Theatre Final

Musicals are typically based on a literary source, use music & spoken dialogue, and songs in these works were part of the dramatic fabric and essential to the narrative being told.

book

An interior space created by enclosing the stage with three walls of scenery is called a ____________, according to our textbook.

box set

Select all the answers below that are reasons shared by the some of the Tony Award Nominees to the question "Why Theatre?"

literally all of them

Shakespeare wrote Histories, which mainly dealt with the War of the Roses, a fifteenth-century English civil war.

true

In the Edinburgh Fringe Festival video about site specific performances, which of the following are used as venues for a show?

The very streets of Edinburgh, by way of a recording that the audience members walk around listening to on headphones A van that the theatre artist has lived in for the year before the show A DVD/video shop A classic red British telephone booth

Augusto Boal founded what?

Theatre of the Oppressed

Today, some theatres take Shakespeare's plays and update them or shift them to new locations and/or time periods.

true

Elipsodial Refector Light

PIc

Select all of the following items that were identified as being one of the 4 basic elements of theatre.

An actor, The intent to create a fictional world, A space, An audience

Match the name of the type of comedy to its definition

3__ generally deals with characters and subjects that one would not generally consider funny __4__ has comic wordplay, humor based on mistaken identities and false assumptions, and characters who flout the conventions of an exceedingly mannered society __1__has absurdly complicated plots, broad characters who behave irrationally, and lots of physical comedy__2__generally features two sympathetic characters who, because of a series of extenuating circumstances, cannot be together, but eventually overcome their obstacles and get to enjoy a happy ending__5__humor in these plays comes from watching culturally accepted rules and behaviors disrupted by slapstick violence, exaggerated sexuality, and absurd and scatological behavior 1. farce 2. romantic comedy 3. black/dark comedy 4. high comedy 5. low comedy

How many costumes are built for the character of Madame Morrible in Wicked on Broadway?

4

In the Drunk Shakespeare video, the fight between Macbeth and Macduff is done as

A dance off, instead of a sword fight

Which is NOT a scenery piece made out of fabric?

A platform

Select all the choices from the following list that seem like words that could be used to describe how documents were used in the Consider...why use documents? video showing alternate historical outcomes.

Change Powerful Inspirational Emotional

A series of sketches, paintings, or collages, created by the costume designer to communicate their intentions or ideas for a costume:

Costume Rendering

Plays built using material directly from firsthand interviews or historical documents are called what?

Documentary Theatre OR Verbatim Theatre

Which is NOT a consideration of the sound designer?

Does the script make sense to the actors?

, The Duke of Saxe-Meiningen is considered the first modern director.

George II

Which of the following Stanislavski Acting Techniques discussed in the reading and/or lecture today was illustrated in pop culture via the clip from The Simpsons?

Inner Truth / the magic if - as seen by how Marge imagined how she would act if Ned/Stanley was actually Homer, after Homer kept behaving obnoxiously

Select all of the answers listed that are things that make theatre different from at least some other art forms.

It relies on the dynamic between the actor and the audience. It is immediate. It is highly collaborative It is ephemeral. There is a pretense of self.

Match the image of the Delsarte pose to the emotion or feeling being depicted by it, as discussed in the lecture.

JUST GOOGLE THEM

This "towering figure" in musical theatre history is best known as the composer ofWest Side Story.

Leonard Bernstein

Before John Krasinski landed his breakout role as Jim on The Office, what was he doing?

Living in NYC and struggling to make it as an actor

Which of these supporting elements may fall under the purview of the costume designer?

Masks Makeup Wigs

Which is the most important task of the director?

Rehearsing the actors Working with the design team to develop the visual, oral, and spatial world of the production Casting the actors

Name the group that comments on sexism in theatre/art...while wearing gorilla masks. The correct spelling matters here, but upper case vs. lower case does not.

The Guerrilla Girls

What does the Librettist create for a musical?

The book (also known as the script or play)

In the video clip illustrating a theatrical convention, what was it?

When the stage lights are off for the audience, the lights in the room are "on" for the characters and then when the stage lights come on for the audience, the lights for the characters in the room go "off"

Consider the following text of a stage direction, and then, based on the reading, and your analysis of the text, select all the questions a theatre artist would need to answer about the stage direction. (A country road. A tree. Evening. Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot. He pulls at it with both hands, panting. He gives up, exhausted, rests, tries again.)~ Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Why can't he get his boot off? What is the audience supposed to feel when they see this moment in the play? What does the surface of the mound look like? What kind of tree? What do the boots look like? Where does the road come from and where does it go? How old is Estragon? What time of day, exactly, does "evening" mean?

The Greek Philosopher credited with providing definitions of Tragedy and Comedy was

aristotle

Match each art medium or type discussed in the lecture to the examples of it.

__2__ Drawing and painting __1__ Sculpture and architecture __3__ Plays, poems, and prose __4__ Theatre, opera, dance, music 1. Spatial arts 2. Pictorial arts 3. Literary arts 4. Performing arts

Match Stanislavsky's techniques to help an actor create a character to their brief definitions.

__4__ emphasis on concrete details. __6__ imagining the life, thoughts, and emotions of a character and bringing them to the stage __1__Actors would ask themselves: "What would I do in this situation? What actions would I take to reach my objectives?"__2__ What the character wants in the play overall __5__ performers concentrate fully on some object, person, or event. __3__meant to address muscular tension, which Stanislavsky believed blocked emotional truth and physical expression 1. Magic If 2. Super-Objective 3. Relaxation 4. Importance of specifics 5. observation 6. Inner truth

What surprising item did foley artist Cami Alys use to help create the sound of a train?

a box of mac n cheese

Light Plot

a diagram showing the placement of the lighting instruments and plugging system and where the beams from all the lighting instruments fall

When Ali Stroker won the 2019 Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance of Ado Annie Carnes in the reworking of Oklahoma!, she was the first person to win a Tony who uses ________________ for mobility

a wheelchair

Viola Davis says she does what when working as an actor:

all of the above

Sound Designer Alma Kelliher, who worked on Elephantom, compares her approach to sound design to:

composing music

Theatre audiences need to use "the willing suspension of ______ " when watching a play

disbelief

According to the text, the first example of impersonation in religious ritual happened where?

egypt

In "The Play's the Thing" the author argues that Theatre grows ________.

empathy

Mark all of the elements of melodrama listed.

emphasizes plot and action over any character development simply drawn, one-dimensional characters good characters are entirely good and evil characters are entirely evil simple plots that focus on action with little time for discussion happy endings where good triumphs over evil

Plays that aspire to promote dialogue and social justice through performance are called

engaged theatre

Stanislavsky's Society of Art & Literature Wanted productions to have a strong sense of .

ensemble

Which is NOT one of the most important skills a costume designer must have according to Costume Designer Emilio Sosa:

excellent drawing skills

According to the text, is the background of the play we are given, often at the beginning of a play, so we understand the story so far.

expostion

A "light hang" is when all the lighting design team members get together with the director for a pizza party before the opening of a production.

false

According to the Wicked Projection Design video, the projections are used only at the very end of the show.

false

Documentary theatre is made using the words of real people, so it is inherently objective. In other words, it is not representative of a specific point of view or argument.

false

In Hamilton, only the primary two characters (Hamilton and Burr) wear mics during the show.

false

In a Theatre of the Oppressed style performance, the audience can just sit back and watch the performance.

false

There are no theatres working today that try to present Shakespeare's plays in a manner close to the original conditions he would have worked under.

false

Which kind of comedies did Shakespeare write?

farcical, romantic, and serious comedies

What were some of the challenges and jobs the Stage Management team for Kinky Boots had to deal with, as discussed in the video about them?

hair pins getting stuck in the conveyor belt scenery item An actor choking on water from her water bottle when she came offstage. Losing electrical power at their control station on the jump above the stage

Trying to act believably, without excessive emotion, was so important to Shakespeare, he had one of the characters talk about it in the play ______________.

hamlet

A director the script and develops a vision for the production.

interprets

According to the Wicked Lighting Design video, whose job is it to "implement and engineer" the ideas of the lighting designer?

master electrician

The genre created to be more realistic, because realism wasn't "real" enough.

naturalism

According to the text, means to make your voice loud enough for the audience to hear.

projecting

According to the text, is the term for the character who carries the main theme of the play and often undergoes the most change.

protagonist

The objectives of the scene designer do NOT include:

separating the major characters from the minor characters

Student-centered theatre, often focused on incorporating play and imagination into learning is called

theatre in education

"Doubling" in casting is when a single actor is cast to play multiple parts or roles in a play.

true

"Realistic" and "Non-realistic" theatre are both able to communicate basic human truths like love, fear, hope, and desire.

true

According to Richard Woodbury, Sound Designer with the Goodman Theatre, the first thing he does when he gets a script for a play he is working on is read it.

true

According to the text, storytelling is the primary goal of theatre produced today?

true

David Korins, the set designer for Beetlejuice, shared that there was an early set design that did not include the "crazy, funky angles" present in the final design.

true

Francois Delsarte's ideas focused on an "Outside In" approach to acting and developing character.

true

In the video with Anna Deavere Smith, she suggests while social media might be helping more people feel what it is like to have an "audience around them," she also wonders if it is "helping us get the social skills we need to have a better society."

true

Items, like a chair, on stage lack meaning at the beginning of the play, but over the course of it, through context, the audience often begins to understand what the things represent or illustrate.

true

Zaldy, the costume designer for Cirque du Soleil's Volta, said that each costume design project he works on is individual/unique, so his approach must also be individual/unique for each project.

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

turntable

Select all of the following areas or topics that were discussed in this section as being a subject of a Documentary or Verbatim Theatre piece.

what it means to live in a particular part of Pennsylvania race relations and riots gender issues and gender violence individuals that have been exonerated after serving time on death row community responses to the attack and murder of a young man in Laramie, Wyoming

Using only "proscenium" "thrust" "theatre in the round" or "black box" (without the quote marks), complete the following sentence. If I was in charge of a theatre production, I would want to use a ___proscenium___type stage for it.

you see what i said lol