Perf Arts Written Exam Multiple choice questions

If a play is performing in Traverse where are the audience?

• Dotted around the space

• On Two Sides

• All around

• On Three Sides

In a theatre, who is responsible for managing the people who sell the programmes?

• Head Usher

• Front of House Manager

• An understudy actor who is not performing during the show

• Box office staff

During rehearsals who is often ‘on the book’?

• Someone with a copy of the script who prompts the actors

• The playwright who attends early rehearsals

• An actor who has not yet learnt his lines

• A Dancer, if they are in a literature based dance performance

What is a 'Gobo'?

• The Clown character in ‘The Merchant of Venice’

• A revolving section of the set

• A small trolley that is used to transport scenery

• A cut-out stencil device put over the lens of a lamp that creates a certain shape or shadow

If you were performing on a proscenium arch stage and were situated near the front row where would you be?

• Near the audience

• Upstage

• Downstage

• In the Orchestra Pit

What best describes the true meaning behind the lines of dialogue or what someone is thinking rather than saying?

• Thought-in-the-Head

• Subtext

• Inner Monologue

• Truth

What is meant by evaluating something?

• Measuring it

• Doing it better the time after

• Cooking it for tea

• Understanding it

What does a facial expression contribute to a performance?

• It’s very distracting for the audience and should be avoided

• It ensures that their face is highlighted

• It tells you how a character is feeling and how they are reacting to the situation on stage

• It can be very flattering to a performer

If a performer ‘corpses’ on stage what have they done?

• Played a character that has a gruesome death

• Trumped

• Come out of character and started laughing

• Forgotten their lines

If an actor forgets a line in a rehearsal when someone is following the action with a script what should they do?

• Quickly grab the script out of the person’s hand

• Ask another performer what their line is

• Loudly and clearly say the word ‘Line’

• Run off of stage and find their script