Final

Question 1

What time period is Asian Origins?

Answer 1

350- 1350 c.e

Question 2

What does Asian theater rely more on?

Answer 2

Dance

Question 3

(Indian Theater) What is Sanskrit?

Answer 3

Language of the Noble class

Question 4

(Indian Theater) What is the Natyasastra?

Answer 4

The study of theater

Question 5

(Indian Theater) What is Sudtradhara?

Answer 5

Chief Actor and manager

Question 6

(Indian Theater) What is Kathakali?

Answer 6

A well-known dance-drama form

Question 7

(Indian Theater) What gender performs?

Answer 7

Men were main performers but women also performed.

Question 8

What time period is early Chinese Theater?

Answer 8

200 B.C.E

Question 9

(Chinese Theater) What did they perform?

Answer 9

Skits, Pantomimes, juggling, sinings, dancing

Question 10

(Chinese Theater) What is a pear garden?

Answer 10

A kind of actors training institute in the capital

Question 11

(Chinese Theater) what is a Nanxi?

Answer 11

Southern Drama

Question 12

(Chinese Theater) what is a Sheng?

Answer 12

Male character

Question 13

(Chinese Theater) What is a Dan?

Answer 13

Female character

Question 14

(Chinese Theater) What is a Jing?

Answer 14

Painted Face

Question 15

(Chinese Theater) What is a Chou?

Answer 15

Clown

Question 16

(Japanese Theater) What is Nō?

Answer 16

Earliest form of Japanese Theater

Question 17

(Japanese Theater) What is a Shite?

Answer 17

Main character, often masked

Question 18

(Japanese Theater) What is a Waki?

Answer 18

A supporting character

Question 19

(Japanese Theater) What is a Tsure?

Answer 19

An accompanying role

Question 20

(Japanese Theater) What is a kyōgen?

Answer 20

A comic character

Question 21

From audience perspective, Where is upstage on a stage?

Answer 21

Back of the stage

Question 22

From audience perspective, Where is right?

Answer 22

The left side of stage

Question 23

What is the front part of the stage called?

Answer 23

Apron

Question 24

(Nō Theater) What is a Hashingkari?

Answer 24

Bridge leading from actor’s room off stage to stage

Question 25

What is Bunraku?

Answer 25

Pupper theater

Question 26

when did Bunraku become popular?

Answer 26

19th century

Question 27

Forms of Dramatic structure?

Answer 27

Ritual, Patterns, Cyclical, Serial

Question 28

(Stage Lighting) What is intensity?

Answer 28

Relative brightness. Dimmers

Question 29

(Stage Lighting) What creates the color?

Answer 29

Gels

Question 30

(Stage Lighting) What is distribution/direction

Answer 30

the way the source is placed on or near the stage, forcing the light into a certain angle. Downlight / backlight / frontlight

Question 31

(Stage Lighting) What is Movement?

Answer 31

create a sense of this by shifting the audience focus by adjusting the visual composition of the stage picture

Question 32

Who is Aeschylus?

Answer 32

Greek dramatist who called for a second actor who could play different parts when put on different masks

Question 33

Who is Sophocles?

Answer 33

Built on dramatic form that Aeschylus begun, added a third actor

Question 34

Who is Euripides?

Answer 34

Considered the most modern, portrayed female characters sympathetically, chorus from 12-15, treated gods skeptically

Question 35

What lighting control is Black-out?

Answer 35

All lights shut off at once

Question 36

What lighting control is fade?

Answer 36

Lights dim slowly

Question 37

What lighting control is cross-fade?

Answer 37

One set of lights go down while another comes up

Question 38

What lighting control is split cross fade

Answer 38

lights that are coming up are on a different fade count from the lights coming down

Question 39

What is sound reproduction?

Answer 39

the use of motivated or environmental sounds

Question 40

What is Sound reinforcement?

Answer 40

amplification of sound

Question 41

(Greece) What is a Thespis?

Answer 41

a performer, stepped out of the chorus and became a principle actor

Question 42

What are the six elements of drama?

Answer 42

Plot, character, thought or theme, language, music, spectacle

Question 43

What does Renaissance refer to?

Answer 43

an awakening of the arts and learning in the Western world

Question 44

(Italian Theater) What is Intermezzi?

Answer 44

A short piece depicting mythological tales, require spectacular scenic effects

Question 45

(Italian Theater) What is a pastoral?

Answer 45

Subject is more romance, not overly sexual, Characters are shepherds and mythological creatures

Question 46

What is a Commedia dell’arte?

Answer 46

“Comedy of professional artists”, given scenario not scripts

Question 47

What is the English Renaissance period called?

Answer 47

The Elizabethan period

Question 48

Who is Christopher Marlowe?

Answer 48

Advanced the art of dramatic structure, wrote Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine, and Edward 2. Established Blank verse

Question 49

What is Blank Verse?

Answer 49

Without Rhyme

Question 50

Who was William Shakespeare?

Answer 50

English playwright and poet, regarded as greatest writer in english language

Question 51

What does "Casting against type" mean?

Answer 51

When a performer is cast in a role that they do not appear right for, usually done for comic or satiric purposes

Question 52

What is blocking?

Answer 52

Deciding when and where performers move and position themselves on stage

Question 53

What are some tragedies?

Answer 53

Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth

Question 54

What are some comedies?

Answer 54

twelfth night or what you will, A midsummers night dream, As you like it, Much ado about nothing

Question 55

What are some Histories?

Answer 55

Richard III, King John, Henry IV, Henry V

Question 56

Who are western theater pioneers?

Answer 56

Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov

Question 57

When does the Modern Era begin?

Answer 57

Late 19th century and continues to this day

Question 58

What profound changes came with the modern era?

Answer 58

Religion, Philosophy, psychology, and economics

Question 59

What problems came from the modern era?

Answer 59

Tremendous unrest in both Europe and Asia, Extremes of Fascism

Question 60

What is theatrical realism?

Answer 60

Everything on stage is made to resemble observable, everyday life. power lies in credibility and sense of identification

Question 61

Who is considered the founder of realistic drama?

Answer 61

Henrik Ibsen

Question 62

What did Anton Chekhov do?

Answer 62

Moved away from melodramatic elements and created a blend of tragedy and comedy