Intro to Theatre: Chapters 1-3 Quiz Review

Theatre designed to support the heritage, customs, and point of view of a particular people, religion, class, country

By the 1900s Second Avenue in New York City had so many Jewish theatres it was known as the...

Objects to the dominant culture's control and demands that a minority culture's voice and political agenda be heard?

Screenwriters are scriptwriters who sell their copyrights?

Playwrights are scriptwriters who do not sell their copyrights

Its purpose is to reaffirm the audience's values and confirm their established belief systems.

A legal guarantee granted by the gov. to someone to maintain control and profit from a particular creative work

This type of art is illustrative and includes drawing and painting.

Unlike in the theatre, the film _______ is all-powerful.

Which type of theatre promotes a particular people's cultural identity?

For an art form to be considered theatre, it must have conflict.

Theatre of identity gives voice to groups that privileged cultures ignore or silence.

Which of the following is NOT one of the five basic elements that all art has to a certain extent?

Which best describes public domain?

Many theatre companies do not have stockholders and pay no dividends or federal taxes. These These theatres are known as

When black artists, actors, poets, musicians, and writers converged upon New York City and created what was known as the

If the playwright has been deceased for more than 65 years, the copyright no longer applies, and goes to public domain

This ancient philosopher accused theatre people of promoting vice and wickedness?

The government agency that has a goal to support art that expresses a minority's point of view

A playwright's pay is called...

When someone attributes a generalized identity to people unlike themselves, they are creating what?

An attempt to overcome all forms of discrimination, including racism, sexism, and homophobia, so that people can coexist

Theatre that breaks barriers by involving the audience, using new staging techniques, or questioning theatre itself.

Conflict is at the core of drama.

White ppl wearing heavy "ethnic" makeup acting as African Americans, Native Americans, and Asians. What was this called?

Stage acting and film acting are very similar.

Which type of theatre mixes different cultures in an attempt to find understanding or commonality among them?

This term means the values, standards, and patterns of behavior of a particular group of people.

This type of art is created by manipulating material in space and includes sculpture, pottery, and architecture.

This philosopher believed that good theatre allows us to release repressed emotions in a controlled, therapeutic way.

Which federal agency in the United States disburses tax dollars to the arts?

Besides ticket sales, what is NOT another source of funding for nonprofit theatres.

theatre includes big musicals as well as comedies and dramas that are intended to be entertaining and profitable?

Most people tend to think that their take on things, as seen through their culture, is the correct view.This is known as

Is it true that the main purpose of art is to reaffirm society's values?