Intro To Drama, Test 2

Front 1

Three unities

Back 1

Time, place, and action

Front 2

Traditional tragedy

Back 2

primarilly concerned with struggles of demi-gods, royalty, and heroes

Front 3

Modern tragedy

Back 3

Concerned with struggles of the common people

Front 4

Aside from tragedy, what 3 types of drama were discussed in class?

Back 4

Heroic drama, Domestic drama, Melodrama

Front 5

Name 5 characteristics of Domestic drama

Back 5

problems with society, struggles with in the family, dashed hopes, renewed determination, the hero/heroine is a whole group of people

Front 6

Aside from Broadway, name 5 types of theater that exist in America today

Back 6

Off Broadway, Off off Broadway, Regional, Semi-pro, Academic, Community, and Children's

Front 7

Regional theater of Manhattan

Back 7

Broadway, sometimes called "the great white way"

Front 8

How many seats can an off Broadway playhouse have?

Back 8

Between 100 to 999

Front 9

Name 5 "given circumstances" a playwright may use

Back 9

Time, setting, characters, socioeconomic status of characters, prior events, relationships

Front 10

Name 5 artists with whom the director may have to collaborate with

Back 10

Set designer, costume designer, lighting designer, audio designer, music designer, choreographer, props manager, multimedia designer, playwright

Front 11

William Shakespeare

Back 11

Iconic playwright of English Elizabethan stage. Tragidies often broke the 3 unities

Front 12

Denis Diderot

Back 12

Instrumental in creation of the encyclopedia. His plates are a cornerstone of classical acting

Front 13

Anton Chekov

Back 13

Wrote "The Seagull" one of the most influential pieces of theatre of all time

Front 14

Constantin Stanislavski

Back 14

Founder of the modern acting style called "the method "

Front 15

Lee Stausberg

Back 15

American artist who pioneered "method" acting

Front 16

Actor's Equity Association

Back 16

commonly known as Equity, is the union which protects professional actors

Front 17

Stanislavski founded...?

Back 17

The Moscow Art Theatre, among the most influential theatres of all time

Front 18

Noises Off is an example of?

Back 18

Door-slamming farce

Front 19

The producer is responsible for?

Back 19

All non-artistic decisions of a play

Front 20

Verisimilitude

Back 20

the property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance of reality

Front 21

T or F? While the hero normally dies, his or her hopes are destroyed at the end of a heroic drama?

Back 21

False

Front 22

T or F? Domestic dramas tend to be concerned with common people and families?

Back 22

True

Front 23

T or F? Farce is a genre of comedy in which the situation is physically impossible?

Back 23

True

Front 24

T or F? Denis Diderot was a major contributor to the rise of "realism"?

Back 24

False

Front 25

T or F? Henrik Ibson was a major contributor to the rise of "realism"?

Back 25

True

Front 26

T or F? The director communicates with a team of designers to accomplish the will of the playwright?

Back 26

True

Front 27

T or F? Broadway is the name given to the regional theater of Brooklyn, New York?

Back 27

False

Front 28

T or F? IATSE is the union that protects stage hands & technical staff?

Back 28

True

Front 29

T or F? Lee Strasburg pioneered an acting technique for film actors called "the system"?

Back 29

False (He pioneered method )