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A review of key #theatreterms from the #communitycollege text #theatreexperience
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1
What is an orchestra?
In America today, its the ground floor audience seating.
In Ancient Greece, it was where the actors performed.
None are true!
Both A and B
2
In what type of theatre is the audience PARTICIPATING with their imagination....?
Participatory Theatre
Observed Theatre
Guerilla Theatre
Street Theatre
3
What is a sign, image, or object that signifies something else?
Cymbal
Signal
Symbol
Simple
4
True/False: A raked stage is flat and perpendicular to the curtain line.
FALSE
TRUE
5
Audience members participate vicariously or empathetically with what's happening onstage in:
Aesthetic Distance
Observed Theatre
Participatory Theatre
Flashback
6
Black Box Theatre is a basic stage space which can fit proscenium, arena, or thrust staging.
FALSE
TRUE
7
Which is TRUE of street theatre?
Typically high-budget productions
Performed on the streets of Broadway
None of these are true!
Usually performs the work of Shakespeare
8
What is a speech given by a character giving their inner thoughts and reflections?
Flashback
Soliloquy
Speech
Pantomime
9
When the audience completely surrounds the stage, it is called:
Arena Staging
All of the above
Theatre-In-The-Round
Circle Theatre
10
A theatre company producing a season of plays and musicals.
Observed Theatre
Broadway Theatre
Off-Broadway Theatre
Resident Professional Theatre
11
Which is true of Off-Broadway Theatre?
Began in the 1950s as an alternative to Broadway
Answer 1 & 2
None of the above
Produces classics & experimental work
12
Which of the following is FALSE about Broadway?
From 1920-1950s, most new plays premiered there
Exact replicas of their shows tour the rest of the country
Refers to the oldest professional theatre in NYC
Began in the 1800s with Ibsen & the emergence of realism
13
An acting company that performs a series of plays, sometimes between 4-12 weeks.
Broadway Theatre
Repertory
Participatory Theatre
Observed Theatre
14
According to the text, in which type of inexpensive space do Off-Off-Broadway theatres operate?
Church
Basements & Warehouses
Loft
All of the above
15
Questions a person asks while watching a theatrical performance.
Dramaturgical Questions
Critical Criteria
Willing Suspension of Disbelief
Symbolic Questions
16
Which is NOT a job of the dramaturg?
Writes program notes
Helps promote publicity for the play
Consults playwrights & directors
Researches time period of the play
17
In a proscenium theatre, the audience is looking into the world of the play through...
Aesthetic Distance
Little Opera Binoculars
Realism
The Fourth Wall
18
True or False: the "house" is where the audience sits....ANSWER IN 5 SECONDS!
FALSE
TRUE
19
What is the necessary separation an audience needs to appreciate a work of art?
Artistic Illusion
Aesthetic Distance
Willing Suspension of Disbelief
Artistic Distance
20
Which style of theatre presents people and events from everyday life?
Farce
Observed Theatre
Realism
Flashback
21
True/False: A thrust stage "thrusts" into the house and is surrounded by audience on 3 sides.
TRUE
FALSE
22
Which kind of performance relies on dance, gesture and movement without speech?
Dabbing
Clowning
Charades
Pantomime
23
What term means a movement from the present to the past ?
Soliloquy
Flashback
Acid Flashback
Monologue
24
Similar to a reviewer, this person analyzes theatre (but usually has more knowledge or status).
Dramaturg
Previewer
Critic
Blogger
25
Parts of a play that do NOT correspond to everyday life; goes deeper than the surface...
Pantomime
Broadway Theatre
Dramaturgy
Nonrealism
26
Multimedia Theatre combines the following with theatre:
Film
Both film and art
Art
None of the Above
27
A person from a newspaper or TV station that describes a theatrical event and gives an opinion.
Reviewer
Anton Ego
Anton Chekhov
Dramaturg
28
Identify the type of stage pictured here.
Greek
Proscenium
Thrust
Theatre-In-The-Round
29
"Going along" with the sometimes unbelievable nature of art is another way of saying what term?
Critical Criteria
Willing Suspension of Disbelief
Avant Garde
Symbolism
30
Experimental works of art are known as:
Avant Garde
Geico
En Garde
Progressive
