Theater Final (True and False)

Aphra Behn and Susanna Gentlivre are two contemporary feminist playwrights.

False

At first hand, a cutter/draper, a stitcher, and a dresser, are all essential costume shop personnel working on the building/construction process of a costume.

False

August Wilson's template cycle of plays chronicles the Asian American experience in the US, beginning with the Gold Rush of 1849.

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

Beyond the confines of Broadway and touring professional theater, there is not a great deal of diversity available in theater around the country in the early 21st-century.

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

Digital sound technology will allow musical instruments to be connected through a theatrical sound system, but at this time it cannot yet interface with lighting or projection technology.

False

El Teatro Campesino is one of the major theaters to arise and Native American theater.

False

Environmental theatre is the name given to the plethora of outdoor theaters that developed in late 1960s and 1970s.

False

Even in todays world, replete with global communications and exchanges of ideas and commerce, there is a surprising lack of theatrical exchange around the world.

False

In addition to the costumes themselves, make up their wigs are also part of the responsibilities of the costume designer.

False

It was not until the 20th century that African-American performers presented Shakespeare.

False

Lorraine Hansberry is the African American author of the Pulitzer Prize winning play, top dog/underdog.

False

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

False

Performance art began as a form that predominately combined ballet with special side effects and limited visual 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

Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Lorraine Hansberry, and Edward Albee are the most notable American playwright of the 20th Century avant-garde theater movement.

False

The "British invasion" in a theatrical context refers to imported British musicals like The Sound of Music, South Pacific, Cats, Les Mis, and Miss Saigon.

False

The African Grove theatre was the first black theater company in the United States to produce major musicals.

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 theater are most often found in Japanese kabuki theater presentations.

False

There was no native American theatre tradition; rather, there were spiritual and social Traditions that had theatrical elements.

False

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

False

Undergarments are not a concern of the costume designer.

False

Unfortunately the sheer diversity of the American theater scene has become so fragmented that there is no longer enough audience support for live theater to continue.

False

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

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

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

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 production.

True

Along with expression, futurism, and surrealism, Antonin Artaud's theater of cruelty and Jerry Grotowski's Poor theatre were among the most significant features of the avant-garde theater 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 the federal theater project was shut down by Congress in 1940, the thousands of African-Americans who began working in the theater due to the federal theater project lead to an eventual explosion of black theater in 1950s.

True

An example of the postmodernist mixing of high and low art as the Lion King.

True

Asian American theater 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 Henry David 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

England and numerous European countries invest significantly in arts, and theatre specifically, to a far greater extent than the national endowment for the arts in the United States.

True

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

True

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

True

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

True

In ancient Greek tragedy, choral sections were performed to the accompaniment of music and dance movements.

True

It was rare to see African American performers on the stage in 19th-century America.

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 theaters.

True

Masks can be used to create stereotypes similar to stock characters.

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

One of the major playwrights to come out of the Cuban American theater is Maria Irene Fornes.

True

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

True

Performance art has been at the center of controversy over funding from the national endowment for the arts.

True

Performance art has since undergone several shifts of emphasis as a visual artist continue to explore the temporal nature of theatrical performance, and yet the vocal presentation of texts 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 US, with some 150 Shakespeare festivals around the country--30 in California alone.

True

Shingeki, or "new theatre," involved throughout the 20th Century in Japan and eventually allowed female playwrights to actively take part, something that had previously been virtually nonexistent Japan.

True

Some of the most important contemporary avant-garde works can be found off off Broadway theaters such as Café LaMama, the living Theatre, Mabou Mines, and the Wooster group, among others.

True

Sound effects and the fear can be produced effectively with either advanced technology or the 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

The Royal national Theatre alone in Great Britain has a current annual budget of $30 million, Which is more than one fourth of the entire national endowment for all the arts in the US.

True

The boys in the band was the first play that brought gay life to the forefront of mainstream audiences.

True

The federal theater project of the 1930s was created to help theater artist through the depression, and it included units for African-Americans.

True

The federal theater project of the late 1930s also gave rise to a significant number of Cuban-American plays, predominantly in Florida.

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 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 sound, television, DVDs, computer games, and other electronic forms of entertainment all present a threat to the continuation of live theater.

True

The true American musical, combining music, dance and a singular dramatic story at the center was first established in the late 1920's with the musical showboat.

True

The type of theater scene once found almost exclusively in New York City has become firmly established in numerous leading cities throughout the country, with a mix of theater that is similar to the Broadway/off-Broadway/off off Broadway theater model in NYC.

True

There is a very active theater culture in Israel, which also includes numerous fringe theater groups as found in Europe and the US, but most of the recent the theatrical works explore the complexities of Middle Eastern politics and Israel's relationship with Palestine.

True

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

True