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What should be in a good theatre review? (7)
Acting, Lighting, Costuming, Directing, Blocking, Set, and Audience Response
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What should a good review NOT be?
A Summary
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What is another word for actor?
Thespian
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What is the name for a stage that has an audience on three sides?
Thrust stage
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What is the Greek definition of 'Drama'?
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What is the Greek word for 'a seeing place'?
Theatron
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What is an excersize an actor can do to help with diction?
Tongue Twisters
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When an actor has the direction to go Down Left, what will they do?
Go to their left towards the audience.
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What time period did Commedia Dell' Arte come from?
Renaissance
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What is the genre of The Taming of the Shrew? Comedy, Tradgedy, or History.
Comedy
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What kind of Greek festivals was drama created?
Religious
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What is a black-out on stage?
When all on-stage lights are out.
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What is Improv acting?
No Script. No Prep. No Practice.
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Who wrote the music and lyrics for Oklahoma?
Rogers and Hammerstein.
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Thespis is considered the first what?
Solo Actor
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Arena stages have the audience sitting on how many sides?
Four or All.
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Masks helped the Greeks do what?
Show emotion, project, and play multipule characters.
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The arch that goes up and around the edge of a stage with the audience on one side is called what?
A Proscenium Arch.
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Who was another famous playwright from Shakespeare's time?
Christopher Marlowe
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Who was not allowed to act on stage when Shakespeare was writing plays?
Women
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What is blocking?
Stage Directions
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Komos and Ode are two Greek words that came together to create the word __________.
Comedy
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What was innovative about the musical Oklahoma when it was first produced?
They used dance to further the plot
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Shakespeare had a son who died. What was his name?
Hamnet
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What should one never do in stage combat?
Improvise
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Skene is a Greek word for what part of a theatre?
Dressing Rooms
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Romans changed what part of the theatron when they conquered Greece?
Added a railing and raised the stage.
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Plautus is the most well known _______ from Roman theatre.
Playwright
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The six areas of the body can help when trying to further ___________.
Physical Character Development
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What are the six areas of the body?
Head, Chest, Stomach, Hips, Legs, Arms/Hands
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What are the 4 things an actor needs to develop in "nothing" scenes?
Who they are, Where they are, What is your relationship, Why are they there
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What are the three genres Shakespeare is famous for writing about?
Comedy, Tradgedy, and History
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What was the name of Shakespeare's theatre?
the Globe Theatre
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The character Pedrolion in true Commedia would be what character?
the moody male lover
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To cover up a mistake during a performance, actors use ________.
ad-lib
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When an actor loses focus and says something not from the script, laughs in embarrassment, or waves to their mom in the audience, they have what?
Broken character
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What could be an actor's cue?
line, light cue, or action
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What is it an actor should find for a character, using their personal experiences to create?
an Inner Monolouge
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What is projection?
Being loud enough, without yelling, so that a deaf aunt in the last row could hear.
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What is an aside?
When it is meant for a role to break character to make an annotation to the audience
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A director observes people's acting and performance trying to fit people to roles during what?
Auditions
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What is a character?
The role an actor plays
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Honest feedback on a performance is called what?
Constructive criticism
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Another word for enunciation is __________.
diction
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When there is something that can give vitality to a performance, it could be called what?
Energy
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Define Monolouge.
A solo charcter giving a speech or having a long amount of lines to deliever by themselves.
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The reason for a character's intention or action is called thier ________.
Motive
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What movies did we watch in class?
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Story Theatre, Oklahoma!, White Christmas, Our Town, Up the Down Staircase, The Taming of the Shrew
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Oklahoma! was first produced in what year?
1943
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Story Theatre was a great example of what type of acting?
Pantomime
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Most Commedia Dell' Arte has at least one cunning servant called the ________.
Harlequin
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Class performance evaluation sheets had what kinds of categories on it?
Vocal, projection, articulation, character voice, physical acting, blocking, energy, and focus.
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The Taming of the Shrew was performed in what style?
Commedia Dell' Arte
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What was the name of the mystery play (bible story) that we were supposed to watch in class?
Isaac and Abraham
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What should the first thing a Technical or Production Designer be?
Read the Script
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What is a Cyclorama?
A blue or white backdrop used to project lights on.
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Shapespeare lived from when to when?
1564 to 1616
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What was the most common reason a theatre was closed in Shakespeare's era?
Plauge
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What does a lighting deisgner do?
Design lights and light plots
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Why would a costumer need to do research?
To know the proper era
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Who designs plans for what the stage will look like when performances come?
Set Designer
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What other types of entertainment would arena stages house?
Cock and Bear Fights and Gladiators
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What is a leg in theatre?
Black curtains on the side of the stage to hide backstage and the wings.
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What is a scrim?
A screen that, depending on lighting, can be blacked out or can project shadows from stuff going on behind it.
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What is The Pit?
Where the orchestra is housed
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What is the most common reason for the naming of the Green Room?
That is where actors got paid.
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What are flies?
The system that can bring over head things on and off stage.
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How do you make a flat?
Use muslin
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What is a theatre wagon?
A platform with wheels
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Who "sells" the action in stage combat?
The victim
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Is improv a good acting excersize?
yes
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Who was involved in the love triangles in 'Oklahoma!'?
- Curly-Laurie-Judd
- Will-Ado-Ali
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Who are the four stock characters in Commedia?
Pantelone, Columbina, Pedrolion, and Harlequin
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What is constructive criticism?
honest feedback given to help make performance better
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Who was a famous producer during the Vaudeville era?
Zeigfield
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In what year was Showboat produced?
1928
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Who was the choreographer of the first performance of Oklahoma! in 1943?
Agnes Demill
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What was the basic theme of musicals in the 1960s?
Social Issues
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Musicals in the 1980s & 90s started what?
Use of extravagent sets and lighting
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Who now owns the poems and drawings of children who went into the Terezin Concentration Camp?
Jewish Museum of Prauge
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What are the poems and drawings from the Terezin camp proof of?
The Holocaust was real
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What happens to the Nazi soldier at the end of the play, The Terezin Promise?
He dies.
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