The Humana Festival of New American Plays takes place each spring at |
the Actors Theatre of Louisville. |
Which of the following is a typical duty of the dramaturg when working on a new script? |
All of the above |
Which of the following has been the catalyst for a successful play? |
All of the above |
Fees for each performance of a play are known as |
Royalties |
Which of the following is a typical technique used in the development of new plays? |
A and B |
Which of the following is an example of a play written and performed solo by the playwright? |
Spalding Gray’s Swimming to Cambodia |
Which of the following is true about the collaboration of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine? |
A and B |
Which of the following revisions can a playwright make once the play is in rehearsal? |
All of the above |
Which of the following is true about the earliest Greek playwrights? |
B and C |
What is the explanation for the strange spelling of the English word, "playwright"? |
During the middle ages, "wright" meant a craftsperson. |
Choose the correct term for the following definition: a picture of a costume on an actor. |
Rendering |
Which of the following designers is associated with experiments in lighting and combining three-dimensional and projected scenery? |
Josef Svoboda |
Choose the correct term for the following definition: an approach to design that imitates precisely the kind of environment and details in which the action of the play would occur in real life. |
Representational |
The medieval period created designs for its cycle plays that often incorporated spectacle such as transformations, rainstorms, and fire effects emanating from the mouth of hell. |
True |
Three-dimensional scenery changed audience expectations of the possibilities for scenic design in |
The nineteenth century |
A good designer draws what the playwright and director ask for without making suggestions on his or her own about style or effect. |
False |
Representational scenery can be applied only to plays written since the beginning of realism. |
False |
Which of the following was a big factor in the development of the importance of the designer in contemporary theatre? |
A and B |
Choose the correct term for the following definition: a drafting of the stage as seen from overhead, showing where all scenic pieces are to be placed. |
Ground plan |
Wing, drop, and border scenery included which of the following? |
All of the above |
Which of the following was the focus of a court case resulting from collaborative script development? |
Rent |
Which of the following is true about playwriting in Elizabethan England? |
Playwrights sold a play for a flat fee to a company. |
By the early 1800s, playwriting was considered a highly respectable profession. |
False |
Which of the following pieces of information could you get by looking at a lighting plot? |
All of the above |
Wing, drop, and border scenery became the standard in Italy but not in the rest of Europe or the Americas. |
False |
Choose the correct term for the following definition: chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play. |
Costume plot |
Which of the following did designer Philippe De Loutherbourg use in the mid-eighteenth century? |
B and C |
Which of the following is NOT an example of a working drawing to show how scenery is to be built? |
Rendering |
Choose the correct term for the following definition: how bright the lighting is. |
Intensity |
The shape of the acting space and the look of any scenery or set props are the scenic designer’s responsibility. |
True |
Choose the correct term for the following definition: a spotlight that creates a hard-edged beam and includes four shutters to further control its focus. |
ellipsoidal |
Theatre Appreciation Ch 8-9
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