While visiting Little Rock, you pick up a brochure for The Rep. You learn that The Rep offers several different seasons of plays in two performance spaces, that you can buy either single tickets or a season subscription, and that the theatre receives funding from the National Endowment for the Arts...
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While visiting Little Rock, you pick up a brochure for The Rep. You learn that The Rep offers
several different seasons of plays in two performance spaces, that you can buy either single
tickets or a season subscription, and that the theatre receives funding from the National
Endowment for the Arts as well as corporate contributors. From this information, you can tell
that The Rep correct answers is a resident theatre
Who was vaclav havel? correct answers A playwright whose work was banned in his native
country but was elected the first
president of the Czech Republic.
The designation "amateur theatre" includes community and educational theatre. correct answers
true
A friend treats you to a performance of Our Town at a theatre in his home town. While looking
at the program, you discover from the biographies that the actor playing The Stage Manager is
the manager of a men's clothing store and the actress playing Emily is a teacher at the local
elementary school. Several university students are performing in the production, but your friend
tells you that this theatre is not affiliated with the university. From this information, you know
that the theatre you are attending is correct answers a community theatre
Beginning in 1922, citizen play juries in New York worked through the political system to
legislate morality in the theatres in the city. correct answers true
The fact that theatre is a live production presented to an audience makes it potentially effective
as a means for correct answers propaganda, social protest, and exploring life in other terms (all
of the above)
The person who shares the past and intercedes with the gods for an audience of believers in
religious ritual is often known as a/an correct answers shaman
When a play is staged, the cultural assumptions, values, and tastes of the moment of production
always combine with the culture of the past that gave birth to the original play. correct answers
true
During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1980) in China, the communist government declared all
theatre artists "national treasures" and provided them with a pension. correct answers false
Theatre that is meant strictly as entertainment usually challenges the beliefs of the majority of its
audience. correct answers false
william shakespeare wrote his plays specifically for production correct answers true
which is a comedy that provides a reflection of gender roles in the 16th century england? correct
answers the taming of the shrew
, which is not true of the term "broadway" theatre? correct answers it refers to theatres that
produce an entire season of plays and sell subscritions
the term nontraditional casting refers to correct answers casting actors of a different race than the
character was written
the catholic church comdemned then embraced theatre as a teaching tool in the middle ages
correct answers true
in which theatre would you expect to find recently graduated students who had formed their own
nonunion companies, holding down day jobs while working towards a professional company?
correct answers hybrid
in arts therapy the purpose of theatrical activity changes to individual development rather than
audience communication correct answers true
in a proscenium theatre where is the orchestra? correct answers the space immediately in front of
the stage where seats are on the floor
The person in charge of the artistic aspects of production is the correct answers director
The traditional theatre space in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area is
the correct answers arena
The contribution of each person who works in the theatre is successful and valid only insofar as
it is appropriate to the success of the entire production. correct answers true
The Greek word "mimesis" means correct answers the artist's process of imitating character and
action.
In a proscenium theatre, spaces offstage left and right for actors, crew, and scenery that are not in
the visible performance space are known as correct answers wings
When the performers make up the words and movements as they go along this process is called
correct answers improvisation
Vomitories are entrances to seating for the audience that often run underneath the audience and
come out into the seating area. correct answers true
a theatre space that is small and features flexible seating for the audience is a correct answers
black box
The term "raked" means that the floor of the audience area or the stage is sloped correct answers
true
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