Quiz 1 Flashcards
hese include radio, film, television, digital streaming:
mediated arts.
fixed arts.
Open Air Theatrical productions in London.
Broadway productions.
Mediated art
Which one is a fixed object?
Walt Whitman’s Collection of Poems
Dr. Vaughan’s broadcast of the Top 12 Countdown of Today’s Hottest Hits.
a live performance of Don Giovanni.
An episode of The Young and the Restless on CBS Television.
Walt Whitman’s Collection of Poems
The statue of the Winged Victory at the Louvre Museum in Paris is a
performing art.
fixed object.
mediated art.
part of George Gershwin’s An American in Paris.
Fixed arts
Which word does not apply to live theatre?
immediate
spontaneous
delayed
participatory
Delayed
Which one does not have a transitory nature?
A live performance of the opera Don Giovanni by Mozart.
The Winged Victory
A weather bulletin on EMCC radio or WTVA News
any of the mediated arts
The Winged Victory
Books often focus on people, but they can also focus on science or nature; music focuses on sound; abstract painting and sculpture focus on shapes, colors, and forms. Uniquely among the arts, theatre focuses on one thing and one thing only:
language.
the audience
human beings (as characters in a play).
entertaining.
Human beings
Some audiences are general, i.e., the thousands attending outdoor productions at Shakespeare festivals. Other audiences are more homogeneous, such as spectators at a high school play. If you attend a production with many other people you know, you’ll likely feel part of the group experience. The information in question 7 relates to what?
Fixed arts
How audience composition affects the theatre experience.
Plots
Aesthetic distance
How audience composition affects the theatre experience.
The theatre most of us will experience requires a degree of distancing, in the same way that all art requires a certain perspective. What is the term for physical or psychological separation or detachment of audience from dramatic action, usually considered necessary for artistic illusion.
immersive theatre
mediation
aesthetic distance
the fourth wall
Aesthetic distance
Illusion may start with the creators of theatre, but it’s completed by the audience. In Macbeth three witches appear; the ghost of Banquo interrupts the banquet.
A flashback is an abrupt movement from the present to the past and back again.
Symbols and metaphors are also seen in theatrical productions.
All these depend upon
the creativity of the playwright.
the transitory nature of theatre
stage reality.
the imagination of the audience.
the imagination of the audience.
n theatre, a realistic element is one that resembles
illogicality.
observable reality.
pantomime.
theatrical symbols.
Observable reality
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!
The preceding lines are from
the German playwright Bertolt Brecht.
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry.
King Lear by Shakespeare.
Hamlet: Prince of Denmark by Shakespeare.
King Lear by Shakepeare
When you attend a play you bring more than your mere presence; you bring a background of personal knowledge and a set of expectations that shape our theatre experience. Which factor isn’t involved in this background and set of expectations?
Your awareness of the social, political, and philosophical world in which the play was written or produced
Your knowledge about the play and playwright
Your knowledge of Greek tragedies about Oedipus Rex, Electra, Antigone, and more.
Your anticipations of what will happen
Your knowledge of Greek tragedies about Oedipus Rex, Electra, Antigone, and more.
In the early twentieth century, this developed, and, at first, it was considered a freakish aberration, an unattractive jumble of jagged lines and patches of color with no relation to nature, truth, or anything human. In time, however, this came to be recognized as a genuine movement. The disjointed and fragmentary lines of abstract art seemed to reflect the quality of much of modern life.
aesthetic art
Off Broadway
Off-Off Broadway
abstract painting
Abstract painting
Which one of the following relates to expectations, the variety of experiences in modern theatre?
Broadway and Touring Theatre
Our family and personal history, knowledge and memories
Eurydice by playwright Sarah Ruhl
None of the above
Broadway and Touring Theatre
This one is sometimes known as regional theatre:
Off Broadway
Resident professional theatre
Theatre for youth
Diverse and global
Resident professional theatre
This is someone who observes theatre and then analyzes and comments on it and ideally serves as a knowledgeable and highly sensitive audience member.
critic
This is a basic stage arrangement and known as the picture frame stage.
proscenium
arena
thrust
black box
proscenium
This is a basic stage arrangement that’s sometimes called a circle stage.
Proscenium
Arena
Thrust
Black Box
Proscenium
This one is surrounded on three sides by audience seating:
Renaissance
Rake
Picture-Frame Stage
Thrust
thrust
This term came from the idea of the proscenium opening as a transparent glass through which the audience sees what’s happening within the giant picture frame.
illusion
third wall
fourth wall
thrust
Fourth wall
This is slanted downward from the back of the proscenium stage – it’s the portion reserved for the audience.
thrust
immersive theatre
amphitheater
front of house
Front of house
In ancient Greek theatre, this was the circular acting area at the base of the hillside amphitheater, but in modern usage, it’s the main floor of the theatre, where the audience sits.
black box
orchestra
right stage wing
left stage wing
Orchestra
“Stage right” and “stage left” mean the right side and the left side of the stage, respectively, as seen from the position or view of
a spectator facing the stage.
a performer facing the audience.
a performer facing the audience.
The area nearest the audience is known as
upstage.
downstage.
center stage
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Downstage
The members of the audience are seated on four sides in a circle. The audience is close to the action onstage. This is a
proscenium.
arena.
thrust
corral
Arena
Which one isn’t a characteristic of the thrust stage?
three-quarters seating
U-shape arrangement
giant picture frame
the audience sits in a semi-circle
Giant picture frame
Which one was developed by the classical Greeks for their tragedies and comedies? An original prototype of this kind of stage is the amphitheater in Epidaurus, Greece.
Off Broadway
Proscenium
immersive theatre
thrust
arena
Thrust
Used from the 13th century through the 15th century, religious plays were performed on this type stage. It was a platform on wheels to be moved from venue to venue and the audience stood on three sides. The word “platform” that we use in our vernacular in describing forms of media came from this type. Think of this as an example of the thrust stage during medieval times.
corral
wagon stage
Medieval stage
black box
Wagon stage
Theatre building of the Spanish golden age, usually located in the courtyard of a series of adjoining buildings:
corral
wagon stage
platform stage
black box
Corral
Who proposed the idea of abolishing the stage and auditorium and replace them with a single site, without partition or barrier of any kind, which will become the theater of the action?
Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)
Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Konstantine Stanislavski (1873-1938)
Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)
This arrangement is sometimes called a corridor stage. The audience sits on opposite sides facing each other. It’s like the catwalk used in fashion shows.
Alley or traverse
Created and Found Spaces
The Cat
Elizabethan Playhouse
Alley or tranerse
An environment in which there is more than one playing area:
immersive theatre
adapted spaces
multi-focus theatre
black box
Multi-focus theatre
In this kind of production, the audience is asked to be actively involved.
immersive theatre
cyclic theatre
Community Theatre
stage house
Immersive theatre
