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TRUE or FALSE: To "build a costume" in a costume shop means to create a costume from scratch.
True
TRUE or FALSE: Upstage is nearer the audience than downstage.
False
TRUE or FALSE: Props are items onstage used to stabilize scenery.
False
TRUE or FALSE: The scene design should not help establish the tone and style of the production.
False
TRUE or FALSE: One of the scene designers objectives is to provide a central image or metaphor for the production.
True
TRUE or FALSE: The five elements of scene design discussed in the chapter are line, mass, composition, texture, and color.
True
TRUE or FALSE: In a theatre, the fly loft is a space above the stage where scenery may be lifted out of sight by means of ropes and pulleys.
True
TRUE or FALSE: One of the objectives of a scene designer is to ensure that the scenery is coordinated with other elements.
True
TRUE or FALSE: The costume designer, through his or her design, can help actors with projecting their characters to the audience.
True
Define design concept.
A unifying idea carried out visually in theatre production.
Define fade.
A slow dimming of the lights, changing from brighter to darker, or vice versa.
Define fresnel.
A soft-edge spotlight.
What are the five qualities of light that can be used in creating effects?
1. Intensity
2. Color
3. Direction
4. Form
5. Movement
Define composition with regards to stage lighting.
The way lighted areas onstage are arranged in relationship to one another.
Define gobo.
Template in theatre lighting instrument that determines the shape and arrangement of the beam or pool of light thrown by the instrument.
TRUE or FALSE: Running sound during a performance means a sound cue that travels from one speaker to another in quick succession creating a "stuttering" effect.
False
What does focusing a light mean?
To aim it at a certain area onstage.
TRUE or FALSE: To run lights means to attach them close together across an overhead pipe.
False
Define shotgun mike.
A highly directional microphone that is aimed from a distance at a specific area.
TRUE or FALSE: There have been few advances and breakthroughs in sound equipment and sound terchnology.
False
What are the two visual elements of theatre?
1. Scenery
2. Costumes
Define build.
To create a costume from scratch in a costume shop.
Define computer-assisted design (CAD).
The use of computers to create design components such as ground plans, elevations, and three-dimensional views.
Define costume designer.
The person responsible for the appearance of each performer on stage.
Define downstage.
Front of the stage toward the audience.
Define flat.
Single piece of flat, rectangular scenery, used with other similar units to create a set.
Define fly loft.
Space above the stage where scenery may be lifted out of sight by means of ropes and pulleys.
Define ground plan.
Floor plan or layout of stage design that outlines the various levels on the stage and indicates the placement of scenery, furniture, doors, windows, and other necessary scenic elements.
Define left stage.
Left side of the stage from the point of view of a performer facing the audience.
Define props.
Properties; objects that are used by performers onstage or are necessary to complete a set.
Define pull.
To choose a costume from an inventory owned by a theatre company.
Define realism.
Broadly, an attempt to present onstage people and events corresponding to those in everyday life.
Define right stage.
Right side of the stage from the point of view of the performer facing the audience.
Define scrim.
Thin, open-weave fabric which is nearly transparent when lit from behind and opaque when lit from the front.
Define technical director.
Person who oversees all technical aspects of a theatre production, especially the building, painting, and installation of scenery and related elements.
Define upstage.
At or toward the back of the stage, away from the front edge of the stage.
Define wagon.
Low platform mounted on wheels or casters by means of which scenery is moved on and offstage.
Define automated lights.
A lighting instrument that can tilt, pan, rotate, change colors, and change focus - all electronically by computerized remote control.
Define backlighting.
Lighting that comes from behind.
Define blackout.
Total darkening of the stage.
Define cue.
Any prearranged signal
Define dimmer.
Device for changing lighting intensity smoothly and at varying rates.
Define downlighting.
Lighting that comes from directly overhead.
Define environmental sounds.
Noises from everyday life that provides background sound in a production.
Define floodlight.
Lighting instrument used for large or general area lighting.
Define followspot.
Large, powerful spotlight with a sharp focus and narrow beam that is used to follow principal performers as they move about the stage.
Define light plot.
Detailed outline or diagram showing where each lighting instrument is placed in relationship to the stage.
Define motivated sounds.
Sounds called for in the script that usually come from recognizable sources.
Define sound reinforcement.
Amplification of sounds in the theatre.
Define sound reproduction.
The use of motivated or environmental sounds.
What is The City of Dionysia?
An important Greek festival in honor of the god Dionysis that included plays during the festival.
Define theatron.
The area where the audience sat in ancient Greek theater.
What types of plays did Plautus write? Where is he from?
Comedy, Rome
What types of plays did Seneca write? Where is he from?
Tragedy, Rome
Define liturgical drama.
Early medieval church drama written in Latin and dealing with biblical stories.
TRUE or FALSE: During the Roman era, theatre and other forms of entertainment were not popular.
False
TRUE or FALSE: The ancient Romans borrowed many ancient Greek theater conventions.
True
Who is said to be the first actor in ancient Greek theatre?
Thespis
Define old comedy.
In Classical Greek theatre, old comedy poked fun at social, cultural and political conditions and at particular real people.
Define trilogy.
Three tragedies written by the same playwright, presented on a single day, and connected by a story or thematic concern.
Define argon.
In classical Greek Old Comedy, a scene with a debate between two opposing forces in a play.
Define amphitheatre.
Large oval, circular, or semicircular outdoor theatre with rising tiers of seats around an open playing area; also, an exceptionally large indoor auditorium.
Define choregus.
Wealthy person who financed a playwright's works at an ancient Greek dramatic festival.
Define chorus.
In ancient Greek drama, a group of performers who sang and danced, sometimes participating in the action but usually simple commenting on it.
Define dominus.
Leader of a Roman acting troupe.
Define mansions.
Individual scenic units used for staging of religious dramas in the Middle Ages.
Define morality play.
Medieval drama designed to teach a lesson.
Define mystery plays.
Short dramas of the Middle Ages based on events of the Old and New testament.
Define new comedy.
Hellenistic Greek and Roman comedies that deal with romantic and domestic situations.
Define orchestra.
A circular playing space in ancient Greek theatres.
Define pageant master.
During the Middle Ages, one who supervised the mounting of mystery plays.
Define pantomime.
A narrative sung by a chorus while the story was acted out by dancers.
Define parabasis.
Scene in classical Greek Old Comedy in which the chorus directly addresses the audience members and makes fun of them.
Define parodos.
In classic Greek drama, the scene in which the chorus enters.
Define platform stage.
Elevated stage with no proscenium.
Define satyr play.
Plays involving mythological creatures.
Define scaena.
Stage house in a Roman theatre.
Define thespian.
Synonym for "performer."
Define vernacular drama.
Drama from the Middle Ages performed in the everday speech of people.
Name two Roman comedy playrwrights.
Plautus and Terence.
TRUE or FALSE: Roman theatres were usually small indoor buildings.
False, they were usually large outdoor buildings.
Define bunraku.
A Japanese puppet theater.
Define kabuki.
A form of popular Japanese theater today combining music, dance, and dramatic scenes.
Where is Shadow Play widely performed?
Southeast Asia
TRUE or FALSE: Asian theatre is mainly focused on dance.
False, Asian theatre can be described as total theatre.
TRUE or FALSE: Kabuki theater performers are costumed to look like individuals that audience members might meet everyday on the street.
False, they are dressed in bizarre and unlikely fashion.
TRUE or FALSE: Asian drama relies more on "dance drama" than does European and American theatre.
True
TRUE or FALSE: In Japanese kabuki theatre, female roles are played by men.
True
Define "no" (also spelled noh).
A rigidly traditional form of Japanese drama that combines music, dance and lyrics.
Define hanamichi.
A runway where Kabuki actors can make entrances on.
In Kabuki theatre, what does onnagata refer to?
Male actors who play women's roles.
Define shadow play.
An ancient form of storytelling and entertainment using opaque, often articulated figures in front of an illuminated backdrop to create the illusion of moving images.
Define hashigakari.
Brige in a noh theatre on which the performers make their entrance from the dressing area to the platform stage.
TRUE or FALSE: In Japan, the first, most important theatre form was Kabuki.
False, it was "no" (noh).
TRUE or FALSE: Painted perspective scenery in the theater was introduced during the Italian Renaissance.
True
Define soliloquy.
A monologue through which a character reveals thoughts by speaking them.
What are the three unities during the Renaissance?
1. Unity of time
2. Unity of place
3. Unity of action
Define slapstick.
A wooden sword used in comic fight scenes performed by commedia dell'arte troupes.
TRUE or FALSE: Neoclassical ideals were rules developed by critics during the Italian Renaissance, supposedly based on the writings of Shakespeare.
False
TRUE or FALSE: In Italian Renaissance theatres, the pole and chariot system and the groove system were methods of changing scenery.
True
Define private theaters.
Indoor theatres in Elizabethan England.
TRUE or FALSE: The Teatro Olimpico is the oldest surviving theatre from the Renaissance.
True
TRUE or FALSE: In Commedia dell 'arte, the actors improvised from an outline of the action.
True
TRUE or FALSE: Zanni were comic pieces of business used repeatedly by characters in Italian commedia dell'arte.
False, Zanni were comic male servants in Italian commedia dell-arte.
Define apprentice.
Young performer training in an Elizabethan acting company.
Define box.
Small private compartment for a group of specatators built into the walls of traditional proscenium-arch and other theatres.
Define cazuela.
Gallery above the tavern in the back wall of the threatres of the spanish golden age; the area where unescorted womain sat.
Define commedia.
Full-length nonreligious play of the Spanish golden age.
Define companias de partes.
Acting troupes in the Spanish golden age, organized according to a sharing system.
Define corral.
Theatre of the Spanish golden age, usually located in the courtyard of a series of the building.
Define gallery.
In theatre buildings, the undivided seating area cut into the walls of the building.
Define groove system.
System in which tracks on the stage floor and above the stage allowed for the smooth movement of flat wings onto and off the stage; usually there were a series of grooves at each stage position.
Define hireling.
Member of an Elizabethan acting troupe who was paid a set salary and was not a shareholder.
Define lazzi.
Comic pieces of business used repeatedly by characters in Italian comedia dell'arte.
Define masque.
Lavish, spectacular court entertainment primarily during the late English Renaissance.
Define neocliassical ideals.
Rules developed by critics during the Italian Renaissance, supposedly based on the writings of Aristotle.
Define patio.
In the theatre of the Spanish golden age, the pit area for the audience.
Define perspective.
Illusion of depth in painting, introduced into scene design during the Italian Renaissance.
Define pit.
Floor of the house in Renaissaince theatres.
Define pole and chariot.
Gaicomo Torelli's mechanized means of changing sets made up of flat wings.
Define private theatres.
Indoor theatres in Elizabethan England.
Define public theatres.
Outdoor theatres in Elizabethan England.
Define shareholders.
In Elizabethan acting troupes, members who recieved part of the profits as payment.
Define sides.
Script containing only a single performers lines and cues.
Define unities.
Term referring to the preference that a play's plot occur within one day, in one place, and with no action irrelevant to the plot.
Define yard.
Pit, or standing area, in Elizabethan public theatres.
TRUE or FALSE: The term "box set" refers to a stage set consisting of square or rectangular platforms usually connected by steps.
False
Define box set.
Interior setting using flats to form the back and side walls and often the ceiling of the room.
TRUE or FALSE: Nonliterary forms of American entertainment --such as minstrel shows, wild west shows, circus, variety shows-- became less popular during the nineteenth century than in previous centuries.
False, they became more popular.
TRUE or FALSE: "Storm and stress" playwrights of the late 1700's strove to imitate closely the Neoclassical ideals.
False
TRUE or FALSE: The "well made play" of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries combined apparent plausibility of incident and surface realism with a tightly constructed plot.
True
TRUE or FALSE: There were no significant women playwrights during the English Restoration
False
Complete the sentence: Eighteenth-century "domestic tragedy" ignored the neoclassical requirement that tragedy have kings, queens or nobles as its chief characters. Instead, "domestic tragedy" had ______________ as its chief characters.
Individuals of the emerging middle class.
Which type of comedy is most associated with Restoration comedy?
Comedy of manners
TRUE or FALSE: In continental seating, without a center aisle, the audience exits at the ends of the long rows.
True
What was one of the contributions of the Bibienas to the theatre in the 18th century?
Muti-point perspective in scene painting
Define groundrows.
Cutouts along the stage floor.
Define ballad opera.
18th century English form that burlesqued opera.
Define comedy of manners.
Comedy emphasizing a cultivated or sophisticated atmosphere and witty dialogue.
Define drama.
18th century french term usually denoting a serious drama that dealt with middle-class characters.
Define exposition.
Imparting of information necessary for an understanding of the story but not covered by the action onstage.
Define gesamtkunstwerk.
Richard Wanger's theory of a unified work of theatrical art.
Define melodrama.
Dramatic form, made popular in the 19th century, which emphasizesd action and spectacular effects and also used music.
TRUE or FALSE: Melodrama had stock characters and clearly defined heros and villains.
True
Define regisseur.
Continental European term for a theatre director.
Define repertory (or repertoire).
Acting company that at any given time can perform a number of plays alternatively.
Define romanticism.
Movement of the 19th century that sought to free the artist from rules and considered unfettered insipration the source of all creativity.
Define storm and stress.
Anti-neoclassical 18th century German movement that was a forerunner of romanticism.
Define well-made play.
Dramatic form that combined apparent plausibility of incident and surface realism with a tightly constructed plot.
Strindberg, Ibsen, and Chekhov are most noted for their early contributions to what style of theatre and drama?
Realism
TRUE or FALSE: From the outset of realism, there has been a strong countermovement of departures from realism, or antirealism.
True
TRUE or FALSE: Dada artists argued that art should mirror the logical aspects of life.
False, they defied logic.
TRUE or FALSE: The term "unit set" refers to a single setting that can represent a variety of locales with the simple addition of properties or scenic elements.
True
Define constructivist scene design.
A type of scene design that was composed of ramps, platforms and levels. It was nonrealistic and was intended to provide greater opportunities for physical movement by the performers.
Define expressionism.
A movement in Germany at about the time of World War I. It is characterized by an attempt to dramatize subjective states through distortion, grotesque images, as well as lyric and unrealistic dialogue. The images the audience sees are often images that are seen through the distorted perception of a disturbed character.
TRUE or FALSE: Kathakali is a type of traditional dance drama performed in India.
True
TRUE or FALSE: Bertolt Brecht believed that a theatre production should force the audience to remain emotionally detached --or alienated-- from the dramatic action.
True
TRUE or FALSE: Naturalism can be described as an extreme form of realism.
True
TRUE or FALSE: Epic theatre is a term most associated with Henrick Ibsen
False, it is Brecht
TRUE or FALSE: Commedy of manners is considered instrumental in the development toward the modern musical.
False
Define alienation.
Brecht's theory that audience's emotional involvment should be minimized to increase their intellectual involvement with the political message.
Define beijing opera.
Popular theatre of China that developed in the 19th century.
Define biomechanics.
Meyerhold's theory that a performer's body should be machinelike and that emotion could be represented externally.
Define dada.
Movement in art between the world wars, based on presenting the irrational and attacking traditional artistic values.
Define epic theatre.
Form of episodic drama associated with Brecht and aimed at the intellect rather than the emotions.
Define futurism.
Art movement which idealized mechanization and machinery.
Define surrealism.
Departure from realism that attempted to present dramitcally the working of the subconscious.
Define symbolism.
Movement of the late 19th century and early 20th century that sought to express inner truth rather than represent life realistically.
Define theatre of cruelty.
Artaud's visionary concept of a theatre based on magic and ritual, which would liberate deep, violent, and erotic impulses.
Define theatricalism.
Exposing the elements of theatre to make the audience members aware that they are watching theatre.
What was Grotowski's poor theatre?
Stripped down to its basics.
What is the "book" of a musical?
It is spoken rather than sung portions of a musical play.
Complete the sentence: Especially popular in the 1960's, ____________ were unstructured and nonliterary events that occurred with a minimum of planning and organization.
Happenings.
Define shingeki.
20th century Japanese theatre that incorporates western ideas about playwriting and theatre production.
TRUE or FALSE: In New York City, off-Broadway theatre began as a less costly alternative to the commercial Broadway theatre.
True
TRUE or FALSE: The libretto of a musical play refers to its music
False, it is the dialogue and action.
TRUE or FALSE: Because of political turmoil, there was very little theatre in Latin America during the twentieth century.
False
Define burlesque.
Sarire of a serious form of literature.
TRUE or FALSE: An important development in theatre in the United States in the past half century has been the growth of major established regional theatres.
True
Define environmental theatre.
Branch of avant-garde theatre stressing the environment in which a performance takes place.
Define existentialism.
Term applied to plays illustrating a philosophy whose modern advocate was Jean-Paul Sartre and which holds that there are no longer any fixed standards or values.
Define happenings.
Nonliterary or unscripted theatrical event using a scenario that allows for change occurrences.
Define multimedia.
Use of electronic media, such as slides, film, and videotape, in live theatrical presentations.
Define musical theatre.
Broad category that includes opera, opertta, musical comedy, and other musical plays.
Define postmodernism.
A contemporary concept suggesting that artists and audiences have gone beyond the modernist movements of realism and the various departures from realism.
TRUE or FALSE: Documentary Drama is a continuing global trend today.
True
TRUE or FALSE: Contemporary theatre is eclectic.
True
TRUE or FALSE: Contemporary Latina/Latino theatre in the United States can be divided into three categories--Costa Rican, Hispanic, and Haitian.
False, it can be divided into three groups: Chicano, Cuban American, and Puerto Rican theatre.
TRUE or FALSE: The types of theatre available to audiences today are wide ranging.
True
Define agitprop.
Plays with a strong political or social agenda
TRUE or FALSE: Asian American, Native American, Latino/Latina, Gay and Lesbian are types of theatre that are not present in today's theatre.
False
TRUE or FALSE: One branch of performance art has focused on "site-specific" presentations.
True
What are three words used by the textbook to characterize today's theatre?
1. Diverse
2. Global
3. Eclectic
Define performance art.
An experimental theatre that initially incorporated elements of dance and visual art, but recently is often autobiographical monologue.
Define postmodernism.
A contemporary concept suggesting that artists and audiences have gone beyond the modernist movement of realism and the various departures from realism.