Review

Question 0

Catharsis

Answer 0

Purging of emotion

Question 1

What did Aristotle mean by “pity and fear “ when watching a tragedy?

Answer 1

Pity the hero fear for themselves

Question 2

Name of the essay Aristotle wrote that discussed theatre

Answer 2

The poetics

Question 3

3 unities

Answer 3

Time- 24hrs
Place- location
Action- 1 plot

Question 4

3 levels of comedy

Answer 4

High- verbal
Low- physical
Situational- domestic

Question 5

Tragicomedy

Answer 5

Serious topics that provoke laughter & express the lack of coherent values in the world

Question 6

Melodrama

Answer 6

Action-adventure good versus evil

Question 7

Realism

Answer 7

Real true to life

Question 8

Passion plays

Answer 8

Plays about the crucifixion of Christ

Question 9

Neoclassicism

Answer 9

Went back to Aristotle’s ideas

Question 10

Was violent shown on stage in ancient Greek theater

Answer 10

No

Question 11

Was it the Greeks or the Romans who perform theater as a religious ritual

Answer 11

The Greeks worshiped Dionysus

Question 12

For major ancient Greek playwrights

Answer 12

Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes
Aeschylus

Question 13

When was the Elizabethan era

Answer 13

Late 1500s to early 1600s

Question 14

What might have you seen if you attended theater during the Elizabethan era

Answer 14

No women
groundlings
and three tiered seating

Question 15

When was Shakespeare writing

Answer 15

Late 1500s to early 1600s

Question 16

What is an arena stage

Answer 16

Seating on all sides

Question 17

What is the raked stage

Answer 17

Popular in the Renaissance
tilted stage
slanted towards audience

Question 18

What is a thrust stage

Answer 18

Three side seating

Question 19

What is the green room

Answer 19

Relaxation room for actors

Question 20

Identify different stage directions

Answer 20

Upstate right 
upstage center 
upstage left 
stage right 
centerstage 
stage left 
downstage right 
down stage center 
downstage left

Question 21

Continental seating versus American seating what is the difference

Answer 21

American seating has Isles

Question 22

What are the wings of the stage area

Answer 22

Backstage sides

Question 23

What are the four major areas of design

Answer 23

Lighting sound costume scenery

Question 24

Producers job duties

Answer 24

Have to find investors

Question 25

Stage manager duties

Answer 25

Assist directors records blocking calls cues assist with communications

Question 26

What does the director do

Answer 26

Come up with blocking research instructs actors

Question 27

Define blocking

Answer 27

To tell actors were to move

Question 28

When did the position of director develop in theater

Answer 28

Late 1800s

Question 29

What is a character actor

Answer 29

Plays old or unusual whirls

Question 30

How do you agents get paid

Answer 30

When they booked an actor work only get 10%

Question 31

What is actors equity Association

Answer 31

And actors union

Question 32

Who was Stanislavski

Answer 32

The founder of modern acting theory or training

Question 33

What is a linear play structure

Answer 33

Story told in order

Question 34

What is a nonlinear play structure

Answer 34

Story told out of order flashbacks etc.

Question 35

What are royalties

Answer 35

Fees paid to play rights to produce play

Question 36

Why was Showboat important to musical theater

Answer 36

It contained a strong plot

Question 37

What does a choreographer do

Answer 37

Comes up with dances

Question 38

What is a book musical

Answer 38

Everything serves to tell the story plot

Question 39

What was the show that begin the Golden age of musicals

Answer 39

Oklahoma

Question 40

How were early musicals different then shows during the Golden age of musicals

Answer 40

Early musicals contained songs and dances while the Golden age was family-friendly and based on book musicals

Question 41

What is one reason that theater is so expensive to produce

Answer 41

The actors technical musicians designers etc. the labor is costly

Question 42

What is one difference between commercial nonprofit theater

Answer 42

Commercial theater involves investors

Question 43

Can people who work at nonprofit organizations be paid

Answer 43

Yes nonprofit examples: schools libraries charities and YMCA

Question 44

Which type of theater has investors commercial or nonprofit

Answer 44

Commercial

Question 45

If you donate money to a nonprofit theater can you write it off on your income tax

Answer 45

Yes

Question 46

What is one difference between Broadway and off-off Broadway

Answer 46

Off off Broadway is a nonprofit

Question 47

Where do you nonprofit theaters get most of their money for operating expenses

Answer 47

Donations and grants

Question 48

Where did theater begin

Answer 48

Ancient Greece

Question 49

Why did theater stop during the dark ages

Answer 49

Religious reasons

Question 50

What does the term curtain mean in theater

Answer 50

What time the play starts or begins