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Worksheets2020 Fall Semester Exam
Total questions: 79
Worksheet time: 40mins
Choose the image that represents downstage.
Choose the image that represents upstage.
What perspective is stage left and right?
The actor's
The audience's
Which picture represents stage right?
Which picture represents stage left?
Name the body position.
Full Front
Three Quarter Turn
Profile
Quarter Turn
Full back
Name the body position.
Full Front
Three Quarter Turn
Profile
Quarter Turn
Full back
Name the body position.
Full Front
Three Quarter Turn
Profile
Quarter Turn
Full back
Name the body position.
Full Front
Three Quarter Turn
Profile
Quarter Turn
Full back
Name the body position.
Full Front
Three Quarter Turn
Profile
Quarter Turn
Full back
What is a raked stage?
A flat stage
A tilted stage
What does cheating out mean?
When a character addresses the audience.
Shorthanded stage directions
An actor adjusting to be more visible with the audience in mind.
Planning out the movement for a play.
What does breaking the Fourth Wall mean?
When a character addresses the audience.
Shorthanded stage directions
An actor adjusting to be more visible with the audience in mind.
Planning out the movement for a play.
Stage abbreviations are what?
When a character addresses the audience.
Shorthanded stage directions
An actor adjusting to be more visible with the audience in mind.
Planning out the movement for a play.
Stage abbreviations are what?
When a character addresses the audience.
Shorthanded stage directions
An actor adjusting to be more visible with the audience in mind.
Planning out the movement for a play.
What is a cross?
A movement across the stage.
The opposite movement
What is a counter-cross?
A movement across the stage.
The opposite movement
What is a tableau?
Acting without words and just gestures, expression and movement.
Making dialogue and action as you go along. Acting without a script.
Where actors pose/freeze to create a picture of one important moment in the play.
What is pantomime?
Acting without words and just gestures, expression and movement.
Making dialogue and action as you go along. Acting without a script.
Where actors pose/freeze to create a picture of one important moment in the play.
What is improvisation?
Acting without words and just gestures, expression and movement.
Making dialogue and action as you go along. Acting without a script.
Where actors pose/freeze to create a picture of one important moment in the play.
True or False: A mime's goal is to create an environment successfully with just expression, gestures and movements.
True
False
Theatre was born out of
rituals
ceremony dances
What is a more organized form of ceremonies?
rituals
ceremony dances
Who performed the rituals?
villagers
chief representatives of the Gods.
Greek theatre began at the Festival of
Zues
Antigone
Dionysus
What are dithyrambs?
rituals who praised Zeus
rituals who praised Antigone
rituals who praised Dionysus
Who is considered to be the first actor?
Thespis
Sophocles
Aeschylus
Euripides
Who is considered to be the father of tragedy?
Thespis
Sophocles
Aeschylus
Euripides
Who introduced the 2nd actor?
Thespis
Sophocles
Aeschylus
Euripides
Who introduced the 3rd actor?
Thespis
Sophocles
Aeschylus
Euripides
Who wrote about women and their plight, and the everyday struggle of an outsider.
Thespis
Sophocles
Aeschylus
Euripides
Why was the beginning of the Middle Ages called the Dark Ages?
There was a lot of theatre going on.
There was no cultural activity, traveling, or literacy.
Who resurrected theatre after the Dark Ages?
Theatre
The Church
The Country
What is a trope?
short dramatized scenes added to the Catholic masses
small platforms on which short scenes are played.
What is a cathedral mansion?
short dramatized scenes added to the Catholic masses
small platforms on which short scenes are played.
Who wrote comedies for cathedral mansions?
Sophocles
Hrosvitha
Plays that depicted Jesus's last days of suffering and his resurrection.
tropes
passion plays
cathedral mansions
What is the Renaissance?
A fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth.”
Came about with the reestablishment of the monarchy in England in 1660 under Charles II
What does renaissance mean?
re birth
death
Where did the Renaissance start?
England
France
Spain
Italy
What is commedia del'arte?
a play where lines were memorized.
improvised comedy with stock characters.
What are stock characters?
random characters
represents a type and that is recognizable as belonging to a certain genre
What is neoclassicism?
a form which dramatists follow the classic unities and write in verse.
improvised comedy with stock characters.
Who are the Puritans?
A religious group that believed strongly in purity.
actor in a acting company.
Who led the Puritans?
William Shakespeare
Oliver Cromwell
Elizabeth I
The Puritans liked theatre very much
True
False
What was the Restoration about?
Came about with the reestablishment of the monarchy in England in 1660 under Charles II
A fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth.”
What is romanticism?
an emotional escape into adventure, beauty, and sentimental idealism.
depicts a selected view of real life.
What is realism?
an emotional escape into adventure, beauty, and sentimental idealism.
depicts a selected view of real life.
Who is considered to be called the father of realism?
Henrik Ibsen
Anton Chekhov
Who trained actors in a technique of realistic acting, which was the forerunner of Method Acting, a popular acting technique today.
Henrik Ibsen
Konstantin Stanislavski
1st playhouse in America was built where in 1716.
New York
Williamsburg
What are Minstrel plays?
performed in black face and featuring African American songs and jokes.
variety show featuring everything: singers, acrobats, jugglers, dancers, comedians, and animal acts.
a play that focuses more on cliff-hanging action and intense emotions than on character development.
What are Vaudeville plays?
performed in black face and featuring African American songs and jokes.
variety show featuring everything: singers, acrobats, jugglers, dancers, comedians, and animal acts.
a play that focuses more on cliff-hanging action and intense emotions than on character development.
What are Melodrama plays?
performed in black face and featuring African American songs and jokes.
variety show featuring everything: singers, acrobats, jugglers, dancers, comedians, and animal acts.
a play that focuses more on cliff-hanging action and intense emotions than on character development.
What is Epic Theatre
depicts real life.
drama that asks the audience to think seriously about a political or social issue and in which theatricality overrides realism.
Who developed Epic Theatre?
Henrik Ibsen
Bertolt Brecht
What is impressionistic style.
the use of color and line to suggest mood and setting
realistic presentation
What is a musical?
a play that incorporates songs.
a play with no songs.
What is a straight play?
a play that incorporates songs.
a play with no songs.
What are operettas?
Takes popular songs of the day and rewrites the lyrics.
Short operas with spoken dialogue.
Original music with a romantic plot.
What is a ballad opera?
Takes popular songs of the day and rewrites the lyrics.
Short operas with spoken dialogue.
Original music with a romantic plot.
What is a comic opera?
Takes popular songs of the day and rewrites the lyrics.
Short operas with spoken dialogue.
Original music with a romantic plot.
What was considered to be the 1st musical?
The Black Crook
My Fair Lady
What type of musical brought the story, music and dialogue together?
Operetta
Book Musical
What musical brought all dialogue, songs, character and scenes together?
Oklahoma!
Phantom of the Opera
What Broadway theatre holds 500 or more seats?
Broadway Theatre
Off-Broadway Theatre
Off-Off Broadway Theatre
What Broadway theatre holds 100-499 seats?
Broadway Theatre
Off-Broadway Theatre
Off-Off Broadway Theatre
What Broadway theatre holds 99 or less seats?
Broadway Theatre
Off-Broadway Theatre
Off-Off Broadway Theatre
What is the average total budget of a Broadway Musical?
$10
$75-$129
$8-$12 million dollars
A class that is focused on developing and being guided by a professional of that skill is
Regional Theatre
Workshop
Community Theatre
Theatre established in major cities across that united states, not in New York is
Regional Theatre
Workshop
Community Theatre
A local non-profit theatre that usually involve townspeople and amateur performers is
Regional Theatre
Workshop
Community Theatre
A person who watches a play and writes a review based on his opinion of it is
Director
Critic
Producer
A person that creates the dances for a musical is
Lyricist
Composer
Choreographer
Someone who writes the music is
Lyricist
Composer
Choreographer
Someone who writes the lyrics is
Lyricist
Composer
Choreographer
It's common for one person to be both a lyricist and composer.
True
False
An actor equally proficient at singing, dancing and acting is called
Single-Threat
Double-Threat
Triple-Threat
