Final Exam Quizlets

Question 1

Watching other people, such as for dominant behavior patterns, can be called observation.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Who is responsible for casting the play?

Answer 2

The director

Question 3

The first independent theatre was the Theatre Libre founded by?

Answer 3

Antoine

Question 4

Who is responsible for the blocking of the play?

Answer 4

The director

Question 5

The first director in the modern sense is?

Answer 5

Saxe-Meiningen

Question 6

Who is responsible for the spine of the play?

Answer 6

The director

Question 7

Blocking is large physical action such as when actors walk across the stage.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Business is small physical action, such as when actors drink a glass of wine.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Technical rehearsals are followed by?

Answer 9

Dress Rehearsals

Question 10

Stage directions, such as left and right are given from whose point of view?

Answer 10

The actor

Question 11

A production concept is what?

Answer 11

The director’s vision for the production

Question 12

What is a “translation” approach?

Answer 12

Find the true meaning of the play under the surface details.

Question 13

The given circumstances can be?

Answer 13

The basic who, what, when, and where of the situation.

Question 14

A typical director and designer relationship is?

Answer 14

The director and designers work well when all are satisfied.

Question 15

Upstage and downstage means?

Answer 15

Upstage is toward the back of the stage and downstage is closer to the audience.

Question 16

What are some of the factors in casting an actor?

Answer 16

Flexibility, emotional range, and perhaps physical characteristics.

Question 17

In a musical one of the more complex directorial duties is?

Answer 17

Integrating the spoken lines with songs and dance.

Question 18

To tell an actor to “open up” means what?

Answer 18

To turn slightly more towards the audience.

Question 19

To focus means?

Answer 19

To look or turn towards someone or something.

Question 20

Whose approach had the greatest impact on 20th century acting?

Answer 20

Stanislavsky

Question 21

The variable factors of speech are?

Answer 21

Articulation, pronunciation, and projection

Question 22

Some specialized training that actors usually seek are in?

Answer 22

Dancing, fencing, and singing

Question 23

Imagination works how?

Answer 23

by asking “as if.”

Question 24

When handling stage props actors must use their?

Answer 24

Imagination

Question 25

Beats are?

Answer 25

A unit of action

Question 26

What did Reinhardt establish as the dominant directorial approach?

Answer 26

Eclecticism

Question 27

The four levels of characterization are?

Answer 27

Biological, sociological, psychological, and ethical

Question 28

Affective memory was developed by?

Answer 28

Stanislavsky

Question 29

What is subtext?

Answer 29

The underlying meaning of the lines

Question 30

Three psychological concepts from Stanislavsky’s system are?

Answer 30

Objective, obstacle, and action

Question 31

An actor with little experience or training will never be cast in a professional production?

Answer 31

False

Question 32

The actor’s job interview is the?

Answer 32

auditions

Question 33

Typically memorization is done by?

Answer 33

Going over the lines many times.

Question 34

Early in the rehearsal period is the time for actors to?

Answer 34

Learn blocking

Question 35

This member of the production team is the director’s surrogate during performances?

Answer 35

The Stage Manager

Question 36

Who actually runs the performances?

Answer 36

The Stage Manager

Question 37

One aspect of makeup is

Answer 37

To restore color and form that has been diminished by stage lighting.

Question 38

A Flexible Space is?

Answer 38

The separation of the actors and audience is variable.

Question 39

This theatre space has the audience on three sides

Answer 39

Thrust

Question 40

An example of a set prop and a hand prop:

Answer 40

Sofa, soda bottle

Question 41

Which theatre often uses a large arch to separate audience from the stage?

Answer 41

Proscenium

Question 42

A newer development in scene design is?

Answer 42

Computer-assisted design.

Question 43

The theatre space which has the audience on four sides of the acting area is called?

Answer 43

Arena theatre

Question 44

Etched filters that break light into patterns of light and shadow are called?

Answer 44

Gobos

Question 45

Ellipsoidals are considered to be?

Answer 45

Spotlights