Art of Theatre quiz 1

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1: Upstage right 2: Upstage center 3: Upstage left 4: Right center 5: Center 6: Left center 7: Downstage right 8: Downstage center 9: Downstage left

The area of the stage in front of the curtain is called

Apron

The ______________ of the theatre building has a great deal to do with the audience's mood in approaching a performance, expecting what will come and also conditioning the upcoming experience.

Atmosphere

For many years people took the physical arrangement of theatres for granted because most of the theatres in the United Sates were once facsimiles of the ____________ theatre.

Broadway

A form of street theatre that is aggressive, politically oriented and attempts to persuade audiences is called

Guerilla Theatre

When the __________ in New York produced a modern version of The Bacchae by Euripides in the 1960s, the company let the audience into the performance space one at a time because they wanted the audience to experience a personal rite of initiation.

Performance Group

When the stage is higher in the back and lower in the front it is said to be

Raked

The Swan theatre, which is located within the shell of the Memorial Theatre in ______, England, the audience, on three levels, wraps around a thrust stage that protrudes into the audience area.

Stratford

A stage surrounded by the audience on all sides is called

Theatre in the round

A stage surrounded on three sides by the audience is called

Thrust

It is important to know that simply categorizing a theatre into the spaces we learn in this chapter does not adequately describe the environment. We must take into account a number of other variables, including size, atmosphere, and setting (location).

True

The area above the stage that is typically twice the height of the proscenium and is used to hold scenery that drops down onto the stage is called the:

fly space

A type of theatre where the audience views the stage from only one side is called:

proscenium


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