THEA 100 Midterm Review 2023 updated

THEA 100 Midterm Review 2023 updated Which aspect of Greek culture does this video NOT show? - correct answer Theatre Which famous Greek is NOT mentioned or shown in this video? - correct answer Sophocles Greek culture was borrowed, appropriated, or served as an inspiration for many other cultures and in many disparate areas. Which of the following is NOT a way that this video shows how the Greeks influenced the Western world? - correct answer Culinary - the Greek method of food storage was borrowed throughout Europe Which powerful Greek city-state is credited with 'creating' democracy? - correct answer Athens According to this video, the works of Homer and the competitions of the Olympics were inspired by: - correct answer War heroes Something Alfaro likes about Greek tragedy is: - correct answer The way they pack so much into an hour and a half, and "everything happens super fast." When Alfaro had to draw an audience for one of his plays in Oregon, he brought people to the theater by: - correct answer Hiring a taco truck. Alfaro describes the reaction of the audience when Oedipus realizes his wife is also his mother. The audience: - correct answer Screams "what!?!" (Alfaro: "Oh my God, you guys have never seen Oedipus!") One of the writers suggests that beginning playwrights should "hold their nerve," and not try to mirror which aspect of film and television? - correct answer The rapid edit All of the playwrights agree that the writer should lock down their work with specific, iron-clad rules for how their plays should be interpreted. - correct answer False One writer talks about his work as "texts for other artists;" another discusses the importance of "room for play." By this, they are stressing that: - correct answer Theater is collaborative Kate Hamill, the adapter of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, says she was inspired to create the work because: - correct answer She was looking for something with better roles for women, where they wouldn't just be accessories to the male characters. The music of Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812 is: - correct answer Is varied - some folk, some arias, some techno. The staging of Sense and Sensibility is very static and almost regal, with actors standing still so as not to detract from Austen's text with unnecessary movements. - correct answer False In "Wednesday," part of the National Theatre of Scotland's Scenes for Survival series, which of the following is true: - correct answer It is written, directed, filmed and performed by one lone actor during lockdown. It begins as a now-standard piece of "Zoom theatre" and ends as a piece of real theatre, as we discover that an audience has been watching the play the whole time. The importance of the Quem Quaeritis trope is: - correct answer The priests delivering the sermon enacted the story, rather than just telling it, and became the characters. In real life, the tailor Hercules Mulligan had an enslaved African servant named Cato who delivered information across enemy lines to George Washington. Despite his heroism and his value to the American Revolution, Cato is not a character in Hamilton. - correct answer True