THEA FINAL
Walking sticks and parasols.
Accessories
Representation of an abstract theme or subject through the symbolic use of characters, actions, or other elements of a production.
Allegory
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Allegory
Which of the following is not the responsibility of the producer?
Arriving at a central metaphor for the play
1. Which multimillion-dollar entertainment organization recently began producing Broadway musicals?
Disney
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.
English 18th and 19th century theater
The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice
Expressionism
1. Lorraine Hansberry is the African American author of the Pulitzer Prize winning play, Topdog/Underdog.
FALSE
Undergarments are not a concern of the costume designer.
FALSE
Roman togas and soldier's helmets.
Historical Period
1. Of the following musicals, which is not connected to Andrew Lloyd Webber?
Les Mis?rables
Since Characters come from two completely different historical periods in Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia the costume designer would probably use _____ and ____ to make connections between characters.
Line and color
Bustles or corsets affect this.
Line, shape, and silhouette
Kind of super realism
Naturalism
1. Of the following, which production is typically seen as marking the beginning of the "golden era" of the American musical?
Oklahoma!
Shakespeare commented on acting in Hamlet.
Renaissance theater
Which design theorist stated, "A good scene should be, not a picture, but an image"?
Robert Edmond Jones
1. August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize winning play Fences is a family drama set in the 1950s.
TRUE
Masks can be used to create stereotypes similar to stock characters.
TRUE
Realistic prosthetic makeup is used for both fantastical creatures like flying monkeys or in creating believable historical characters.
TRUE
1. What musical used a Mel Brooks film as its foundation, proving the potential connections between film and theatre?
The Producers
Sound travels more slowly than light.
True
Robert Edmond Jones believes that a stage setting is incomplete until:
a performer is on it
Theatre of all types exists at every level from amateur community theatre to university training programs to professional and at any one time audiences might attend ________________________.
all of the above
When a director decides where and when performers move and position themselves on the stage, that is called:
blocking/staging
A wireless microphone attached to a performer is called a _______ mike.
body
1. When a musical is based around an idea rather than a story, it is called a...
concept musical
A conventional spotlight that produces a soft-edged beam and allows for variable beam spread is called a(n):
ellipsoidal reflector spotlight
An enemy of credibility in a performance is:
exaggeration
Canvas stretched on wood with the side facing the audience painted to look like a solid wall is called a:
flat
When a beam of light is aimed at a particular area on the stage, it is said to be:
focused
A conventional spotlight that throws a sharp, concentrated light and allows for the shaping of the beam with shutters is called a(n):
fresnel spotlight
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 cover flat
When one person mimics or copies another's vocal patterns, gestures, facial expressions, posture, and the like, that is called:
imitation
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
To learn how to make the characters portrayed believable is an _______ aspect of acting.
internal
When children use imitation, it is often a way of:
learning
What description listed below should an actor try to avoid if they are trying to connect meaningfully with the audience
make certain that all character actions and vocal work are exaggerated
In the nonprofit theater, the person with the responsibilities of the producer is called:
manager
1. Of the following, which type of performance is defined as a light, comic story interspersed with popular music? Often connected to contemporary people and events, this form emerged in the United States in the 1920s.
musical comedy
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
In the scene from Death of a Salesman printed in the text, Happy uses _______ to impress a woman he sees in a restaurant.
role playing
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
The way in which a play is presented, the "manner in which the spine is articulated," is called the:
style
1. Which of the following periods was considered to be the "golden era" of the American musical?
the mid-1940s through the mid-1960s
1. There are two active components of European and British theatre. Of the following, which are the two components?
traditional and establishment, and alternative
The 18th century scholar who wrote about David Garrick's performance by saying..... "Instead of declaiming the verse in a thunderous, measured chant, this actor [Garrick] spoke it with swift and "natural" changes of tone and emphasis." Was actually saying exactly the same thing as Shakespeare's Hamlet did when he delivered his "Town crier" line.
true
Performers wore heavily stylized make-up that was richly colored and textured.
Asian theater
1. In 1927, the landmark musical Showboat opened. The controversial musical featured an interracial romance and eliminated the chorus line of girls that had always been considered indispensable. The team which created the musical is...
Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern
1. The Musical Of Thee I Sing, 1931, satirized presidential elections in the U.S. as though they are some kind of Beauty Contest.
TRUE
1. Productions originating in Israel and Palestine have been performed in the United States.
True
1. Shingeki or "new theatre" evolved throughout the 20th century in Japan and eventually allowed female playwrights to actively take part, which had previously been virtually nonexistent in Japan.
True
A further development in contemporary theatre relates to the sheer diversity of multinational theatre, gender specific theatre, and political theatre.
True
Full stage evocative scene designs can offer such an imaginative central image that stage design has even become an essential aspect of the major rock concert tours:
True
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
all of the above are correct
1. Early African societies had traditional performances that were connected to rituals. Of the following, which performance elements were connected to these rituals?
all of these
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
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
1. Which of the following is likely not a topic of political theatre?
gun rights
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 non-realistic production.
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
1. Despite the popularity of the form, no musical has ever received the Pulitzer Prize.
FALSE
While fabric affects the silhouette, texture, and bulk of a costume, it has little symbolic value.
FALSE
A MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) will only allow musical instruments to be connected through a theatrical sound system but at this time it cannot yet interface with lighting or projection technology.
False
To this day the most common form of sound reproduction technology in the theatre is reel-to-reel tape
False
1. An example of the postmodernist mixing of high and low art is the musical The Lion King.
TRUE
1. Many believe that the opening of Fiddler on the Roof in 1964 marked the end of the golden age of "book" musicals and yet 40 years later the Book Musical once again has established a major presence in Broadway Theatres.
TRUE
1. One of the major playwrights to come out of the Cuban American theater is Maria Irene Fornes.
TRUE
The objectives of the scene designer do not include:
assisting in the blocking of the production
Lighting changes typically programmed in a computerized control system are referred to as:
cues
To acquire the special physical and vocal skills that stage performance demands is an _______ aspect of acting.
external
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
Each of us fills only one social role.
false
Lee Strasberg, who headed the Actor's Studio Training in New York City for many years established a style of training that particularly emphasized a technique for prompting actor emotions that was almost identical to the method that Stanislavski used later in his career known as emotional recall.
false
Once a society determines the characteristics of a social role, these characteristics cannot be changed.
false
Prior to 1874, when Georg II, the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen began supervising every element of his theatrical productions, the function of the director did not exist.
false
Even more contemporary actor training methods based on 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 Stanislavski around the turn of the 20th Century.
true
A circular revolving unit that is set into the floor which can turn mechanically to bring one set into view as another disappears is a:
turntable
Reflective quality.
Fabric
1. Opera was originated by men who thought they were imitating Greek drama.
TRUE
One of the differences between acting in daily life and acting in theater is that actors and actresses are always being:
observed
A fairly complete sketch made by the scene designer, usually done in color, is called a:
rendering
1. El Teatro Campesino is one of the major theaters to arise in Native American theater.
FALSE
1. It was not until the twentieth century that African American performers presented Shakespeare.
FALSE
1. The Princess musicals were a series of musicals set in a faraway kingdom, with plots that contained a high degree of fairy-tale elements.
FALSE
Costume designers rarely meet the actors who will be wearing their costumes, leaving those responsibilities to the stage manager.
FALSE
The most realistic makeup designs being used in the world of theatre are most often found in Japanese Kabuki Theatre presentations.
FALSE
When costumes are taken from inventory or rented from a costume house, this is known as rendering a costume
FALSE
1. Even in today's world replete with global communication and exchange of ideas and commerce there is a surprising lack of theatrical exchange around the world.
False
Actresses sometimes wore a silly smile, even in tragic scenes.
French 17th century theater
Moliere commented on acting in The Impromptu of Versailles
French 17th century theater
1. Joshua Sobol is the Israeli dramatist who wrote an important play about the Nazi occupation of Lithuania called
Ghetto
What does Hamlet (Shakespeare) mean when he speaks to the players and says?... "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." ...What Hamlet means is
I would rather have you speak honestly and believably rather than just shouting the lines out loud
1. Of the following, which landmark musical by George and Ira Gershwin focused on the black community of "Catfish Row" with the songs "Summertime" and "Bess, You Is My Woman Now"?
Porgy and Bess
Distinguishing major from minor characters.
Relationships
1. Both Performance Art and Postmodernist approaches to theatrical production are more similar to the work of an Auteur Director's since the scripted dramatic work is subjugated to the creative vision and focus of the director.
TRUE
1. Even though the three longest running musicals in Broadway history were 1980's British imports the modern musical theater form is predominantly a product of American talent and creativity.
TRUE
1. It was rare to see African American performers on the stage in nineteenth century America.
TRUE
1. 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
1. Shakespeare is alive and well in the US with some 150 producing Shakespeare festivals around the country with 30 in California alone.
TRUE
1. The contemporary musicals Miss Saigon and Rent were based on the world famous operas Madame Butterfly and La Boheme respectively.
TRUE
1. The proliferation of film, television, DVD's, computer games etc. are electronic forms of entertainment that all present a threat to the continuation of live theatre.
TRUE
1. The true American musical combining music, dance, and a singular dramatic story at the center was first established in the late 1920's with the musical Showboat.
TRUE
The invention of Velcro and/or the use of Whopper Poppers have been a great help in quick backstage costume changes.
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 performer is required to play several roles in the same play, that is called:
doubling
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
Asian Theatre Training and the type of Actor training that is common in this country are virtually the same kind of training that focuses on the same kind of movement and vocal performance styles.
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
Stanislavski completed most of his writings about acting technique based on his work with Russian Playwrights Eleonora Duse and Fyodor Chaliapin who were developing more realistic characters in their plays at this same time in history.
false
In America, the interpretation of Stanislavski's ideas by Lee Strasberg at the Actor's Studio has caused controversy, because many people feel that he emphasized:
only the emotional side of Stanislavski's technique
1. Of the following, which Western theatre forms influenced theatre in Asia?
realism and departures from realism
A low platform on wheels upon which set pieces and even actors are brought onstage is called a:
wagon
