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1
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Theatre is said to be immediate, which means…

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as live actors performing in the same room as a live audience.

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The three basic elements of theatre are?

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What is performed, the performance, and the audience.

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What is not characteristic of commedia dell’arte?

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Scripts with dialogue

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Willing suspension of disbelief is when?

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The audience grants the characters temporary reality.

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5
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What sets the action in motion in a play?

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The inciting incident.

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Comedy is based on what?

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A deviation from normality

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The overall meaning of a play’s action?

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Thought

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Aristotle described his six elements of tragedy in…

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the Poetics

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9
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Who is often called the founder of modern drama?

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Ibsen

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10
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Playwrights often revise their plays even up to opening night and beyond.

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True

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11
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Which is not a concern of the playwright?

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Spelling and grammar

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Plot is?

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Overall structure of the play

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13
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This theatre space has the audience on three sides.

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Thrust

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14
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Which theatre uses a large arch to separate the audience from the stage?

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Proscenium

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15
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The theatre space with the audience on all four sides of the acting space?

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Arena

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16
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Wagner’s Bayreuth theatre was the first to use?

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Fan-shaped auditorium

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17
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Used to represent walls on stage?

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Flats

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18
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The Technical Director is often in charge of?

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The building of the scenery

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19
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The drawn to scale layout of the set on the stage?

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Floor plan

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20
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A black box theatre?

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can be adapted to different stage configurations.

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21
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One major aspect of stage makeup is?

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To restore color and form that has been diminished by stage lighting.

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22
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Which designer helps to define the characters?

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Costume Designer

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23
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A costume chart is used for what?

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A broad organization of the characters’ costumes

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One of the most important functions of lighting design is?

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Enhance mood and atmosphere

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25
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A light plot is a?

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A drawing of the lighting instruments with specifications.

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26
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Etched filters that break light into patterns of light and shadow?

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Gobos

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27
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An example of sound design indicating location would be?

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A foghorn

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28
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Music is often a component of sound design.

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True

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29
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Who is responsible for casting the play?

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The director

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30
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Who is responsible for blocking the play?

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The director

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31
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A production concept is what?

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The director’s vision for the production.

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32
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The given circumstances can be?

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The basic who, what, when, and where of the situation.

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33
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What is subtext?

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The underlying meaning of the lines

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34
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Most actor training today occurs where?

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Colleges and universities

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35
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Three psychological concepts from the Stanislavsky system are?

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Objective, obstacle, and action

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36
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The most important assistant of the Director?

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The Stage Manager

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37
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Shakespeare wrote during which time period?

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Elizabethan/Jacobean

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38
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An actor’s innate ability is something that can be taught.

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False

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39
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The first director in the modern sense of the term is?

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Saxe-Meiningen

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40
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Whose approach to acting had the greatest impact on the 20th century?

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Stanislavsky

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41
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The great playwrights, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides wrote in the

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fifth century BCE

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42
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Theatron means?

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“Seeing Place”

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43
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Theatre is said to be immediate, which means…

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as live actors performing in the same room as a live audience.

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44
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Theatre may have begun through

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storytelling

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45
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Roman characters wearing a red wig signified that they were a?

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slave

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46
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Roman characters wearing a blonde wig signified that they were a?

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courtesan

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47
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The three basic elements of theatre are?

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What is performed, the performance, and the audience.

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48
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Theatre that was primarily performed in churches or monasteries is called?

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liturgical drama

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49
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Allegorical plays about humans fighting moral temptations were called?

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Morality plays

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50
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Willing Suspension of Disbelief is when

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the audience grants the characters temporary reality.

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51
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According to ancient commentators, Thespis

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won the first tragedy contest at the City Dionysia.

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52
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The major religious festival in ancient Athens featuring theatre was called

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City Dionysia

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53
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The masks used by actors in ancient Greece were made of?

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Light materials such as cork, linen, or very light wood

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54
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Roman comedies were based on Greek plays.

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True

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55
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The ancient Greek and Roman theatres originally were temporary structures that later became permanent stone ones.

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True

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56
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What is a skene?

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A structure that served as an architectural background.

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57
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Seneca was very influential for tragedy writers during Shakespeare’s age.

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True

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58
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The Cycle Plays were stories from

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the Bible.

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59
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The earliest known liturgical play is called?

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Quem Quaeritis.

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60
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Arlecchino’s wooden sword is the basis for calling physical humor slapstick.

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True

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61
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Comic business in commedia dell arte was called a zanni?

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False - lazzi

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62
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Shakespeare wrote during which time period?

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Elizabethan

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63
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The Catholic festival that became associated with medieval drama was called?

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Corpus Christi

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64
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The theatre became a commercial activity during which time period?

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Elizabethan

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65
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Shakespeare’s company performed at?

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the Globe

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66
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What is not characteristic of commedia dell arte?

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Scripts with dialogue

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67
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Theatre is not an art, but an entertainment.

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False - it is an art

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68
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The Abydos Passion Play was performed in?

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Egypt

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69
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What were the pageant wagons used for?

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English Cycle Plays, such as in Wakefield.

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70
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According to the text, the Roman scaena frons was…

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a facade across the back of the stage.

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71
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Cycle plays in England ceased because?

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Elizabeth I outlawed them.

72
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Shakespeare and Moliere both wrote plays based on plays by?

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Plautus

73
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What sets the action in motion in a play?

A

Inciting incident

74
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Most plays have only one complication

A

False - most have multiple

75
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Henrik Ibsen is often called the founder of modern drama.

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True

76
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The majority of plays are organized by?

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Cause-to-effect

77
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The highest point of tension in a play is the?

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Climax

78
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Plot is?

A

Overall structure of the play

79
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The term “subtext” means?

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The character’s true meaning beneath the surface of their communication.

80
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The leading character of a tragedy is most commonly known as the

A

Protagonist

81
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The four levels of characterization are?

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Physical, societal, psychological, and moral.

82
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Which form of drama tried to show the causes of heredity and environment and used common people as its characters?

A

Realism

83
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The events or actions of secondary interest that often provide contrast to the main plot is called?

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Subplot

84
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This genre mixes serious and comic to create a serious play that ends happily.

A

Tragicomedy

85
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This genre features a clearly defined world of good and evil.

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Melodrama

86
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Throughout most of theatre history the two basic dramatic forms have been?

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Comedy and tragedy

87
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The two great periods of tragedy are?

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Ancient Greece and Elizabethan England

88
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Style in drama results from what?

A

A distinctive mode of expression.

89
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Comedy is based on what?

A

A deviation from normality.

90
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The overall meaning of the play’s action is called?

A

Thought

91
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All of the visual elements of a play is called?

A

Spectacle

92
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Aristotle described his six elements of tragedy in?

A

The Poetics

93
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The background information the audience must have in order to understand what is going on in the action of a play is known as

A

Exposition

94
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The_________ comes after the climax.

A

denouement

95
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Which of the following is not a concern of the playwright?

A

Spelling and grammar

96
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Playwrights often like to do what while writing a play?

A

Have a group of people read the play aloud

97
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Getting a play produced for the first time is actually quite easy.

A

False - it is hard

98
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Romanticism was in many regards a reaction against Neo-Classicism.

A

True

99
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The dramaturg has basically two functions, which are?

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Literary management, production dramaturgy

100
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The first acknowledged dramaturg was?

A

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

101
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Shakespeare wrote Hamlet knowing who were going to play the roles.

A

True

102
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Which dramatic form is often concerned about the nature of human existence, morality, or human relationships?

A

Tragedy

103
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Which dramatic form often has plot devices such as mistaken identities, abductions, and hidden documents?

A

Melodrama

104
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Three things that playwrights do to language are?

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Select, arrange, and heighten

105
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The initial stage of playwriting is typically an isolated and personal process.

A

True

106
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Any new element that changes the direction of the action is called?

A

A complication

107
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One of the most important functions of lighting design is?

A

Enhance mood and atmosphere

108
Q

An instrument schedule is what?

A

A spreadsheet of the lighting instruments indicating specifications

109
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Wagner’s Bayreuth Theatre had the first?

A

fan-shaped auditorium

110
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One aspect of makeup is

A

To restore color and form that has been diminished by stage lighting.

111
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A costume chart is used for what?

A

A broad organization of the characters’ costumes.

112
Q

An example of sound design indicating location would be?

A

A trainwhistle

113
Q

The technical director is often in charge of

A

The building of scenery

114
Q

Which designer helps to define the characters?

A

The costume designer

115
Q

This theatre space has the audience on three sides

A

Thrust

116
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Etched filters that break light into patterns of light and shadow are called?

A

Gobos

117
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The four categories of painted makeup are?

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Age, straight/character, racial/ethnic, and special painted effects

118
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A Flexible Space is?

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The separation of the actors and audience is variable.

119
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A light plot is what?

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A drawing of the lighting instruments with specifications

120
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The lights are mounted and focused by?

A

The master electrician and the electrics crew

121
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One type of a three-dimensional scenic unit is?

A

Platforms

122
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Ellipsoidals are considered to be?

A

Spotlights

123
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What is used to create a color in stage lighting?

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Subtractive color mixing

124
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What is used to evaluate costumes without the distraction of a performance?

A

A dress parade

125
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Dressers are?

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Assistants who help actors with quick changes

126
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A platform on casters is called?

A

A wagon.

127
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A newer development in scene design is?

A

Computer-assisted design. (CAD)

128
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Who typically applies the makeup on the actor?

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the actor applies their own makeup

129
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Music is often a component of the sound design?

A

True

130
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Which theatre often uses a large arch to separate audience from the stage?

A

Proscenium

131
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The theatre space which has the audience on four sides of the acting area is called?

A

Arena theatre

132
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The costumer’s working drawing is a?

A

Colored sketch

133
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An example of a set prop and a hand prop:

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Sofa, soda bottle

134
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Used to present walls on stage?

A

Flats

135
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A blackbox theatre?

A

Can be adapted to different stage configurations.

136
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A dressing list is used for what?

A

To remind the actors what they wear and when.

137
Q

Appia’s designs were greatly enhanced by?

A

improvements in lighting technology

138
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The drawn to scale layout of the set on the stage?

A

Floor plan

139
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Theatres often rent costumes at…

A

Costume rental houses

140
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To tell an actor to “open up” means what?

A

To turn slightly more towards the audience.

141
Q

Some specialized training that actors usually seek are in?

A

Dancing, fencing, and singing

142
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Whose approach had the greatest impact on 20th century acting?

A

Stanislavsky

143
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The actor’s job interview is the?

A

auditions

144
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To focus means?

A

To look or turn towards someone or something.

145
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Early in the rehearsal period is the time for actors to?

A

Learn blocking

146
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What is a “translation” approach?

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Find the true meaning of the play under the surface details.

147
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Beats are?

A

A unit of action

148
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What did Reinhardt establish as the dominant directorial approach?

A

Eclecticism

149
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Watching other people, such as for dominant behavior patterns, can be called observation?

A

True

150
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What are some of the factors in casting an actor?

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Flexibility, emotional range, and perhaps physical characteristics

151
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Three psychological concepts from Stanislavsky’s system are?

A

Objective, obstacle, and action

152
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Upstage and downstage means?

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Upstage is toward the back of the stage and downstage is closer to the audience.

153
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When handling stage props actors must use their?

A

Imagination

154
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The first director in the modern sense is?

A

Saxe-Meiningen

155
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What is subtext?

A

The underlying meaning of the lines.

156
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This member of the production team is the director’s surrogate during performances?

A

The Stage Manager

157
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The variable factors of speech are?

A

Articulation, pronunciation, and projection

158
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Stage directions, such as left and right are given from whose point of view?

A

The actor

159
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In a musical one of the more complex directorial duties is?

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Integrating the spoken lines with songs and dance.

160
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A production concept is what?

A

The director’s vision for the production.

161
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Who actually runs the performances?

A

The Stage Manager

162
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Business is small physical action, such as when actors drink a glass of wine.

A

True

163
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The given circumstances can be?

A

The basic who, what, when, and where of the situation.

164
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Affective memory was developed by?

A

Stanislavsky

165
Q

The four levels of characterization are?

A

Biological, sociological, psychological, and ethical

166
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An actor with little experience or training will never be cast in a professional production?

A

False - they could be

167
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A typical director and designer relationship is?

A

The director and designers work well when all are satisfied

168
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Imagination works how?

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by asking “as if.”

169
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Blocking is large physical action such as when actors walk across the stage?

A

True

170
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Who is responsible for the blocking of the play?

A

The director

171
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Typically memorization is done by?

A

Going over the lines many times.

172
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Technical rehearsals are followed by?

A

Dress rehearsals

173
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Who is responsible for the spine of the play?

A

The director

174
Q

The first independent theatre was the Theatre Libre founded by?

A

Antoine

175
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Who is responsible for casting the play?

A

The director

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