Intro to Theatre Ch 5

Who declared that "true scenography is everything that happens when the curtain opens"?

• Josef Svobada

• Robert Edmund Jones

• Catherine Zuber

• Paul McCatto

What was the biggest innovation that helped push theatre in the immersive scenery direction?

• directors

• proscenium

• drop sets

• realism

Vertical, flat scenery pieces to the left and right of the stage

• wings

• drops

• curtains

• lips

Horizontal, flat scenery pieces hung above the stage

• borders

• drops

• flats

• platforms

Short for _______, these are large, flat scenery pieces at the rear of the stage

• backdrops (drops)

• flatlines (flats)

• plats (platforms)

• drapes (draperies)

What was known as the "wing-and-drop" set?

• proscenium

• black box

• arena

• thrust

_______ staging makes up an additional stage format, where audiences on both sides of a long walkway stage, seen in "The Jungle"

• traverse

• arena

• environmental

• black box

the advent of _____ and _____ pushed scenery back toward the three-dimensional "realistic" settings

• naturalism and realism

• naturalism and reformism

• realism and antirealism

• reformism and antinaturalism

what form of theatre is referred to as "kitchen sink realism"?

• black box

• environmental

• thrust

• traverse

One term for describing the nonrealistic scenography strategies used over theatre's history can be called

• abstraction

• creationism

• illusionism

• conversion