Theatre 100 Pearson Revel Ch 1-14

All performance requires an actor, an audience, a plan, an action, and __________.

a space

An audience must always __________.

witness the action

A good example of the "action" in a performance might be __________

actors hunting for buried treasure

How is the field of Performance Studies different from the study of performance?

Performance Studies is broad and diverse, including the performance of everyday life, while the study of performance uses theatrical performances for its primary case studies.

Which of the following might constitute a performance in everyday life?

A man carefully chooses a suit for a job interview.

The objective of the performance determines __________.

the reason for the performance

Football is different from theatre because __________.

football fans hope to influence the outcome of the performance

Live theatre is a __________ to film and television.

precursor

How does the use of a camera affect a performance?

The camera chooses what the audience sees.

"Theatre is ephemeral" means __________.

each performance is subtly different

Many ancient theatrical performances emerged from __________.

religious or social rituals

Theatre is distinguishable from ritual because __________.

theatre is a self-conscious art form

One of the ways that we can define art is __________.

art has aesthetic value

If novels allow us to see inside a character's head, theatre allows us to observe how a character __________.

behaves

Theatre uses different art forms to tell stories, and each art form focuses audience attention on a different aspect of __________.

human existence

Theatre, film, and television all require __________ to complete the art form.

audiences

Live theatre is seen first-hand, rather than mediated through a camera that dictates what the audience sees. This shifts the focus to the __________.

visual and bodily presence of the actors

Unlike in film and television, theatrical props and set pieces are __________.

chosen with intention

The word play refers to both the text and __________.

the way that the idea of "play" functions in culture

Which of the following examples demonstrates how play in a theatrical production might influence the real world?

An anti-war play could make the president of the United States renew a commitment to diplomatic negotiations.

Which of the five characteristics of performance is missing in the following description?

In the world premiere of August Wilson's Fences, James Earl Jones played Troy at Yale Repertory Theatre in Connecticut. Troy, an African American garbage collector, struggles to come to terms with bias and segregation before Civil Rights. He ultimately has an affair with a neighbor and, when his wife finds out, she tells him he is no longer her husband.

an audience

In performance, how do the plan and the action work together?

The plan organizes the action.

Which of the following might constitute a performance in everyday life?

A woman chooses a special dress for a date.

Performance Studies is a field that __________.

uses performance as a lens to understand everyday activities

The organization of the performance determines __________.

the actor-audience relationship

A football fan is similar to a theatre audience member because both __________.

are conscious of their impact on the performance

Which of the following examples demonstrates the idea that "theatre is ephemeral"?

An audience laughs so much that the show is 20 minutes longer one night.

You are witnessing a performance in your town. The performers are interacting with one another, and they are impersonating other people, but they are not interacting with their audience. Where could you be?

a movie theatre, watching a new action flick

How do rituals differ from theatrical performances?

Theatre is a self-conscious art form.

Thinking about the similarities we have determined all art shares, which of the following examples would be considered art?

a painting of a beautiful meadow

Different art forms exploit organizational rules to focus audience attention on a different aspect of human existence. A theatrical performance might focus on the __________.

potential to transform lives and build community

Which of the following demonstrates the importance of liveness in theatre?

Audience response impacts the performers, which shapes the performance event.

Theatre, film, and television differ from other art forms because they are __________.

collaborative

As scientists in cognitive psychology have documented, the importance of play is vital in __________.

the development of children and the mental health of adults

Which of the following examples demonstrates how play in a theatrical production might influence the real world?

A play about refugees could motivate the audience to support refugee rights.

It is important to think of reading a play as a(n) __________

action

Shakespeare's plays were published in the "First Folio" __________.

after he was dead

The play text is an example of a tangible __________ of an ephemeral event.

artifact

One recommended strategy for analyzing play texts is to __________.

read the play in one sitting

A dramatic treatise attributed to Bharata Muni, the __________ includes information on dramatic structure, acting, and music in ancient Sanskrit theatre.

Nāṭyaśāstra

Information about the various events that occurred prior to the beginning of the play is called the __________.

exposition

In Eugène Ionesco's The Lesson, a student appears at the professor's house for her lesson. By the time the play ends, the student lies dead on the floor and the doorbell rings; it is the forty-first student who has appeared for a lesson. What type of play structure is this?

cyclic

In order to assess a character, one might ask, "__________".

What did the character do?

The __________ is the protagonist's chief adversary and prevents her from attaining her objectives.

antagonist

The term "theme" is the deep, detailed answer to the question: "__________".

What is the play about?

Monologues, soliloquies, asides, and choral odes are all examples of ways that playwrights make use of __________.

diction

In 1966, Edgard Varèse described music as "__________."

organized noises

Aristotle considered spectacle to be __________.

the least important element of a play

In ancient Greek tragedy, the protagonist often makes a tragic mistake or personal misjudgment called the __________.

hamartia

The ancient tragedian, __________, is remembered as the playwright who introduced the second actor to the stage and wrote The Oresteia.

Aeschylus

Arthur Miller argued for the possibility of a tragedy of the common man in his 1949 play, __________.

Death of a Salesman

In ancient Greece, the home of comedy was the winter festival called the __________.

Lenaia

A play in which characters are placed in ludicrous and unusual circumstances would be categorized as a comedy of __________.

situation

Reading plays has become a common practice due, in part, to __________.

the invention of the printing press

Theatre historians and theorists began to privilege the study of play texts during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries because __________.

other evidence of performance was scarce or nonexistent

When reading a play text, stage directions are either the playwright's descriptions or __________.

the stage manager's record of the original production

If you wanted to know more about the traditional dramatic structure of Noh drama, you might consult __________.

Zeami Motokiyo's Fūshikaden

Complications, discoveries, and reversals are all part of the intensification of dramatic action, or __________, in a play with climactic plot structure.

rising action

A.R. Gurney's The Dining Room is made up of multiple scenes with different characters, but all taking place in the same dining room. What type of plot structure does this most likely represent?

episodic

A character's overall desire or goal in a play is called a(n) __________.

super objective

In August Wilson's Fences, the character Troy is a middle-aged African American man who works as a garbage man, lives in a small house in Pittsburgh, and was a baseball player in the Negro League. This all falls into the category of __________ information.

social

Which of the following is true about thought, as defined by Aristotle?

A play can have multiple themes.

Susan Lori-Parks's famous use of periods, spaces, blank lines, and repetitions of the word "pause" reflect her shaping of the text's __________.

rhythm

As described by Aristotle, music refers to both songs or melodies sung or created by a musical instrument and the __________.

poetic language that ebbs, flows, or sets the tone of a piece

In an ancient Greek play, an ekkyklema would __________.

show the audience Medea's murdered children

An audience member experiencing catharsis might react by __________.

pitying the protagonist because of his tragic mistake

Agamemnon is a tragedy by Aeschylus. It begins at the very end of the Trojan War and relies on many of the events of the war, but the play itself occurs over the course of only 48 hours. This means that the play has __________.

a late point of attack

Unlike tragedy, watching and appreciating comedy requires __________.

distance and objectivity

Why is theatre-in-the-round so conducive to a communal audience experience?

Audience members can see each other's reactions.

The willing suspension of disbelief makes it possible for the audience to __________.

know that events on stage are not real, but react emotionally as if they are real

In ancient Greece, theatre was performed __________.

at a religious festival

The development of theatre architecture during the Italian Renaissance emphasized a separation based on __________.

class

One of the biggest influences on audience behavior is exposure to __________.

a mediatized world

During a live performance, you are suddenly attacked by a bout of coughing. When/how should you open your cough drop?

quickly, during a scene change

In live theatre, audiences have the power to __________.

alter the performance

A good theatre critic has a number of important tasks, including __________.

explaining the social context of a work

At dramatic festivals like the City Dionysia, __________ judged the dramatist competitions.

prominent citizens

According to postmodernism, __________.

truth is relative

While critics usually look at a single work, theorists look for __________.

larger trends across the field

In a production, a dramaturg's function is often as a(n) __________.

questioner

The first dramaturg was __________ in 1767.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Much of our information about theatre in seventeenth century England comes from __________.

the diary of an avid theatre-goer

Under Queen Elizabeth I in England, the Master of the Revels was responsible for __________.

censoring theatre

One of the reasons that English Puritans objected to theatre during the seventeenth century was because they viewed __________.

acting as a form of lying

Critics complained that Disney's initial Broadway production, Beauty and the Beast, __________.

was a reproduction of the movie

The producer's key function is to __________.

raise funds to pay for a production

The primary job of the marketing team is to __________.

ensure that there is an audience

Which of the following would be most important for a marketing team to know?

current target audience demographics

The Federal Theatre Project was created in order to __________.

create jobs for theatre artists

Which of the following scenarios describes the "willing suspension of disbelief"?

crying when Romeo and Juliet kill themselves

Sleep No More is a contemporary popular theatre work in which audience members travel from room to room in an old hotel to view moments adapted from Shakespeare's Macbeth. Which of the following had staging practices that were most like those in Sleep No More?

medieval religious drama

If a nobleman attended a play during the English Renaissance, he probably sat in __________.

a box

Which of the following scenarios would be appropriate theatre etiquette?

At a surprising plot twist, you gasp, then applaud enthusiastically.

The rise of the "democratic" auditorium emerged in response to __________.

an increase in working-class audience members

Good critics balance four major types of information, including judgment, description, analysis, and __________.

interpretation

A critique in a scholarly journal will most likely incorporate __________.

deep analysis and research

Which of the following topics might be best explored by a theatre theorist?

How have social norms and infrastructures played a role in stage representations of African Americans since the Civil War?

Which of the following is a job for a dramaturg?

adapting a Medieval play for contemporary audiences

In addition to assisting in the selection of plays and working with playwrights on the creation of new plays, a dramaturg _________.

serves as an "ideal" audience member

When Hallie Flanagan testified before HUAC about the motives of the Federal Theatre Project, the question she received about Marlowe was ironic because __________.

those investigating theatre did not know such an important artist