Past Tests Flashcards
1
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Theatre is said to be immediate, which means…
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as live actors performing in the same room as a live audience.
2
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The three basic elements of theatre are?
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What is performed, the performance, and the audience.
3
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What is not characteristic of commedia dell’arte?
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Scripts with dialogue
4
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Willing suspension of disbelief is when?
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The audience grants the characters temporary reality.
5
Q
What sets the action in motion in a play?
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The inciting incident.
6
Q
Comedy is based on what?
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A deviation from normality
7
Q
The overall meaning of a play’s action?
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Thought
8
Q
Aristotle described his six elements of tragedy in…
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the Poetics
9
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Who is often called the founder of modern drama?
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Ibsen
10
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Playwrights often revise their plays even up to opening night and beyond.
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True
11
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Which is not a concern of the playwright?
A
Spelling and grammar
12
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Plot is?
A
Overall structure of the play
13
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This theatre space has the audience on three sides.
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Thrust
14
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Which theatre uses a large arch to separate the audience from the stage?
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Proscenium
15
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The theatre space with the audience on all four sides of the acting space?
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Arena
16
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Wagner’s Bayreuth theatre was the first to use?
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Fan-shaped auditorium
17
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Used to represent walls on stage?
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Flats
18
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The Technical Director is often in charge of?
A
The building of the scenery
19
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The drawn to scale layout of the set on the stage?
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Floor plan
20
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A black box theatre?
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can be adapted to different stage configurations.
21
Q
One major aspect of stage makeup is?
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To restore color and form that has been diminished by stage lighting.
22
Q
Which designer helps to define the characters?
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Costume Designer
23
Q
A costume chart is used for what?
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A broad organization of the characters’ costumes
24
Q
One of the most important functions of lighting design is?
A
Enhance mood and atmosphere
25
A light plot is a?
A drawing of the lighting instruments with specifications.
26
Etched filters that break light into patterns of light and shadow?
Gobos
27
An example of sound design indicating location would be?
A foghorn
28
Music is often a component of sound design.
True
29
Who is responsible for casting the play?
The director
30
Who is responsible for blocking the play?
The director
31
A production concept is what?
The director's vision for the production.
32
The given circumstances can be?
The basic who, what, when, and where of the situation.
33
What is subtext?
The underlying meaning of the lines
34
Most actor training today occurs where?
Colleges and universities
35
Three psychological concepts from the Stanislavsky system are?
Objective, obstacle, and action
36
The most important assistant of the Director?
The Stage Manager
37
Shakespeare wrote during which time period?
Elizabethan/Jacobean
38
An actor's innate ability is something that can be taught.
False
39
The first director in the modern sense of the term is?
Saxe-Meiningen
40
Whose approach to acting had the greatest impact on the 20th century?
Stanislavsky
41
The great playwrights, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides wrote in the
fifth century BCE
42
Theatron means?
"Seeing Place"
43
Theatre is said to be immediate, which means...
as live actors performing in the same room as a live audience.
44
Theatre may have begun through
storytelling
45
Roman characters wearing a red wig signified that they were a?
slave
46
Roman characters wearing a blonde wig signified that they were a?
courtesan
47
The three basic elements of theatre are?
What is performed, the performance, and the audience.
48
Theatre that was primarily performed in churches or monasteries is called?
liturgical drama
49
Allegorical plays about humans fighting moral temptations were called?
Morality plays
50
Willing Suspension of Disbelief is when
the audience grants the characters temporary reality.
51
According to ancient commentators, Thespis
won the first tragedy contest at the City Dionysia.
52
The major religious festival in ancient Athens featuring theatre was called
City Dionysia
53
The masks used by actors in ancient Greece were made of?
Light materials such as cork, linen, or very light wood
54
Roman comedies were based on Greek plays.
True
55
The ancient Greek and Roman theatres originally were temporary structures that later became permanent stone ones.
True
56
What is a skene?
A structure that served as an architectural background.
57
Seneca was very influential for tragedy writers during Shakespeare's age.
True
58
The Cycle Plays were stories from
the Bible.
59
The earliest known liturgical play is called?
Quem Quaeritis.
60
Arlecchino's wooden sword is the basis for calling physical humor slapstick.
True
61
Comic business in commedia dell arte was called a zanni?
False - lazzi
62
Shakespeare wrote during which time period?
Elizabethan
63
The Catholic festival that became associated with medieval drama was called?
Corpus Christi
64
The theatre became a commercial activity during which time period?
Elizabethan
65
Shakespeare's company performed at?
the Globe
66
What is not characteristic of commedia dell arte?
Scripts with dialogue
67
Theatre is not an art, but an entertainment.
False - it is an art
68
The Abydos Passion Play was performed in?
Egypt
69
What were the pageant wagons used for?
English Cycle Plays, such as in Wakefield.
70
According to the text, the Roman scaena frons was...
a facade across the back of the stage.
71
Cycle plays in England ceased because?
Elizabeth I outlawed them.
72
Shakespeare and Moliere both wrote plays based on plays by?
Plautus
73
What sets the action in motion in a play?
Inciting incident
74
Most plays have only one complication
False - most have multiple
75
Henrik Ibsen is often called the founder of modern drama.
True
76
The majority of plays are organized by?
Cause-to-effect
77
The highest point of tension in a play is the?
Climax
78
Plot is?
Overall structure of the play
79
The term "subtext" means?
The character's true meaning beneath the surface of their communication.
80
The leading character of a tragedy is most commonly known as the
Protagonist
81
The four levels of characterization are?
Physical, societal, psychological, and moral.
82
Which form of drama tried to show the causes of heredity and environment and used common people as its characters?
Realism
83
The events or actions of secondary interest that often provide contrast to the main plot is called?
Subplot
84
This genre mixes serious and comic to create a serious play that ends happily.
Tragicomedy
85
This genre features a clearly defined world of good and evil.
Melodrama
86
Throughout most of theatre history the two basic dramatic forms have been?
Comedy and tragedy
87
The two great periods of tragedy are?
Ancient Greece and Elizabethan England
88
Style in drama results from what?
A distinctive mode of expression.
89
Comedy is based on what?
A deviation from normality.
90
The overall meaning of the play's action is called?
Thought
91
All of the visual elements of a play is called?
Spectacle
92
Aristotle described his six elements of tragedy in?
The Poetics
93
The background information the audience must have in order to understand what is going on in the action of a play is known as
Exposition
94
The_________ comes after the climax.
denouement
95
Which of the following is not a concern of the playwright?
Spelling and grammar
96
Playwrights often like to do what while writing a play?
Have a group of people read the play aloud
97
Getting a play produced for the first time is actually quite easy.
False - it is hard
98
Romanticism was in many regards a reaction against Neo-Classicism.
True
99
The dramaturg has basically two functions, which are?
Literary management, production dramaturgy
100
The first acknowledged dramaturg was?
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
101
Shakespeare wrote Hamlet knowing who were going to play the roles.
True
102
Which dramatic form is often concerned about the nature of human existence, morality, or human relationships?
Tragedy
103
Which dramatic form often has plot devices such as mistaken identities, abductions, and hidden documents?
Melodrama
104
Three things that playwrights do to language are?
Select, arrange, and heighten
105
The initial stage of playwriting is typically an isolated and personal process.
True
106
Any new element that changes the direction of the action is called?
A complication
107
One of the most important functions of lighting design is?
Enhance mood and atmosphere
108
An instrument schedule is what?
A spreadsheet of the lighting instruments indicating specifications
109
Wagner's Bayreuth Theatre had the first?
fan-shaped auditorium
110
One aspect of makeup is
To restore color and form that has been diminished by stage lighting.
111
A costume chart is used for what?
A broad organization of the characters' costumes.
112
An example of sound design indicating location would be?
A trainwhistle
113
The technical director is often in charge of
The building of scenery
114
Which designer helps to define the characters?
The costume designer
115
This theatre space has the audience on three sides
Thrust
116
Etched filters that break light into patterns of light and shadow are called?
Gobos
117
The four categories of painted makeup are?
Age, straight/character, racial/ethnic, and special painted effects
118
A Flexible Space is?
The separation of the actors and audience is variable.
119
A light plot is what?
A drawing of the lighting instruments with specifications
120
The lights are mounted and focused by?
The master electrician and the electrics crew
121
One type of a three-dimensional scenic unit is?
Platforms
122
Ellipsoidals are considered to be?
Spotlights
123
What is used to create a color in stage lighting?
Subtractive color mixing
124
What is used to evaluate costumes without the distraction of a performance?
A dress parade
125
Dressers are?
Assistants who help actors with quick changes
126
A platform on casters is called?
A wagon.
127
A newer development in scene design is?
Computer-assisted design. (CAD)
128
Who typically applies the makeup on the actor?
the actor applies their own makeup
129
Music is often a component of the sound design?
True
130
Which theatre often uses a large arch to separate audience from the stage?
Proscenium
131
The theatre space which has the audience on four sides of the acting area is called?
Arena theatre
132
The costumer's working drawing is a?
Colored sketch
133
An example of a set prop and a hand prop:
Sofa, soda bottle
134
Used to present walls on stage?
Flats
135
A blackbox theatre?
Can be adapted to different stage configurations.
136
A dressing list is used for what?
To remind the actors what they wear and when.
137
Appia's designs were greatly enhanced by?
improvements in lighting technology
138
The drawn to scale layout of the set on the stage?
Floor plan
139
Theatres often rent costumes at...
Costume rental houses
140
To tell an actor to "open up" means what?
To turn slightly more towards the audience.
141
Some specialized training that actors usually seek are in?
Dancing, fencing, and singing
142
Whose approach had the greatest impact on 20th century acting?
Stanislavsky
143
The actor's job interview is the?
auditions
144
To focus means?
To look or turn towards someone or something.
145
Early in the rehearsal period is the time for actors to?
Learn blocking
146
What is a "translation" approach?
Find the true meaning of the play under the surface details.
147
Beats are?
A unit of action
148
What did Reinhardt establish as the dominant directorial approach?
Eclecticism
149
Watching other people, such as for dominant behavior patterns, can be called observation?
True
150
What are some of the factors in casting an actor?
Flexibility, emotional range, and perhaps physical characteristics
151
Three psychological concepts from Stanislavsky’s system are?
Objective, obstacle, and action
152
Upstage and downstage means?
Upstage is toward the back of the stage and downstage is closer to the audience.
153
When handling stage props actors must use their?
Imagination
154
The first director in the modern sense is?
Saxe-Meiningen
155
What is subtext?
The underlying meaning of the lines.
156
This member of the production team is the director's surrogate during performances?
The Stage Manager
157
The variable factors of speech are?
Articulation, pronunciation, and projection
158
Stage directions, such as left and right are given from whose point of view?
The actor
159
In a musical one of the more complex directorial duties is?
Integrating the spoken lines with songs and dance.
160
A production concept is what?
The director's vision for the production.
161
Who actually runs the performances?
The Stage Manager
162
Business is small physical action, such as when actors drink a glass of wine.
True
163
The given circumstances can be?
The basic who, what, when, and where of the situation.
164
Affective memory was developed by?
Stanislavsky
165
The four levels of characterization are?
Biological, sociological, psychological, and ethical
166
An actor with little experience or training will never be cast in a professional production?
False - they could be
167
A typical director and designer relationship is?
The director and designers work well when all are satisfied
168
Imagination works how?
by asking "as if."
169
Blocking is large physical action such as when actors walk across the stage?
True
170
Who is responsible for the blocking of the play?
The director
171
Typically memorization is done by?
Going over the lines many times.
172
Technical rehearsals are followed by?
Dress rehearsals
173
Who is responsible for the spine of the play?
The director
174
The first independent theatre was the Theatre Libre founded by?
Antoine
175
Who is responsible for casting the play?
The director
