FTCE Drama 6-12 Practice Test 1

Conflict

A component improvised in an exercise where a drama teacher instructs students to act out a scene involving disagreement via decision. It requires opposition to characters that tie one incident to another resulting in progress and development of the plot.

A teacher allows a high level of creative freedom in process-centered drama. In production-centered drama, there is a director and the outcome is structured and pre-determined.

The most important difference between process-centered and production-centered drama is described by which of the following statements?

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

The playwright associated with a work that is best described as being darkly comic, antilogical and pessimistic about the human condition.

Heightening a work's expressive qualities

Dialogue is a written composition I which two or more characters are represented as conversing.

How challenging is the script..

An important consideration in selecting a script for high school level plays.

Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA)

This organization has the goal of creating opportunities for high school students to audition for scholarships to college theatre programs.

Emotion Memory

This acting technique is mostly closely associated with Lee Strasberg (1901-1982), a Polish-born American theatre practioner.

imagination

This source material is used while telling a story, an audience is instructed to a picture a particular situation, event, place or a person using their mind.

Natural Impulse

Tom uses this action while he reflexively rolls his eyes after a comment from Wendy while they are acting out a discussion on politics.

Dorothy Heathcote

This theatre director is the most closely associated with the use of process drama, a teaching and learning technique in which students and teacher work together with the role and partcipate in an imagined dramatic situation, as a best practice in theatre education.

All of the elements combine to support a single production concept.

A unified theatrical production is best described by the way the lighting, costumes, makeup, sound, props, and scenery interrelate.

All Caps

How names of characters who are speaking are distinguished from dialogue in the standard play format used in the United States.

Simplified Ideas of Morality

This element is incorporated in the theatrical form of melodrama, a dramatic or literary work in which the plot , which is typically sensational and designed to appeal strongly to emtions, takes precedence over detailed characterization.

Melodrama

A dramatic or literary work in which the plot , which is typically sensational and designed to appeal strongly to emtions, takes precedence over detailed characterization.

Process-Centered Drama

A teaching and learning technique in which students and teacher work together with the role and partcipate in an imagined dramatic situation, as a best practice in theatre education.

Heightening the Central Conflict

This is the purpose of rising action in a climactic play structure.

Rising Action

The part of a plot that is a series of related incidents that create suspense, interest, and tension in a narrative.

Pose compelling circumstances early in the play.

The most effective technique in creating suspense in a theatrical play.

August Steinberg's (1849-1912) Miss Julie

This famous play explored gender and class conflict.

Ensure that the student can identify with the character and is comfortable with the dialect and content.

This should be done to help students through the refining process when critiquing their monologue.

Role-playing as a catalyst for classroom discussions.

Used to most efficiently incorporate social studies content into the drama curriculum.

Post Modernism

The school of critical thought that defined by fragmentation, eclecticism, and playfulness define.

To Flirt

This verb would help an actor who is developing a master list of verbs to use actions in scenes.

Literature

This field lies the primary basis for script analysis, the method of uncovering the "early decisions, made unconsciously, as to how life shall be lived."

Preparation of thorough written analysis in advance of the rehearsal period.

This is most helpful for a beginning director in approaching play analysis.

Stage Crew

During a performance, they are responsible for moving scenery.

Working together to stage an elaborate, scripted puppet show

This activity a high school teacher would use to help students understand the Bunraku performance style.

Bunraku Theatre

Traditional Japanese theatre that uses puppets.

Hairstyles and the possible need for a wig

These costuming elements are essential to consider in an actress' role when attempting to accurately represent the dominant style of a particular period.

Elongated Nose

The appearance of a nose when a makeup designer is using cream makeup three shades lighter than an actor's foundation to draw a straight line down the bridge of the actor's nose and under its tip.

Makeup

Used to enhance or alter the appearance of an actor

Slug Line

The script element typically written in capital letters to indicate the current scene setting to the readers.

Communicating ideas about the visual world of the production.

An essential responsibility of the director concerning the work of a set designer.

Exaggerated Sound Effects

The soundscape that typically underscores physical humor in a farce.

Farce Comedy

Also known as "low comedy"; very broad comedy with double entendres, misunderstandings, deceptions and in general very contrived and ridiculous situations. Comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. Aimed at entertaining the audience.

A minimalist set with a one-dimensional outline of a house.

iIn an environmental staging, this set design would best fit O'Neill's vision for his trilogy entitled "Mourning Becomes Electra."

Clear separation of performance and audience spaces.

This feature would mostly distinguish a flash mob from a production of a traditional play as a form of theatrical output.

Evaluating the sounds of individual words and phrases for effectiveness

A part of the playwriting process for a writer who is publishing and editing his final draft on a play which he has been working for five months.

Playwriting Process

Used by playwrights to develop the play's internal structure.

Determine the central message as it relates to the characters and story.

To determine the spine of a play, the director would do this .

The spine of a play

the main action of the play

Casting by type versus casting against type

This curricular unit provides the most appropriate content to help students prepare monologues for college entrance auditions.

Voice and bodies of actors

Jerry Grotowski called his theatre poor based upon these elements being set as the primary source of spectacle on stage despite his theatre being dispensed with theatrical trappings and technological resources of "rich" theatre.

Analysis of the text

This element plays the primary role in a director's choice of production concept.

Production Concept

The central creative idea that unified all designing aspects of the production.

A monologue that demonstrates the pursuit of an immediate, simple objective.

This characteristic of a monologue that an actor should choose considering that a passive speech is avoided.

Having the students act out scenes from stories that they are reading.

This activity is appropriate to encourage the development of students' reading skills by using process-centered drama techniques.

Explain what you like or didn't like in the performance of "Our Town."

This appropriate instruction enables a student to make aesthetic judgments in their essay when an 8th grade teacher wants to evaluate student responses to a live performance of the play.

Dialogue

This tool is used when a playwright writes a dramatic material for the performance within a theatre to reveal a character.

Script

The blueprint for creating a dramatic production.

Asking each student to interview family members and then use the interview as the basis of the performance piece.

This assignment would engage most effectively with the task of creating an individual performance piece allowing students to utilize diverse backgrounds.

Scenic Designer

The person responsible for the design and function of the scenery and properties hired to create the best possible setting/scenery for a production that will serve both the playwright and director's interpretation of the work and stay within budget.

Attending appropriate rehearsals of the production and assisting with technical rehearsals as needed.

The most essential duties included in the contract of the scenic designer created by a producer.

Tragedy

A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall through some personal fault or unavoidable circumstances of a heroic or noble character central character, the protagonist.

Arousing pity and fear in the audience

The primary function of tragedy according to Aristotle.

Setting

the environment in which the story or event takes place.

Representing each of the settings in a different area of the stage and using lighting to shift the audience's focus.

A design solution a scenic designer can apply for 3 different settings-a park, a suburban kitchen, and a school principal's office when the director asks for minimize scene changes.

Giving the students short scenes and having them explain to the class how they would want the scenes to look if they were directing them.

A developmentally appropriate assignments for middle school students about the director's responsibilities in a theatrical production.

A series of novels by Charles Dickens or authors from that time period.

A play has been planned to be set in a lower class neighborhood of 19th Century England. This source would best help a playwright research capturing the unique vocabulary of the period.

The conventions of iambic pentameter

If an actor is preparing a monologue from a Renaissance drama, but he is having trouble, this subject would help to decide which rhythms to use and which words to emphasize when speaking the text.

Soliloquy

A long speech expressing the thoughts and feelings of a character alone on stage to the audience.

First published before 1923

This condition of a play would be most likely in the public domain and free of copyright restrictions.

Public Domain

Property rights that belong to the community at large, are unprotected by copyright or patent, and are subject to use by anyone. Allows you to freely copy, distribute, display and perform work as well as make derivative and commercial work.

Copyright

the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same.

Trust, Teamwork, Communications and Respect

Keys to effective working relationships

Taking more time to discuss the script and production concept with the designers early in the process.

To improve a situation wherein the director observes that they always rejects most of the set and costume designers' ideas despite their good working relationships.

Classical Acting

An acting technique that has a systematic approach to training actors.

Method Acting

An approach that calls on the actor to use personal experience and sense memory to develop a character.

Sharpening an actor's professional mastery of the voice also body.

The focus of a classical acting training in contrast with Method based acting training.

Medieval Theatre

The time period after 800AD, mostly associated with performances related to the Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire. Performances were taken out of the churches and brought to the towns on moveable stages called Pageant wagons. A variety of dramas including liturgical drama, mystery plays, morality plays, farces, and masques.

Reinforcing faith by depicting stories from the Bible.

The purpose of the majority of drama performed in the European medieval theatre.

Audition

A sample performance by an actor, singer, musician, dancer or another performer.

Leading group of actors through a series of exercises that explore their movement capabilities and give them an idea of what to expect from a show's creative process.

This method of holding auditions would be most useful for a director of a physical theater work about the intervention of electricity that will be mainly devised during rehearsals.

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