Intro to Theatre: Final Exam Review

The timing and placement of a character's entrances, exits, crosses, embraces, and other major movements is called

• Staging

• Blocking

• Technical Managing

• directing

What is meant by the "concept" of a play?

• the central idea in the writer's mind

• the point of view of the popular audience

• the director's central idea that focuses the interpretation

• the general critical interpretation

During performances, the person fully in charge of overseeing the execution of the show is the

(a)  

Which movement was based in the idea that, although humans search for some meaning or purpose in human life, they are met with a world that is fragmented, unorganizable, and chaotic, making the effort futile?

• absurdism

• modern realism

• theatre of cruelty

• expressionism

Historians know that ancient Athenian tragedy was created in honor of the god

• Apollo

• Zeus

• Mercury

• Dionysus

Which Renaissance-era theatre building was restored in 1997 as a functioning performing space?

• The Great Theatre of Dionysus

• The Skylark

• The Globe

• The Marlowe

Who is said to have a special relationship between the material world and the invisible, spirit world.

(a)  

The founding playwright of the realist era was

• Henrik Ibsen

• August Strindberg

• Mario Tinburgen

• Anton Chekhov

Which city remains the international capital of the world's musical theatre?

(a)  

Who raised dance to a new level of prominence when he developed a new choreographic style—quick, brisk motion that suddenly gives way to slow, sinuous gestures—in a series of musicals that he directed and choreographed, among them Dancin' and Chicago?

• Tommy Tune

• Rudolf Nureyev

• Michael Bennett

• Bob Fosse