What does theatre have that a television show or movie does not?
100
Satire
What genre uses wit, irony, and exaggeration to expose or attack evil or foolishness?
100
A stage where the audience sits on 3 sides.
What is a Thrust stage?
100
Front of the stage toward the audience.
What does the term downstage mean?
200
Shakespeare
What is Jim’s nickname for Tom in Glass Menagerie?
200
Literary, Visual, Preforming
What are the three most recognized categories of art?
200
Comedy
What was the genre of Moliere’s play, Tartuffe?
200
Theatre in which something is going on simultaneously in several playing areas.
What is a multifocus theatre?
200
Objects that are used by performers onstage or are necessary to complete a set.
What are props?
300
Quartz
What kind of crystal is Cassie obsessed with in Rumors?
300
Yes
Are amusement parks considered areas for theatre?
300
Plot
What is the arrangement of events or the selection and order of scenes in a play?
300
Use of electronic media in live theatre presentations.
What is multimedia theatre?
300
Space above a stage where scenery may be lifted out of sight by means of ropes and pulleys.
What is a fly-loft?
400
Incest
In Buried Child, what is supposedly the cause of the dead child?
400
Separation of audience from dramatic action.
What is aesthetic distance?
400
Episodic
During the renaissance in England, what type of play structure emerged?
400
Experimental work.
What is the Black Box theater space well suited for?
400
To tilt, pan, rotate, change colors, and change focus of lights on stage.
What are automated lights used for?
500
Plaza 4-2295
What was Mrs. Stevenson’s phone number in Sorry Wrong Number?
500
When we want to believe in the reality that is happening onstage that we willingly put aside all literal and practical considerations in order to enter the world of the drama.
What is the suspension of disbelief?
500
18th Century
The raise of importance of ordinary men and women occurred in what time period?
500
The pretense that in a proscenium-arch theatre the audience is looking into a room through an invisible fourth wall.
What is the fourth-wall convention?
500
Template in a theatre lighting instrument that determines the shape and arrangement if the beam or pool of light thrown by the instrument.