True false

Question 1

All plays and play productions can be usefully analyzed and evaluated on the way they use the theatrical format to the best advantage and make us rethink the nature of theatrical production

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Generally the playwright is more intelligent and better informed than the members of the audience.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Performance studies is a form of criticism that rates the “performance” of different plays based on how “perform-able” they are.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Elizabeth I was part of what is known as the Royal era, often inviting William Congreve to produce plays at the royal residence.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

The Royal era was characterized by the aristocracy’s support of public theatres, such as the Globe Theatre.(

Answer 5

False

Question 6

The work of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson in England and Machiavelli and commedia dell’arte in Italy are all examples of Renaissance theatre.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Kabuki is mainly a director’s theatre.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides are the three masters of Greek tragedy.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Medieval mystery plays were performed only in Latin.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

Musical theatre evolved initially as a revolt against other forms of theatre, particularly realism.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

Marc Blitztein’s 1938 musical The Cradle Will Rock was canceled an hour before its New York opening by government officials who protested the play’s “left-wing propaganda”.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

The Producers, The Lion King, and Spring Awakening generate diverse forms of audience appeal, whether by attracting crowds of all ages, as with the first two shows, or bringing young people in their teens, twenties, and thirties to live theatre, as with the last.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

The first of the choreographer-directors, trained in both ballet and acting, was Jerome Robbins, who staged such works as The King and I and West Side Story.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

.Jerzy Grotowski’s Towards a Poor Theatre emphasizes how performers should embrace external artifice and divorce emotion from their technique.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

The extremity in artistic representation that responded to the social change of the sixties and the seventies took a number of forms, including plays that feature urination, bold profanity, and total nudity.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

Theatre of community features works created for a community, by members of that same community, that often express, celebrate, and sometimes critique the culture of their creators

Answer 16

True

Question 17

The term ‘dangerous theatre’ is highly ironic: this movement’s plays are straightforward fun and avoid any political or physical altercations.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

Although American artists are largely protected from direct censorship by the U.S. Constitution’s first amendment, government funding is subject to approval by local and national legislators who sometimes balk at funding the work of certain artists.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

The representation of homosexuality on stage was illegal in England as late as 1958.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

Brecht’s distance effects sought to enhance the audience’s engagement with the characters.

Answer 20

False

Question 21

Typical themes of the symbolist theatre include the loss of innocence and the futility of communication.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

The theatre where Chekhov collaborated with Konstantin Stanislavsky is the Moscow Art Theatre

Answer 22

True

Question 23

The “problem” in a “problem play” refers to a moral dilemma. Aproblem play portrayed good and evil in strictly delimited ways to prevent moral ambiguity from creating a perceptual problem.

Answer 23

False