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What branch of philosophy deals with the nature and expression of beauty? correct answers Aesthetics When the word art appears in everyday conversation, it is used in a wide array of contexts, but generally conveys what three main ideas? correct answers A skill, an act of beauty, a specific mean...

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What branch of philosophy deals with the nature and expression of beauty? correct answers
Aesthetics

When the word art appears in everyday conversation, it is used in a wide array of contexts, but
generally conveys what three main ideas? correct answers A skill, an act of beauty, a specific
meaning

What ancient philosopher accused theatre people of promoting vice and wickedness and of being
largely responsible for the corruption of his day? correct answers Plato

What ancient philosopher believed that good theatre fortifies us because it allows us to release
repressed emotions in a controlled, therapeutic way? correct answers Aristotle

What are the five basic elements that all arts has to a certain extent? correct answers A form of
human expression, subject & medium, reaction

The purpose of _____ is to reaffirm the audience's values and confirm their established belief
systems. correct answers Entertainment

What type of art is created by manipulating material in space and includes sculpture, pottery, and
architecture? correct answers Spatial art

What type of art is illustrative and includes drawing and painting? correct answers Graphic art

Theatre is classified as which type of art? correct answers Performing art

(true or false) Entertainment generally shows us an agreeable mirror of ourselves and our ideas
about how the world is or should be. correct answers TRUE

In his book The Empty Space, English director Peter Brook states that all that is needed for
theater to occur is an empty space and someone to walk across that space while someone else
does what? correct answers Watches him

Whether explicit or implicit, what is at the core of drama? correct answers Conflict

Which category of theatre includes big musicals as well as comedies and dramas that are
intended to be entertaining and profitable? They also contain safe themes, plenty of laughs, and
spectacle designed to appeal to a majority of people, thereby filling lots of seats and ideally
making lots of money. correct answers Commercial Theatre

The typical American spends about how many hours per year watching television? correct
answers 1,600

Actors who work primarily on stage are called _____. correct answers Legitimate actors

, Many theatre companies do not have stockholders and pay no dividends or federal taxes. These
theatre are known as _____. correct answers Non-profit theatres

The average taxpayer in what country pays the least of his or her tax dollars to the arts? correct
answers USA

Which federal agency in the United States disburses tax dollars to the arts? correct answers
National Endowment for the Arts

What is a playwright's pay called? correct answers A royalty

_____ is a legal guarantee granted by the government to an author, composer, choreographer,
inventor, publisher, and /or corporation to maintain control and profit from a particular creative
work. correct answers Copyright

What does "public domain" mean? correct answers Belonging to public/ nobody owns it/ no
copyright

Most non-profit theatres do not cover their costs from selling tickets. On average what
percentage of their costs are covered by selling tickets? correct answers 50%

Which type of scriptwriters sells their copyrights? correct answers Screenwriters

Which type of scriptwriters does not sell their copyrights? correct answers Playwrights

If the playwright has been deceased for more than seventy years, the copyright no longer applies.
What is this called? correct answers Public domain

The work _____ is often used to describe the collaborative nature of theatre-making. correct
answers Ensemble

What term means the values, standards and patterns of behavior of a particular group of people?
correct answers Culture

_____ is an attempt to overcome all forms of discrimination, including racism, sexism, and
homophobias so that people can coexist as well as perhaps achieve a pluralistic society. correct
answers Multiculturalism

Which type of theatre promotes a particular people's cultural identity? correct answers Theatre of
Identity

Which type of theatre objects to the dominant culture's control and demands that a minority
culture's voice and political agenda be heard? correct answers Theatre of Protest

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