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Introduction to the Theatre – Flashcards

James Hopper

8 July 2022

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In Elinor Fuchs article, "EF's Visit to a Small Planet: Some questions to ask a play," Fuchs asserts that "before making judgements, we must _________"

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Ask Questions

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According to Krutch, "It is impossible to write tragedy today in modern times because we consider human being too petty to be capable of tragic action." (T/F)

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False

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According to Fuchs, "the study of art _____"

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Shows us how to live

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Possibly no one has exterted grater influence on ideas about the nature of drama and the dramatic form other than ___. His work, the Poetics recommends organizing dramatic action by ____.

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Aristotle; cause-to-effect

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The two basic and earliest forms of drama are:

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Comedy; Tragedy

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The shape give to something for a particular purpose:

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Form

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When revealing ___ anlaysis is done through stage directions, what the is said, what others say and what is done.

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Character

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The four levels of characterization are:

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Biological, societal, psychological, and ethical

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The ___ in the plot structure leads to the major dramatic question

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Inciting Incident

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The two most common plot structures/ sources of unity are: comedy and tragedy (T/F)

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False

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A summary of the play's incidents, organization of all elements into a meaningful pattern and the overall structure of the play describes:

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Plot

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According to Aristotle, characrteristics of effective ___ are complete and selcontained, deliberate in organization, has variety, engages and maintains interest and is internally consistent

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Dramatic Action

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The playscript may serve as the basis for numerous productions wwhich may or may nor be similar in style (T/F)

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True

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Brightness, angle, distribution, color, movement, time of day, mood focus and instruments are details that would mostly concern:

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Lighting designer

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Thin, transperent sheets of colored plastic used to color the beams form stage lighing instruments are called:

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Gelatins or gels

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When the stage is tilted, or the an angle, is referred to as:

answer

raked

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Locale, time and place, text analysis, building materials, flats, drops, and paint are details that would mostly concern:

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Set Designer

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A simple theatrical space able to adapt to a variety of staging/ technical styles called:

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a black box

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The sound designer should use music and sound effects to:

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Support the artistic vision of the play

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Turntablel, elevators, hoists, rolling carts and wagons are examples of:

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Stage Machinery

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What are ordinarily used to create walls or framing for a play's set design?

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Flats

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A wireless microphone attached to a performer is called a ___ mic:

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body

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Time, period, place, coclors, fabrics, station in life, and occasion are details that would mostly concern:

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Costume designer

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Audiences arrive at their own interpretation:

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Regardless of what the playwright, director, actor, designer intended

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Film requires more collaboration between the director and the audience (T/F)

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False

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The key similarity when comparing theatre and film is:

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Audience are public, forming a temporary community

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There are no rules on how to experience theatre, however, willingness to give full attention and engage ___ helps embrace the experienve.

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Imagination

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In film, the director can/can't focus audience attention on what she wants us to see. In theatre the director can/can't focus attention, moments are happening as the whole experience is happening. Put another way in film the director chooses what is seen and in theatre the ___ choose what to look at.

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audience

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What is the three step process for evaluating performence with regard to individual elements and the overall experience?

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one has the experience; one analyzes the experience; one communicates the experience to others

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Basic Problems of Criticism deal with which three:

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Understanding, effectiveness and ultimate worth

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Every audience member is a "critic" but there are experts. Criteria for experts include:

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Typically see a great deal of theatre; have a background and understand its elements and have an audience to speak to

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Audience response is:

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Spontaneous and immediate

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The influence of criticism cannot be accurately measured, however, it is clear that criticism can negatively or positively impact potential audiences. (T/F)

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True

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No other group has been more active in ___ especially among a diverse population of young students than the theater for a new audience.

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Audience development

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In "That Useless liberal arts degee has become tech's hottest ticket," research suggests that the "financial payoff of an engineering degree remains strong," and there is a trend among growing companies fore automation. Liberal arts majors are finding success in tech companies and that success in part is attributed to ___

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People/Social skills and connecting with what people want developed from undersanding human relations

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Produced in 1998 Disney's The Lion King, is currently running on Broadway. (T/F)

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True

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What are the elements of Design?

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1. line 2. shape 3. space 4. color 5. texture 6. ornamentation

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What are the three areas impacted by the characteristics of the thearical space and the way production elements are used?

answer

1. Audience expectations and response 2. size influences what can be seen 3.arrangement

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What are the four types of stages:

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1. Proscenium 2. Thrust 3. Arena 4. Flexible stage

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what are the 6 principles of design?

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1. Harmony 2. Variety 3. Balance 4. Proportion 5. Rhythm 6. Emphasis

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One of today's most admired lighting designers. His/her influence is evedent not only through his/her work, numerous awards and achievements, but also through his/her teaching at the Yale School of Drama

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Jennifer Tippton

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A graduate of the yale school of drama, ehre she/he studies with Ming Cho Lee and Jane Greenwood, ___ is best known for doing exhaustive reseach and has won numerous awards for costume awards for sostume design including for Tony Awards

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Catherine Zuber

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A graduate of and professor at the Yale School of Drama, ___ is an internationally accomplished and award winning stage designer.

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Michael Yeargan

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Said to be one of the most influential contemporary American scene designers. She/he is nkown for developing a style that abandoned the use of pictorial, painred scenery in favor of defininf the space with scaffolding built from metal or wood and combining them with fragments od scenery. She/he is best nkown as an educator. As a professor a the Yale School of Drama, she/he has trained many Broadway designers and Tony Award winners

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Ming Cho Lee

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Contemporary director, ___ popularized the acting technique viewpoints. Theatre Critic Mel Gussow had pointed out that, "depending on the point of view, [She/he] is either an innovator or a provocateur assaulting a script."

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Anne Bogart

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"The language of the body is the landscape of the man's soul"

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Martha Graham

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'Theater' is the American apelling and ' Theatre' is the European spelling for the ART form. (T/F)

answer

False

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The three basic elements of theatre:

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what is performed, the performance, the audience

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Multiple componets, including writing, acting, scenery, costumes, etc. can be skillfully integrate to give a single unified impression. There is a dange that ___ can overshadow a production.

answer

spectacle

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A public audience assembles as a froup at a specific time and place to experience a performence creating:

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Temporary community

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A profound effect on the performence is ___. Characteristics include: immediate feedback, expectations and motivations, preference through attendance and nonattendance, and taste influences what is performed.

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The audience

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The three elements of the theatre may be treated ___ in discussion, however they interact and modify each other ___ in practice.

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Separately; simultaneously

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Mama Rose's true intention is displayed as selfish in "Everything's coming up roses" from Gypsy. (T/F)

answer

True

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The basic desire of The Factory is:

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To strip theatre of its accepted conventions and practices and embrace its immediacy

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The 1966 musical Cabaret is set shortly before the events leading to:

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WW2

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"Most forms of theatre use a play as the basis for performance." ___ combines theatrical storytelling with breathtaking accrobatics, aerial stunts, circus acts, stunning visual effects, and contempory music.

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Cirque du Soleil

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The three factors Adolphe Appia asserts are most important in production are: actor, space, and lighting. (T/F)

answer

False

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Examples of groups of people producing and performing in theatre who were not a century ago are:

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Senior citizens, Children and adults with physical and developmental impairments, individual with hearing impairment

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Self-censorship is ultimately stultifying because:

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if art never goes beyond what is already familiar, it risks being dull and predictable

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"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be human being"

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Oscar Wilde

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We share commonalities even among uncommon cultures (T/F)

answer

True

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Five share commonalities are

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1. Mimetic Beings 2. Seek order 3. Communal Beings 4. Wear masks 5. Enjoy and seek entertainment

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Translates a particular feeling and emotion, human condition, situation, or fantasy into a movement and dramatic expression combined to communicate a story.

answer

Interpretive dance

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Symbolic actions developed by and performed for a community usually to satisfy its spiritual or cultural needs. Arranged in a patern - often over a long period of time - becomes percise in theri execution and believed to have been originally performed to pacify a diety

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Ritual

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Anthropologist asset that theatre in Asia originated from interpretive dace from rituals in the west. (T/F)

answer

True

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Historically the theatre has been considered a vital part of life as well as a threat. it had been an integral part of culture and been outlawed and banned (T/F)

answer

True

question

Theater is collaborative process (T/F)

answer

True

question

Approaches to writing are specific. There is a right and wrong approach to writing plays (T/F)

answer

False

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Wagner asserts that care is needed 'not to snuff out the life of a script visually because ___'

answer

The design is a very powerful instrument

question

Actors view on acting vary widely (T/F)

answer

True

question

Most directors view the role as beholden to the entire production not just one element (T/F)

answer

True

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In 'anything goes' some could say the ___ overpowers the controversial text. This would be an example of the danger of ___ overshadowing the story.

answer

Choreography, spectacle

question

Playwrights need to see their work performed to answer questions about:

answer

The dialogue and speeches, the clarity of the dramatic action, the effectiveness of plot structure

question

A production dramaturg:

answer

Assist the director by supplying information and asking critical questions

question

Which is not considered an "old practice" in terms of play devellopment?

answer

Literary managers ask for clarification of goals

question

Which best explains the difference between literary management and production dramaturgy?

answer

Literary management is concerned with the entire season, whereas production dramaturgy is concerned with a specific production

question

The basic question one asks when considering a play for production is: "Why this play for this audience at this time?" (T/F)

answer

True

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Which statement best describes the essential service the producer procides the director?

answer

The producer provides the space, personnel and money the director needs to realize his or her vision

question

The producer's primary functions are financial and managerial in nature (T/F)

answer

True

question

When studying the script, one questions a director may ask is whether or not the length of the script should be cut (T/F)

answer

False

question

Directors generally dictate to the designers exactly what the show should look like (T/F)

answer

False

question

Each moment within a play creates an image that sends a message to the audience- whether planned or not (T/F)

answer

True

question

The means to create visual emphasis remain he same, regardless of type of stage (T/F)

answer

False

question

Well designed, self-contained theatres include facilities for preparing production as well as performing them (T/F)

answer

True

question

The scenic designer is not only an expert in the prectical skills of theatre but an artist whose work functions collaboratively in ___

answer

Production

question

Pilbrow compare the role of lighting to ___ that "joins all elements of the production together and thus helps underline for the audience the full emotion and meaning of the play"

answer

glue

question

Prominent costume designers conclude that costume design is not just about the mastery of technique (T/F)

answer

True

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The twentieth century has seen an evolution beyond the 'auditorium' designed for the audience and the other, designed for production, we know as 'the stage.' Today's space is more ___

answer

diverse

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In the "Glamourous Life" from Sondheim's A Little Night Music, the performer is comparing the glamorous life a performing traveling mother to:

answer

Ordinary mothers

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question

In Elinor Fuchs article, "EF's Visit to a Small Planet: Some questions to ask a play," Fuchs asserts that "before making judgements, we must _________"

answer

Ask Questions

question

According to Krutch, "It is impossible to write tragedy today in modern times because we consider human being too petty to be capable of tragic action." (T/F)

answer

False

question

According to Fuchs, "the study of art _____"

answer

Shows us how to live

question

Possibly no one has exterted grater influence on ideas about the nature of drama and the dramatic form other than ___. His work, the Poetics recommends organizing dramatic action by ____.

answer

Aristotle; cause-to-effect

question

The two basic and earliest forms of drama are:

answer

Comedy; Tragedy

question

The shape give to something for a particular purpose:

answer

Form

question

When revealing ___ anlaysis is done through stage directions, what the is said, what others say and what is done.

answer

Character

question

The four levels of characterization are:

answer

Biological, societal, psychological, and ethical

question

The ___ in the plot structure leads to the major dramatic question

answer

Inciting Incident

question

The two most common plot structures/ sources of unity are: comedy and tragedy (T/F)

answer

False

question

A summary of the play's incidents, organization of all elements into a meaningful pattern and the overall structure of the play describes:

answer

Plot

question

According to Aristotle, characrteristics of effective ___ are complete and selcontained, deliberate in organization, has variety, engages and maintains interest and is internally consistent

answer

Dramatic Action

question

The playscript may serve as the basis for numerous productions wwhich may or may nor be similar in style (T/F)

answer

True

question

Brightness, angle, distribution, color, movement, time of day, mood focus and instruments are details that would mostly concern:

answer

Lighting designer

question

Thin, transperent sheets of colored plastic used to color the beams form stage lighing instruments are called:

answer

Gelatins or gels

question

When the stage is tilted, or the an angle, is referred to as:

answer

raked

question

Locale, time and place, text analysis, building materials, flats, drops, and paint are details that would mostly concern:

answer

Set Designer

question

A simple theatrical space able to adapt to a variety of staging/ technical styles called:

answer

a black box

question

The sound designer should use music and sound effects to:

answer

Support the artistic vision of the play

question

Turntablel, elevators, hoists, rolling carts and wagons are examples of:

answer

Stage Machinery

question

What are ordinarily used to create walls or framing for a play's set design?

answer

Flats

question

A wireless microphone attached to a performer is called a ___ mic:

answer

body

question

Time, period, place, coclors, fabrics, station in life, and occasion are details that would mostly concern:

answer

Costume designer

question

Audiences arrive at their own interpretation:

answer

Regardless of what the playwright, director, actor, designer intended

question

Film requires more collaboration between the director and the audience (T/F)

answer

False

question

The key similarity when comparing theatre and film is:

answer

Audience are public, forming a temporary community

question

There are no rules on how to experience theatre, however, willingness to give full attention and engage ___ helps embrace the experienve.

answer

Imagination

question

answer

audience

question

What is the three step process for evaluating performence with regard to individual elements and the overall experience?

answer

one has the experience; one analyzes the experience; one communicates the experience to others

question

Basic Problems of Criticism deal with which three:

answer

Understanding, effectiveness and ultimate worth

question

Every audience member is a "critic" but there are experts. Criteria for experts include:

answer

Typically see a great deal of theatre; have a background and understand its elements and have an audience to speak to

question

Audience response is:

answer

Spontaneous and immediate

question

The influence of criticism cannot be accurately measured, however, it is clear that criticism can negatively or positively impact potential audiences. (T/F)

answer

True

question

No other group has been more active in ___ especially among a diverse population of young students than the theater for a new audience.

answer

Audience development

question

answer

People/Social skills and connecting with what people want developed from undersanding human relations

question

Produced in 1998 Disney's The Lion King, is currently running on Broadway. (T/F)

answer

True

question

What are the elements of Design?

answer

1. line 2. shape 3. space 4. color 5. texture 6. ornamentation

question

What are the three areas impacted by the characteristics of the thearical space and the way production elements are used?

answer

1. Audience expectations and response 2. size influences what can be seen 3.arrangement

question

What are the four types of stages:

answer

1. Proscenium 2. Thrust 3. Arena 4. Flexible stage

question

what are the 6 principles of design?

answer

1. Harmony 2. Variety 3. Balance 4. Proportion 5. Rhythm 6. Emphasis

question

answer

Jennifer Tippton

question

answer

Catherine Zuber

question

A graduate of and professor at the Yale School of Drama, ___ is an internationally accomplished and award winning stage designer.

answer

Michael Yeargan

question

answer

Ming Cho Lee

question

answer

Anne Bogart

question

"The language of the body is the landscape of the man's soul"

answer

Martha Graham

question

'Theater' is the American apelling and ' Theatre' is the European spelling for the ART form. (T/F)

answer

False

question

The three basic elements of theatre:

answer

what is performed, the performance, the audience

question

Multiple componets, including writing, acting, scenery, costumes, etc. can be skillfully integrate to give a single unified impression. There is a dange that ___ can overshadow a production.

answer

spectacle

question

A public audience assembles as a froup at a specific time and place to experience a performence creating:

answer

Temporary community

question

answer

The audience

question

The three elements of the theatre may be treated ___ in discussion, however they interact and modify each other ___ in practice.

answer

Separately; simultaneously

question

Mama Rose's true intention is displayed as selfish in "Everything's coming up roses" from Gypsy. (T/F)

answer

True

question

The basic desire of The Factory is:

answer

To strip theatre of its accepted conventions and practices and embrace its immediacy

question

The 1966 musical Cabaret is set shortly before the events leading to:

answer

WW2

question

answer

Cirque du Soleil

question

The three factors Adolphe Appia asserts are most important in production are: actor, space, and lighting. (T/F)

answer

False

question

Examples of groups of people producing and performing in theatre who were not a century ago are:

answer

Senior citizens, Children and adults with physical and developmental impairments, individual with hearing impairment

question

Self-censorship is ultimately stultifying because:

answer

if art never goes beyond what is already familiar, it risks being dull and predictable

question

"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be human being"

answer

Oscar Wilde

question

We share commonalities even among uncommon cultures (T/F)

answer

True

question

Five share commonalities are

answer

1. Mimetic Beings 2. Seek order 3. Communal Beings 4. Wear masks 5. Enjoy and seek entertainment

question

Translates a particular feeling and emotion, human condition, situation, or fantasy into a movement and dramatic expression combined to communicate a story.

answer

Interpretive dance

question

answer

Ritual

question

Anthropologist asset that theatre in Asia originated from interpretive dace from rituals in the west. (T/F)

answer

True

question

Historically the theatre has been considered a vital part of life as well as a threat. it had been an integral part of culture and been outlawed and banned (T/F)

answer

True

question

Theater is collaborative process (T/F)

answer

True

question

Approaches to writing are specific. There is a right and wrong approach to writing plays (T/F)

answer

False

question

Wagner asserts that care is needed 'not to snuff out the life of a script visually because ___'

answer

The design is a very powerful instrument

question

Actors view on acting vary widely (T/F)

answer

True

question

Most directors view the role as beholden to the entire production not just one element (T/F)

answer

True

question

In 'anything goes' some could say the ___ overpowers the controversial text. This would be an example of the danger of ___ overshadowing the story.

answer

Choreography, spectacle

question

Playwrights need to see their work performed to answer questions about:

answer

The dialogue and speeches, the clarity of the dramatic action, the effectiveness of plot structure

question

A production dramaturg:

answer

Assist the director by supplying information and asking critical questions

question

Which is not considered an "old practice" in terms of play devellopment?

answer

Literary managers ask for clarification of goals

question

Which best explains the difference between literary management and production dramaturgy?

answer

Literary management is concerned with the entire season, whereas production dramaturgy is concerned with a specific production

question

The basic question one asks when considering a play for production is: "Why this play for this audience at this time?" (T/F)

answer

True

question

Which statement best describes the essential service the producer procides the director?

answer

The producer provides the space, personnel and money the director needs to realize his or her vision

question

The producer's primary functions are financial and managerial in nature (T/F)

answer

True

question

When studying the script, one questions a director may ask is whether or not the length of the script should be cut (T/F)

answer

False

question

Directors generally dictate to the designers exactly what the show should look like (T/F)

answer

False

question

Each moment within a play creates an image that sends a message to the audience- whether planned or not (T/F)

answer

True

question

The means to create visual emphasis remain he same, regardless of type of stage (T/F)

answer

False

question

Well designed, self-contained theatres include facilities for preparing production as well as performing them (T/F)

answer

True

question

The scenic designer is not only an expert in the prectical skills of theatre but an artist whose work functions collaboratively in ___

answer

Production

question

Pilbrow compare the role of lighting to ___ that "joins all elements of the production together and thus helps underline for the audience the full emotion and meaning of the play"

answer

glue

question

Prominent costume designers conclude that costume design is not just about the mastery of technique (T/F)

answer

True

question

The twentieth century has seen an evolution beyond the 'auditorium' designed for the audience and the other, designed for production, we know as 'the stage.' Today's space is more ___

answer

diverse

question

In the "Glamourous Life" from Sondheim's A Little Night Music, the performer is comparing the glamorous life a performing traveling mother to:

answer

Ordinary mothers

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