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THEA 200 Test 3,4,5,6 and 7 Questions and Answers 2024/2025 Update Graded A+

Festival of Dionysus correct answers Greek drama was presented originally exclusively at festivals honoring the wine and fertility god Dionysus By the 5th century AD Athens held 4 festivals in honor of Dionysus each year, where theatre was performed at 3 of these 9 tragedies and 3 satyr plays were presented at each City Dionysus, a total of 9,000 tragedies during the 5th century of these only 32 have survived , all written by three dramatists City Dionysia correct answers The major Athe...

When and what was the "Renaissance" and how did people's ideas about the world they lived in shift during this time? correct answers • "Renaissance"= rebirth • 14th-17th centuries, starting in Italy Humanism: - Movement in literature - Treated subjects as human being, rather than religious subjects If Renaissance means "rebirth," what was experiencing a rebirth during this period of history? correct answers Spirit of inquiry extended to religion - Leading to s...

costume design correct answers designers help tell the story -support concept -set mood -set style -time and place -solve practical problems costume design cont. correct answers provide visual clues about the production and characters through clothing choices functions of clothing correct answers 1) protect from elements 2) reflect daily activities -play clothes, work clothes, uniforms 3) fashion statement -indicates social status -adherence and/or access to trends -adherence to...

Who is accountable for all the scenery aspects of a production? correct answers Technical Director Why have soft flats fallen into semi-disfavor? correct answers Contemporary scene designs tend to be more sculptural than pictorial What is true about a production model? correct answers It provides a complete visualization of the scenic designers concept Rigid platform correct answers Most commonly used platform in theatre, attached to some sort of overhead structure, does not have to be ...

Actors correct answers People who perform in the shows Arena Theater correct answers A theater in which the audience surrounds the actors on all four sides either elevated or on the same level. This provides the most intimate experience between the actors and the audience. (i.e. a stadium) Artistic Director correct answers Makes the selection of directors, actors, and designers. In charge of any artistic direction. Ass't Stage Manager correct answers The assistant to the stage manage...

What allows people to see outdoors at night and indoors? correct answers Lighting. What is the last element in the visual design to be added to a production? correct answers Lighting When did most advances in lighting occur? correct answers The last 100 years. How did we know the time in an Elizabethan play? correct answers It was described in the text. What is the number one objective of a lighting designer? correct answers To provide visibility When beams of light are aimed at a...

What are the three basic elements of theatre? correct answers 1. Text 2. Audience 3. Performance What is a "willing suspension of disbelief?" correct answers When an audience knows that what they are seeing is pretend, but they pretend that they do not know that What is popular culture? correct answers Culture based on the tastes of ordinary people rather than an educated elite. This type of culture is widespread among the population. What is elitist culture? correct answers...

What are the three basic elements of theatre correct answers What is the performance, the performance, and the audience What is a" willing suspension of disbelief" correct answers Term coined in 1817 by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who suggested that if a writer could infuse a "human interest and a semblance of truth" into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend judgment concerning the implausibility of the narrative. What is Popular Culture co...

Wealthy banking family in Italy that were patrons to the arts and married into the French nobility correct answers The Medici's What were the three art forms that came from the Italian Renaissance? correct answers Opera, Commedia dell'Arte, Drama What art still exist and survived the Italian Renaissance? correct answers Opera What are the 3 common characters in Commedia del Arte? correct answers Masters, Servants, and Lovers What stage construction was invented during the Itali...