Theatre Final

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Who is considered the first important Greek dramatist?

Aeschylus

Which of the following might be thought of as an example of incorporating theatre or the theatrical in everyday life?

All of the above A trial in a courtroom A wedding A funeral

Which of the following is not a performing art?

All of the above are performing arts dance theatre sculpture

Because of the power of an audience's mental and emotional participation in a theatrical event, those in authority may fear the effect theatre can have. This fear sometimes results in

Censorship

Of the following, which did NOT include women in their ranks?

Elizabethan acting companies

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

Walking sticks and parasols are examples of

accessories

A strong design concept

all of the above is important to convey info 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

Greeks put _____________ in the middle of the orchestra

an alter to Dionysis

Elaborate scenery on/in a(n) ____ is impossible because it would block the view of other audience members.

arena

Which tragic form questions the meaning of life and the reason for humanity's suffering?

both traditional and modern tragedy

One type of comic form, parody, that relies on gross exaggeration and occasional vulgarity is

burlesque

The __________________is a special interest to experimental or avant-garde practitioners.

created, found

An open-ended, serial structure that is often associated with female playwrights is ____________ structure

cyclical

Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, is noted for his work as a(n)

director

Which comic form has few intellectual pretensions; its humor arises as the result of ridiculous situations?

farce

One of the following is NOT a collaborator of the costume designer:

fashion or style editor

Shakepeare's plays typically included subplots, which are

secondary plots that reinforce or runs parallel to the major plot.

Another term for a through line is

spine

Which person maintains quality control of all production elements after opening?

stage manager

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

status and personality

The oldest surviving theatre--constructed during the Italian Renaissance--which was designed as a miniature, indoor Roman

teatro olimpico

English female playwrights of the 1690s were known informally as

the "female wits"

In Greek theatre, what is the skene?

the building upstage from the playing area

In which comic form does an idea or concept turn the accepted notion of things upside down?

All of these are correct Farce Satire Burlesque

In which tragic form are the central figures of the play caught in a series of tragic circumstances?

Both traditional and modern tragedy

Which type of Japanese theatre uses puppets operated by three performers?

Bunraku

______________ is the coordinator of all the elements of the production and is responsible for the unifying vision of the production.

Director

Costume designers rarely meet the actors who will be wearing their costumes, leaving those responsibilities to the stage manager.

False

Despite global influences, contemporary theatre tends to maintain the uniform and traditional styles of the country of production.

False

Diversity in theatre tends to reflect the homogenous "melting pot" philosophy of our culture.

False

Governments of the eighteenth century began to relinquish control and deregulate theatre.

False

In regards to the elements of a performance, the scenery, costumes, light, and sound are considered optional and part of "space".

False

Kabuki drew its material from kathakali plays

False

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

False

Satire relies on knockabout physical humor, gross exaggerations, and occasional vulgarity

False

The Elizabethans perfected the art of painted scenery for the theatre.

False

The Greek amphitheatre is the first example of a proscenium theatre space.

False

The Romantics strictly adhered to prescribed artistic rules

False

The choregus is the lead actor in a Greek drama

False

The dramaturg is another name for a director

False

The first significant dramatic criticism, The Poetics, was written by Horace

False

The god Dionysus, to whom the Greek dramatic festivals were dedicated, was the god of war, death, and chastity.

False

The protagonist is the good guy

False

The word genre means "an ability to generalize about all human beings by observing a small portion of their actions."

False

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

False

Traditional tragedy assumes a basically optimistic view of the universe, placing faith in the ability of humanity to overcome adversity

False

Tragedies are an ancient form of drama and have not been written since the nineteenth century

False

While fabric affects the silhouette, texture, and bulk of a costume, it has little symbolic value.

False

Thrives on exaggeration, broad physical humor, elaborate plots, and stereotyped characters

Farce

In _____________, the main characters are able to escape their fate and the play ends happily for all.

Neither traditional nor modern tragedy

Which type of performance space utilizes the greatest amount of scenery and stage machinery?

Proscenium

employs wit and irony to expose evil and foolishness

Satire

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

Acting is a part of our everyday lives.

True

As in England, most spanish acting troupes were sharing companies

True

Despite the popularity of medieval religious drama, secular theatre and drama also existed in the Middle Ages

True

Humanism was a major focus of Renaissance literature

True

In a traditional tragedy, the hero or heroine is caught in circumstances from which there is no escape and which inevitably lead to a fateful end

True

In the US, an actor is trained in a holistic way: physically, mentally, and spiritually

True

Italian commedia dell'arte had no set text; it was improvisational

True

Kabuki plays feature beautiful scenic effects and also include the first known use of a revolving stage.

True

Kabuki was performed first by all-female troupes, then by boys, and finally by all-male companies.

True

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

True

No one knows how theatre began, and where or when it originated

True

Realistic prosthetic makeup is used both for fantastical creatures like flying monkeys and in creating believable historical characters.

True

Sanskrit drama typically included both serious and comic elements, as well as a number of different locations and characters

True

Saturday Night Live uses a format established in early vaudeville that was a popular form of entertainment in the early twentieth century

True

Sound travels more slowly than light.

True

The improvisational elements of Italian commedia dell'arte were built around rough outline called scenarios

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 most important job of the director is to interpret the play and create a concept

True

The most significant difference between film and theatre is the relationship between the performer and the audience.

True

The overriding concern of the neoclassicists were verisimilitude

True

The plot of a play is the systematic ordering of events in a script from page 1 to the end of the play.

True

The speeches of the Greek chorus were sung and danced

True

The three great Greek tragic playwrights are Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

True

Theatre is the fountainhead of all drama

True

There were a number of significant female playwrights during the Restoration era.

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 audiences today watch a play at one of our nation's many theatres, they are sharing a kind of live theatre experience that has existed for 2,500 years

True

two ideas essential to tragic drama are the notion that the world is potentially cruel and unjust, and the concept that human beings are capable of confront...

True

What were three questions Stanislavski associated with psychophysical actions?

What? Why? How?

A main difference between episodic and climactic forms of structure is that episodic construction emphasizes

a broader view with a cumulative effect

Theatre grew out of ritual, which is

a reenactment of actions that have acquired special meaning

Eleanora Duse is noted for her work as a(n)

actor

At the heart of the theatre experience is the

actor-audience relationship

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 are common theatrical metaphors used in everyday life?

all of the above she/he is a prima donna she/he loves being in the spotlight she/he is always on stage

Which of the following provides the most intimate performance space?

arena

Ensemble actin emphasizes the

artistic unity of a group performance

The objective of the scene designer does NOT include

assisting in the blocking of the production

In which type of dramatic structure does the plot or action of the play begins very late in the story

climactic structure

The final and most significant crisis is referred to as the

climax

Which of the following is not a hallmark of a postmodern production?

closeness

Full-length secular plays during the Spanish Golden Age were known as

comedias

One of the primary genres; devoted to provoking amusement and laughter

comedy

A type of play that pokes fun at the social conventions of the upper class is called a

comedy of manners

Points out the foibles and peculiarities of the upper class

comedy of manners

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

cues

Which person casts the actors?

director

Which person develops a concept for the production?

director

Stories of everyday people, often centered on the family

domestic drama

The French dramatic form developed in the eighteenth century that was a serious play but did not fit neoclassical definitions of tragedy was known as

drame

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

performers facing the audience

The ___________________ determines the detail of the script

playwright

The selection and arrangement of scenes that actually happen onstage is called the

plot

The scen-shifting method of changing wings and back shutters that was developed by Italian Giacomo Torelli is known as the

pole-and-chariot system

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

sound reinforcement

Art forms that exist space and are created to last over time

spatial arts

It is very important for directors to create interesting visual compositions with the actors in space; this is known as creating effective

stage pictures

"Stethoscope" suggests which of the following?

status and personality

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

story

"Viewpoints" theory is an approach to acting that originated in the United States and combines dance and stage movement with concepts of

time and space

Which of the following was NOT an audience space in an Elizabethan public theatre?

tiring house

Which of the following is NOT one of the responsibilities of a performer in the theatre?

to coordinate the elements and the vision of the production

We often attend theatre performances because of its sheer excitement as well as to be amused. However, another over-looked aspect is

to learn about the human condition

The word criticize has at least two meaning. One is "to find fruit". Another meaning is

to understand and appraise

is premised on the fact that the world can be cruel and unjust

tragedy

Mixes serious and comic matter in the same play

tragicomedy

Canvas stretched on wood with the side facing the audience painted to look like a solid wall is called a

flat

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

hiring the director and performers

Which two forms of Asian theatre include long narrow bridges ( the hashigakari and hanamichi) used for actor entrances

no and kabuki

Which of the following is NOT associated with the "front of the house"

raising money for the production

Permanent, professional, non-profit theatres that offer first-class to their audiences is called

regional theatre

which of the following is not an example of experimental avant-garde theatre by young playwrights avant-garde?

regional theatre

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

rendering

Characters that embody the quintessential characteristics of a group are known as ____________ characters.

representative

The Strum und Drang (storm and stress) movement was the forerunner of

romanticism

Which comic form relies on sophisticated language to attack evil and foolishness?

satire

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

Also called _____________ this is the blueprint for a production in which the playwright transforms the raw material-the incident, the biographical event, the myth----into a drama, a sequence of events that features characters speaking and interacting with one another

script

Indonesian shadow plays are often referred to as

wayang

In Greek theatre, what is the parados

entrances

Similar to tragedy, but with an optimistic world view

heroic drama

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

A text is always a script

False

_______________ instruments produce have a lens system that produces soft edge spots of light

Fresnel

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

Fresnel spot light

In response to the new realistic drama of the late nineteenth century, ________ devised a system to teach performers how to achieve the necessary believability.

Konstantin Stanislavski

In ____________, the language used in the play is prose

Modern tragedy

Who wrote King Oedipus?

Sophocles

The most significant difference between film and theatre is

The relationship between the performer and the audience.

In ________________, the hero or heroine is a person of social stature: a king, a queen, a general, a nobleman,etc

Traditional tragedy

In ___________________, the hero or heroine is a person of social stature: a king, a queen, a general, a nobleman, etc.

Traditional tragedy

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

True

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

The program developed by Vsevolod Meyerhold that emphasizes physical exercises and circus-like control of the body is known as

biomechanics

Which of the following is NOT a performance technique developed by Stanislavski?

biomechanics

The arrangement and movements of performers relative to each other and to the stage space is called

blocking

Because of the availability of new technology such as Youtube and personal websites, ____________________ represent a new source of theatre criticism.

bloggers

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

body mic

Charles Macklin and David Garrick both rebelled against the

bombtastic, conventionalized style of acting

A main task of the modern-day director is to

draw disparate elements together to create a unified whole

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

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

editing

The dramatic structure that piles up people, places, and events is called.

episodic

The imparting of details about the past that are essential but not covered by the action onstage is known as

exposition

In order for a performer to convincingly play a role, he or she must synthesize the inner and outer aspects of training through a process called

integration

Shadow puppets are actually made of what material

intricately carved leather

The dramaturg's responsibility(s) is/are:

is as the literary advisor to a play

A main difference between a critic and a reviewer is that a reviewer

is restricted by time and space

In which way is the approach of Lee Strasberg different from the approach of acting teachers like Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, and Uta Hagen?

it emphasizes the inner aspects of acting

A contemporary trend in musical theatre is a genre referred to as the _________________, in which a story is written around already popular rock music

jukebox musical

A light plot does NOT include the

length of light cues

Which of the following is NOT a convention of common climactic dramatic structure?

limited conflict

Bustles or corsets affect which of the following areas?

line, shape, and silhoutte

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

master electrician

Originally meant "song drama" or "music drama"

melodrama

The dramatic form that emphasizes suspense and excitement and is primarily escapist in form that emphasized visual spectacle and special effects is known as

melodrama

"Centering" involves finding the place where all the lines of force in the body come together. It is located, roughly, in the

middle of the torso

In_______________, the language used in the play is prose.

modern tragedy

A _______ uses religious characters and religious themes to teach a lesson

morality

Ornate, professionally staged, mythological allegories that were intended to praise the monarch during the Jacobean period were known as

mosques

Theatre is an Art Form is:

most closely related to music as both are performing arts

Sounds that are called for in the script are called

motivated sounds

Which of the following is NOT an essential aspect of dramatic structure?

mutually agreeable forces

A ___________ dramatizes a series of biblical events

mystery

Noah's Ark is a _____________ play

mystery

In a noncommercial theatre, the managing director is akin to the _____________ in a commercial theatre.

producer

Which person is responsible for raising money to finance a production?

producer

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

project

Dr. Larsen spoke about the FMU theatre space. She talked about how versatile it was. Though technically it could be any space with some building. What kind of spaces was it designed as?

proscenium and arena

A "fourth wall theatre" describes a(n)

proscenium stage

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

technical director

art forms that exist only for a specific period of time

temporal arts

In Greek theatre, what is the orchestra?

the playing area

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

One characteristic of ________________ is that each performance is unique and occurs in the presence of an audience.

theatre

Developed by the Greeks, the ______________ was also the type of theatre space used during Shakespeare's time.

thrust

In one form or another, the ___ has been the most widely used of all the theatre spaces.

thrust

The stage in an Elizabethan public theatre was most like a contemporary

thrust

Which type of performance space in the medieval period was called a platform stage or trestle stage?

thrust

Which type of performance space was originally built into hillsides in Greece?

thrust

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

turntable

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

Which of the following best describes the way audiences participate in theatrical performances?

vicariously

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

wagon


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