Theatre Final

Kabuki theatre was originated by

A Shinto priestess

________ most accurately defines the term unities?

A neoclassicist mandate for playwrights, formulated by Italian critics.

The central conflict and movement through a drama is referred to as the ______ of the play?

Action

Who is considered the first important Greek dramatist?

Aeschylus

Provides the most intimate performance space?

Arena stage

6-8 weeks out

Auditions, Callbacks, Castings

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

Blocking

When a costume is created in a shop it is called?

Building

The activity of a performer onstage, such as the opening of a letter or making of a bed, is described as?

Business

_____ Is not one of the Neoclassical rules of unity?

Character

A type of play that pokes fun at the social manners of the upper class is?

Comedy of manners

Which person blocks or stages the play?

Director

Which person researches productions and criticism?

Dramaturg

Main task of the modern-day director is to?

Draw disparate elements together to create a unified

Last few rehearsals

Dress rehearsals

A movie theatre is configured like a thrust theatre.

False

Commedia characters did not wear costumes.

False

Kathakali is an indian dance-drama form.

False

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

False

The plot and the story are the same thing.

False

Thespis is considered the first playwright.

False

Unlike African Americans, Asians escaped being cast as stereotypes.

False

Within the theatrical setting, the designer tends to act independently?

False

When a beam of light is aimed at a particular area on the stage, it is said to be

Focused

The word agitpop applies to?

Have a strong, political or social agenda

Who believed that drama should both instruct and entertain?

Horace

Bunraku

Japanese puppet theatre

The dramatic form that emphasizes suspense and excitement and is primarily escapist in form

Melodrama

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

Morality play

Sound called for in the script that usually comes from recognizable sources is called?

Motivated sound

In a ______, action occurs on several stages simultaneously?

Multifocus theatre

_______ is not a necessary component of a theatrical event?

Music

A _____ dramatizes a series of biblical events.

Mystery play

Which two forms of Asian theatre include long narrow bridges used for actor entrances?

No and kabuki

Which person is responsible for raising money to finance the productions?

Producer

Which person oversees the budget?

Producer

3-6 months out

Production team creative meetings

A "fourth wall theatre" describes?

Proscenium stage

The term nuyorican refers to

Puerto Rican culture in New York

When costumes are taken from inventory it is called?

Pulling

First few rehersals

Read thru + table work

The strum und drag (storm and stress) movement was the forerunner of?

Romanticism

A characteristic of all art is that it is?

Selective

Native American and feminist theatre company that combines feminism, storytelling and other theatrical traditions.

Spiderwoman Theatre

Which person communicates the rehearsal schedules to performers?

Stage manager

It is very important for directors to create interesting, visual composition with the actors in space: this is known as creating effective?

Stage pictures

One week before

Technical rehersals

This element is an essential aspect of the performing arts?

The need for an interpreter.

Developed by the Greeks ______ was also the type of threatre space used during Shakespeare's time?

Thrust stage

A designer's ground plan shows the exact locations of the scenic elements in a set?

True

A light plot is a detailed drafting of the theatre space that indicates where each lighting instrument is placed.

True

Art can best be understood as a mirror: an extension or projection of how we live, think and feel.

True

As long as there have been theatrical productions, there has been someone filling the role as director.

True

As opposed to music and the visual arts, theatre is a fully collaborative art form involving different specialists who share a common vision for a unified production.

True

Individual scenic units called mansinos were created for medieval cycle plays and actors performed in front of them.

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 troops, the by boys then finally by all male companies.

True

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

True

One disadvantage of the proscenium stage is that it tends to lose the intimacy that is found in other types of theatre spaces.

True

The federal theatre project of the 1930's was created to help theatre artists through the Great Depression

True

The overriding concern of the neoclassical was versimilitude.

True

The presence of conflict and tension is necessary for drama to exist.

True

Theatre is the foundation of all drama.

True

Theatre of the Oppressed refers to a theatrical movement started by playwright Augusto Boal

True

Theatre was so popular in the nineteenth century that several theatre riots resulted from audiences' passion.

True

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

True

To accommodate the new middle class audience, both continental and English theatres became larger during the eighteenth century.

True

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

True

A stage set should tell the audience?

When the play takes place, where it takes place and what kind of characters the play is about

What term is used when all lights are shut off?

blackout

First few weeks

blocking rehersals

The type of performance space associated with street theatre is the

created, or found space

The Bibiena family is noted for their work as?

designers

satire

employs wit and irony to expose evil and foolishness

The noises of everday life that help create verisimilitude of production are called

environmental sounds

Naturalism

everything on stage in this form of theatre looks like it was lifted directly from everyday life.

Shadow puppets are actually made of what material?

intricately carved leather

tragic comedy

mixes serious and comedy

comedy

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

Represenatative/Quintessenntial characters

ordinary characters who embody an entire group

The presentation of extended autobiographical monolgues is characteristic of

performance art

Not an innovation in the nineteenth century theatre architecture?

pole and chariot system for scene change

The scene-shifting method of changing wings to back shutters was developed by Italian Giacomo Torelli is known as?

pole-and-chariot system.

tradgey

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

heroic drama

similar to tragedy, but with an optimistic worldview

domestic drama

stories of everyday people, centered on family

Strike

take down set.

Postmodernist directors are noted for

textual deconstruction

Theatre of cruelty

theatrical movement often bombards the viewers senses

farce

thrives on exaggeration, broad physical humor, elaborate plots and laughter

Burlesque

type of comic that relies on gross exaggeration and occasional vulgarity

From a practical standpoint, the chief function of lighting is for?

visibilty

In a well-made play, the obligatory scene is the scene?

wherein the opposed characters confront each other

Last few weeks

work/run rehersals