THEA 100 review

Romanticism did not emphasize

Realist theatre has its roots in

Besides an aesthetic overhaul, the realist theatre carried another agenda:

Which movement, whose development paralleled but was essentially independent of realism, based its aesthetics on humanity's place in the natural environment?

The constructivist who broke with Stanislavsky's style of realist performance to create a "biomechanical" style of acting and direction was

Which playwright pioneered both realist and antirealistic styles in his work, shifting from a belief that "Naturalists...are aware of the richness of the human soul" to an attempt to "reproduce the disconnected but apparently logical form of a dream?"

A stylized acting style is one in which

Which of the following is true of the antirealist aesthetic in the second third of the twentieth century?

Which production had the most violent premiere in theatre history, such that the audience shouted, hissed, threw things, shook fists at the stage, and fought duels after subsequent performances?

The author of "Riders to the Sea" was:

From a practical standpoint, theatre may be considered a conservative institution because it conserves

Postmodern playwrights and directors are mainly concerned with

Postmodernism relates to previous artistic movements in all the following ways EXCEPT

The roots of postmodern theatre can be located in the arts phenomenon called

Flashbacks that are not clearly framed as such, shuttling instead between time zones without narrative warning, are examples of

This theatre, formed by Joseph Chaikin in 1963, combined social improvisation with Brechtian techniques and used character as a vehicle for direct interaction with audiences.

Which American playwright created works, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, and The Piano Lesson, that portray the entire twentieth-century history of black America?

Which of the following is NOT true of the role of women in the history of drama?

Founded by Luis Valdez in 1965, which contemporary Chicano theatre was created to dramatize the farm workers' situation in California through didactic actos?

An example of verbatim theatre, where the play consists of real-life speeches and interviews, would be

One difference between the playwright in Shakespeare's time and the contemporary playwright is that

Every person may be considered a playwright because

The term "playwright" refers to

The core element of every play is

The playwright works with two fundamental tools:

A play in which events are connected to each other in strict, chronological, cause-effect continuity, and in which dramatic experience attempts to convey a lifelike progression of experience through time, is classified as

Which of the following is the most accurate statement of the audience's response to the drama?

Which of the following is true of playwriting in bygone days?

A play in which every character possesses an independence of intention and expression, and whose motivation appears sensible in the light of our general knowledge of psychology and human behavior, possesses

All of the following are signs of good characterization EXCEPT

Which of the following tasks belong to the director?

Which of the following is true of the history of the director's role?

The ancient Greek word for director is

How did the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries' emphasis on rationalism influence the director's role?

AndréAntoine is primarily known as a ______ director.

Which of the following was one of several directors who not only fostered the development of realist and naturalist dramas but who also opened up the theatre to possibilities of psychological interpretation?

Which of the following directors founded the Théâtre d'Art in Paris in 1890 as a direct assault upon the realist principles espoused by AndréAntoine?

Which of the following is true of stylizing directors?

Which person is responsible for the financial support of the production and, working closely with the director, also contributes to many "directorial" decisions in the production process?

What is meant by the "concept" of a play?

A play's final repository is

The public form of play analysis following a production is called

Dramatic criticism usually appears in all the following forms EXCEPT

Examples of theatres that have been created or sustained by governments or ruling elites include all of the following EXCEPT the

Why is the theatre in a strong position to force and focus public confrontation with social issues?

A play's relation to the individual stems from the fact that the best plays

An audience member's aesthetic sensibility and response is

Plays that deal with theatrical matter not simply as a vehicle but as a theme are called

Which of the following is NOT an example of a play that makes the theatre a matter in the play itself?

What word fits the definition of "that which holds the attention?"

The term mimesis means

What are the two fundamental notions of acting?

The type of performing that asks the actor to enter the mind of the character being played is

Actors who studies human behaviors from a broad range of historical periods, countries, and social classes, so as to apply them when creating characters from a variety of dramatic styles, demonstrates a technique of the _________ mode of acting.

What is "The Method?"

Why did the Greek actor Polus, when playing the role of Electra, bring the ashes of his dead son onstage with him?

Who maintained that the actor should be "an unmoved and disinterested onlooker" and imitate emotion rather than feel it?

Today, the debate over inside or outside styles of acting

The term used for the technical skills needed for professional acting, focusing primarily on the voice and body, is

What description best characterizes our current relationship to virtuosity?