the play?

Director

Stories of everyday people, often centered on the family

Domestic or bourgeois-drama

Light that comes from directly over the head of the actor is called

Downlighting

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

Arranging sound effects in order of their appearance in the script is called

Editing reinforcement

The noises of everyday life that help create verisimilitude in a production are called

Environmental sounds

In which type of dramatic structures does the plot begins relatively early in the story?

Episodic Structure

Which type of dramatic structure features large numbers of locales?

Episodic Structure

Which type of dramatic structure often features many characters?

Episodic Structure

The imparting of details about the past that are essential but not covered by the action onstage is known as

Exposition

Plays are put together in a mechanical sense as opposed to a play that evolves.

False

Television influenced how theatre was and is.

False

The Greeks took the idea of the ask to create the symbols of the two kinds of plays presented at their dramatic festivals. The mask of tragedy and the mask of melodrama.

False

Canvas stretched on wood with the side facing the audience and painted to look like a solid wall is called a(n)

Flat

Area above the stage of a proscenium theatre built to hold scenery that has been raised out of sight of the audience

Fly loft

A spotlight that produces a soft-edged beam that can be adjusted for smaller or larger areas is called a(n)

Frensal

Which of the following patterns emerged as theatre globalized?

Interaction, adaptation, collaboration

Imagining how the actor would feel in a particular situation

Magic if

Originally meant "song drama" or "music drama"

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

Characters that play a small part in the action

Minor Characters

The most significant difference between film and theatre is

Performer-audience Relationship

A performance in front an audience prior to the "official" opening of a play, when the director and the performers discover which parts of the play are successful and which are not, is known as the

Preview

Which person arranges for ushers, tickets, programs, and other front-of-the-house details?

Producer

Which person oversees the budget?

Producer

In order to throw the voice into the audience so that it penetrates to the utmost reaches of the theatre, the actor must

Project

In which of the following performance spaces do all the seats face in one direction?

Proscenium

Which type of performance space utilizes the greatest amount of scenery and stage machinery?

Proscenium

Main character in a play

Protagonist

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

Pulling

The amplification of sounds produced by a performer or musical instrument is called

Reinforcement

The elimination of unwanted tension

Relaxation

Characters that embody the quintessential characteristics of a group are known as

Representative Characters

Which comic form relies on sophisticated language to attack evil and foolishness?

Satire

A ______ is a gauze or cloth screen that, when painted and lit from the front, appears solid, but when lit from behind becomes transparent.

Scrim

Written theatrical form of a drama story

Script

Shakespeare's plays typically included subplots, which are

Secondary, parallel plots

A highly directional microphone that is aimed from a distance at a specific area is called a

Shotgun

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

Technical Director

In response to the new realistic drama of the late nineteenth century, _______ devised a system to teach performers how to achieve the necessary believability.

Three playwrights: Henrik Ibsen of Norway, August Strindberg of Sweden, and Anton Chekhov of Russia

In which type of performance space do audiences sit on three sides?

Thrust

Mixes serious and comic matter in the same play

Tragicomedy

A hole cut in the stage floor through which performers can enter or leave the stage is called a

Trap door

Art can be best understood as a mirror: an extension or projection of how we live, think, and feel.

True

Farce thrives on all forms of exaggeration and emphasis on plot complications.

True

Melodrama means song drama or music drama.

True

If an actor is near the audience on the downstage right edge of the apron, and he turns his back and walks diagonally away from the audience, he is walking

Upstage left

From a practical standpoint, the chief function of lighting is

Visibility

Which of the following questions does NOT address one of the main criteria by which a critic judges a production?

Were the intentions appreciated by the audience?

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

Willing of suspension of disbelief