Sophomore Final Exam Prep

Who wrote The Way of the World?

The two shorter, horizontal top and bottom pieces of a flat frame

to anchor scenery to the stage so it doesn’t wobble

Which play deals with a man’s secret past and blackmail?

Means song drama or music drama referring to the background music that accompanied the play

characters follow set behavior according to their age, profession, gender, and rank

Which of the following plays is more of a comedy of manners than true realism?

Which Russian-born playwright wrote The Seagull?

Which Irish-born playwright wrote An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest?  

the distance light can be cast from a lighting instrument

First to create characters with complicated personalities  

Why did the theatre space in Moliere's time lead to exaggerated acting?

area above the stage where drops are raised and lowered by means of a counterweight system

How many beats do sitcom writers break their episodes into?

folding flaps on a metal frame for shaping the beam of a light

a strip of fabric covering the crack between two flats

an anchoring option using a triangular-frame attached to the flat, weighted down with sandbags

Warning that a batten is being lowered or something is falling or you have to move.

Who formed the rules of Neoclassical Theatre that imitated the Greeks?

Which play revolves around a young playwright and the young actress he loves?

Author of Phaedra based on Euripides's play Hippolytus

offers a bird’s eye view of the set showing the location, position, and measurements of the set

Where are the vocal chords are located?

Focus on ordinary people living more or less every day lives

Which genre was best known for satire andminimal costuming

In France, Charles II was exposed to and influenced by whose extravagant court?

Which Norwegian playwright is considered the father of realism?

What religious group overthrew the monarchy in England in 1649?

The actors look at the audience and speak to them

The actor uses a strong memory and uses it in their character work

a set piece consisting of a light-weight frame covered with canvas, muslin, or wood

Everything on stage should seem lifted directly from life to the stage  

Which of the following plays did William Wycherley write?

Pick the list that is in the correct historical order from earliest to latest

the long, vertical side pieces of a flat frame

In Moliere's "The Miser", who is the miser?

What was the first American Musical?

lines indicating visibility of onstage and backstage areas from various points in the house

God in the machine

What is NOT one of the 3 unities

King Louis XIV was a patron of the theatre and supported Moliere

Extreme form of Realism 

Whose is know for having his plays produced at the Moscow Art Theatre?

masks or hides the backstage area from the audience’s view

Who wrote Oklahoma?

Purpose to make audience aware of socials problems in order to bring change (2 answers)

The actors are supposed to live real lives of the characters while the audience watches

indicates where you intend to place various lights

Moliere used a type of deus ex machina

Who wrote Pygmalion, which was later made into the musical My Fair Lady?

The torso consists of 2 large cavities, what are they?

Who wrote A Doll’s House?

a large canvas or muslin curtain that hangs at the back of the stage setting

Who is known as the first official actress? 

Tactics are always what part of speech? 

Suspenseful plots, with climatic moment (cliffhangers) at the end of each act  

Subject usually the lower class of people living wretched lives in squalid conditions

Author of The Illusion and The Cid

set piece with a solid top and braced legs to support the weight of actors furniture and props

The lips, tongue, and teeth are known as the what?

to add decorative props to a set

an electrical device that controls the brightness of the lighting instruments

Which American musical genre was created toappeal to women and children?

An actor researches or creates a character's background and uses it in their scene

Which play was interpreted to be about women’s rights but was about human rights in general?

Temporarily joining flats with rope laced through hardware attached to the flats and tied off

Who was the first known English woman dramatist?

What genre was the Hippodrome Theatre a part of?

During the French Neoclassical Era who assumed power and closed the theatres for being immoral?

What does every designer begin with?

Author of The Miser and The Imaginary Invalid

Style that ridicules and makes fun of human nature or society using irony and sarcasm

"True to Life"

Stock characters of the threatened woman, the hero, the villain, the hero’s sidekick

The actor puts himself into the circumstances of the world of the actor

Violence was forbidden on stage in the Neoclassical period

the person who supervises the stage crews

When the English monarchy was overthrown, who had to flee to France to save his life?

Realism grew out of the effect of whose theories on evolution, behavior, and environment?

lighting equipment used for washing light over a large area of the stage or onto scenery

Which play involves a woman confronting her mother about her mother’s “business?”

What direction is stage left?

Neoclassical Theatre condemned the Greek convention of deus ex machina as untrue to life

Edward Kynaston was a popular actor known for playing _____ on stage until the king outlawed it

When Charles II reopened theatres closed by Puritans who did he allow to perform on stage?

a wood or metal pipe from which stage lights, drops, and scenery are hung

Box sets with the “fourth wall”  

Has contemporary equivalents such as soap opera, westerns and swashbuckler films  

When the English monarchy was overthrown during the civil war, who was beheaded?

metallic disks with cut patterns used for casting light patterns from a spotlight

An actor persues a goal to satisfy a character's need

color filters for casting colored light from a spotlight

lighting equipment used for throwing bright, focused light on a moving performer

Which is NOT one of the 3 areas of the parallell line?

Neoclassical Theatre included a greek chorus

French word for "type" or "category"

Like a documentary and faced a great deal of censorship

Who was the first composer to believe that thebook was as important as the song?  

Which of these is NOT a characteristic of Restoration Comedy

Emphasized heroism and sentiment and usedexotic, remote settings and supernatural elements