Theater Final

5 Written Questions

1. Actor/Manager, Greatest American Actor. Innovations: Hydraulic elevators to raise scenery, flyloft, level floor without grooves. Famous for his record braking portrayal of hamlet. Built the Booth Theater
2. A playwright whos plays involved characters who were caught in extremely critical or violent situations. They would try and recover from their past and recreate a future for themselves better than their materialistic present. They are concerned w/love and beauty in their harsh world. They are societies outcasts trapped in very hostile environments. Language is very poetic/symoblic. Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, The Night of the Iguana, A Streetcar Named Desire.
3. On the ground floor, in-front of and on the sides of the stage. The standing area.
4. Theatre artist, theorist, and creator of the Theatre of the Oppressed who designs theatre events for the disenfranchised to encourage and support social change
5. Short, prepared skits of funny physical comedy that do not necessarily have anything to do with the plot. Reminds me of The Three Stooges type of comedy. Pie in the face and Stuff like that.

5 Matching Questions

1. Jean Racine
2. Maria Irene Fornes
3. Eugene Ionesco
4. Peter Brook
5. Christopher Marlowe

1. a cuban playwright, violent and dark to communicate the human condition, powerful force in contemporary drama
2. b English playwright who focused on human actions with powerful language and imagery--not actions of the gods like the Greeks. Blank Verse
3. c French advocate of Jansenism
4. d theatre director/ actor/ playwright. said that theatre must have a performer, a space, and an audience
5. e French dramatist (born in Romania) who was a leading exponent of the theater of the absurd (plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life, usually to show that modern life is pointless)

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. type of comedy involving exaggerated physical violence and activities which exceed the boundaries of common sense
   1. Jean Racine
   2. Sentimental Comedy
   3. Slap Stick Comedy
   4. Mart Crowley
2. booklets containing half sheets of paper on which cues and lines for one character are written
   1. Sides
   2. Bibiena
   3. Lazzi
   4. Yard
3. Gay actor and playwright;
   Wrote: Torch Song Trilogy
   1. Harvey Fierstein
   2. Tiring House
   3. Aphra Behn
   4. Breeches roles
4. French classicist playwright who produced popular comedies that exposed the hypocrisies and follies of society.
   1. Bibiena
   2. Moliere
   3. Melodrama
   4. Operetta
5. Dynasty of Baroque scenic painters. Very detailed. ; famous family of italian painters.
   1. Bibiena
   2. Moliere
   3. Sides
   4. Cazuela

5 True/False Questions

1. William Wycherley → Dressing and storage rooms. Actors rested here and changed costumes. Large props stored here. The doors served as the actors main entrance and exit

   True        False

2. George, duke of Saxe Meiningen → realistic form of comic drama that deals with social relations and sexual intrigues of sophisticated, intelligent, upper-class men and women, whose verbal fencing and witty repartee produce the principal comic effects

   True        False

3. Symbolism → French classicist playwright who produced popular comedies that exposed the hypocrisies and follies of society.

   True        False

4. Sentimental Comedy → a type of comedy that features middle class characters finding happiness and true love

   True        False

5. Athol Fugard → On the ground floor, in-front of and on the sides of the stage. The standing area.

   True        False