Hnrs 291 (Honors Theater Appreciation) - Test 1

Front 1

Theater's ____ means that it cannot be reproduced.

Back 1

Immediacy

Front 2

The word theater comes from the Greek word "theatron" meaning ______ ______

Back 2

Seeing place

Front 3

The two main components of a theatrical space is the ___ and the ____

Back 3

Stage and auditorium

Front 4

The three main components of theater are the ____, ____, and ____.

Back 4

Actor, audience, space

Front 5

In Medieval theater, movable stages were known as ____ _____

Back 5

Pageant Wagons

Front 6

Props that were usually stage left and were used to scare the audience were known as _____

Back 6

Hellmouths

Front 7

The first theater in Parmount, Italy was the first of its kind. This type of theater was known as a ______ theater.

Back 7

Proscenium

Front 8

This type of theater frames the actors and separates the audience from the play itself.

Back 8

Proscenium

Front 9

This type of theater has seating on three sides and juts the action into the foreground.

Back 9

Thrust

Front 10

A theater with seating all around is called:

Back 10

Theater in the round, or an arena.

Front 11

The underside of the roofing of the Globe Theater is painted to look like the _____.

Back 11

Heavens

Front 12

In medieval theater, the small hut-like structures on permanent stages are called _____.

Back 12

Mansions

Front 13

The principal influence who has the same cinematic vision as Peter Brook was ____ ____

Back 13

Antonin Artaud

Front 14

_____ _____ said this: "I can take any empty space and all it a bare stage. A man can walk across an empty stage and someone can watch him, and that's all that's needed." He believed that the audience completed the stage/scene.

Back 14

Peter Brook

Front 15

Greek choruses were the ______ _____, reacting perfectly to scenes in the play.

Back 15

Ideal spectators

Front 16

___ ____ built The Theater in London.

Back 16

James Burbage

Front 17

___ ____ helped build The Globe

Back 17

Richard Burbage

Front 18

____ ______ _____ was Shakespeare's Acting Troupe.

Back 18

Lord Chamberlain's Men

Front 19

This man developed the Poor Theater, which got rid of every element of theater aside from the three main components.

Back 19

Jerro Grotowski

Front 20

This man and this woman developed the Living Theater. They wrote/made "The Connection" about heroin addicts.

Back 20

Judith Molina and Julian Beck

Front 21

The strange element of Living Theater was:

Back 21

The audience was encouraged to participate in every part of the show, including nudity and drug use.

Front 22

This woman developed Le Théâtre du Soleil.

Back 22

Ariane Mnouchkine

Front 23

This theater still exists, and was created by Peter Schumann.

Back 23

The Bread and Puppet Theater

Front 24

This man believed in the alienation effect.

Back 24

Bertolt Brecht

Front 25

This is the method of jolting the audience back into reality, and detaching them emotionally from the play.

Back 25

Alienation effect

Front 26

These three things are a playwright's tools:

Back 26

Characters, Plot, Language

Front 27

This man only wrote his plays once.

Back 27

Edward Alby

Front 28

This makes a play successful more than anything else.

Back 28

Performability

Front 29

The use of found spaces is how this type theater takes place.

Back 29

Environmental Theater

Front 30

True or False: Theater audiences should be silent, because silence is respectful to the players.

Back 30

False - The audience should respond appropriately to the actors.

Front 31

This man directed his own plays, and is best known for his show "Glengarry Glen Ross"

Back 31

David Mamet

Front 32

This man is best known for The Buried Child.

Back 32

Sam Shepard

Front 33

This woman explored feminist and sexual concepts, and experimented with dance theater.

Back 33

Caryl Churchilll

Front 34

This man is best known for writing over 1000 plays, his most famous being Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Back 34

Tennessee Williams

Front 35

This man wrote about the African American experience.

Back 35

August Wilson

Front 36

This man wrote The Crucible.

Back 36

Arthur Miller

Front 37

This woman wrote about abuse and incest.

Back 37

Paula Vogel

Front 38

This woman is an African American playwright.

Back 38

Suzan-Lori Parks

Front 39

This man was given the ability to write because of other artists who were not traditional

Back 39

David Henry Wayne