Theater Final

Question 1

How should actors dress when auditioning for a particular character?

Answer 1

in formal business attire

Question 2

Making it appear as if it is night and then day again within the performance is most likely achieved through what?

Answer 2

Changing color, intensity, or angle of a light

Question 3

What does it mean when an actor gives an aside?

Answer 3

breaking character to acknowledge the audience in a direct address

Question 4

The auditorium’s mezzanine includes audience seating in what?

Answer 4

balcony

Question 5

How do directors aid actors in developing more richly defined characters?

Answer 5

including character-building exercises throughout the rehearsal process

Question 6

The central characteristic of a representational performance is

Answer 6

the audience’s willing suspension of disbelief

Question 7

A show’s technical rehearsals

Answer 7

require the presence of the stagecrew and designers

Question 8

Non profit theaters entice donors by highlighting what?

Answer 8

the value of bringing art to the public

Question 9

What is one purpose of early political theater?

Answer 9

to affect social change

Question 10

A show’s elaborately decorated set and detailed costumes is an example of what?

Answer 10

spectacle

Question 11

What is one way stage managers help to work against drift?

Answer 11

by keeping detailed notes in the production report

Question 12

What is a scrim?

Answer 12

a type of curtain

Question 13

What were early English audiences who would gather in a yard to watch a production called?

Answer 13

groundlings

Question 14

What is a straight play?

Answer 14

a production that does not include any musical numbers

Question 15

What is a theatrical production merging comedy and drama called?

Answer 15

a pastoral drama

Question 16

What is a technique that can be used to learn how to better breathe from the diaphragm?

Answer 16

place your hands on either side of your ribcage and feel them expand as you breathe in

Question 17

Who runs a theater’s light control?

Answer 17

the light board operator

Question 18

What does the responsibility of calling a show entail?

Answer 18

signaling every cue for a production’s actors and crew

Question 19

What is a torm?

Answer 19

curtain

Question 20

One common opening night tradition is for the cast and crew to do what?

Answer 20

acknowledge each other’s hard work by exchanging than you cards

Question 21

What is the large portal in a theater that separates the stage from the audience called?

Answer 21

proscenium arch

Question 22

What is the function of a dimmer check?

Answer 22

to ensure each light is checked individually and is properly focused

Question 23

What is a cold reading?

Answer 23

perform a scene selected by the director without being given any additional time to prepare

Question 24

What is a gobo?

Answer 24

a metal cut-out