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What are the four major categories of Shakespeare’s plays?
Comedies, tragedies, histories, and romances.
Who was Cheryl Crawford associated with?
Group Theatre.
What are examples of amateur theatre?
Educational theatre, community theatre, and children’s theatre.
What are the three elements of theatre?
Actor + space + audience.
What is a performance?
An activity where some people do something while others watch.
Who wrote the Pittsburgh Cycle?
August Wilson.
What is the traditional story behind the phrase “white face”?
Pedrolino, a baker’s son, gets flour thrown in his face.
Whose teachings are foundational to American acting technique?
Konstantin Stanislavski.
What is the paradox of the actor?
The actor must appear truthful and convincing while pretending.
What type of theatre emerged in the 1950s for experimental, anti-commercial work?
Off-Off-Broadway.
Which acting system is taught at Rutgers Mason Gross?
Meisner technique.
What prop was used in Bill Bowers’ “The Silver Dollar Saloon”?
A lasso.
What poetic form did Shakespeare commonly use?
Iambic pentameter.
What technique emphasizes living truthfully under imaginary circumstances?
Meisner technique.
What are payments to playwrights for permission to produce their plays called?
Royalties.
What are entrances and exits leading from underneath the audience called?
Vomitoriums, often shortened to vom.
Which performances are eligible for Tony Awards?
Eligible Broadway productions.
What is script analysis?
Examining a play’s text, characters, objectives, actions, and circumstances.
What was the only physical prop in Bill Bowers’ “Manton Moon,” according to the exam?
A rope.
What stage has the audience on three sides?
Thrust stage.
Who was Marcel Marceau?
A famous French mime studied by Bill Bowers.
Unlike film and television, what does theatre move through at its own pace?
Time.
What are given circumstances in a play?
The facts and conditions that define the play’s world.
What are the three types of given circumstances mentioned on the exam?
Previous action, environmental facts, and polar attitudes.
What is scansion?
Analyzing poetic meter by identifying stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is an actor’s instrument?
The actor’s voice and body.
What does LORT stand for?
League of Resident Theatres.
What contract category applies to a 199-seat New York theatre, according to the exam?
Off-Broadway.
Which August Wilson play features James Earl Jones and Denzel Washington in different productions?
Fences.
What is TKTS?
A Times Square discount-ticket booth for eligible same-day theatre performances.
What are the four major categories of Shakespeare’s plays?
Comedies, melodramas, tragedies, and histories are the options shown on the exam.
What does theatre move through at its own pace?
Time.
What are the three elements in the equation Theatre = ___ + ___ + ___?
Actor + space + audience.
What are the five common poetic feet?
Iamb, trochee, spondee, anapest, and dactyl.
What is a neutral mask used for?
Helping actors express emotion physically without facial expressions.
Who wrote Fences?
August Wilson.
Who wrote the Pittsburgh Cycle?
August Wilson.
What are book writers in musical theatre?
Writers who write the spoken dialogue between songs.
What does the word “scoring” mean in acting?
Breaking down a line into stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is a black box theatre?
A flexible indoor performance space where stage and audience placement can change.
What is a thrust stage?
A stage that extends into the audience, placing spectators on three sides.
What is an arena stage?
A stage surrounded by audience on all sides.
What is an alley stage?
A stage with the audience seated on two opposite sides.
What is a proscenium stage?
A stage where the audience faces the performance from one side.
What is Off-Broadway?
New York theatre outside the Broadway category, often associated with smaller venues.
What is Off-Off-Broadway?
A smaller, often experimental theatre category outside Broadway and Off-Broadway.
What is a royalty in theatre?
A payment for permission to produce a playwright’s work.
What is the Meisner technique?
An acting approach emphasizing truthful reactions and behavior in imaginary circumstances.
What is the Stanislavski system?
An acting approach focused on psychological realism and believable character behavior.
What is the difference between an actor and an audience member?
The actor performs; the audience watches.
What is the “previous action” in a play?
An event or action that occurred before the play’s current action.
What is an environmental fact in a play?
A detail about the setting or environment of the play.
What are polar attitudes?
Strong opposing attitudes or feelings that help define a dramatic situation.
What is a script?
The written text of a play.
What is a playwright?
A person who writes plays.
What is an ensemble?
A group of performers working together.
What is a stage direction?
An instruction in a script about movement, delivery, setting, or action.
What is a cue in theatre?
A signal for an actor or technical element to begin an action.
What is a prop?
An object used by performers during a production.
What is a contract in theatre?
An agreement setting the terms for a production or performance.
What is the League of Resident Theatres?
LORT, an association of professional nonprofit theatres.
What is a Broadway production?
A production in a theatre classified as Broadway under industry eligibility rules.
What are vomitoriums?
Passageways that allow audience members to enter or exit seating areas.
What is a mime?
A performer who communicates through gesture and physical movement, often without spoken words.
Who was Bill Bowers?
A mime and performer whose work appears in the exam questions.
What is the actor’s voice used for?
Speaking, vocal expression, and communicating a character’s intentions.
What is iambic pentameter?
A poetic line with five iambs, usually ten syllables alternating unstressed and stressed.
What is a lasso?
A rope with a loop used for catching animals; it was identified as a prop in a Bill Bowers performance.
What is the purpose of script analysis?
To understand a play’s characters, circumstances, objectives, and actions.
What is the purpose of royalties?
To compensate playwrights or rights holders for permission to produce a play.
What should audience members do with their phones during a performance?
Keep phones away and avoid disrupting the performance.
What is the difference between a thrust stage and an arena stage?
A thrust has audience on three sides; an arena has audience on all sides.
What is the difference between Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway?
They are separate theatre categories distinguished by venue and industry classification.
What is the difference between a playwright and a book writer?
A playwright writes plays; a book writer writes the dialogue and story material for a musical.
What is a theatre venue?
A location where performances take place.
What is the purpose of an acting technique?
To help actors create believable, effective performances.
What is a neutral mask?
A mask that removes facial expression so performers focus on physical expression.
What is a performance space?
The area where actors perform and the audience watches.
What is the purpose of the audience in theatre?
To witness the performance and complete the actor-space-audience relationship.