Theater Midterm

Which type of rehearsal occurs near the end of the rehearsal process, as the play comes closer to production time but before the actors apply makeup?

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?

What is meant by the "concept" of a play

Which of the following INCORRECTLY pairs a director with his or her previous profession?

A tagline is a single statement that can serve as an informal subtitle to the play, stating the core concept of the director.

A director should possess all of the following EXCEPT a

Harley Granville-Baker, in his essay "The Art of the Theatre" (1905), compares the director of a play to a captain of a ship in the following lines: "Until discipline is understood in a theater to be willing and reliant obedience to the manager [director] or captain, no supreme achievement can be accomplished."

Stage Left was originally written as a play, but adapted by Austin Forbord into the video form we saw for PBS.

The initial shows where a director can evaluate the production in terms of audience response and institute new changes are known as

Small-scale movement on the stage, which an actor performs within the larger pattern of entrances and exits, is called

What does a director NOT seek in a designer-director collaboration?

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

A producer may be an individual, such as an artistic director, or a partnership of individuals, such as a committee.

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

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

Which of the following tasks belong to the director?

The director's work with the designers is generally suggestive and corrective, rather than overtly controlling

What is the director's primary responsibility?

The rhythm of a production, sometimes confused with the speed of the actor's delivery, is called.

George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, is generally regarded as the first modern director

Which of the following is NOT one of the goals of staging?

Which statement best describes the end of the director's involvement with the play?

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?

The timing and placement of a character's entrances, exits, crosses, embraces, and other major movements is calledThe timing and placement of a character's entrances, exits, crosses, embraces, and other major movements is called.

As a response against Stanislavsky's realism, the director Vsevolod Meyerhold evolved a theatre of "biomechanical constructivism" in Moscow.

What determines the pace of a play?

The director spends most of her time doing which of the following tasks?

Which of the following is true of stylizing directors?

A great directorial concept has the qualities of being generalized, well-established by tradition, intellectually relaxing, designer-oriented, and readily apparent.

The "core concept" is.

The directing process encompasses the two phases of preparation and implementation

hich of the following is a potential theme, using Aristotles' definition of that term?

The ancient Greek word for director is

The role of teacher-director reached its historical pinnacle of influence, albeit anonymously, during the Renaissance and early Restoration periods

André Antoine is primarily known as a ______ director

Which of the following is a full and correct citation of a web site in MLA style?

Which of the following is NOT included in the conceptualization of a play?

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.

Which of the following require a citation in an academic paper, essay or answer?

Live performance is a term that encompasses theatre, film, television and new media

Class requirements include seeing how many live plays?

Drama comes from the Greek dran, which means

What is our class using as the formal definition of "theatre?"

While both theatre and sport are public spectacles, theatre differs from sports activities because:

Which mode of performance acknowledges the audience—as in the case of the nightclub performer who sings, dances, jokes, and responds overtly to applause?

Performance is a strictly theatrical phenomenon

The English word for person comes from the Latin word for

Theatre comes from theatron, which means:

Which of the following is true of the relationship between the play script and the performance?

The distinctive feature of theatre, which separates it from other arts, is that theatre employs:

Play" and "performance" are interchangeable terms

What is plagiarism?

You can earn extra credit in this class by attending additional plays and writing a report on them.

How does a theatrical performance differ from a video or a filmed performance?

Our outcomes and objectives for this class come from San Francisco State's learning outcomes for GE, and from the National Association of Schools of Theater's standards

Theatre signifies all the following EXCEPT

theatre is an art because it:

Online classes are easier than face-to-face classes

The audience is NOT a part of the definition of conventions of the theatre

What is the difference between plot and story?

The purging or cleansing of the audience's pity and terror at the climax of a tragedy is called

The six components of a play which Aristotle lists, in order of importance, are:

According to Aristotle, it is impossible to break down the elements that make tragedy effective

The visual aspect of the play, including the scenery, costumes, lighting, make-up, and the over-all look of the stage are included known as in the element

In Greek tragedy, the central character

The final scene, action, or lines in a play devoted to bringing the play to a new level of harmony or understanding, perhaps even resolution, after the climax is called the

In Western drama, a full-length play has historically been designated as one that:

A play that dramatizes the key events in the life of a king or head of state, such as Shakespeare's Henry IV, is called:

The Greek term for the "carrier of the action" in a tragedy is

Which one of the following is part of the time-based horizontal axis of dramaturgy?

Aristotle's term for the play's abstracted intellectual content is "thesis."

Comedies that use a more bleak humor in dealing with serious themes are known as

Background information, presented within the play that the audience must possess in order to understand the action of the play is called:

In a Greek play, the lead character that moves the action forward is opposed by a figure called the antagonist.

Genre means category or kind

Processions and the Ancient Greek proagon are two examples of ways in which theatre artists publicized their plays in ages past.

The agreement between the audience and the actor, which includes a whole set of tacit understandings that form the context of playwatching, is called:

The major organization for theatre companies in San Francisco is called:

Which element of drama refers not only to the pronunciation of spoken dialogue but also to the literary nature of the play's text, including its tone, imagery, articulation, and use of such literary forms as verse, rhyme, metaphor, jest, apostrophe, and epigram?

Which element describes the play's use of rhythm and sounds, either by way of instrumental composition or the orchestration of such noises as muffled drumbeats, gunshots, special effects, and vocal tones?

In play construction, the single action that initiates the major conflict of the play is called

Which of the following is true about the differences between tragedy and comedy?

After what era did the image of the playwright move from that of theatrical co-worker to that of the isolated observer and social critic?

This playwright speaks of "two selves, the public and private self, the worlds that people juggle a lot of time just from being out there in the world," and whose works, such as Wrecks, reflect this statement

Which playwright has branched out into writing librettos and adaptations of musicals for shows such as Aida and Tarzan?

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

Based off of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage, Lynn Nottage's play Ruined transposes the action to a brothel in the Democratic Republic of Congo

A play that relates in some fashion to the current personal concerns of the audience is said to possess gravity.

The plays of Tony Kushner look at the hidden violence that can lie beneath seemingly stable human relationships, as in Bash, which is set within the context of the Church of Latter-Day Saints.

Scenes of forced conflict are important because

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

A linear plot proceeds by

James Barrie's fantastical play Peter Pan deals with characters that are wholly appropriate to their imaginary situation and internally consistent in their actions within the context of the play. Since it may be said to make a picture of a wholly consistent world, this play possesses

An independence of thought and vision is perhaps the playwright's most important characteristic.

Which New York-born, Louisiana-raised, playwright (b. 1956) wrote a masterpiece of modern drama, Angels in America, which deals with the AIDS crisis, sexuality, gender, and politics?

All of the following are signs of good characterization EXCEPT

When a playwright has managed to make every scene, incident, character, and word deliver an impact, he or she has satisfied the dramatic demand for

The quality of a play that describes the way the playwright creates a world in which every detail fortifies our insight into the play is called richness.

Whose plays are noted for intensely realistic writing and almost musical, rhythmic dialogue?

The quality of stage dialogue that makes it achieve maximum impact when spoken and which requires the playwright to be attentive to the audial shape of language, including the meaning of the dialogue and the rhythm of sound, is called stageability

The playwright's skill at condensing a story that may spans many days or years of chronological time into a theatrical time frame is called

Which playwright demonstrates a commitment to issues global human rights, as shown in Ruined?

The term "playwright" refers to

A screenwriter, as well as a playwright, Neil LaBute's contribution to today's theatre is a return to highly romantic dialogue, at times written in poetic verse

The playwright works with two fundamental tools

The quality of a play that refers to a continual stream of information is called progression

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

Which quality of character began in realism and grew to become the dominant aspect of the theatrical experience by the mid-twentieth century, most notably in the plays of Chekov, Williams, and Miller?

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

The audience's demand for internal consistency in a play, in which the characters, the situation, and the theatrical context are combined to generate the action, creates credibility

All of the following could be considered contributors to an interesting audible shape to dialogue EXCEPT

The core element of every play is

A play that deals with an issue of serious and lasting significance in humanity's spiritual or intellectual life beyond the mere attempt to imitate profundity is said to possess

What aspects of the play do not need to be written at all?

The quality of a play that creates suspense by making us wonder what will happen next is called curiosity

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

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

What alternate meaning of "presence" explains the power of the actor beyond virtuosity?

The dual meanings of this word explain both its physical, common definition and its more religious meaning, "spirit stimulus."

What is "The Method?"

Konstantin Stanislavsky, founder of the Moscow Art Theatre (1898), said "You must live the life of your character on stage." Which style of acting does this statement describe most closely?

The term mimesis means

In his first published work, Stanislavsky states that the "prime task" of the actors is to "create the

Directed stage actions that are precisely scripted physical behaviors worked out in blocking are called

What are the two fundamental notions of acting?

The actor's instrument is his or her

What description best characterizes our current relationship to virtuosity?

Which faculty keeps the actor within established bounds and at the same time ensures artistic agility?

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.

Most auditions consist of performing

Which two writers best exemplify the range of difference between external and internal approaches to assuming a character?

The three main elements of the actor's approach are

The term "subtext" refers to

Today, the debate over inside or outside styles of acting

Which of the following does the director NOT typically look for in an audition?

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

Which person is responsible for the building and operation of stage machinery and scenery; scheduling lighting and industrial crews; moving scenery in and out of the theatre; and establishing policies and directives for scene shifting?

What kind of scenery uses evocative visual images to make a visual statement about the production's intended mood or theme?

Realistic costuming took over when which of the following became a major guiding principle in drama?

Which invention brought lighting to the stage in its modern form and made lighting a more controlled part of the drama?

Makeup, like costuming, is

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?

Turntables, elevators, hoists, cranes, rolling carts, and wagons, which are all used as scenic elements to accompany and support the dramatic action, are collectively called

Which of the following is NOT a postmodern design element?

Which of the following is true of the history of lighting in scene design?

The order and process of developing a design for a play could be summarized by the following steps:

Which of the following types of stage is completely surrounded by audience?

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

In describing dramatic space as "psycho-plastic," which "scenographer" (Europe's most celebrated in the 20th century) said "The goal of a designer can no longer be a description of a copy of actuality, but the creation of its multidimensional model?"

During performances, the person fully in charge of overseeing the execution of the show is the

The theatricalist use of lighting in Brecht's didactic theatre calls for

Which is an example of stereophonically located sound design?

The type of set that fostered a uniquely architectural theory of theatre was

The picture frame stage reached its highest realization in the

The ancient and original use of costume was to

Which kind of stage consists of a bare room able to adapt to a variety of staging possibilities?

The development of _____ fostered the great period of scenery design.