Theatre Survey Final Review

__________ is the line that runs through the system:

Psychology

Chekov:

Wrote the Seagull and it was a hit the first season at the Moscow Art Theatre

Stanislavski was in charge of _________ at the Moscow Art Theatre

The artistic side

According to the video, which one plays an important role in the system?

The subconscious

The Given Circumstances include:

All of the above (everything about the character, all the locations within the story, and the time period of the piece)

During the sex strike:

Some of the women return home

The name, "Lysistrata" means:

Releaser of war

Women involved in the strike are from:

Athens and Sparta

In the end:

The women are successful

The play begins:

With Lysistrata calling the women together

The playwright of Oedipus:

Sophocles

Teiresias:

All of the above (is a blind prophet, knows the truth about Oedipus, and is able to reveal the past and predict the future)

In the end, Oedipus:

Blinds himself

The play takes place:

In front of the palace in Thebes

Oedipus has:

Killed his father and married his mother

Bias develops from:

What we've been mostly exposed to and mental patterns

A good tool for discovering if you have bias:

"flip it to test it"

Research shows:

We all have bias

The information about unconscious bias:

Data backed up by Neuroscience

Climatic Structure:

Has limited locations and compressed time

"Playwright"

The spelling is modeled after the word, "shipwright"

Choosing a playscript:

When choosing a playscript, the creative, as well as business concerns must be evaluated

Denouement

The resolution

Kara Lee Corthron:

A California based writer

The _________ stage offers seating on all three sides

Thrust

The black box is not a _________ space

Fixed

_________ is the deconstruction of a set

Strike

When someone enters, he or she is coming ________ stage

On

Stage designs can contain abstract representations

True

stage designs cannot incorporate something such as running water

False

If an actor is on a proscenium stage and is walking towards the audience, he or she is moving _________

Downstage

The element of design is optional in theatre

True

The proscenium has an invisible 4th ______ between the audience and the performers

Wall

House right and house left, is from the __________ perspective

Audience

___________ is where the audience sits

The house

Stage right and stage left is from the __________ perspective

Actors

Electrics are hung from the _________

Grid

The basic design idea for Wicked is _____________

Clock work gears

In a musical ________ is everything

Transitions

All Wicked designs are based upon the ____________

Design template

___________ created the world that Wicked lives in

Eugene Lee

Everywhere you go - Wicked looks the same

This is a true statement

According to Natasha Katz:

The storytelling is the most important part of a show

Natasha Katz compares working on Broadway to:

To playing a sport

Costumes deeply affect the lighting of a show

Yes, this is a true statement

To take a look and see how effects may work (prior to creating them on a large scale, we can use this type of space)

A demo - room

Sound can:

Throw focus

Sound can tell us about:

The location within the world of a play

Sound onstage:

Can go beyond just music

There is no specialized training for sound designers:

This is a false statement

One of the most important responsibilities of the sound designer is:

Research

Theatre for Youth:

Shouldn't be any less vigarous

A sound engineer deals with (choose the strongest response):

The technical side of things and balancing sound

The Designer needs to ask:

How does it (decisions) fit with the logic of the show

An audition can be prerecorded or

Live

Popular modern director

Peter Brook

The master visionary

Director

Actor- Manager, well known

David Garrick

The director must be an expert at __________

Multitasking

One of the most important actions of the Producer:

Hiring of a publicist and marketing team

Producers:

Create and oversee budget

The Producer:

Negotiates contracts and hires production teams

The Producer, in her efforts to secure funds:

Can include investors

According to our video, the producer is:

Overseeing mounting the production

Ira Aldridge

Moved to London and was knighted

The Harlem Renaissance has been called a

"explosion of cultural pride"

Gender neutral casting

Gives no consideration to gender

The most prolific writer of the Harlem Renaissance was

Langston Huhges

The Great Migration

relocated hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the rural south to the urban north

Lisa and Her Things

Second show produced by Mesri's theatre company

The only thing Latin American about Latina/o theatre

Is the product of people who have descended from those places

The term Latino

"is an illusion"

Mesri's article stresses

Challenging the notion of identity

In regards to theatre:

Asking yourself questions is an important part of being a consumer

50/50 in 20/20 (in our Feminist Theatre section) refers to

A grassroots movement wanting parity for women in theatre

Feminist Theatre that was Witnessed and documented

Could be seen in the 1960s

split britches explains their work as:

Collaborative, devised, text centered and theatre bases

"I don't think theatre is boring - I think it is outdated, so I'm giving people something else"

Peggy Shaw

The Cafe Cino:

Almost all heterosexual plays

The shows at the Cafe Cino:

They were illegal

The Cafe Cino

Did play readings and poetry readings

Billy Mitchell

Convinced Joe to stage the plays

The Cafe Cino was:

Was more like a clubhouse rather than a theatre

Laurie Lane at the Cino:

First women's liberation play

John Guire:

Did his two very first plays

Sam Shepard:

Had performed at the Cino

The Cafe Cino was

The first of the off-off Broadway Theatres

Tennessee Williams:

Had his work performed at the Cino

Augusto Boal

Brazilian raised in Rio de Janeiro

At its core, theatre of the Oppressed, strives to:

To activate and create change

Boal took inspiration from:

Freire

Stella Adler Studio reaches out and works with the:

Incarcerated

Theatre of the Oppressed is considered

Applied Theatre

Boal:

Involves the audience

Boal coined the term:

Spect-actor

Boal's first major Book:

The Theatre of the Oppressed

Theatre for social change:

Covers a wide array of performance types

Boal was:

Forced into exile

If the house size is more than 499, it is considered:

A Broadway House

If the house size is less than 99, it is considered:

Off-Off Broadway