Section 1

Question 1

Module 1 introduced the idea of the ‘socially theatrical’ person. Is this the same as theatre?

Answer 1

No

Question 2

Section 1 discussed professional wrestling. Is The Undertaker doing theatre (according to your reading?)

Answer 2

Yes. Theatre in the “raw”.

Question 3

On stage, “we will accept that a stage has become an ocean for the duration of a performance”. What is this called in theatre?

Answer 3

Stage convention

Question 4

To cry at the death of Mufasa in a production of The Lion King means you have…

Answer 4

Suspended your belief

Question 5

Can a bench be a car?

Answer 5

• in theatre yes
• if there is an accepted stage convention, yes
• if you have suspended your belief, yes

(all of the above)

Question 6

“A strong theatrical event has an agreed upon script/event that has been created by a script writer or playwright.” The assumption when going to a play is that something interesting is going to happen worthy of our attention. Which of the following is more likely to appear in a stage play?

Answer 6

A 12 year old vampire with a blood allergy has arrived at summer camp and has forgotten his sun screen

Question 7

What is a big difference between live theatre and film?

Answer 7

The immediacy is different

Question 8

Live theatre events are always different each night whereas a film never changes. What examples were given?

Answer 8

During a showing of Avengers: The Age of Ultron, a cell phone goes off. The person is rude and begins to talk loudly on the phone. Mark Ruffalo can’t hear this in film and respond AS THE HULK, “Get off phone, puny man, or Hulk SMASH!” No, it is always the same performance no matter what.

Question 9

Live theatre events are always different each night whereas a film never changes. What examples were given?

Answer 9

A ten-year-old girl stood up in the front row and yelled at the actor playing Falstaff. She said, “I can’t understand a damn word you’re saying! And besides! This is a re-run! I saw this show last week!”

Question 10

Are Reality TV shows and stage Realism real?

Answer 10

NO!

Question 11

What exactly is realism?

Answer 11

• theatrical illusion
• truth seeming
• performance style

(all of the above)

Question 12

Who or what is Og?

Answer 12

A sensitive theoretical caveman

Question 13

The most common Western dramatic form of storytelling uses…

Answer 13

Cause and effect

Question 14

If you build logically toward a climatic end of a story, this is probably what form of dramatic storytelling structure?

Answer 14

Climatic

Question 15

__________ explores the belief that the entire world is _________ and therefore any truthful exploration of the human experience will also be __________ and make little sense.

Answer 15

Absurdism/absurb

Question 16

It may be assumed that we developed basic language skills before we began telling actual story.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

Some surmise that the ability to tell a story is not only entertaining and sometimes educational, but may be…

Answer 17

A key human survival trait

Question 18

A ——– is nothing without the story behind it that explains is.

Answer 18

Ritual

Question 19

According to a major theory presented in your module, the first story and ritual was invented…

Answer 19

• by Og
• to call on the spirits for aid
• to create hope

(all of the above)

Question 20

What is a Kusillo?

Answer 20

• the world’s oldest known clown
• a mythical creature of the underworld
• an embodiment of chaos and creation

(all of the above)

Question 21

——— is a repeatable event. Great care must be taken. There are rules/conventions that must be followed that match the expectations of the group.

Answer 21

• ritual
• drama

(all of the above)

Question 22

Where was the first recorded play?

Answer 22

Egypt

Question 23

What character was featured in the Aydos Passion Play?

Answer 23

Osiris

Question 24

Any play that details the story of life, death, and resurrection of any deity may be called?

Answer 24

A passion play

Question 25

Which culture, Egyptian or Greek, had more influence on later Western cultures?

Answer 25

Greek

Question 26

Greek theatre was performed…

Answer 26

• outdoors
• in the daylight
• with no sound aplification

(all of the above)

Question 27

Deus Ex Machina means ‘God in the Machine’. What does it refer to?

Answer 27

A special effect where gods are flown in with ropes and pulleys

Question 28

Greek plays were also performed as a part of religious festivals in honor of…

Answer 28

Dionysus

Question 29

The function of the Greek Chorus was to watch and comment on the action after a major scene took place. These ‘chorale odes’ may have…

Answer 29

Been sung or chanted

Question 30

According to many records, __________ is considered to be the person who was the first principal actor in a play. (We discussed earlier that this has been discovered to be incorrect.) The story goes that _________ stepped away from the Chorus and spoke to them and engaged in a dialogue that was different from the group chanting that had been going on.

Answer 30

Thepsis

Question 31

Greek Tragic Poets normally presented their plays in groups of four: three tragedies and a Satyr Play. Where?

Answer 31

Festival Dionysus

Question 32

The Satyr Play…

Answer 32

• was an early form of comedy
• is the origin of the word ‘satiric’
• was performed in addition to tragedies

(all of the above)

Question 33

Who is often called the father or Greek drama (and/or tragedy)?

Answer 33

Aeschylus

Question 34

He was the first to introduce the use of three actors separate from the Chorus. His most famous tragedies feature Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone. Who is this man?

Answer 34

Sophocles

Question 35

He was a rebel known for daring to raise questions about the validity of the gods themselves. Two of his most significant works were The Bacchae and Medea. Who was he?

Answer 35

Euripedes

Question 36

Who was the most siginificant comic Greek Playwright? He wrote Lysistrata.

Answer 36

None of the above

(Aristophanes)

Question 37

The Greek philosopher Aristotle (one of the big three of ancient philosophy) described the formula for a dramatic script. It is believed that Aristotle wrote two books on the dramatic form; one on tragedy and one on comedy. Only the book on tragedy survived. What is it called?

Answer 37

The Poetics

Question 38

What is a kathornoi?

Answer 38

A stage shoe

Question 39

What is an Archon?

Answer 39

• chief magistrate
• first producers or perhaps a generous church Deacon
• the person you applied to as a playwright in Greece

(all of the above)

Question 40

Playwrights were referred to as didaskalos, which means…

Answer 40

Teacher

Question 41

If you are a kritai, you are a…

Answer 41

Judge