Midterm Exam Study Guide Flashcards
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Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Sanford Meisner were all primarily influenced by the work of which Russian director?
Konstantin Stanislavski
Vsevolod Meyerhold was a proponent of a physical training technique called?
Biomechanics
Laurence Olivier was best known for his _______ productions.
Shakespeare
Julie Taymor received intense criticism and was fired from her production of Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark, in sharp contrast to the acclaim she received for _________
The Lion King
At 20 years old, Orson Welles had a successful Broadway debut with his direction and adaptation of ____________.
Macbeth
Orson Welles worked with this theatre company in his youth….
the Federal Theatre Project
The term ensemble in a theatrical sense refers to….
A group of individuals committed to collaborative creation, committed to working together over years to develop a distinctive body of work and practices.
The term auteur refers to a director who…
Is also a writer, designer and potentially a performer as well.
Erwin Piscator’s 1927 production of Rasputin was significant because of_________.
The innovative dome set design and incorporation of film projection.
Both these directors are known for using physical etudes/improvisations in their development of productions.
Meyerhold and Growowski
This directors approach has been called “forensic”.
Katie Mitchell
Who wrote ‘The Directors Craft’? A book that advocates designers to be absolutely clear about what they mean, and respect of different actor “languages”.
Katie Mitchell
__________ was known for directing the films of A Streetcar Named Desire and On The Water Front.
Elia Kazan, also involved in a HUAC controversy for naming a list of his colleagues who were then blacklisted.
Bob Fosse directed and choreographed what musicals?
Chicago, Pippin, Sweet Charity
This directors book Empty Space was published two years before this directors 1970 production of A Midsummer NIghts Dream….
Peter Brook
Although Diane Paulus received criticism for adapting the text of _______ she also won the Tony for Best Direction of a Musical in 2012
Porgy and Bees
Emma Rice formerly the artistic director of Kneehigh will be the artistic director of _______ until later this year when she will be succeeded by Michelle Terry.
Shakespeare’s Globe
What is the title of the person responsible for teaching an Ancient Greek chorus and most likely responsible for staging plays?
Diadaskolos
Was the theatre of Ancient Rome considered a writers theatre or an actor’s theatre?
Actors theatre
Originally discussed by Aristotle and the key feature of both Roman and neoclassical tragedies, what are the three unities and how do they affect dramatic structure?
TIME PLACE ACTION
What are examples of how physical context informs the performance style for a traditional time period?
Greek Amphitheatre (Large space with thousands of spectators, masks, chorus, presentational style) Commedia dell'Arte (small stages in public squares and broad physical comedy) Medival Theatre (church produced pageants, wagons)
List two ways in which the artistic and scientific developments of the Renaissance changed theatrical theatre design.
Perspective drawing, chariot and pull system, the printing press
By the end of the 16th-century theatre changed significantly. How?
Theatre became a professional craft
It moved from religious to secular
Theater begins to move indoors
Based on the evidence from his plays, what do we know about staging practices during Shakespeares time?
Cue scripts were given to actors with only their lines
All male casts, boys were used as interns and played women
There were actor-managers who functioned like directors
