Intro to Theatre
Theatre Spaces
The Actor
The Director
Twelfth Night
100
True or False? The Audience is an essential part of the theatre.
What is True.
100
What type of theatre space has audience members seated on three sides?
What is a Thrust theatre?
100
True or False? Stanislavski created "the method."
What is False?
100
What is a director responsible for?
What is responsible for the overall unity of a production and for coordinating the work of contributing artists?
100
Who does Orsino say he is in love with at the beginning of the play?
Who is Olivia?
200
What is a soliloquy? Realism or non-realism?
What is non-realsim?
200
What type of theatre has the audience seated on only one side?
What is Proscenium theatre?
200
Why do actors need to study their voice and movement?
What is to release tension and be free in their mind and body in order to be open to the emotion that will come out of them?
200
What is blocking?
What is the pattern of movement given to the actors from the director?
200
Why is Olivia unwilling to see any visitors?
What is she is moaning for her dead brother
300
What is aesthetic distance?
What is a physical or psychological separation or detachment of audience from the actors?
300
What type of theatre has the audience seated on all four sides?
What is Theatre-in-the-Round?
300
Name two kinds of daily acting.
What is imitation and role playing?
300
What is a directorial concept?
What is the director’s vision, or a point of view that the director wants to highlight that is appropriate to the play?
300
Why is Sir Andrew Aguecheek staying at Olivia’s home?
What is he is trying to court Olivia?
400
When we read the balcony scene in class, what did we notice it had aspects of?
What is non-realism?
400
In ancient Greece, what kind of theaters did they have?
What is an amphitheater?
400
Name the exercise that helped us with our concentration.
What is typewriter?
400
Which director means "author" director in French?
What is Auteur Director?
400
Complete the quote: “If music be the food of __________, play on...
What is love?
500
Name the three factors that will shape your theatre experience.
What is 1. Your personal memories/experiences 2. Your knowledge of the play or playwright 3. Your expectations?
500
Where does the stage manager sit during a show?
What is the tech booth?
500
Name six of Stanislavski's elements.
What is relaxation, concentration, given circumstances, magic if, objective, action or psychological action?
500
What is the difference between Naturalism, Heightened Realism (or Selected Realism), and Non-realism?
What is Naturalism (exact slices of every day life, Heightened realism or selective realism: lines are realistic but the set design is abstract and symbolic, Non realism (2 types) (examples: fantasy, poetic drama, musical theatre, absurdist theatre, and symbolism).
500
How does Viola come to be at Orsino’s court?
What is she is shipwrecked nearby?
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