Note & Review for Theatre 1 Final – If you do not have the answers to the questions below use your notes to find them.

 

  1. What is theatre?

 

 

 

  1. What is a batten?

 

 

 

  1. When did Shakespeare live?

 

 

 

  1. What is the origin of theatre

 

 

 

  1. Where did the first recorded record of theatre come from (country).

 

 

 

  1. What is a cyclorama used for?

 

 

 

  1. In what period did theatre disappear?

 

 

 

  1. Which theatre has the audience on three sides?

 

 

 

  1. Name one group of people that might have had storytellers

 

 

 

  1. Why is up stage called up?

 

 

 

  1.  What is a teaser?

 

 

 

 

  1. Where is the apron located on the stage?

 

 

 

  1. What is the name of theatre that has the audience on all four sides?

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What is one of the colors in strip lights?

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What is the name of a curtain the closes all they way across the width of the stage?

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What is the name of the theatre that has the audience on just one side?

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Who conquered the Greeks and imitated their theatre and added to the architecture of their original theatre?

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What is the grand illusion?

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. The three basic components of theatre are 1. space 2. actor 3.________________ ?

 

 

 

 

  1. How is a black box theater different from any other type of theater?

 

 

 

 

  1. How do you properly clean a paintbrush?

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What is the definition of improvisation?

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Name Two things that improvisation can do to help someone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What two groups of people need to come together in order for theatre to happen?

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What does the word Theatron mean??

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Who was considered the first actor and what county was he from?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Explain the reason for the two way to spell theatre (Theatre and Theater)?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What kind of theatre does Industrial have?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What kind of theatre did Shakespeare have?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Did women act in Shakespeare plays?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Know all 9 different acting areas.

 

 

 

 

  1. What is used more in building a set screws are nails?

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. When painting how far should you stick your paint brush into the can of pain?