Consider the staging for the Classic Stage Company's production of Waiting for Godot (1998): a backdrop depicting an abstract moon and stars, a bare floor, low lighting, and dark costumes. This staging would most likely invoke a feeling of
  • cyclorama
  • black box
  • bleakness
  • realistic
A list of occasions referred to by number, keyed to the script of the play to indicate changes in intensity or use, is called a light plot.
  • True
  • realistic
  • metaphorical
  • False
Platforms, flats, and drapery are the traditional building blocks of fixed stage scenery.
  • False
  • cyclorama
  • arena
  • True
The order and process of developing a design for a play could be summarized by the following steps:
  • reading the play, researching, imagining, creating a physical presentation, collaborating, approving for the budget, ensuring viability, implementing.
  • production stage manager.
  • separate the actor from the audience.
  • a light plot.
Turntables, elevators, hoists, cranes, rolling carts, and wagons, which are all used as scenic elements to accompany and support the dramatic action, are collectively called
  • Joseph Svoboda
  • the gaslight
  • underscoring
  • stage machinery.
The type of set that fostered a uniquely architectural theory of theatre was
  • the theatre of the fourth wall removed.
  • an airplane flying overhead from left to right
  • the lighting instruments being exposed and placed in full view of the audience.
  • the artificially illuminated indoor theatre
Makeup can serve all the functions EXCEPT which of the following?
  • the artificially illuminated indoor theatre
  • an airplane flying overhead from left to right
  • furniture taken directly from people's homes
  • Makeup may be used to help improve the actor's diction.
The production stage manager presides over the working and timing of lighting cues, ensuring that the lights support the play's action and aesthetic.
  • True
  • False
  • the gaslight
  • realistic
A plan or series of plans showing the placement of each lighting instrument—its type, wattage, size, wiring and connection to a dimmer, and color is called
  • a light plot.
  • production stage manager.
  • reading the play, researching, imagining, creating a physical presentation, collaborating, approving for the budget, ensuring viability, implementing.
  • technical director
The use of makeup signals to the audience that the actor is a performer.
  • True
  • False
  • the theatre of the fourth wall removed.
  • arena
In describing dramatic space as "psycho-plastic," which "scenographer" (Europe's most celebrated in the 20th century) said "The goal of a designer can no longer be a description of a copy of actuality, but the creation of its multidimensional model?"
  • Joseph Svoboda
  • bleakness
  • stage machinery.
  • underscoring
The development of _____ fostered the great period of scenery design.
  • the lighting instruments being exposed and placed in full view of the audience.
  • an airplane flying overhead from left to right
  • the artificially illuminated indoor theatre
  • the theatre of the fourth wall removed.
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