Theatre Appreciation, Test 3: Chapter 9

Question 1

True/False: Directors should make the actors use the directors’ vocabulary and act in their acting system.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

True/False: Directs tell designers what to do.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

True/False: Directors should not try to direct plays they hate.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

True/False: Action and progression are two things that directors look for in a script.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

True/False: If a director has a vision of the production that cannot be met by the available budget, he/she should demand more money.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

True/False: “Blocking” should be done early in the rehearsal period so that everybody has plenty of time to learn it.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

True/False: Directors can arrange actors on the stage so that their relative positions symbolize or express what is happening.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

True/False: Directors of comedies cast actors with comic talent and let them handle comic timing and comic business.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

True/False: Focus is the main reason for moving the actors around the stage.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

True/False: In all decisions with respect to design, a director must consider not only aesthetic but also practical requirements.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

True/False: Upstage refers to the area closest to the front of a proscenium stage.

Answer 11

False

Question 12

True/False: Stage right is the right of the stage as seen from the audience.

Answer 12

False

Question 13

True/False: Modern directors function to unify theatrical production.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

True/False: Most directors agree about the director’s responsibility to the dramatic text.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

True/False: Playing only the high points of a play destroys progression and weakens the production.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

True/False: A director should strive for both unity and variety.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

True/False: The director has been the leading theatre artist from theatre’s beginnings.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

True/False: The director is interested in various ways of signaling meanings to an audience.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

True/False: A director undertakes and completes his or her artistic functions and then moves on to the managerial functions.

Answer 19

False

Question 20

True/False: Coaching actors is the primary job of the director.

Answer 20

False

Question 21

True/False: All visual details have significance on a stage.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

True/False: Audiences need less stimulation as time passes in the performance.

Answer 22

False

Question 23

True/False: At auditions, the director wants to cast the actor who gives the most finished performance.

Answer 23

False

Question 24

MC: Of the following, the best directorial springboard would be:

Answer 24

B. passionate commitment to the play

Question 25

MC: Stage directions in a published script:

Answer 25

D. may be helpful on occassion

Question 26

MC: A rehearsal at which costumes are incorporated into the other technical elements is called a:

Answer 26

D. dress rehearsal

Question 27

MC: Which of the following is NOT a way to achieve visual focus?

Answer 27

D. pacing

Question 28

MC: If you are in the audience facing the stage, the area of the stage closest to you and on your left is:

Answer 28

C. downstage right

Question 29

MC: Stage movement:

Answer 29

E. Only B and C (Can be varied by direction, speed, and amount and should carry meaning to an audience)

Question 30

MC: Which of the following is LEAST LIKELY TO BE a responsibility of a director?

Answer 30

C. supervising public relations

Question 31

MC: When working carefully with actors, a director is NOT likely to rehearse by:

Answer 31

A. acts

Question 32

MC: A scene whose point was that character “A” had no friends might be blocked based on which of these sayings?

Answer 32

B. he was way off in the blue