Theatre Appreciation Test Questions – Flashcards

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San Quentin
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Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" mystified audiences until it was performed in
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The actor, the audience, the space
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The major components of theatre include
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Elizabethans
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The concept that the stage is a mirror of humanity originated with the
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relation to life experiences, to see the familiar, to express a collective response
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among the audience's expectations are
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2,500 years old
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as the performance begins, we enter into an illusion that is
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answerer
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the greek word for actor is "hypokrites" meaning
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suspend our disbelief
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to give way to the theatre's magic and to believe what is happening before us is to
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ushers
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______ are considered "front of house" staff
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brook and branagh
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directors who have reinterpreted and rearranged Shakespeare's texts include
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turning off cell phones and pagers, a quiet respectful demeanor, not taking photographs
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the rules of decorum for attending the theatre include
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True
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T/F the theatre's special quality lies in its being both a stage world and the illusion of the real world
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False
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T/F both theatre and film require the audience's active participation while we experience them
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false
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T/F audience participation is always designed into the performance
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false
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T/F theatre, like film, can be experienced the same way over and over again
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true
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T/F according to Peter Brook, theatre occurs when "a man walks across a stage whilst someone else is watching him"
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false
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T/F video games attempt to duplicate the immediacy of the theatre
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true
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T/F theatre buildings reflect changes and attitudes of the cultures and times in which they were built
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the farnese theatre
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one of the earliest theatre to have a permanent proscenium arch was
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minimize the separation of actor and audience
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thrust stages were an attempt to
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wing and groove
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the italian architect Giambattista Aleotti created a system of scenery that employed
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Aeschylus
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the only surviving greek trilogy is by the playwright
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biblical events
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the cycle plays of the medieval theatre dealt with
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Bunraku
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Chikamatsu Monzaemon is best known for writing plays for
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Sheng, dan, ching, chou
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the four types of roles for actors in Beijing Opera include
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Julie Taymor, Bertold Brecht, Peter Schumann
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eastern theatre has influenced the work of western playwrights and directors such as
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Onnagata
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in Kabuki theatre, male actors who play female roles are called
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theatre architecture, costumes, dramatic composition
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the Nayasastra, the sanskrit book on dramaturgy, spelled out conventions of
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true
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T/F the most dramatic changes in Greek theatre architecture were from the Classical to the Hellenistic period
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False
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T/F pageant wagons were used extensively in the 19th century theatre
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false
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T/F the aim of the picture frame stage was to shatter the illusion of reality
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true
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T/F the japanese Noh drama has remained unchanged since the 17th century
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false
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T/F the butai and the hashigakari are the two principal scenice elements of the kabuki theatre
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true
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T/F beijing opera depended heavily on conventions of acting, staging, and singing rather than on a text
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true
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T/F the best known fixed stage of medieval times was the one constructed for the Valenciennes Passion Play in 1547
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Max Reinhardt
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one of the forerunners of alternative approaches to theatre production was
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polish laboratory theatre
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"Finding the proper spectator-actor relationship" is a way describing the environmental theatre performances associated with
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Kathakali dance-drama, Noh and Kabuki, Commedia
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Theatre du Soleil drew its inspiration, in part, from
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The Living Theatre
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the politically charged production of The Brig was staged by
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social and spiritual communion
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Bread and Puppet Theatres traditionally began with an act of
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Ariane Mnouchkine
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Theatre Du Soleil was founded in 1964 by
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action, audience, space
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Grotowski's poor theatre returned to the essentials of theatre
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the plays of Euripides and Aeschylus
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Les Atrides is based on
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Judith Malina and Julian Beck
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the oldest theatrical collective in the United States was headed by
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the modern death camp
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Akropolis jextaposes biblical and homeric scenes to comment on
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a military position
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The Brig, by Kenneth Brown, covers a single day in
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False
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T/F unlike most of the experimental theatre companies that started in the 1960's, the free southern theatre still flourishes today
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true
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T/F Grotowski believed that performance was a semi-religious act
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False
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T/F the bread and puppet theatre perform on a farm in Rhode Island
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True
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T/F environmental theatre rejects conventional seating and includes the audience as part of the performance space
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true
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T/F warehouses, garages, lofts and abandones churches are among the spaces that have been adapted for modern alternative theatre
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false
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in 1970, the living theatre brook into five groups, or "cells"
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false
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T/F in one of theatre du soleil's productions, actors step out of character to demand low cost housing
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Edward Albee
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The American Dream was written by
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compression, economy, intensity
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Aristotle said that plot requires
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M. Butterfly
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david henry hwang introduced asian american theatre into mainstream american theatre in 1988 with his play
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the late 16th century
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a spanish-speaking theatre dedicated to preserving hispanic traditions has existed in north american since
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asian americans
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diana son is best known for plays dealing with
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conflict
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the clashing of personal, moral, and social forces can be seen as
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Lorraine Hansberry
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A Raisin in the Sun was written by
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plot, character, language
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the essential tools of the playwright are
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Sam Shepard
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The Curse of the Starving Class was written by
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believable, multi-faced, psychologically complex
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to sustain our interest, the playwright's characters must be
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True
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T/F television and film contracts and prestigious awards, such as the Pulitzer Prize are among the indicators of a playwright's success
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True
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T/F the two essential connections for success are the agent and producer
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True
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T/F Verfremdung, or alienation, was frequently used by Bertold Brecht
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True
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T/F Boys in the Band was a groundbreaking play dealing with gay issues
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False
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T/F Sweet Bird of Youth was written by Arthur Miller
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True
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T/F The Children's Hour was written by Lillian Hellman
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T/F The published text of a play should be considered complete
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Meisner
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the acting teacher that developed the "Foundation Technique" was
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reduced the theatrical experience to essentials
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Thornton Wilder's Our Town
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voice
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Cicely Berry is best known for her work in the area of
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realism
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the "large style" of acting fell out of fashion with the rise of
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the practical aesthetics workshop
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David Mamet and William H. Macy developed
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seeming, being
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Stanislavski compared his form acting to the "large style" as the difference between _____ and ______
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external approach
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approaching a role through the study of human behavior in all its outward forms is
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Saratoga International Theatre Institute
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Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki were responsible for the founding of
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improvisation
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one exercise that helps the actor's concentration and opens their imagination is
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shape
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among the six elements in the "Viewpoints" actor training technique are
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True
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T/F technique and belief are the fundamentals of the actor's craft
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False
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T/F acting is not showing and narrating, but is, rather, illustrating and exhibiting
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False
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T/F some of the actor's tools are costumes, makeup, and props
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False
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T/F Laurence Olivier referred to acting as "mimical behavior"
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false
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T/F Anne Bogart's "viewpoints" deal specifically with the actors' voice
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false
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T/F to prepare for the role of Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, Uta Hagen developed a series of sublimations
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True
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T/F a "screen test" is the film actor's audition
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Duke Georg II
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the emergence of the director in the modern sense is credited to
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Caroline Neuber
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one of europe's earliest female actor-managers was
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Myths
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Peter Brook has developed texts that utilize
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Kazan
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the director best known for his direction of plays by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams is
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creating surreal dance-theatre spectacles
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Pina Bausch is best known for
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Caroline Neuber
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assigning actors additional duties, such as costumes, was among the reforms associated with
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to harrow
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the word "rehearse" is derived from a Latin word meaning
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Elia Kazan
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directing consists of "turning Psychology into behavior," according to
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Shakespeare
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The Mahabhartha shares literary associations with
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sets and costumes, lights and sound
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_____ and _______ are the first two design elements agreed upon with ________ and ________ being brought in later
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True
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T/F Improvisation is primarily a rehearsal tool
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true
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T/F Martha Clarke's theatre-dance pieces connect hundreds of imagistic fragments
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false
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T/F Andre Antoine was the producing-director of the Moscow Art Theatre
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false
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T/F Bertolt Bracht was known as a very active and intrusive director
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false
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T/F the actual day-to-day running of a theatre production is the job of the assistant director
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true
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T/F the idea of a single creative authority in charge of all the aspects of a production is associated with the duke of saxe-meiningen
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true
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T/F Peter Brook used both circus tricks and improvisation during rehearsals for A Midsummer Night's Dream
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the stage to look photographically like the spaces it represented
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by the late 19th century theatre was dominated by naturalistic philosophy which called for
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someone who was called a scenic artist
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before the emergence of the modern scene designer, creating scenery was the job of
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Linen and cork
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in ancient asian and greek theatres, actors used a white-lead makeup or masks made of
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Theoni Aldredge
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the costume designer that had five hit musicals on Broadway at the same time is
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costume construction
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Barbara Matera is best known in the area of
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paul huntley
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the hair and wig designer for the broadway production of Cats is
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Ming Cho Lee, Appia and Craig
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John Lee Beatty, who designed the broadway production of The Heiress, studied with _____, who was heavily influenced by _____
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A Chorus Line
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Theoni V. Aldredge took many thousands of photographs in preparing to design
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reading the script
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scene designers begin the design process by
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director of the play
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in the design process, the scene designer's work is most frequently guided by the
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True
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T/F the set designer visualizes the details of place, movement, and objects in space
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False
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T/F Character makeup enhances the actor's normal features
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True
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T/F Jo Mielziner designed the original production of Death of a Salesman
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True
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T/F Appia and Craig called for scenery to express to play's atmosphere instead of attempting to reproduce realistic details of time and place
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False
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T/F a rear elevation is a drawing used for construction purposes
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False
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T/F a quality wig has a large amount of hair knotted into it during "ventilation"
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false
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T/F costume design has only been a recognized design specialty for the last forty years
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Adolphe Appia
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the person credited with establishing the principles of modern stage lighting is
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visibility, ambience
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one of the rules of lighting maintains that ____ and ____ must be inherent in the lighting design
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during the technical rehearsal
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the lighting will be fine tuned and cues are usually written
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gobos
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the device used most commonly to project images is
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installing lighting instruments, compiling cue sheets, programming the lighting design
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the assistant lighting designer is responsible for
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Abe Jacob
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the person credited with establishing the role of the modern theatrical sound designer is
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wattage and color, circuitry, area to be illuminated
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a lighting plot provides information about
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production manager
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the technical production team is led by the
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gunshots
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almost all sound can be electronically sampled and programmed except for
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IATSE
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the professional union that represents technicians is
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True
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T/F the costume shop manager has a function parallel to that of the TD
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False
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T/F the production manager has full responsibility for the running of the show
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true
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T/F a lighting designer of A Chorus Line was Tharon Musser
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True
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T/F the lighting designer's tools are form, color, and movement
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false
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T/F until the late 19th century there was little concern for specialized lighting and effects
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true
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T/F fireworks were sometimes included as part of the lighting effects of Medieval and Renaissance plays
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T/F "cues" provided information regarding changes in lighting that occur during a performance
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the colonial period
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the american musical theatre dates back to
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the libretto
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the book of a musical is called
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Florenz Ziegfeld
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______ was best known for a series of annual reviews that featured scantily clad chorus girls
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Showboat
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Jerome Kern pioneered a new type of musical theatre with
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absence of an opening chorus number, first murder onstage in a musical, first "dream ballet"
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among the firsts associated with Oklahoma! were
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Rodgers and Hammerstein
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Carousel, The King and I, and South Pacific are examples of the successful collaboration of
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Rent
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the influence of the pop rock musical Hair can be seen in
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James Kirkwood, Marvin Hamlisch, Michael Bennet
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A Chorus Line, which chronicles the audition of 17 dancers is the work of
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The Boyfriend
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the tradition of importing American musicals to great britain was broken with the production of
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Cats
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the longest running musical in both New York and London is
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False
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T/F the production of Po-ca-hon-tas was the most influential event in the development of the American musical theatre
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False
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T/F Porgy and Bess was based on an Edna Ferber novel
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false
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T/F Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart broke new ground with Oklahoma!
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false
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T/F in place of the Capulets and Montagues, West Side Story has Crips and Bloods
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false
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T/F Jonathan Larson, the creator of Rent, died soon after the show opened off Broadway
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true
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T/F both cameron mackintosh and andrew lloyd webber have been honored by the queen of england for their contributions to the musical theatre
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T/F the TKTS booth is operated by LORT (League of Resident Theatres)
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