Theatre final

What does Shakespeare's Hamlet mean when he says the following? "Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines."

"I would rather have you speak honestly and believably than just shouting the lines out loud."

A question that is NOT one of the criteria by which to judge a play and a production is

"Were the intentions appreciated by the audience?"

A controlling idea, vision, or point of view that the director feels is appropriate to the play is called a directorial (CHAP 5)

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A medieval morality play is an example of (CHAP 5)

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Attempts to put onstage as exact a copy of life as possible, down to the smallest detail, are an example of (CHAP 5)

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In the nonprofit theatre, the person or group with the responsibilities of the producer is called the (CHAP 5)

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Line, mass, color, texture, balance. Which one of these is not considered one of the five elements of scene design? (CHAP 9)

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Performers would often speak toward the audience during this period, rather than to the character they were addressing on stage, since the theatres were lit as well as the stage and the actors wanted hold on to the audience's attention.(CHAP 4)

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The Crucible by Arthur Miller represents (CHAP 5)

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The best-known of his innovations, designer Josef Svoboda used screens in conjunction with actors; the actors were part of the film, and the film was part of the action. He called this (CHAP 9)

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The movement, pace, and rhythm of a play are NOT affected by the (CHAP 5)

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What does Shakespeare's Hamlet mean when he says the following? "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."(CHAP 4)

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Which of the following is NOT a responsibility of the dramaturg? (CHAP 5)

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Which of the following is NOT one of the responsibilities of a performer in the theatre?(CHAP 4)

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Which of the following is NOT the responsibility of the producer? (CHAP 5)

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Which of the following should an actor try to avoid if he or she is trying to connect meaningfully with the audience?(CHAP 4)

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________ is a kind of super realism. (CHAP 5)

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________ is the representation of an abstract theme or subject through the symbolic use of characters, actions, or other elements of a production. (CHAP 5)

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Augusto Boal is regarded as one of the most inspirational theatre practitioners of his day because

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One of the things that film can do that theatre cannot is

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With ________, although the stage space protrudes into the audience there is still a proscenium opening toward the back of that stage area, and there is a shallow stage area behind the proscenium as well that still allows for some scenic detail.

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________ use unusual structures as they are, with their original architectural elements intact, carving out special areas for acting and audience seating/viewing.

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Which of the following is NOT a feature of melodrama?

Even if the ending is sad, an optimistic worldview is present.

The main representative character in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House who to this day serves as a symbol of the modern woman is (CHAP 7)

Nora Helmer

________ is a Japanese director whose theatre emphasized physical movement, ensemble playing, and the combination of the new and the old, the traditional and the experimental.

Tadashi Suzuki

A hard-fought and relatively equal contest

a balance of forces

A light that is typically used to light the large cyclorama all the way upstage is

a strip light or flood light

Through the use of color, shadow, and intensity, lighting can suggest

a time of day. 2) a season of the year. 3) a place.

Walking sticks and parasols are examples of

accessories

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

aesthetic distance

Which of the following serves as a parable or lesson?

allegory

In a proscenium theatre of 450 seats, there may be twenty rows of seats. In a(n) ________ theatre space with 450 seats, no one would be further away from the stage than about seven or eight rows, which offers much more intimacy in style of performance than other types of theatres.

arena stage

In which of the following is elaborate scenery impossible because it would block the view of the spectators?

arena stage

In which of the following is the playing space in the center of a square or circle, with seats for spectators all around?

arena stage

Which of the following is also known as theatre-in-the-round or circle theatre?

arena stage

Which of the following is NOT the responsibility of the producer?

arriving at a central metaphor for the underlying meaning of the play

Performers wore heavy make-up, elaborate costumes and employed stylized movement in which period?

asian theatre

The objectives of the scene designer do NOT include

assisting in the blocking of a production

________ is a South African playwright whose plays often attacked apartheid.

athol fugard

________ is the author of Master Harold¼and the Boys.

athol fugard

Theatre is an event in which the performers are in the presence of the

audience

________ was a Brazilian playwright and theorist noted for his theoretical work Theatre of the Oppressed.

augusto boal

A classic play from which country includes a mythical Aboriginal character?

australia

This director takes responsibility for shaping every element of production including the script.

auteur director

Auteur is a French word that means:

author

A(n) ________ is a show that has a story—which traces the fortunes of the main characters through a series of adventures with a beginning, middle, and end—and features more popular songs.

book musical

In Shakespeare's own day, women's parts were played by

boys

Roughly two-thirds life-size, this puppet requires three performers to operate it.

bunraku

In the United States, ________ has become synonymous with the type of sketch theatre comedy that relied heavily on sexual comedy and innuendo and was a precursor to American strip shows.

burlesque

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.

One of the most famous Shakespeare festivals in the world, named for Shakespeare's birthplace, is located in

canada

Clothes have always indicated or signaled a number of things regarding the wearer, except for which of the following:

character flaws

The final and most significant crisis is referred to as the

climax

Which of the following is NOT a genre?

clowning

An outside force or new twist in the plot introduced at an opportune moment is a(n) (CHAP 6)

complication

Shows by Stephen Sondheim, such as Company and Assassins, are examples of the ________ form.

concept musical

When a musical is based around an idea rather than a story, it is called a

concept musical

The inns in Spain were called ________, and this name was given to the theatres that developed there.

corrales

"Site specific" theatre productions are, by definition, performed in which type of space?

created and found spaces

Multi-focus environments, where something is going on in more than one playing area simultaneously, are typically found in which kind of stage space?

created and found spaces

Which of the following is/are used by avant-garde theatres such as the Performance Group?

created and found spaces

Which of the following attempts to analyze a theatre event very closely?

critic

Which of the following attempts to go into greater detail in describing or analyzing a theatre event?

critic

Which of the following attempts to put the theatre event into a larger context?

critic

Which of the following will often try to explain how the theatre event fits into a category or genre, or into the body of the playwright's work?

critic

When one set of lights comes down at the same time that another set of lights come up, this is known as a

cross fade

Lighting changes typically programmed in a computerized control system are referred to as

cues

________ is an English avant-garde director who reinterpreted traditional texts with a focus on sociopolitical issues including feminism and gender.

deborah warner

Select the response that places the directing activities in the proper order.

developing a concept, casting, blocking/staging, technical rehearsal, dress rehearsal

The sound designer's primary collaborator on any theatrical production is the

director

Which of the following is NOT the responsibility of the stage manager?

discovering promising new plays and working with playwrights on developing their scripts

When a performer is required to play several roles in the same play, this is called

doubling

The objective of costumes are many. For example, costumes help establish the style of the production. Which of the following, however, is NOT one of a costumer's objectives:

draw attention to the skill of the designer

A critic should treat a play as an aesthetic object separate from its social, political, or cultural context.

false

A stitcher is a technician who patterns, pins, and drapes the fabric to fit the individual actor perfectly, whereas a draper is a technician who sews all the costumes.

false

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

false

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.

false

Although it may be fun and exciting, circus training and clowning or juggling are not valuable forms of training for actors to use in their theatre work.

false

An auteur director adheres closely to the playwright's intent in the form of text and sequence of events.

false

Aphra Behn and Susanna Centlivre are two contemporary feminist playwrights.

false

Asian theatre training and the type of actor training that is common in the U.S. are virtually the same kind of training, focusing on the same kind of movement and vocal performance styles.

false

August Wilson's ten-play cycle of plays chronicles the Asian American experience in the U.S., beginning with the "gold rush" of 1849.

false

Because a "collective mind" is created when a large number of people are gathered into a group, the background of the individual spectator has little to do with the theatre experience.

false

Because artists are often accused of being "antisocial," "subversive," or "enemies of the state," and are thus outsiders, the art that they produce is often unrelated to the society in which it is produced.

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

Because the reviewer should represent the tastes of the general public, it is not important that he or she have a thorough background in theatre.

false

Because we no longer have a society that believes in the concept of "the Gods" as they did in ancient Greece, traditional Greek tragedies are no longer feasible to consider for contemporary productions.

false

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

false

Common structure in musical theatre requires that every song have a segment that involves the chorus.

false

Computerized design, known technically as computer-assisted design (CAD), is very inflexible: the designer is often at a disadvantage when making instantaneous changes from what appears on the screen, even so she can, with some difficulty, indicate to the director and others alternative plans and features of a stage set.

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

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

false

Different kinds of performance spaces are appropriate for certain kinds of plays. A large-scale musical like Wicked would not be appropriate for a small arena theatre; however, it is appropriate to move a smaller-scale show into a large proscenium space so it can earn more money at the box office.

false

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

false

Each of us fills only one social role

false

El Teatro Campesino is one of the major theatres to arise in Native American theatre.

false

If a reviewer dislikes a particular production, it is probably best to avoid it.

false

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.

false

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

false

When nonhuman characters are written into a script it is typically because the producers do not want to create a stage prop when an actor can solve the problem nicely.

false

While Broadway theatres are all within the district near Times Square in New York City, the styles of their architecture and types of their stages vary considerably.

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

While the latter part of the fifth century B.C.E. in Greece is considered to be a golden age for politics, philosophy, art, and architecture, for the theatre is was a time of decline.

false

While the trend toward diversity in the American theatre has given birth to many multiethnic, multicultural, and gender-based theatre companies representing groups with special interests, plays produced by these theatres rarely enter the mainstream of American theatre.

false

Women comprised the largest part of the audience in ancient Greece.

false

Women played an important role in the creation of Greek theatre during the classical period.

false

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

false

Rapid movements back and forth in time are called

flashbacks

The development of a ________ is an extremely important step in preparing for the show to begin rehearsals so the actors and director know how their patterns of movement will be affected by the placement of scenic elements and/or furniture.

floor plan or ground plan

When a beam of light is aimed at a particular area on the stage, it is said to be

focused

In the nonprofit theatre, which of the following is NOT a front-of-house responsibility?

raising money to finance the production

The slant of an auditorium's stage floor is called a

rake

When an element of theatre resembles observed reality, it is considered

realistic

Ordinary street clothes are an example of

realistic technique

Rooms of a real house is an example of

realistic technique

These are permanent, professional, nonprofit theatres that offer a season of first-class productions to their audiences each year.

regional theatres

Distinguishing major from minor characters is an analysis of which of the following?

relationships

A fairly complete sketch made by the scene designer, usually done in color, is called a

rendering

Visibility is the most obvious function of stage lighting. Which of the following is also a primary function of lighting?

reveal shapes and forms 2) assist in creating mood and reinforcing style 3) provide a selective focus and an artistic visual composition

Which of the following is frequently limited in terms of experience and theatrical background?

reviewer

Which of the following is usually restricted by time, space, or both?

reviewer

Which of the following usually works for a television station, a newspaper, or a magazine and reports on what has occurred at the theatre?

reviewer

Which of the following might offer an opinion about whether or not the event is worth seeing?

reviewer and critic

________ is a type of theatre in which sketches and vignettes alternate with musical numbers, but no single story carries through from beginning to end.

revue

A repetition or reenactment of a proceeding or a transaction which has acquired special meaning is called a

ritual

The phrase "willing suspension of disbelief" was coined by

samuel taylor coleridge

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

scrim

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of comedy?

sense that the universe is cruel and unfeeling

These puppets are silhouette figures—often made of leather—and are highlighted on a screen that is lit from behind.

shadow puppets

The first challenge to theatre as a dramatic medium came from

silent moveis

A bed like cement is an example of a

simile

General roles recognized by society, such as father, mother, child, police officer, store clerk, teacher, student, business executive, and so on are called

social roles

When a solitary character speaks to the audience, expressing in words a hidden thought, it is called a(n)

soliloquy

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

sound reinforcement

When light from one area falls into an adjacent area, it is said to

spill

The fundamental action or conflict of the play is called the

spine

"Stethoscope" suggests which of the following?

status and personality

A "laboratory coat" is typical of which of the following categories?

status and personality

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

story

Which of the following is NOT a technique of comedy?

strong emphasis on suspense

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

style

"A love story" is a

subject

"The events of the Holocaust" is a

subject

"The story of Electra" is a (CHAP 6)

subject

A __________________ reinforces or runs parallel to the major plot in an episodic play.

subplot

A flag is a

symbol

A logo is an example of a

symbol

A swastika is an example of a

symbol

Language is a

symbol

The Statue of Liberty is a

symbol

In tragicomedy, the overview, or prevailing attitude, is a ________ of the serious and comic.

synthesis

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

technical director

A ________ is a rehearsal where the performers are onstage with scenery, lighting, and sound for the first time and the primary focus is the mechanical and physical aspects of production

technical rehearsal

Plays that convey humanity's sense of alienation and its loss of bearings in an illogical, unjust, and ridiculous world are called theatres of

the absurd

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

the emotional side of Stanislavsky's technique

Which one of the following is NOT one of Stanislavsky's four broad aims of actor training?

to make certain that an actor focuses on the character's inner life by excluding focus on anything else while on stage

Fresnel lighting instruments are most often used for

top lighting

The starting point and foundation for this type of director is the script.

traditional director

Dramatic action is the essence of drama, and even the word drama derives from the word dran, which means "to act" or "to do."

true

During the Elizabethan era, women were barred from performing on the legitimate stage.

true

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

true

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

true

Even more contemporary actor training methods based on the books/teachings of Uta Hagen, Robert Cohen, Robert Benedetti, Sanford Meisner, and Stella Adler, to name a few, are still based on essential training methods introduced by Stanislavsky around the turn of the twentieth century.

true

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

true

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.

true

In a climactic drama, the plot begins early in the story.

true

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

true

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

true

In our contemporary world it is important to recognize a feminist or woman's point of view in analyzing and understanding dramatic works as that viewpoint has not always been considered or respected throughout history but it is essential to the future development of dramatic works.

true

In the modern period, tragicomedy has become the predominant form of many of the best playwrights.

true

In their work for most regional professional theatres, the dramaturgs are responsible for examining new plays, researching plays the theatre is producing, and possibly working with playwrights on developing new scripts.

true

It was rare to see African American performers on the stage in nineteenth century America.

true

Sound effects in the theatre can be produced effectively with either advanced technology or with 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

Strictly speaking, there was no Native American theatre tradition; rather, there were spiritual and social traditions that had theatrical elements.

true

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

true

The Federal Theatre Project of the 1930s was created to help theatre artists through the Depression, and it included units for African Americans.

true

The Federal Theatre Project of the late 1930s also gave rise to a significant number of Cuban American plays, performed predominantly in Florida.

true

The Royal National Theatre alone in Great Britain has a current annual budget of $30 million, which is more than 1/4 of the entire National Endowment for all of the arts in the U.S.

true

The bringing together of cultures by population shifts and swift global communication, and the challenges to long-held beliefs characterized by the writings of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Albert Einstein, are reflected in the eclecticism and fragmentation of an inclusive, contemporary theatre.

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 makeup of a group will alter a theatrical event.

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 film, television, DVDs, computer games, and other electronic forms of entertainment all present a challenge to the continuation of live theatre.

true

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

true

A stage set should tell the audience

when the play takes place. where the play takes place. what kind of characters the play is about.

In 1973, ________ adapted Euripides's The Bacchae for the National Theatre in England.

wole soyinka

________ is a Nigerian playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 and whose plays include Death and the King's Horsemen.

wole soyinka

A critic might offer background information about the

playwright,subject matter of the play,style of the production.

A selection and arrangement of scenes from a story is called a

plot

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

preview

The dramaturg serves an increasingly important function particularly in regional theatre or period pieces, since their work encompasses research related to

previous productions of the same play,discovering promising new plays, the social and historical details surrounding the period in which a play takes place.

Some tragicomedies, such as Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well, have been called

problem plays

Which of the following is NOT a responsibility of a dramaturg?

production research to determine the style of the play that the director will employ

Theatre of all types exists at every level, from amateur community theatre to university training programs to professional, and at any time audiences might attend

productions of Shakespeare's classics. 2) visceral and unique avant-garde productions like Fuerza Bruta. 3) twentieth-century works by playwrights like Arthur Miller, August Wilson, Edward Albee, and Neil Simon.

in order to throw the voice into the audience so that it penetrates to the uttermost reaches of the theatre, the performer must

project

All the seats in the auditorium face in the same direction in which of the following?

proscenium stage

Giacomo Torelli invented the counterweight system for which type of theatre?

proscenium stage

In which of the following is the stage area usually deep, allowing for elaborate scenery?

proscenium stage

Most Broadway theatres were built in which configuration?

proscenium stage

Which of the following is also known as a "fourth wall" stage?

proscenium stage

the standard theatre throughout Europe and the United States from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century used

proscenium stage

A humorous use of words with the same sound but different meanings is the use of a(n)

pun

"To entertain royalty" is a

purpose

"To escape" is a

purpose

"To reinforce religious beliefs" is a

purpose

Which of the following is NOT a responsibility of the director?

raising money for the production

Contemporary film actors Geoffrey Rush and Cate Blanchett have appeared with this theatre company in Australia.

Melbourne La Mama Theatre

The adding machine by Elmer Rice is an example of

expressionism

________ was at its height during the first quarter of the twentieth century; it gave outward expression to inward feelings.

expressionism

Acquiring the special physical and vocal skills that stage performance demands is an ________ aspect of acting.

external

Until the early 1950s, most new plays written in the United States originated in regional theatres.

false

When a person watches a play, it is expected that they will ignore their own individual memories, emotional scars, and private fantasies.

false

When a play goes into dress rehearsals, last-minute changes are no longer possible.

false

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

false

Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers all were composers who worked in the ________ form.

musical comedy

________ is a form of musical entertainment that emerged in America in the 1920s and which features a light, comic story interspersed with popular music.

musical comedy

Which of the following is sometimes called "slice-of-life" drama?

naturalism

Which of the following is a 2009 Tony Award-winning musical concerning a mother who is struggling with a bipolar disorder and the effects her disease has on her family?

next to normal

Poetry that Romeo speaks to Juliet in Shakespeare's play is an example of

non-realistic technique

Abstract forms and shapes on a bare stage are examples of

nonrealistic technique

Shafts of light falling at odd angles, and colors in light used arbitrarily, are examples of

nonrealistic technique

One of the differences between acting in daily life and acting in theatre is that actors and actresses are always being

observed

An impediment that is put in a character's way is called a(n)

obstacle

When Horace Walpole said "This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel," he was probably NOT thinking

one should think about one thing profoundly and a thousand things well.

A(n) ________ is a drama set entirely to music.

opera

________ is a form which contains scenes of spoken dialogue that alternate with songs, and which generally features a romantic story set in some far-off locale.

operetta

The circular acting area of a classic Greek theatre is called the

orchestra

The Al-Kasaba Theatre, founded in 1970, is the most important theatre group in

palestine

A theatrical technique in which performers pretend to be using objects that are not actually present is called

pantomime

In ________ theatre, the emphasis is on education, personal development, or therapy.

participatory

The subject of theatre is always (CHAP 6)

people

At the heart of the theatre experience is the

performer-audience relationship

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

performers facing the audience

Roles that we assume with our family and friends, such as being a braggart, a martyr, a conspirator, and so on, are called

personal roles

Regardless of the level of intellectual study and training, it is important for actors to prepare before taking the stage often through various exercises such as

physical tension and relaxation exercises, simple movement exercises,various vocal exercises.

Which is not a characteristic of extraordinary characters?

pivotal but minor role

An anachronism involves

placing some character or event outside its proper time sequence.

__4__ Federica León __6__ Joshua Sobol __3__ Peter Handke __2__ Ariane Mnouchkine __5__ Deborah Warner __1__ Augusto Boal

1. Brazil 2. France 3. Germany 4. Argentina 5. England 6. Israel

__5__ Wole Soyinka __6__ Heiner Müller __1__ Athol Fugard __3__ Tom Stoppard __2__ George Ibrahim __4__ Yasmina Reza

1. South Africa 2. Palestine 3. England 4. France 5. Nigeria 6. Germany

Which of the following would NOT be considered slapstick comedy?

A woman watches her husband slowly die after giving him the wrong medication.

________ was at the heart of most plot complications in the commedia dell'arte. (CHAP 7)

Harlequin

Contemporary Asian theatre has evolved dramatically, and yet traditional theatrical forms from India, China, and Japan continue in popularity, including

Japanese nō, bunraku, and kabuki; Beijing opera, and Indian kathakali theatre styles.

________ devised a system that could be taught to others for achieving the kind of believability demanded by the new realistic drama being written in the late nineteenth century.

Konstantin Stanislavsky

The Beauty Queen of the Leenane, The Pillowman, and The Cripple of Inishmaan, all by the playwright ________, have been brought to Broadway in the past ten years.

Martin McDonagh

High-tech lights often used by rock musicians move up and down and from side to side, change colors, and change the sharpness and width of a beam of light and allow for numerous decorative or atmospheric patterns, are now used industry-wide. Such lights are called

automated lights

An intellectual or artistic movement that breaks with tradition and therefore seems ahead of its time is called ________; literally, it means "advance guard in a military formation."

avant-garde

Which 2004 musical featured puppets?

avenue q

A type of broad, exaggerated comedy that takes marriage and sex as objects of fun is called

bedroom farce

An all-purpose theatre space that can be converted into different arrangements is sometimes referred to as a(n) ________.

black box

________ is when a director decides where and when performers move and position themselves on the stage, this is called.

blocking/staging

A playwright, composer, or architect who envisions a work sets about putting the idea into a that will be recognizable to those who will bring the idea to ultimate realization. (CHAP 6)

blue print

A wireless microphone attached to a performer is called a ________ mike.

body

A ________ is a rehearsal where all the elements are put together, and the play is performed as if the audience were present, with no stops or interruptions and with full lights, scenery, costumes, and sound.

dress rehearsal

When sound effects are recorded and arranged in the order of their appearance in the script, the process is called

editing

Acting alternated between exaggerated and more natural styles in

eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English theatre.

A conventional spot light that throws a sharp, concentrated light and allows for the shaping of the beam with shutters is called a(n)

ellipsoidal reflector spot light.

Sound that recreates the noises of everyday life and help create the verisimilitude of a play, but are not specifically called for by the script, are called

environmental sounds

Because existentialism suggests that characters have no personal history before the play begins, no background, and therefore no specific causes for their action, the structure of an existentialist play is often lacking in

exposition

The technical term for revelation of background material in a play is (CHAP 7)

exposition

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

false

Lorraine Hansberry is the African American author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Topdog/Underdog.

false

Minor characters in a play are always written as basic stock characters.

false

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

false

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

false

Performance art began as a form that predominantly combined ballet with special sound effects and limited visual design 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

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

false

Samuel Taylor Coleridge coined this statement regarding a playwright's point of view: "The world is a comedy to those that think and a tragedy to those that feel."

false

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

false

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

false

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

false

The action of a play is generally confined to a "world" of its own—that is, to a fictional universe that contains all the characters and events of the play—and none of the characters or actions moves outside the orbit of that world. This is an example of limited time.

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 theatre are most often found in Japanese kabuki theatre presentations.

false

The persistent and dire predictions that live theatre would soon be dead, made obsolete by technological innovations such as radio, film, television and the computer have, for the most part, proven accurate.

false

The standard theatre throughout Europe and the United States from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century was the formal arena stage.

false

The subject of drama varies greatly, and at certain times throughout theatre history, drama has focused on human beings, but more often than not the subjects of drama are quite different.

false

The term "robot" was actually first used in an early twentieth-century play by Neil Simon.

false

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.

false

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

false

Two periods that were particularly conducive to the creation of tragic drama were the eighteenth century (the age of enlightenment) and the nineteenth century (the century of progress).

false

Undergarments are not a concern of the costume designer.

false

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.

false

A conventional spot light that produces a soft-edged beam and allows for variable beam spread is called a(n)

fresnel spot light

Joshua Sobol is the Israeli dramatist who wrote an important play about the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, called

ghetto

________ had a chorus that sang and danced odes.

greek theatre

Aggressive, politically-oriented theatre produced by an activist in the streets is called ________ theatre.

guerrilla theatre

A firm material called lauan placed on a wooden or hollow metal frame, which can be painted and, in addition, have three-dimensional plastic moldings attached to it to create cornices, chair rails, and other features, is called a

hard flat

________ is the term for when characters and their activities are intended to resemble life, but a certain license is allowed.

heightened realism

Roman togas and soldiers' helmets primarily suggest which of the following?

historical period

Uniquely among the arts, theatre focuses on one thing and one thing only. What is this one thing?

human beings

When one person mimics or copies another's vocal patterns, gestures, facial expressions, posture, and the like, this is called

imitation

The emergence of the director as a separate creative figure can partly be attributed to the

increase in numerous forms of communication, which opened up a world of other cultures to examine and bring to life on stage.

When the performers combine the inner and the outer aspects of acting in a forceful and convincing way, they have used a process known as

integration

Learning how to make the feelings and emotions of the characters portrayed believable is an ________ aspect of acting.

internal

A strong design concept

is important to convey information, should compliment the directorial concept, is a unifying idea carried out visually, is important when the time and place of a play have been shifted.

________ are a form of musical theatre that uses fairly contemporary popular music of a singular performer or music group and crafts a story to fit with the already popular music.

jukebox musicals

Another word that means "contrast in the connection of scenes" is

juxtaposition

Realism became the dominant form of European drama in the

late 19th century

When children use imitation, it is often a way of

learning

A light plot does NOT include the

length of light cues

Which of the following is NOT a convention of dramatic structure? (CHAP 6)

limited conflict

Bustles or corsets affect which of the following areas?

line,shape, and silhouette

The Donmar Warehouse, noted for active fringe theatre productions, is located in

london

Which of the following is a major responsibility of the stage manager?

maintain the lighting/sound/scene designer's and director's vision of rhythm and pace through the proper and consistent calling of all cues during the run

The use of a word that sounds like the right word but actually is a different word altogether is the use of a(n)

malaprop

Which of the following is a critical member of the lighting design team?

master electrician

Heart of darkness is an example of a

metaphor

Ice in his veins is an example of a

metaphor

The King of Swing is an example of a

metaphor

The ship of state is a

metaphor

When we say that one thing is like another, it is called a simile; when we say one thing is another, that is called a(n)

metaphor

The ________ was a variety show that featured white performers wearing blackface.

minstrel show

A small-scale, three-dimensional version of the set is called a

model

Sounds that are called for in the script are called

motivated sounds

The existence of wars, terrorism, natural disasters, and other intangibles are overwhelming issues in our contemporary world and therefore

the need for theatre and arts emphasizing human interaction are more important to our society.

The technical rehearsal is the time to establish

the safe operation of all scenic shifts. 2) all light cue levels and timing. 3) the placement and length of all sound cues.

Which of the following responses places these theatrical lighting practices in the proper chronological order?

the sun, candles and oil lamps, gaslight, limelight, incandescent lights, LEDs

The reenactment of material gathered from actual events is called

theatre of fact

The ________ was developed by the Greeks for their plays; it also was the type of stage used during Shakespeare's time.

thrust

A typical Elizabethan playhouse would have used

thrust stage

In which of the following does the audience sit on three sides, or in a semicircle, enclosing a stage, which protrudes into the center of the audience?

thrust stage

A rough sketch that provides the basis for further discussions between the director and the scene designer is called a

thumbnail sketch

A critic usually has more ________ than a reviewer.

time,space,knowledge

The word drama is derived from a Greek root, the verb dran, which means

to do, to act

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

true

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

true

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 tableaux structure begins with characters arranged in a visual stage picture and the action, frequently nonverbal, proceeds from that tableaux until the end of the scene.

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 realistic production.

true

Along with expressionism, futurism, and surrealism, Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty and Jerzy Grotowski's poor theatre were among the most significant features of the avant-garde theatre 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 not common, there are times when an audience may find themselves entering into a theatre audience space in a controlled fashion, as has been done by the Performance Group, the Daryl Roth Theatre, and others, in New York City.

true

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.

true

Although the business of theatre has a distinctly different organization between professional "for profit" and professional "not for profit" theatre entities, the actual artistic structure and process are very similar.

true

Although their societies were vastly different, both the Greek and Elizabethan theatres shared a strong connection between the type of theatre they presented and the times and social conditions they lived in.

true

An example of point of view in film might be the various angles of vision and perspectives that the camera selects for us.

true

An example of the postmodernist mixing of high and low art is the musical The Lion King.

true

Art may question society's views or reaffirm them, but it cannot escape them; the two are indissolubly linked.

true

As seen in some of Chekhov's plays it is possible to combine the climactic and the episodic forms.

true

Asian American theatre 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 David Henry 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

Color can be used to indicate changes in character.

true

Live theatre is actually flourishing throughout the United States; even in areas where professional theatre may not be present, there are typically active college and university theatre programs in addition to numerous amateur community theatre groups.

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 theatres.

true

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

true

Narrators in the most traditional sense remain outside the action of the play and typically comment on the action communicating directly with the audience.

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

No matter how knowledgeable a critic is about theatre, much of what he or she writes is simply opinion.

true

Off-Broadway shows are usually produced wherever inexpensive space is available—churches, lofts, warehouses, large basements—and are characterized by low-priced productions and a wide variety of offerings.

true

Off-Broadway theatre began in the 1950s as an alternative to Broadway and is located in smaller theatres outside the Times Square district.

true

One of the major playwrights to come out of the Cuban American theatre is Maria Irene Fornés.

true

One unique aspect of Maria Irene Fornés's play Fefu and Her Friends, described in the text, is that during one part of the play the audience is divided into four groups and taken to different locations to view scenes.

true

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

true

Patterns as structure exist not only in dance but also in some plays, where the characters' movement and circumstances can be repetitive, as in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

true

Performance art has been at the center of a controversy over funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

true

Performance art has since undergone several shifts of emphasis as visual artists continue to explore the temporal nature of theatrical performance, and yet the vocal presentation of text 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 U.S., with some 150 Shakespeare festivals around the country—30 in California alone

true

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

true

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

true

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

true

The viewpoint of a theatre artist actually provides the audience with a key to understanding the actions and words of the characters on stage.

true

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

true

To perform in repertory means to present a series of plays over a given span of time.

true

Training in tai chi chuan can be valuable for an actor, as it serves as an excellent focused exercise for an actor's body awareness and, due to the graceful nature of the core regimen of movement, it also serves as a form of meditation to help the actor prepare.

true

Virtually all primitive forms of theatre used an arena style performance configuration.

true

We know that playwrights frequently write plays about a single family in classic climactic structure and they will also occasionally create two contrasting characters that are siblings or husband and wife in order to allow character traits to stand out more dramatically in the action.

true

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.

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

turn table

When a performer closely resembles in real life the character to be enacted, this is known as

typecasting

Minor characters are

typically used as a dramatic device by the playwright to move the action along, typically used to be supportive or confidante-like characters for the central character in a play, usually those in which we see only one facet of their personalities.

If an actor is near the edge of the stage closest to the audience, and she turns her back and walks away from the audience, she is walking

upstage

________ was a series of variety acts—music, sketches, juggling, animal acts—that made up an evening's entertainment.

vaudeville

"The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel" is a

view point

"To portray a story in a comic manner" is a (CHAP 6)

viewpoint

"To present events as heroic" is a (CHAP 6)

viewpoint

A low platform on wheels upon which set pieces and even actors are brought onstage is called a

wagon