- What production by the Performance Group in New York City, described by Wilson, controlled the audience's introduction to the play by making them wait in line outside the theater before the performance?
Your answer:
King Lear
Dionysus in 69
The Bacchae
Cloud 9
- Which of the following is NOT a type of theater space?
Your answer:
created or found stage
proscenium stage
thrust stage
epic stage
- The theater space, also known as a picture- frame stage, in which the audience is separated from the stage by a framing arch is known as a/an:
Your answer:
created or found stage
proscenium stage
thrust stage
arena stage
- The theater space, also known as a circle theatre, in which the audience completely surrounds the stage on all four sides is known as a/an:
Your answer:
created or found stage
proscenium stage
thrust stage
arena stage
- The theater space in which the audience sits on three sides of the stage is known as a/an:
Your answer:
created or found stage
proscenium stage
thrust stage
arena stage
- The type of theater space that is adaptable and could be any type of environment, such as a barn, warehouse, or basement, is known as a/an:
Your answer:
created or found stage
proscenium stage
thrust stage
arena stage
- Which of the following stages was made most popular by Broadway theaters?
Your answer:
created or found stage
proscenium stage
thrust stage
arena stage
- Which of the following stages is most effective for big budget musicals?
Your answer:
created or found stage
proscenium stage
thrust stage
arena stage
- Which of the following stages helps to create an intimate, unconscious communion between the audience and performers?
Your answer:
created or found stage
proscenium stage
thrust stage
arena stage
- Which of the following stages is the most widely used of all the stage spaces?
Your answer:
created or found stage
proscenium stage
thrust stage
arena stage
- Which of the following stages were influenced by the ideas of Jerzy Grotowski and Antonin Artaud?
Your answer:
created or found stage
proscenium stage
thrust stage
arena stage
- Arena staging began:
Your answer:
with Modern theater
with the Ancient Greeks
with the Elizabethan theater
in the 20th century
- An example of an Elizabethan thrust space was known as a/an:
Your answer:
outdoor stage
platform stage
Shakespearean stage
none of the above
- According to Wilson, which of the following non-theater buildings have been used as stage spaces:
Your answer:
fire stations
breweries
gymnasiums
all of the above
- The practice of using the space to fit the play rather than making the play fit the space is indicative of what type of theatrical space?
Your answer:
arena
thrust
adapted
proscenium
- Which is NOT a type of street theater?
Your answer:
plays from standard repertoire presented in the streets
neighborhood theater
children's theater
guerilla theater
- The type of theater in which there is not only more than one playing area, but also that there is something going on in several of them simultaneously is known as a/an:
Your answer:
adapted space
circle theater
multifocus theater
guerilla theater
- A black box theater is most commonly referred to as what type of theater space?
Your answer:
thrust
proscenium
all-purpose
arena
- In addition to the type of theater space, which of the following can also be a variable that affects the theatrical experience?
Your answer:
size
atmosphere
setting
all of the above
- Wilson describes the notion of 'human scale' as:
Your answer:
the idea that the performer is the scale by which everything is measured in theater
the idea that the audience's emotions are the scale by which everything is measured in theater
both of the first two answers
neither of the first two answers