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Dramaturg: Resesearch the play
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Sam Beckett:
Wrote about relationships like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Glass Menagerie, etc
None of the above
Wrote absurdism plays like Waiting for Godot
Wrote satire like Tartuffe
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Dramaturg: Resesearch the play
False
True
3
What theatre activity represents a method of character development?
Learning dialogue
Learning blocking
Rehearsal the playwrights stage directions
Creating an actors journal
4
What is an aside?
Last few words spoken by a character of a speech that precedes yours
None of the above
Words spoken by a character as you listen
Drawing the attention of the audience to yourself
5
Lazzi comes from the art form Commedia Del Arte
False
True
6
Blocking is:
None of the above
Drawing the attention of the audience to yourself
Precise staging in a play
Words spoken by a character as you listen
7
A cue is:
Precise staging in a play
Drawing the attention of the audience to yourself
Last few words of a speech that precedes yours
Words spoken by a character as you listen
8
An arena stage has the audience on all 4 sides
True
False
9
Major dramatists like Arthur Miller & Hendrick Ibsen wrote in the style of realism
False
True
10
An actor who uses a prop to define his/her character and situation creates:
A cross
Upstaging
Stage business
Blocking
11
What is the denouncement of a play?
The resolution
The conflict
The exposition
The climax
12
What is the tech director responsible for?
Moving scenery
Backstage hands
Running crews
Checking out the costumes
13
The style of words VS. how you pronounce them is:
Articulation vs. Pitch
Diction vs. Articulation
Inflection vs. Pitch
Diction vs. Projection
14
Symmetrical balance is:
A lighter figure is on one side balancing a heavier figure on the other.
Equal balance and an equal number of actors on both sides of the stage.
None of the above
A psychological balance where there's a impression of balance.
15
What is the house manager responsible for?
Cast attendance
Backstage hands
Audience comfort
Running crews
16
Acting teacher who wrote Respect for Acting and A Challenge for the actor:
Shakespeare
Tennesee Williams
Lee Strasberg
Uta Hagan
17
What is meant by: "All movement must be motivated or justified?"
Physical action must be written in the script
Physical action must have a purpose
Physical stage action must be emotionally based
Physical actions must be intense
18
A playwright of the Greek period who best known for comedy is Aristophanes
True
False
19
Agnes De mille: Used ballet to advance the plot in oklahoma
False
True
20
Stansilavski:
An Englishman who founded the Globe
A Russian director who co founded the Moscow theatre
He created the Method acting technique
A French playwright who wrote Tartuffe
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Teaser:
The events that change the course of a play
The curtain that hangs upstage of the apron that opens & closes on act
Used above the proscenium hangs down from top
None of the above
22
To produce a play, a theatre company must do this first:
Hold auditions for roles
Write the publisher for permission to produce the play
Pay the royalties
Order the correct number or scripts
23
Who is the father of tragedy??
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Sophicles
Aeschylus
24
Who wrote realism plays like A Dolls House?
None of the above
Moliere
Hendrik Ibsen
Sam Beckett
25
What are tongue twister exercises designed to improve?
Articulation
A cross
Projection
Inflection
26
The raked stage was introduced during the Renaissance period
False
True
27
Moliere:
Wrote satire like Tartuffe
Wrote realism plays
Wrote absurdism plays
Wrote about relationships
28
Aesthetic balance is:
None of the above.
A lighter figure is on one side balancing a heavier figure on the other.
A psychological balance where there's an impression of a balance.
Equal balance and an equal number of actors on both sides of the stage.
29
Renaissance means Rebirth
True
False
30
Sense memory is:
None of the above
Where an actor gets a sense of the script
A technique in which the actor recreates and event in their mind
Remembering your cues during a rehearsal
31
A Russian director who co founded the Moscow Art theatre:
Tennesee Williams
None of the above
Shakespeare
Uta Hagan
32
A thrust stage has 3 sides
False
True
33
Is a royalty a fee?
True
False
34
Asymmetrical balance is:
Equal balance and an equal number of actors on both sides of the stage.
A lighter figure is on one side balancing a heavier figure on the other.
None of the above
A psychological balance where there's a impression of balance.
35
Who created the Method acting technique?
Uta Hagan
Lee Strasberg
Tennesee Williams
Stansilavski
36
An Englishman who founded the Globe:
Lee Strasberg
Shakespeare
Tennesee Williams
Uta Hagan
37
Major Dramatists such as Breacht wrote plays in the style of Absuridsm
True
False
38
The Greek age of theatre staged plays in amphitheatres
False
True
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What is the stage manager responsible for?
Cast attendance
Backstage hands
Maintaining the prompt book
Creating special FX
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A thrust stage has 2 sides
True
False
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Cheating out:
Symmetrical balance
Words spoken by a character as you listen
Pitch
Positioning yourself towards the audience
42
What is a cyclorama curtain used for??
Hangs upstage of the apron
Used to project lights/images
Used above the proscenium hangs down from the top
None of the above
43
A framed painting hung on the set for a shows duration is categorized as a:
Decorative prop
Set prop
Hand prop
None of the above
44
Upstaging is:
Last few words of a speech that precedes yours
Precise staging in a play
Drawing the attention of the audience to yourself
Words spoken by a character as you listen
45
If a designer wants a lightning instrument that can produce an adjustable (large or small) pool of light should use a:
PAR can
Border strip
Scoop
Fresnel
