intro to theatre: comprehensive

T or F: Sophocles was the acknowledged master of the trilogy

False, Aeschylus

T or F: Unlike England, Spain continued to use the techniques of medieval religious drama but did produce secular plays as well

True

T or F: in an English acting company actors were provided with 'sides' which contained only their own lines and cues rather than a whole script

True

T or F: the Romans cut the orchestra area in half

True

T or F: A character that represents a large section of the population or a large type of individuals.

True

T or F: A multi-focus theatre is one where there is more than one playing area and something is going on simultaneously in several areas.

True

T or F: A unique Roman stage presentation was the pantomime

True

T or F: Aristotle's book on dramatic criticism was called The Poetics

True

T or F: Auteur directors feel they can alter text, rearrange scenes, introduce elements like film or video, etc.

True

T or F: Global influences on actor training come from Meyerhold, Copeau, and Grotowski.

True

T or F: Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov were playwrights who perfected a type of drama known as 'realism'.

True

T or F: In a heroic drama you may have a happy ending or the hero or heroine might die but we still feel their life was worthwhile or vindicated.

True

T or F: In a traditional tragedy, the universe seems to trap the hero or heroine in a fateful web.

True

T or F: It is important that opposing forces be equally matched even though one side will eventually win.

True

T or F: Make-up can be used in theatre to highlight facial features, indicate age, create character traits, and non-realistic creatures.

True

T or F: One of the characteristics of a 'melodrama' is that its characters tend to be fairly complex with many contradictions in their motivations and actions.

True

T or F: Plays are about human beings, although characters may represent nonhumans who have human characteristics; for example, Bottom, in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

True

T or F: Roman theatres, unlike Greek theatres, were free standing buildings

True

T or F: The 'orchestra' is ground floor seating in an auditorium.

True

T or F: The French neoclassical playwright who exerted the most influence on modern theatre was Jean Baptist Poquelin, also known as Moliere

True

T or F: The director fully emerged as a profession with George II, Duke of Saxe-Menningen.

True

T or F: The dramatic rules formulated by the Italians for how a play should be written were known as the 'neoclassical ideals'

True

T or F: The driving force of a character is known as the superobjective or spine of the character.

True

T or F: The most familiar type of stage is the picture frame also known as the proscenium arch.

True

T or F: The person who researches the time period of a play is called a dramaturg.

True

T or F: The protagonist is the principal character in a play while the antagonist is the opponent of the protagonist.

True

T or F: The stage setting can help establish the mood, style, and meaning of a play.

True

T or F: The term when the director arranges actors on stage is blocking.

True

T or F: The terms 'stage left' and 'stage right' mean the right and left side of the stage as seen from the perspective of the actor.

True

T or F: The word 'run' refers to the operation of a show.

True

Which of the following is NOT a form of puppet theatre? - biomechanics - hand - shadow - marionette

biomechanics

Which of these would be considered a non-realistic play? - both of these - Shakespeare's Macbeth - Lorca's Blood Wedding

both of these

T or F: An auteur director attempts to present his or her own version of a dramatic work rather than the playwright's version.

true

T or F: Art can be divided into literary, performing, and visual categories.

true

T or F: In the 20th century, a positive review in the New York Times could lead to a Broadway show having an extended run, while a negative one could result in the show closing.

true

T or F: Modern transportation and communication has made possible the sharing and fusing of art forms from many cultures.

true

T or F: Scrim is the term used to indicate a canvas stretched on a wooden frame and painted to represent a solid wall.

False; that is a flat

T or F: A thrust stage has the audience seated on all sides.

False; three sides

T or F: The term 'willing suspension of disbelief' refers to when an audience member want to believe in the reality of what is happening on stage despise its 'literal' consideration.

true

T or F: Two terms that could describe theater today are diverse and multicultural.

true

T or F: even though film and other forms of electronic media dominate world contemporary culture, live theatre has at least 2300 more years of history and established tradition.

true

T or F: the playwright determines the details of the script

true

T or F: theater is a collaborative art

true

The type of play in the middle ages that sought to teach a lesson, such as Everyman, was known as - morality play - miracle play - mystery play

Morality play

Aristophanes was considered a master of the comic premise in Greek comedies. Which of the plays below did Aristophanes NOT write? - Antigone - The Birds - The Clouds - Lysistrata

Antigone

Fifth century Athens is referred to as -classical period -the golden age of Greece - both

Both

A group in ancient Greek plays who sang, danced, and chanted were known as - chorus - stock characters - representative characters - minor characters

Chorus

Which of the following was NOT a French theatre? - Corral de Principe - Hotel de Bourgogne - Theatre du Marais

Corral de Principe

Italy created an immensely popular form of professionals performing comedy. Which term does NOT belong to 'commedia de'll arte'? - corrales - zanni - slapstick - lazzi

Corrales

T or F: The person who is responsible for coordinating the actual performance is the director.

False; stage manager

T or F: The dramaturg is responsible for the scheduling, constructing, and painting of scenery.

False; technical director

The Greek spring theatre festival was in honor of which god? - Dionysus - Jupiter

Dionysus

Which of the following plays was written by Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus - Othello - Richard III _ Comedy Of Errors

Doctor Faustus

A play such as Oedipus Rex is written in which structure? - episodic - climatic

Episodic

T or F: English private theatres were not open to the general public

False

T or F: In Tartuffe, Moliere criticizes religion and marriage.

False

T or F: Robert Benedetti is associated with an actor training technique called the 'Content-less Scene'.

False

T or F: The Greek and the Restoration period provided ideal conditions for the writing of tragedy.

False

T or F: The acting technique where a performer tries to feel a character's emotion by thinking of an event in his or her own life that led to a similar emotion is known as the 'magic if'.

False

T or F: A characteristic of modern tragedy is that it is written in poetry, not prose.

False (prose, not poetry)

T or F: Horace's work on dramatic criticisms was called The Poetics

False, The Art Of Poetry

T or F: The leader of a Roman acting troupe was called an agon

False, dominus

T or F: in the play Oedipus Rex, the main character kills his daughter and marries his mother

False, he kills his father

T or F: All of Corneille's plays follow the neoclassical rules

False, that was Racine

T or F: The director who wrote On Directing was Harold Breur.

False; Harold Clurman

T or F: The modern director who wrote The Empty Space was George C. Wolfe.

False; Peter Brook

T or F: The thrust stage was developed by the Romans for their tragedies and comedies.

False; it was the Greeks

T or F: The term 'fly loft' is associated with a black box theatre.

False; proscenium

T or F: To use a costume that is already located in a theatre's costume shop or renting a costume would be to 'build a costume'.

False; pull a costume

Cyrano de Bergerac is a good example of what type of drama? - heroic - domestic - burlesque - farce

Heroic

To whom is this quote attributed? "This world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel". - Horace Walpole - Anton Chekhov - Aristotle - Edmond Rostand

Horace Walpole

Which English playwright is associated with the 'mighty line'? - Marlowe - Shakespeare - John Webster

Marlowe

What was the type of theatre performed at the English court after Elizabeths reign? - masque - commedias - cazuela - satyr plays

Masque

The side entrance for actors in the Greek theatre was the - parados - vomitorium

Parados

The floor of the house of the Renaissance theatre where audience members stood was the - pit - box - gallery - groove

Pit

The era in which theatre audience were made up of mostly the upper classes was the - Greek - Medieval - Restoration - Roman

Restoration

Which period was known for its practical achievements in law,engineering, and military conquest? - Roman - Greek

Roman

T or F: A Doll's House is organized in episodic structure.

True

Which of the following questions does a good critic NOT ask? - How well has the attempt succeeded? - Was the attempt worth doing? - Was the attempt successful financially? - What is being attempted?

Was the attempt successful financially?

Which stage makes elaborate, complicated scenery changes impossible? - arena - thrust - proscenium

arena

Comic male actors in the Italian commedia de'll arte were known as the - zanni - alojeria - cazuela - corral

Zanni

Certain categories of acting require special discipline and training...these include ... - all of these - musical theatre - pantomine - avante garde and experimental theatre

all of these

What are some uses of masks? - all of these - makes the face appear larger - can create stock characters - makes the face to appear frozen

all of these

A comic improvisational theatre that flourished in Italy was known as the - commedia dell'arte - avante garde - deus ex machina - alojeria

commedia dell'arte

Struggles within a family, dashed hopes, and renewed determination are characteristics of which type of drama? - domestic or bourgeois - heroic drama - satire - theatre of the absurd

domestic or bourgeois

T or F: A reviewer usually has more time, space, and knowledge than a critic.

false

T or F: Censorship is not a concern in theatre.

false

T or F: The audience is not an essential component in the live theatre experience.

false

T or F: The degree of separation between the object or event that an artist creates and the audience that observes it is called 'willing suspension of disbelief'.

false

T or F: The word 'criticize' has at least two meanings. One is to 'find fault' and the other is 'to excuse'.

false

The space above the stage where scenery may be lifted out of sight by means of ropes and pulleys is - fly loft - orchestra - corral - black box

fly loft

The name of the acting technique where the actor says to themselves "How would I react if I were in this character's position? " is - magic if - emotional recall - ensemble playing - circle of attention

magic if

which period did the church use plays to educate their congregation -medieval -greek -roman

medieval

This type of drama has characters that are divided into clearly defined good and evil characters. The hero always wins! - melodrama - domestic - comedy of manners - tragedy

melodrama

Torelli invented which method of scene shifting? - pole and chariot - grooves - perspective

pole and chariot

If you need to show a flashback or have a ghost appear you would most likely use which of these? - scrim - flat - rendering

scrim

The original developer of a system or method of acting to help actors 'believe' in the truth of what they say and do as well as project this to the audience was - Stanislavski - Lee Strasberg - Stella Alder - Uta Hagen

stanislavski

Playwrights such as Harold Pinter, Eugene Ionesco, and Samuel Beckett are associated with which genre of theatre? - theatre of the absurd - comedy of manners - comedy of ideas - melodrama

theatre of the absurd

The ancient Greeks used what type of stage? - thrust - proscenium - arena - black box

thrust

Which of the following best fits this description? A circle in the stage floor rotated mechanically to bring one set into view as another disappears. - turntable - treadmill - wagon - scrim

turntable