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Which statement best describes "willing suspension of disbelief"?

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A dynamic in which the audience agrees to accept the fictional world of the play on an imaginative level while knowing it to be untrue.

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In the statement "A performs B for C" which of the following is NOT a component of "A"?

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Audience

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Which statement accurately reflects similarities between theatrical performance and sports?

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All of the above

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Which does NOT express a difference between theatre and games or sports?

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In theatre, spectators assemble at a special time and place for the event

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What types of intelligence does theatre develop and make use of?

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All the above

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Parades, juggling, pantomime and street carnivals may all be considered theatrical entertainments

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True

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Audience taste may significantly influence what is performed, how it is performed and where it is performed.

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True

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All theatre depends upon a script as its basic starting point.

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False

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Because of "empathy," we don't call the police if we see a character murdered on the stage during a performance.

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False

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It is much easier to control audience focus in the theatre than it is on television or film.

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False

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Which statement BEST defines the rules about how to experience a theatrical performance?

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There are no rules on how to experience a theatrical performance, but it may be more satisfying if one pays attention and uses their imagination

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Audience response to a performance can be affected by which factor?

answer

All of the above

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Which is NOT part of the three-step process for developing critical judgment?

answer

One develops a subjective response

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Which is NOT one of the three basic problems of criticism?

answer

Research

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Although some theatre critics may write flippant remarks, the most constructive or useful criticism:

answer

All of the above

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A reader may re-read, reflect, and sustain several possible interpretations of a line, scene or entire play, but the playgoer experiences the action and characters more immediately and directly.

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True

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What the audience sees is always the only possible interpretation of a script.

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False

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Theatres which produce plays intended for a small segment of the population (such as minorities) find it much easier to attract an audience than theatres whose goal it is to appeal to the community as a whole.

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False

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Professional critics always adhere to a single context in making their judgments.

answer

False

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Some plays and musicals have met with negative or mixed reviews and still achieved popular success.

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True

question

Which of the following is NOT one of the six elements of drama, according to Aristotle?

answer

Situation

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"Point of attack" refers to:

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The moment at which the plotline takes up the larger story of the play

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Which most fully describes the qualities of effective dramatic action?

answer

All of the above

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Which BEST describes Melodrama as a dramatic form?

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A serious action that is resolved happily and affirms the power of good over evil

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Tragedy is a form associated especially with:

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Elizabethan England

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In many plays the "major dramatic question" stems directly from the "inciting incident"

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True

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Two of the most common plot structures are episodic and sequential

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False

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"Exposition" relates that part of the action that occurs after the "crisis" or "climax"

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False

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Style in the theatre stems only from the manner in which a playwright uses the elements of drama

answer

False

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An effective tragedy requires the arousal of empathy for those who strive for personal integrity and dignity

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True

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Which is NOT a writer of Classical Greek tragedy?

answer

Aristophanes

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What function did the chorus serve in the Classical Greek theatre?

answer

All of the above

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Which refers to the main acting space of a Classical Greek theatre?

answer

Orchestra

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Because of the three actor rule, the actor playing Oedipus also played which of the following parts?

answer

None of the above

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The use of masks in Greek theatre served what purpose?

answer

All of the above

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Which of the following statements is true? 1) Greek Tragedy and Old Comedy were performed only at the City Dionysia Festival 2) All surviving Old Comedy plays were written by Sophocles 3) Unlike Greek Tragedy, Old Comedy was usually concerned with current issues 4) Unlike Greek Tragedy, Old Comedy didn't use a chorus

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Unlike Greek Tragedy, Old Comedy was usually concerned with current issues

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Which did NOT write Roman comedy?

answer

Seneca

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Which of the following statements is true? 1) All surviving Roman comedies are adaptations of Greek plays 2) All surviving Roman comedies are based on Roman myths 3) All surviving Roman comedies are concerned with social or political satire

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All surviving Roman comedies are adaptations of Greek plays

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Which statement best describes the medieval convention of "mansion and platea" staging?

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The platea was treated as undifferentiated stage space that might be used as an extension of any particular location that a mansion represented

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The trade guilds were responsible for providing:

answer

All of the above

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Greek theatrical contest rules restricted the number of speaking actors to 3 for each playwright, but did not restrict the number of characters each of those actors could play

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True

question

Greek theatrical performances were offered at each of the many different religious festivals honoring various Greek gods

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False

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To show the corpses in a Greek play, the "eccyclema" was lowered from the roof of the "skene"

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False

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In Oedipus Rex Sophocles has fully defined the characters on all four levels of characterization

answer

False

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Like the Greek theatre which influenced it, the Roman theatre used a chorus to perform songs between the episodes

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False

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As variety entertainments diminished in popularity, Roman tragedy grew in popularity

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False

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Hrosvitha, a nun, is credited as the first female dramatist

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True

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During the Middle Ages, the movement from Liturgical to Vernacular religious drama saw performances of drama move outside of the church and into larger community spaces

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True

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Like religious plays, morality plays treated biblical or saintly characters

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False

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All drama of the medieval period was of a religious nature

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False

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Which is NOT an Elizabethan theatrical convention?

answer

Realistic staging

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Which did NOT influence the development of Elizabethan drama?

answer

Strict adherence to neoclassical unities of time, place, and action

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Which audience area had the least expensive admission price?

answer

The gallery

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Which was NOT used in association with perspective scenery?

answer

The discovery space

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An Intermezzi is:

answer

Court entertainments based on myth or legend typically designed to pay an elaborate compliment

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Which is NOT one of the three stock character types commonly found in commedia dell arte?

answer

Princes

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Many credit Carlo Goldoni (The Servant of Two Masters) with refining and reforming commedia in the 18th century. What did Goldoni NOT do?

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Heighted the use of improvisation

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French neoclassicism advocated all of the following EXCEPT:

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The mixing of tragedy and comedy in the same play

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"Molière" was:

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The stage name of a leading French actor, playwright, and head of a prominent theatre company

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Which is a new feature introduced to the English stage during the Restoration?

answer

The use of women to play the female roles in public theatre performances

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The acceptance of perspective scenery signaled a movement away from the formal and architectural stage in favor of the representational, pictorial stage

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True

question

Elizabethan theatre was a shift from professional, secular and regularly performed theatre to communal, religious and occasionally performed theatre

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False

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Elizabethan theatre companies were fully financially supported by a noble patron

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False

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The Elizabethan staging conventions were an adaptation of medieval staging conventions

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True

question

Shakespeare was the only significant dramatist of his time

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False

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In France costumes were provided to the actors by the company manager

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False

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The proscenium arch was invented to frame the stage picture

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True

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Opera emerged as an attempt to recreate the relationship between music and speech found in Greek drama

answer

True

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Tartuffe is organized in "french scenes:" wherein dramatic action is developed as characters enter and exit a central location

answer

True

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French actors in the 17th and 18th centuries were hired according to "lines of business" - or the type of characters they traditionally played

answer

True

question

Which was NOT an appeal of melodrama?

answer

Box Sets

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Which artistic movement challenged neoclassicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries?

answer

Romanticism

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The complexity involved in staging the spectacular effects required by melodrama was a contributing factor in:

answer

The perceived need for a director to coordinate and unify stage action

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Which is an implication some derived from Charles Darwin's theories?

answer

Heredity and environment influence human behavior and characteristics

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A Doll's House exemplifies realism in that:

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The play develops logically through a cause-to-effect dramatic construction

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Ibsen's dramas were considered controversial because:

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They challenged existing moral values and social norms

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Who is usually considered the first director, in the modern sense?

answer

George II, duke of Saxe-Meiningen

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Wagner's demand for "unity of production:"

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Sought to filter all stage expressions through a single artistic consciousness

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The independent theatre movement:

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Got around the censorship laws governing public performance by staging "private" performances

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Stanislavsky's "magic if" refers to:

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A way through which the performer may imaginatively project themselves into the world of the play

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Romanticists thought of a play as merely "a slice of life" - reality transferred to the stage.

answer

False

question

Melodrama encouraged the development of realistic spectacle

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True

question

Among other things, Freud's theories contributed to an increased awareness of subtext (the possibility of a covert meaning beneath what is overtly communicated)

answer

True

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Realism and naturalism were based on the idea that character is determined by heredity and environment

answer

True

question

In the play A Doll's House, Nora walks out on her husband because he won't give her any money

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False

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The configuration of Wagner's theatre at Bayreuth set the pattern for most 20th century theatres

answer

True

question

Saxe-Meiningen's company was known especially for its realistic crowd scenes

answer

True

question

Numerous independent theatres were established all over Europe, the first of which was the Théâtre Libre in Paris.

answer

True

question

George Bernard Shaw wrote comedies for London's Independent Theatre that punctured popular prejudices and provoked audiences to reassess their values

answer

True

question

Stanislavsky believed that on stage the actor should be free to improvise spontaneously

answer

False

question

Which is NOT a characteristic of the theatrical space?

answer

Location

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In which arrangement is the audience seated on at least 2 but not more than 3 sides of the stage?

answer

Thrust

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In which arrangement is a production's costumes likely to be the least detailed?

answer

Proscenium Arch

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Which is NOT an element of design?

answer

Harmony

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Which of these practitioners makes use of visual design?

answer

All of the above

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The level of formality expressed through architecture and decoration within a theatre does not affect an audience's expectations or responses to a production

answer

False

question

In a flexible space theatre, the audience seating and performance areas may not be rigidly fixed

answer

True

question

Small professional companies, such as Off-Off Broadway theatres, have more extensive auxiliary spaces than regional and university theatres usually do

answer

False

question

Theatre artists are able, through careful collaboration and coordination of visual and aural signs, to ensure that the audience will fully interpret their intentions

answer

False

question

The principles of design are: line, shape, space, color, texture, and ornamentation

answer

False

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Playwrights have been the most removed from the production process in:

answer

21st century America

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

answer

All the above

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A production dramaturg:

answer

Assists the director by supplying information and asking critical questions

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Who is considered to be the first dramaturg?

answer

Lessing

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Which is NOT considered an "old practice" in terms of play development?

answer

Literary managers ask for clarification of goals

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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 Humana Festival in New York stages multiple new plays every year

answer

False

question

Two weeks before opening night of a new play the playwright is no longer allowed to make revisions so that the actors have sufficient time to learn their lines

answer

False

question

Almost all plays that are written for the theatre eventually gain a fully mounted production

answer

False

question

The basic question one asks when considering a play for production is "why this play for this audience at this time?"

answer

True

question

Dramaturgs have some responsibility for educating the audience

answer

True

question

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

answer

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

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Producers usually provide potential investors with:

answer

A proposed budget for all expenses prior to opening the show, weekly operating costs, and a plan for dividing any profits

question

Which statement best defines the auteur directorial approach?

answer

The director uses the script as raw material to be reshaped for his or her own purposes

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Which is NOT ordinarily a responsibility of the director?

answer

To determine the total cost of the production and its projected income

question

Stage movement may:

answer

All of the above

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The term "blocking" refers to:

answer

Establishing the performers' movements from place-to-place and their bodily position

question

The term "colorblind casting" refers to what practice?

answer

Casting the most talented performer suitable for the role regardless of race or ethnicity

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Which is NOT a main directorial concern in guiding the performers' use of voice and speech?

answer

That the contents of their speeches should not be offensive or vulgar in any way

question

Which is the perhaps the most indispensable of the director's assistants?

answer

The stage manager

question

The typical rehearsal schedule follows what process?

answer

Read and discuss the script, blocking, memorize lines, ensemble playing, technical rehearsals

question

The producer's primary functions are financial and managerial in nature

answer

True

question

When studying the script, one of the questions a director may ask is whether or not the length of the script should be cut.

answer

True

question

Directors generally dictate to the designers exactly what the show should look like

answer

False

question

The term "open call" means that anyone who wants to audition may do so without any restrictions

answer

False

question

Ariane Mnouchkine staged some of Shakespeare's history plays using the formalized conventions of Asian theatre is an example of the auteur directorial approach

answer

False

question

Each moment within a play creates an image that sends a message to the audience - whether planned or not

answer

True

question

The means to create visual emphasis remain the same, regardless of the type of stage

answer

False

question

From the beginning of rehearsals, directors are usually able to rehearse with the actual scenery, properties and costumes

answer

False

question

The term "technical rehearsals" refers to when the actors first discuss the play with the director

answer

False

question

Director Anne Bogart has gained considerable notoriety for staging familiar or classical plays in a manner that can seem iconoclastic

answer

True

question

Stage acting requires:

answer

All of the above

question

An action is "cheated" if:

answer

It isn't really done, but instead is faked through careful timing and positioning of the actors

question

What does an actor doing scene study typically do?

answer

All of the above

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Which accurately identifies the 4 levels of characterization?

answer

Biological, sociological, psychological, ethical

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What does an actor need to know to understand the role for which he or she has been cast?

answer

All of the above.

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To "dress the stage" means to move slightly to balance the stage picture

answer

True

question

Film actors have greater control over shaping their performances than do stage actors

answer

False

question

To "endow" an object means to give it an emotional significance and value from the character's perspective

answer

True

question

A "planted prop" is one that must not be referred to or moved in any manner

answer

False

question

An actor only needs to understand his or her own role and not be concerned with the others

answer

False

question

The term "cue lines" refers to knowing what another actor is going to say just before it is your turn to speak

answer

True

question

Most actor's vocal and movement training begins by developing an understanding of how the voice and body work, and by releasing unnecessary tension or inhibitions

answer

True

question

Which accurately describes a function of scene design?

answer

All of the above

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A "floor plan" (or ground plan):

answer

Shows all of the elements of the setting and their arrangement

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Each of these is an example of a soft scenery unit EXCEPT:

answer

Flat

question

"Front elevations" show:

answer

The appearance of the unit including any molding, baseboards, or attached platforms

question

Which is NOT part of a theatre's counterweight system?

answer

Elevator

question

A "wagon" is generally used for:

answer

Moving heavy or complex set pieces on and off stage

question

In most theatres, which person sees to it that the scenery is built appropriately?

answer

Technical director

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Scene designers must consider their work in much the same way as interior decorators

answer

True

question

"Spattering" refers to a painting technique of simultaneously applying and blending more than one shade of paint on the same surface to create a mottled effect

answer

False

question

A "set prop" refers to a property that is attached to the setting or one that functions as part of the design, such as a sofa or a cabinet

answer

True

question

3-dimensional units are used more often in arena theatres than any other configuration

answer

False

question

Wood may eventually replace steel because of its greater strength and durability

answer

False

question

The technical director works for the scene designer and is supervised by the scene designer

answer

False

question

Which accurately describes a function of costume design?

answer

All of the above

question

What is the purpose of a costume chart?

answer

To communicate the broad organization of all the characters' costumes in a single glance

question

A costume working drawing is a color sketch that shows:

answer

The costume from a distinctive angle, often including details of special features

question

In the professional theatre, how are custom made beards, moustaches and wigs typically made?

answer

Human hair is tied with special needles onto a special woven net, then measured and cut to fit the performer.

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Which is NOT considered a type of painted makeup effect?

answer

Prosthetics

question

Costumes always adhere to realistic standards of dress

answer

False

question

Costumes help to determine the amount, type and overall pattern of movement and stage business

answer

True

question

The development of the dramatic action can be underscored by changes in what each character wears

answer

True

question

The typical process of building a stage costume is to: (1) take the performer's measurements, (2) purchase the materials, (3) draft patterns for the cutting and shaping of the material, (4) construct the garment, and (5) fit the garment to the performer.

answer

True

question

In the professional theatre, actors are responsible for applying their own makeup, though the costume designer may design it.

answer

True

question

Which is NOT a controllable quality of light?

answer

Texture

question

The term "selective transmission" refers to what?

answer

The wavelengths of light that each color filter permits to pass through

question

Specific illumination is:

answer

Generated by spotlights

question

The instrument schedule serves what purpose?

answer

Summarizes in tabular form all of the technical information needed for setting up the lighting instruments

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Which is NOT one of the functions of sound design?

answer

Reinforces the stage composition

question

The term "mixed-media production" refers to what practice?

answer

All of the above

question

Lighting designers can make firm decisions about all aspects of their designs work at the same time as the scenery and costume designers

answer

False

question

Realistic sound refers to sounds that stem from an recognizable source

answer

True

question

An ellipsoidal is essentially a flood light and is used primarily for general illumination

answer

False

question

Although sound has always played an important role in theatrical production, it is not considered a separate art of design

answer

False

question

In a proscenium theatre all of the lighting instruments are mounted behind the proscenium

answer

False

question

The "sound score" is an audio recording of all of the sound effects for a production

answer

False

question

What city does Oedipus rule?

answer

Thebes

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Who is Oedipus' wife?

answer

Jocasta

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Who did Oedipus kill?

answer

Laius

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Who originally predicted Oedipus' fate?

answer

All the above

question

What was Oedipus' fate?

answer

He would kill his father and marry his mother

question

Oedipus' daughters are his sisters.

answer

True

question

When Oedipus finds out that his fate has come true, how do both he and Jocasta react?

answer

Jocasta kills herself and Oedipus blinds himself with her brooches.

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What god does Oedipus blame for his horrible fate?

answer

Apollo

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Who was Teiresias?

answer

The blind prophet

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Where does the entire action of the play take place?

answer

in the Torvald's study

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What time of year does the play take place?

answer

Christmas

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Why does Mrs. Linde come to visit Nora?

answer

To get an endorsement to work in Torvald's office

question

What subject preoccupies much of the first scene between Nora and Helmer in the first scene?

answer

Money

question

What does Krogstad do to blackmail Nora?

answer

Drop a letter in the mailbox to Torvald about her loan

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What does Nora do to prevent Torvald from reading the letter?

answer

Dance a tarantella

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What year was A Doll's House written?

answer

1879

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Who is the playwright of A Doll's House?

answer

Henrik Ibsen

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Why did Nora borrow the money?

answer

she wanted to help her husband's health improve

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What happens at the end of the play?

answer

Nora leaves her husband and children

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Who was Mr. Lindner?

answer

The man who wants to buy them out.

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Where did Ruth go instead of to the doctor's office?

answer

An abortionist.

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Why did Walter need $10,000?

answer

To invest in a Liquor Store

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What is Walter's occupation?

answer

chauffeur

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Where did the family buy a house?

answer

Clybourne Park

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What is the name of the youngest member of the Younger family?

answer

Travis

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Where did Beneatha get asked to go with Asagai?

answer

Nigeria

question

How did Beneathea aquire the money?

answer

Walter Lees insurance

question

According to Asagai, what word does he use to describe what Beneatha does to her hair?

answer

Mutilates

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Which Japanese theatre forms uses puppets as its main characters?

answer

Bunraku

question

Which of these is a Zen Buddhist principle that influenced Noh?

answer

All of the above

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The play Shrine in the Fields is what type of Noh play?

answer

A Woman play

question

In a Kabuki performance a "mie" is:

answer

A highly styled pose struck and held by the principal character

question

Which of the following is NOT a feature of Wayang Kulit?

answer

Actors which interact with the puppets

question

In indigenous African performances, what is the least important aspect?

answer

Dialogue

question

The Strong Breed reflects cultural traditions of which Yoruba festival?

answer

Egungen

question

Japanese playwrights continue to write Noh plays today

answer

False

question

In Noh drama, the climactic moment is expressed in song

answer

False

question

Beijing Opera has performance conventions similar to those of European opera, only the stories are derived from Chinese myths

answer

False

question

The staging conventions used in Strong Breed are much the same as those found in European and American theatres

answer

True

question

In African indigenous performances, audience participation is expected

answer

True

question

Colonialism had no effect on the cultural activity of North Africa

answer

False

question

Athol Fugard was the first African playwright to be honored with a Nobel prize for literature

answer

False

question

Which theatre began in 1965 by performing political skits to support striking migrant farm workers?

answer

El Teatro Campesino

question

What type of theatre did Amiri Baraka advocate?

answer

A black separatist theatre: "By us, about us, for us"

question

Lydia by Octavio Solis, has been compared to the works of:

answer

Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller

question

What type of dramatic structure does How I Learned to Drive use?

answer

An episodic plot structure in which the action moves forward and backwards in time through associations structured through a central metaphor of a driving lesson

question

Which American female playwright has NOT won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama?

answer

Tracy Letts

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Which playwright is director Lloyd Richards MOST associated with?

answer

Raisin in the Sun

question

During 2010, not-for-profit theatres presented how many productions?

answer

16,000

question

Which is considered an important factor in the revival of the American musical?

answer

All of the above

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Robert Wilson's productions juxtapose visual images; often of a variety of styles, cultures and historical periods, out of which each spectator constructs his or her own associations and meanings

answer

True

question

Postmodernists argue that it is the director's task to translate the script faithfully

answer

False

question

George C. Wolfe is an influential African American playwright and director

answer

True

question

In the play Fences, Troy Maxson is a professional baseball player with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

answer

False

question

"Magic Realism" is defined as realistic and fantastic elements existing alongside each other

answer

True

question

In the play Lydia, the central character, Lydia, has been in a tragic car accident

answer

False

question

Tony Kushner's Angels in America marked the first turning point in the acceptability of plays about homosexuality

answer

False

question

Contemporary performance art is much the same today as it was in the 1970s

answer

False

question

Martin McDonough's plays combine verbal wit and highly imaginative action with complex ideas about perceptions of reality

answer

False

question

The musical Rent is a modern adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion.

answer

False

question

The Living Theatre:

answer

None of the above

question

What did Jerzy Grotowski want to achieve?

answer

He wanted actors and audience to undergo an event wherein they might spiritually confront themselves

question

Josef Svoboda is among those typically credited with:

answer

All of the above

question

Happenings typically had all the following characteristics EXCEPT:

answer

An emphasis on representation of a scripted text for an audience

question

Performance art formed, in part, due to impulses that had also inspired which of the following people?

answer

Alan Kaprow

question

Which theatre became the prototype for regional theaters in the U.S.?

answer

Theatre '47

question

Which Off-Off Broadway theatre offers plays free of charge in central park?

answer

The New York Shakespeare Festival

question

Which is NOT considered a regional theatre?

answer

Playwrights Horizons

question

Which playwright's work instigated Parliament to abolish censorship laws that had been in place for over 200 years?

answer

Edward Bond

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Which is a characteristic of Stephen Sondheim's musicals?

answer

Ironic and melancholic views of human behavior

question

Paradise Now was the first time nudity and obscenity appeared in a production on Broadway

answer

False

question

Environmental theatre blurs the distinctions between acting space and audience space

answer

True

question

No European countries consider funding for the arts a cultural responsibility

answer

False

question

The Stratford Festival is most closely associated with the English National Theatre

answer

False

question

Off-Broadway theatres were founded as a way to produce plays that the typical Broadway audiences probably wouldn't come see

answer

True

question

The Ford Foundation funded the 1963 opening of the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis

answer

False

question

The term "decentralization" refers to the efforts to establish theatre centers in various parts of the country

answer

True

question

England's Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre are both examples of very successful theatres that owe much to the federal subsidies they were granted

answer

True

question

Playwright David Mamet writes about serious subjects in and outrageous manner to comically underscore the absurdity of modern life

answer

False

question

Popular Broadway musicals in the 1970s and 80s were, for the most part, imports from England

answer

True

question

Which idea or practice did Adolphe Appia urge?

answer

Flat painted scenery should be replaced with three-dimensional structures

question

Which is a typical Futurist practice?

answer

Compression of a full-length play's essence into a few moments

question

At which modernist group's performance might "chance poems," music, and dances be included?

answer

Dadaists

question

The Federal Theatre Project

answer

Was a nationwide program that aimed to provide jobs and Americans with free, adult, uncensored theatre

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Which statement most accurately defines the goals of the "new stagecraft" or modified realism?

answer

Simplification and suggestion to stimulate the imagination rather than providing every detail

question

Which is associated with Bertolt Brecht's Epic Theatre?

answer

All of the above

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Antonin Artaud advocated a "theatre of cruelty" wherein "cruelty" refers to:

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The audience being forced to confront itself in order to purge the unconscious mind of destructive impulses

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Which are playwrights whose works characterized American psychological realism of the early postwar years?

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Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams

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What musical is often cited as the first to fully integrate music, story, dance and visual elements to support the dramatic action?

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Oklahoma

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Which is NOT an absurdist playwright?

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Arthure Miller

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Expressionism was the first artistic movement to reject representationalism (the long-standing relationship between perception and representation)

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False

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Adolphe Appia considered light the most flexible of all theatrical elements

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True

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Futurism and Dadaism both advocated simultaneity and multiple focus

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True

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Eugene O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape" is an example of an "Epic Theatre" play

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False

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The widely acclaimed Group Theatre (1931-1941) had no connection to Stanislavsky and bitterly opposed his ideas and practices

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False

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In The Good Woman of Setzuan a kind-hearted prostitute named Shen Te disguises herself as her hard-hearted cousin Shui Ta because she finds it impossible to be good in an economic system that forces people to do bad things in order to survive

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True

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Artaud was at one time a member of the realistic movement

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False

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Artaud advocated the creation of new performance spaces wherein the formal divisions between performers and audience would be eliminated

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True

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Elia Kazan, who directed the first Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, was successful in insisting that Tennessee Williams include "Big Daddy" in the last act, and make other changes to make the overall tone of the play more positive

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True

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In Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, one major theme is the isolation and loneliness of human beings

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True

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