Theatre 100
A stage set should tell the audience
-where the play takes place. -when the play takes place -what kind of characters the play is about
How many stagehands are required behind the scenes for a performance of The Lion King on Broadway?
115?
How many walls of the set would spin around to reveal another location?
2- this is wrong
How many walls made up the background of the set?
3
How many characters/actors were in this production?
6
Who wrote Old Comedy, which made fun of social, political, or cultural conditions?
Aristophanes
This American playwright wrote a series of plays about the Black experience in America. Ten plays, one for each decade of the 20th century, chronicled stories diverse in location, plot, and characterizations.
August Wilson
Which of the following is NOT one of the elements of scene design?
collaboration
At the end of the play, Luke's organs are harvested for donation.
true
Critics were more influential than playwrights in formulating dramatic rules during the Italian Renaissance
true
Which of the following falls under the direction of the costume department?
wigs, hair, makeup, special effects, accessories, shoes
An African-American performance artist, this artist won considerable acclaim in the early 1990s for pieces dealing with racial unrest, in particular a work entitled Twilight: Los Angeles 1992.
Anna Deavere Smith
Which of the following statements about theatrical history is NOT correct?
It was not until the twenty-first century that theatrical techniques were affected by global influences.
A composer who has made a major impact on the American musical during the last decade, this artist won a Tony award for Best Musical in 2008 for his first major work, In the Heights.
Lin Manuel-Miranda
Which character has a head injury in the play?
Luke
Term that refers to Puerto Rican culture, particularly in New York, but elsewhere as well. It encompases a culture in which many Latino theatre groups were able to thrive and flourish.
Nuyorican
This category of theatre in the NYC scene can be found wherever inexpensive space is available and is characterized by low prices with a wide variety of offerings.
Off-off-Broadway
In the selection from Antigone that you read, her crime is best described as
Performing burial rites
The successful scene designer who says he does not like scenery, because he doesn't want to get "on top of the play." Artistically, he is more interested in the Big Idea of a piece.
Riccardo Hernandez
An early 20th century American musical by Hammerstein and Kern, this production dealt with serious material, including the then-controversial love story of a black woman and a white man.
Show Boat
Which of the following added a third actor to the play?
Sophocles
The oldest surviving theatre—constructed during the Italian Renaissance—which was designed as a miniature, indoor Roman theatre is the
Teatro Olimpico.
A postmodernist production will often mix periods, styles, and theatrical intentions, culminating in a presentation that mixes "high" art and popular concerns and techniques.
True
The scene designer's visual choices must support the movement and physical action of the play.
True
What was the sound effect at the end of Ibsen's A Doll House that was shocking to 19th century audiences?
a closing door ?
In the excerpt from Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, what is happening on the lawn outside of the bedroom?
a game of croquet
At the heart of the theatre experience is the
actor-audience relationship.
Late 20th century American musicals tended to fall into one of four categories. Which category listed below is NOT typical of that time frame?
book musicals
In which tragic form are the central figures of the play caught in a series of tragic circumstances?
both traditional and modern tragedy
The activity of a performer onstage, such as the opening of a letter or the making of a bed, is described by which term?
business
Which person blocks or stages the play?
director
A significant development in musicals of the 1970s and 80s was the ascendancy of which contributing artist within theatrical productions?
director-choreographer
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
Commedia characters did not wear costumes.
false
Hrosvitha was a nun who lived in London during the Middle Ages. She wrote liturgical drama and is the first western playwright of record after the Dark Ages.
false
Italian pastorals imitated Greek satyr plays and were often overtly bawdy and sexual.
false
Next Fall was presented as a comedy with musical interludes.
false
Perspective is the illusion of depth in the painting that was introduced into scene design during the English Renaissance.
false
Realistic plays have constantly been plagued by censorship.
false
Scene Designer Dane Laffrey used a real airplane in his work for Once On This Island, having it disassembled, brought in to the theatre, and reconfigured as part of the set.
false
The 1967 production of Hair marked a shift in style of the American musical, from classic book musicals into sophisticated and technologically complex "jukebox musicals."
false
The Elizabethans perfected the art of painted scenery for the theatre.
false
The choregus is the lead actor in a Greek drama.
false
The development of melodrama in the 19th century featured suspenseful plots and surface effects designed to evoke fear, nostalgia, and other strong emotions.
false
The god Dionysus, to whom the Greek dramatic festivals were dedicated, was the god of war, death, and chastity.
false
The musical Porgy and Bess by Gershwin/Heyward was set in the African American community of Savannah, Georgia, and has a score so powerful that many people consider it an opera rather than a musical.
false
The plot and the story are essentially the same thing.
false
The word "genre" means an ability to "generalize about all human beings by observing a small portion of their actions."
false
Thespis is considered the first playwright.
false
This production was presented without an intermission
false
Which comic form has few intellectual pretentions; its humor arises as the result of ridiculous situations?
farce
This 2013 musical (moved to Broadway in 2015) was the first mainstream musical about a lesbian protagonist.
fun home
Costumes do NOT indicate the
innermost thoughts of the characters
Large scenic unit used for the staging of religious dramas in the Middle Ages.
mansion
A small-scale, three-dimensional version of the set is called a
model
Which of the following is NOT a necessary component of a theatrical event?
music
A ________ dramatizes a series of biblical events.
mystery play
Did the cast of this production have any racial diversity?
no
A late 19th century, romantic musical piece featuring melodic solos, duets, and choruses interspersed with dialogue.
operetta
Experimental theatre that initially incorporated elements of dance and the visual arts, this form is often based on the vision of an individual performer or director rather than a playwright.
performance are
What is Luke's mother addicted to?
pills
The scene-shifting method of changing wings and back shutters that was developed by Italian Giacomo Torelli is known as the
pole and chariot
The most renowned theatre building of the Italian Renaissance was the Teatro Farnese. It was revolutionary mainly because of its
proscenium-arch stage
A fairly complete sketch made by the scene designer, usually done in color, is called a
rendering
A main difference between a critic and a reviewer is that a reviewer
restricted time and space
Which of the following is NOT a component of commedia dell'arte?
scaena
A director's work begins here. It is through this process that the director shapes a concept to present to the rest of the production/design team
script analysis
It is very important for directors to create interesting visual compositions with the actors in space; this is known as creating effective
stage pictures
The leading antirealism movement of the late 19th century, this form's major proponents were French and called for drama that did not present mundane, day-to-day activities but rather the mystery of being and the infinite qualities of the human spirit.
symbolism
The most significant difference between film and theatre is
the relationship between the performer and the audience.
The putting aside of all literal and practical considerations in order to enter into the world of the drama is called
the willing suspension of disbelief.
Which of the following statements about Elizabethan private theatres is true?
they were open to the general public
The stage in an Elizabethan public theatre was most like a contemporary
thrust stage.
Which of the following was NOT an audience space in an Elizabethan public theatre?
tiring house
What does it mean to distress a costume?
to make it look weathered and worn
A designer's "ground plan" shows the exact locations of the scenic elements in a set.
true
Adolphe Appia and Edward Gordon Craig greatly influenced theatrical lighting design through their inclusion of light as an integral visual element in scene design.
true
As opposed to music and the visual arts, theatre is a fully collaborative art form involving different specialists who share a common vision for a unified production.
true
Edward Gordon Craig's unit set greatly influenced leading twentieth-century American designers.
true
Italian commedia dell'arte had no set text; it was improvisational.
true
Lysistrata's great plan is for women to withhold sex from their husbands and lovers in order to end the war.
true
Oklahoma! was one of the earliest examples of the American book musical, blending story, music, lyrics, and dances into a unified whole
true
One of the most famous family troupes of commedia dell'arte was the Gelosi Troupe, who featured actress Isabella Andreini among their group.
true
Originally an alternative to the exorbitant costs of producing theatre on Broadway, Off-Broadway provided a venue for new works by budding artists. This category of theatre has become an important contributor to the American theatre industry, producing numerous playwrights and directors over the last half-century.
true
Realism conveys everything onstage to resemble observable, everyday life to promote a strong sense of audience recognition and identification
true
Realistic plays often tackle subjects that are taboo, such as economic justice, gender double standards, and religious hypocrisy.
true
Roman entertainment considered to be an early form of ballet, was called Pantomime.
true
Saturday Night Live uses a format established in early vaudeville that was a popular form of entertainment in the early twentieth century.
true
Stock characters and dominant trait characters tend to appear most often in comedies or melodramas, due to their more two-dimensional nature.
true
The 1970s and 80s brought many productions from British composers and lyricists to the American musical stage, including productions such as Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, The Phanto of the Opera, and Les Miserables.
true
The American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1972 made it legal again for certain ceremonies, such as the sun dance, to resume. This led to the emergence of a Native American theatre.
true
The overriding concern of the neoclassicists was verisimilitude.
true
The plot of King Oedipus by Sophocles has a climactic structure.
true
The size and type of theatre space affects audience perception; therefore, this factor makes a big difference to both actors and the audience.
true
The term "playwright" literally means "play builder."
true
The term deus ex machina ("god from a machine") is used contemporarily to describe a playwriting device that allows for a coincidental resolution to the central conflict of the play.
true
The theatre of a time in history usually reflects the political and social climate of its day. This can be seen in the performance art and postmodernism of the early 21st century.
true
Theatrical activity was outlawed in England by the Puritans in 1642, which was the end of the English Renaissance.
true
When audiences today watch a play at one of our nation's many theatre festivals, they are sharing a kind of live theatre experience that has existed for 2,500 years.
true
What were Luke and Adam wearing during the breakfast scene?
underwear