- According to Wilson who or what serves as the direct, immediate contact which the audience has with the theater?
Your answer:
the director
the designers
the performers
the playwright
- What are two common forms of acting in daily life?
Your answer:
imitation and flattery
imitation and role playing
imitation and pretense
role playing and creative dramatics
- According to Wilson, children are particularly effective at which type of daily life acting?
Your answer:
William Shakespeare
Tennessee Williams
imitation
pretense
- What are the two classifications of roles used in role playing?
Your answer:
social and psychological
psychological and personal
personal and professional
social and personal
- What play does Wilson use as an example of role playing in drama?
Your answer:
Death and the Maiden
A Streetcar Named Desire
Death of a Salesman
King Lear
- Which of the following is an important difference between acting in everyday life and acting on the stage?
Your answer:
the essential presence of observers
playing several parts in one play
the conscious nature of a theatrical performance
all of the above
- The acting style in Shakespeare's time characterized by:
Your answer:
subtle, textured acting
exaggerated style and gestures
internalized acting
none of the above
- Which of the following DID NOT have an effect on the actor's voice in classical acting?
Your answer:
the use of poetry in the plays
the large, outdoor auditoriums in which the plays were performed
the use of masks
the use of prose in the plays
- In which of the following periods of theater history were women prohibited from performing onstage?
Your answer:
Ancient Greece
the Modern era
Elizabethan England
both first and third answers
- During which historical theatrical period were actors considered as socially acceptable?
Your answer:
Neoclassical France
Elizabethan England
Ancient Greece
both the first and third answers