Theater 121 Unit 1 Exam

What are the type of conflicts in acting?

Man v Man

Man v nature

Man v God

Man v Technology

What is a tragedy?

Never a happy ending

Who is the character we know the most about?

Protagonist 

What are the two actor unions?

Actors Equity Association & SAG-AFTRA

Antagonist In Medea?

Jason

Definition of the antagonist?

The second most important actor/actress

What do we call Macbeth?

The Scottish Play

What does being closed mean in acting?

Your closed off and the audience can’t see you

Who is responsible for making sure understudies are ready to go on in the absence of the director? 

Stage manager

Who creates the visuals of the play?

Scenic designer

What type of stage has the audience on three sides?

Thrust stage

What is a lighting plan that includes location and color of each instrument and the focused area of those insturments called? 

Light plot

What is the look of the stage, including set and lighting, called?

Composition

Who are the technicians that sew all the costumes for a production?

Stitcher

Distressing

Making a costume look weathered or worn

Producer

The person responsible for the business side of a production, including raising the necessary money

Who is responsible for conducting research on previous productions of classic plays, as well as researching past criticism and interpretations of these plays?

Dramaturg

Who is responsible for making sure a production is a unified whole under a unified vision.

Director

What is a que?

A line or action that indicated your turn to speak

Building

When a costume shop makes a costume from a scratch

What does costumes communicate

Social status, gender identity, occupation

When in the life of a play does cue to cue happen?

Technical Rehearsal

What is sound reproduction?

The use of motivated or environmental sounds

What do gels do?

Change the colors of the light

What animal is considered good luck backstage?

Padiddle

What emotions were tragedies meant to arouse> 

Fear and Pitty

If an actor is walking toward the audience, where are they moving?

Downstage

What are the differences between a modern tragedy and ancient

Modern - common people and written in prose, ancient - character of noble birth and written in verse

What two ways are exposition given?

Block and scattered 

What are the three crises of the play?

Climax, Major Crises, & Percipitating act

What is a Characteristics of Commedia Dell’arte

Stock Characters

What Does Renaissance Mean

Rebirth

What was the 3 unities according to Neoclassical

Time, place, action

Who were the only stock characters that didn't wear a mask

The young lovers

What type of early drama presented political stories in latin

Liturgical Drama

What playwrights wrote roman comedies

Plautus, Terentius

What playwright wrote roman tragedies

Seneca

What type of medieval drama was performed in everyday speech of the people and presented in the towns square or other parts of the city

Vernacular drama

Who or what was the dominus

The head of the acting group

Why did the christian church oppose theater in ancient rome

Its connection to pagan religion

Who were the roman influenced By

The Greeks

Which playwrights comedies were more sophisticated less rowdy and had fewer plot polls by its predecessor

Terence

Whos plays were revision of greeks works

Seneca

Where did key elements first appear in the middle ages

Church

Medieval theater used what type of stage

Platform stage

What were morality plays

Medieval drama designed to teach a lesson. The characters were often allegorical and represented virtues or faults

Who were responsible for producing individual for mystery plays

Craft guilds

What were two reasons for the decline in the middle ages

The weakening of the church, the secular parts started outweighing the religious parts.

Match the characters from One Man Two Guvnors to their commdia counterpart

• Pantalone: Charlie the Duck

• Innamorati: Allan and Pauline

• II Doottore: Harry Dangle 

• II Capitano:Stanley 

• Arlecchino or Harlequin: Francis

• Dolly - Colombina