Drama Final

In the earliest example of liturgical drama, the phrase "Quem quaeritis?" literally translates to __________.

"Whom do you seek?"

(No Child) Why can't Jose Guzman perform in the school play?

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(No Child) The play is an example of __________

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(Fences) According to your online lesson, which of the following influenced August Wilson's work?

1. Blues 2. Jorge Luis Borges 3. Amari Baraka 4. Romare Bearden

(A Doll's House) How does A Doll House exemplify realism?

1.) Nobody is idealized. Characters are normal. 2.) Life occurs as-is.

(Fences) The action of Fences takes place in which time period?

1950's

(No Child) No Child is intended to be performed by ?

2 to 16 people

What could be categorized as a lazzo (the singular form of lazzi)?

A character slips on a banana peel. (A lazzo is a character who does comedy)

(A Doll's House) A "well-made play" formula includes the following_____:

A figure reasoner who serves as a playwright's mouthpiece to restore the moral order and confirm the belief of the audience. Well-made play' uses recurrent devices such as letters falling into wrong hands or unintended hands in order to bring OOO about the plot twists and climax. Well-made plays usually describe a long story Has a series of ups and downs in the hero's or heroine's fortune caused by conflict with an adversary which is also a characteristic in well made plays.

What might you expect to see at Kabuki theater?

A heroic tale and plenty of spectacle

(Fences) Lyons, Troy's son from a previous relationshiop, has dreams of becoming ____________.

A musician

An example of an ending conforming to neoclassical ideals is _____

A prince becoming a king.

(A Doll's House) What is a new woman?

A woman not aligning with gender roles.

What might an audience see on a Kabuki stage?

An all-male cast performs on a revolving stage with elaborate spectacle; they freeze at climactic moments, accompanied by intense claps of wooden blocks.

What is one feature of indigenous African theatre?

An emphasis on nonverbal communication

(No Child) The play within the play, Our Country is Good, is set in which country?

Australia

(A Doll's House) What is Helmer's new job?

Bank Manager

When Baz Luhrman directed the film Moulin Rouge, he pointed to __________ as a direct inspiration.

Bollywood

How is Sondheim's Assassins similar to the musical Hair?

Both have fragmented storylines.

How did the printing press help to set the scene for the Renaissance?

By allowing a freer exchange of ideas

Mime was one of the few theatrical entertainments that continued after the fall of the Roman Empire but it eventually fell out of favor due to the rising power of __________.

Catholicism

Codified Acting

Chinese theater based on hand movements.

Imagine a realistic play set in a home kitchen. What element might you add so that the play leaned more toward naturalism?

Cook food onstage (with a working stove) so the audience can smell it.

(Sweat by Lynn Nottage) Who gets the promotion at the Olstead plant?

Cynthia

What is a feature of both Dadaism and futurism?

De-emphasis of the play text

The effects of the rise of corporate producers such as the Disney Company has been called the __________ of Broadway.

Disneyfication

At the beginning of the text of Homebody/Kabul, playwright Tony Kushner includes the lyrics to Frank Sinatra's song "It's Nice to Go Trav'ling." This is called a(n) __________, which is a short phrase in the beginning of a chapter or story that suggests the theme of it.

Epigraph.

Ernst Toller's play, Man and the Masses, comments on violence and the machine age. The play uses stereotyped characters and seems like a nightmare. What movement does this play likely represent?

Expressionism (Conveys emotion and meaning rather than reality)

(Sweat by Lynn Nottage) What is the time period(s) of this play?

Fluctuates in time between 2000 and 2008

(Fences) Troy works as a___________________.

Garbage Man

The __________ was a popular zanni character in commedia dell'arte.

Harlequin

(Fences) Troy's brother Gabe is considered unstable because of an injury to the head which happened when _________

He fought in world war 2

(Sweat by Lynn Nottage) Near the beginning of the play, Chris shares his goal. What does he say he wants to do?

He wants to go to college to become a teacher

Presentational acting

Illustrate a character "from the outside in," which is why this approach is also sometimes referred to as "outside-in acting." They may carefully study the outward manifestations of human behavior and then work, in a disciplined way, to reproduce them. Learn by imitating other actors.

The first all-black musical to play a major Broadway theatre, created by Bert Williams and George Walker, was called __________.

In Dahomey

Why was religion banned as a subject in the majority of Western Renaissance theatre?

It was a period of religious upheaval in much of Europe.

(No Child) Which character memorizes Governor Phillip's speeches on citizenship, humanity, and the power of theatre?

Jerome

(A Doll's House) Mrs. Linde was once romantically involved with:

Krogstad

(A Doll's House) How does Krogstad blackmail Nora?

Krogstad blackmails Nora by threatening to reveal her crime and to bring shame and disgrace on both Nora and her husband if she does not prevent Torvald from firing him.

(Fences) Identify the director who collaborated with August Wilson to develop his plays.

Lloyd Richards

(No Child) What is the name of the school in the play?

Malcolm X High School

A sewer-dwelling hermit becomes obsessed with the voice of a beautiful performer. Their melodramatic story unfolds amidst singing and immense spectacle. This is an example of a __________

Megamusical

(No Child) The show's title (directly or indirectly) alludes to which of the following?

No child left behind policy

(Sweat by Lynn Nottage) Which character is targeted as a "scab" and goes to work at the factory during the strike?

Oscar

(Fences) Which community is the play set in?

Pittsburgh

(Fences) Troy refuses to allow his son Cory to follow his own dream, which involves:

Playing football

(Sweat by Lynn Nottage) What is the setting of this play?

Reading, Pennsylvania

(A Doll's House) Which genre best describes Doll's House and why?

Realism, because it portrays life accurately and shuns idealized visions of it.

Representational acting

Representational actors attempt to live real emotions, to truly feel them, and to even be the character. They work "from the inside out," searching for emotional experiences from their own lives to translate into the lives of their characters

What is one feature of romanticism

Romanticism rejected strict rules.

(No Child) What language do we hear Ms. Sun speak, besides English?

Spanish

(Sweat by Lynn Nottage) Which character serves as the voice of reason in the play?

Stan

The purpose of a preview performance is to __________.

Test the show on an audience and make necessary changes

(No Child) Where does the play take place?

The Bronx

(No Child) Which character also serves as the narrator for the show?

The Janitor

(A Doll's House) What is the dance that Nora planned to do at the costume ball?

The Tarantella

(Fences) What is the climax of fences?

The point where Cory is called to finally stand up to Troy

(A Doll's House) What is the problem with the loan note?

The signature was forged

The first evidence that we have of a play occurred in 534 BCE, when __________ received an award for his acting skill.

Thespis

(A Doll's House) Why were Henrik Ibsen's dramas controversial?

They challenged existing moral values and social norms

French playwright Eugène Scribe was famous for his use of __________.

Well made play (methodological and constructed)

You see a circus tent and wander in without noticing the title (or what year it is). There is a sideshow with "freaks" or "oddities" followed by animal acts and variety entertainment. You have most likely discovered __________.

a nineteenth-century circus in Europe or the United States

Proscenium Stage

a performance space in which the audience views the action as if through a picture frame

One of the main purposes of pre-show work is to ensure that __________.

actors and technicians will be safe

As concerts developed and diversified in the twentieth century, they tended to focus more and more on __________.

adding visual spectacle and excitement

The naumachiae, which recreated major battles and often killed thousands, required __________.

an arena filled with water

Which word best fits the chapter's description of an opening night?

anticipation

As the landscape—and expense—of the Broadway musical has changed, many producers choose to produce musicals that __________.

are revivals of well-known works

Japanese Bunraku puppet theatre __________.

can still be seen at the National Bunraku Theatre in Japan

Near the beginning of the Lynne Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty musical Once on this Island (1990), the main character Ti Moune sings a song called "Waiting for Life" in which she prays to the gods about how she wants a greater purpose than a life as a peasant. This type of song is called a(n) __________.

character song

One of the reasons that live performance is ephemeral is because __________.

everyone must adjust on the spot when something goes wrong

West Side Story (1957) was different from most of its musical theatre predecessors because __________.

it had an unhappy ending

The object of a medieval jousting tournament was to __________.

knock the other knight off his horse

In a Bread and Puppet Theatre performance, __________.

live actors perform with puppets of various sizes

In his book A Magician Among the Spirits, Harry Houdini claimed that __________.

magic was an illusion the audience agreed to be entertained by

Something that affects the time actors/actresses must arrive is ______

makeup and costume requirements

A problematic but popular form in the United States, __________ consisted of white actors blackening their faces with burnt cork and performing impressions of slave music, dances, and culture.

minstrelsy

One of the most distinctive roles in Beijing Opera has been the dan, because many patrons and audiences believed that __________.

no actress could so beautifully depict a female ideal onstage as a male actor

George Carlin is an example of a comedian who opted to use __________ humor in his stand-up routines.

obscene or "blue"

The function of a cue-to-cue is to __________.

practice all of the cues with the actors on stage

The earliest forms of dramas with music in ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and the Middle Ages, typically grew out of __________.

religious rituals

The best Roman gladiators were typically treated as __________.

superstars

Which of the following is an example of "New Vaudeville" performance?

the Blue Man Group

_______________ _serves a similar purpose for Sanskrit theatre as Aristotle's Poetics do for Western theatre?

the Natyasastra

What is one thing that would affect the length of a rehearsal process?

the complexity of the play

In works like The Black Crook, __________.

the music was more important than the story

Neoclassism

the revival of a classical style or treatment in art, literature, architecture, or music, particularly greek stuff.

One practical difference between amateur and professional theatre rehearsals is __________.

the time of day when rehearsals occur

Ancient Greek mime could be described as __________.

variety entertainment such as singing, acting, and acrobatics

Unlike the majority of Stephen Sondheim's other works, Into the Woods (1987) __________.

was financially successful

Vaudeville was especially popular among audiences who were __________.

working and middle class