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WorksheetsIntro to Theatre: Final Exam Review
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
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
