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Aesthetic Distance |
A psychological perspective or attitude which should exist on the part of anyone contemplating a work of art is called ______________. |
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Theatron |
In ancient Greece, ______________ was the name used to refer to "the seeing place." |
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Audience |
A performs B for C. What is "C"? |
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True |
Director Peter Brook states in his book The Empty Space that all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged is a man to walk across an empty space while someone else watches. True or False? |
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Aristotle |
Who did the textbook refer to as "our first drama critic"? |
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presentation of character |
A "pretense of self" is defined in your textbook as: |
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Convention |
In musical theatre, a performer interrupts a scene to break into song. This is an example of a theatrical___________. |
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Everything inside the frame is open for interpretation. |
In what way does the textbook say a stage is no different from a painting? |
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Passion |
What does Ken Davenport say is a good quality for a producer to have? |
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Because the word "prank" implies that an activity may be mean-spirited. |
Why does the group ‘Improv Everywhere’ refer to their activities as "missions" rather than pranks? |
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False |
According to the textbook, theatre is a literary form. True or Flase? |
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To pursue the vision of the playwright |
What does the textbook say is usually the goal of a production of a play? |
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point of attack |
According to the textbook, the place in this universe where the playwright picks up the story is called the ____________. |
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Reserved seats where audience members use Twitter to comment on a performance as it is happening |
What are "tweet seats"? |
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Oedipus the King |
What play does the textbook say is considered by many to be a masterpiece of plot construction? |
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power |
According to Dr. Mitchell in the lecture, what do all plays talk about in some way? |
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Dionysus |
We can trace the origins of theatrical practice in the Western world to the performance of dithyrambs in ancient Athens. What Greek deity were the citizens celebrating with these performances? |
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disbelief |
What does Samuel Taylor Coleridge ask us to willingly suspend? |
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