The "core concept" is
the director's determination of the most important of the many images, ideas, and emotions that will give the production meaning
The timing and placement of a character's entrances, exits, crosses, embraces, and other major movements is called
blocking
Which of the following is true of the history of the director's role?
The idea of an independent director did not exist until the nineteenth century.
The directing process encompasses the distinct periods of preparation and implementation.
True
The director spends most of her time doing which of the following tasks?
Coaching actors
A director should possess all of the following EXCEPT
a capable voice and an athletic physique, both which comprise the actor's instrument
Small-scale movement on the stage, which an actor performs within the larger pattern of entrances and exits, is called
business
Which of the following was one of several directors who not only fostered the development of realist and naturalist dramas but who was also considered artists, analysts, therapists and even mystics?
Harley Granville-Barker
The interest of the director and intended audience, along with the capability of the director and producer to conceptualize and produce the play, are all criteria for play selection.
True
A great directorial concept has the qualities of being generalized, well-established by tradition, intellectually relaxing,, and readily apparent without much imagination.
False
The initial shows where a director can evaluate the production in terms of audience response and institute new changes are known as
Previews
What is the director's primary responsibility?
to envision the main lines of the production and provide the artistic leadership to realize that vision
The director's work with the designers is generally suggestive and corrective, rather than overtly controlling.
True
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?
producer
As a response against Stanislavsky's realism, the director Vsevolod Meyerhold evolved a theatre of "biomechanical constructivism" in Moscow.
True
What kind of scenery attempts to depict, in great detail, a specific time and place in the observable world where the play's events are presumed to take place?
realistic scenery
The development of _____ fostered the great period of scenery design.
development of European indoor theaters, artificial lighting and flat scenery
Which invention brought lighting to the stage in its modern form and made lighting a more controlled part of the drama?
gaslight
Turntables, elevators, hoists, rolling carts, and wagons, which are all used as scenic elements to accompany and support the dramatic action, are collectively called
Stage machinery
The ancient and original use of costume was to
to separate the actor from the audience
During performances, the person fully in charge of overseeing the execution of the show is the
stage manager
The name given to the boards that elevate the actors above the level of the audience is a flat.
false
A loosely woven fabric that looks opaque when lit from one side and transparent when lit from the other side is called a cyclorama.
false
The Broadway production of War Horse won separate Tony Awards for best play, direction, scenery, costume and sound design, but not for its
use of children playing adults
Which of the following is NOT a postmodern design element?
exact replicas needed to make a realistic representative of the character's homes
Common goals of lighting design are verisimilitude and atmosphere.
true
All of the following are elements the scenic designer might take into consideration when creating the visual presentation of the staging EXCEPT
underscoring
The most exciting new development in lighting design is LED technology.
True
Makeup, like costuming, is
both ceremonial and illustrative
A plan or series of plans showing the placement of each lighting instrument—its type, wattage, size, wiring and connection to a dimmer, and color is called
light plot
Ancient Egypt's Abydos Passion Play and other texts of that time employed plot elements that indicate they derived from
ancient reenactments of the coming of spring and the celebration of birth
What theatre type is a highly ceremonial musical and dance drama, of which the 240 texts produced today were written by members of a single family five hundred years ago, and whose lines were designed to be sung rather than spoken?
no/noh
The excesses of Romanticism gave rise to melodrama and grand opera
True
Kabuki consists of only one category: history plays.
False
The principles of the Romantic theatre were in reaction to the previous era's emphasis on rationality.
True
Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides are the three masters of Greek tragedy.
True
Two Roman comic playwrights are Plautus and Terence.
true
The Renaissance was characterized by which of the following?
a renewed interest in classical (Greek and Roman) civilization
All of the following authors wrote for royal theatres EXCEPT
Shakespeare
Rome's greatest contribution to the theatre was
their architecture of the theatre space
Performers in Chinese opera are adept at singing, speech, mime, acting, and acrobatics.
True
Plays of the royal theatre era are characterized by
Rational philosophies and sensibilities
Which Renaissance-era theatre building has been recently (1997) restored as a functioning performing space?
The Globe
The liturgical trope Quem Quaeritis
celebrates the three Mary's visiting Jesus's tomb after his crucifixion
The work of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson in England and Machiavelli and commedia dell'arte in Italy are all examples of Renaissance theatre.
True
Which of the following is true of the relationship between naturalism and realism? A. Naturalism and realism are interchangeable terms.
Naturalism paralleled but existed independently of realism and sought to eliminate every vestige of dramatic convention.
Which of the following is true about the age of "isms"?
It covers many different ideological tenets such as futurism, dadism, expressionism, surrealism, etc.
This playwright, born in Germany in 1898, emerged from World War I as a dedicated Marxist and pacifist, and consolidated his theories about drama into a body of plays that include The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and The Good Person of Szechuan.
Bertolt Brecht
The theatre where Chekhov collaborated with Konstantin Stanislavsky is the Moscow Art Theatre.
True
Realist drama attempts to break through the limitation of language and character in order to arrive at an insight into a greater metaphysical cosmos.
False
Which type of drama fits the following description: the theatre becomes a part of the content of play production, not merely the vehicle.
Metatheatre
Avant-garde means, literally, "the major assault" or "shock troops".
True
Which play exemplifies the genre of political satire?
Caryl Churchill's Serious Money
Brecht's distance effects sought to enhance the audience's engagement with the characters and thus, have a sentimental relationship with them.
False
One convention of the realist theatre is that dialogue
is conversation
The constructivist who broke with Stanislavsky's style of realist performance to create a nonrealist "biomechanical" style of acting and direction was
Vsevold Meyerhold.
Surrealism, which means "beyond realism," was invented by Picasso.
False
Typical themes of the symbolist theatre include the inner realities that cannot be directly or literally perceived
True
Realist theatre
had a long lasting effect on modern theatre
The saying "no more masterpieces" is a tenet of
Artaud's theatre of cruelty.
