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Chapter 07 - Theatre Spaces

Chapter 07
Theatre Spaces

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A "fourth wall theatre" describes a(n)

A. proscenium stage.
B. thrust stage.
C. arena stage.
D. created, or found, space.
E. multifocus theatre.

2. Which of the following provides the most intimate performance space?

A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

3. The type of performance space associated with street theatre is the

A. proscenium stage.
B. thrust stage.
C. arena stage.
D. created, or found, space.
E. multifocus theatre.

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4. Which type of performance space utilizes the greatest amount of scenery and stage
machinery?
A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

5. Developed by the Greeks, the ________ was also the type of theatre space used during
Shakespeare's time.
A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

6. Elaborate scenery on/in a(n) ________ is impossible because it would block the view of
other audience members.
A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

7. Which type of performance space was originally built into hillsides in Greece?
A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

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8. Which type of performance space in the medieval period was called a platform stage or
trestle stage?
A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

9. Most Broadway performance spaces were built with the ________ configuration.
A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

10. The ________ is of special interest to experimental or avant-garde practitioners.

A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

11. Which type of performance space requires spectators to take in and synthesize several
impressions at once?
A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

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12. In which of the following performance spaces do all the seats face in one direction?
A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

13. Which of the following uses unusual structures with their original architectural elements
intact, carving out special areas for acting and viewing?
A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

14. In which type of performance space do audiences sit on three sides?

A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

15. The Salle des Machines, or "Hall of Machines," is which type of configuration?
A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

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16. A typical Elizabethan playhouse was which type of performance space?

A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

17. One particularly effective performance space for realistic settings is the
A. proscenium stage.
B. thrust stage.
C. arena stage.
D. created, or found, space.
E. multifocus theatre.

18. It is difficult to balance and establish the right type of aesthetic distance in/on the
________, which places some audience members mere feet from the stage action and others
quite a distance away.
A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

19. In one form or another, the ________ has been the most widely used of all the theatre
spaces.
A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

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20. Which of the following is not ordinarily used for performances?

A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

21. In which of the following performance spaces do performers usually have to make their
entrances and exits along aisles that run through the audience?
A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

22. In a(n) ________, action occurs on several stages simultaneously.

A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

23. In which type of space are Chinese and Japanese dramas performed?
A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

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24. The standard theatre space throughout Europe beginning in the late seventeenth century,
which grew in popularity in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth century,
was the
A. proscenium stage.
B. thrust stage.
C. arena stage.
D. created, or found, space.
E. multifocus theatre.

25. The ________ is akin to a three-ring circus.

A. proscenium stage
B. thrust stage
C. arena stage
D. created, or found, space
E. multifocus theatre

Matching Questions

26. Match these theatre features and types with the most appropriate descriptions.

1. the physical or psychological separation of an audience

from the dramatic action created space 9
2. area above the stage of a proscenium theatre built to hold aesthetic
scenery that has been raised out of the sight of the audience distance 1
3. frame that separates the stage from the auditorium and
forms an outline for the stage black box 8
4. use of electronic media in live theatrical presentations fly loft 2
5. the unfolding of a performance running 5
6. a thrust theatre built in the courtyard of a sixteenth- proscenium
century Spanish inn arch 3
7. the main floor where the audience sits in a contemporary
proscenium theatre, and, in ancient Greece, the circular
acting area at the base of a hillside theatre corral 6
8. a flexible theatre that can be converted into different
arrangements rake 10
9. a space often used by avant-garde artists orchestra 7
multimedia
10. the slant of an auditorium or stage floor theatre 4

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True / False Questions

27. Use of the proscenium stage for elaborate scenery and scene shifts first started in the
United States in the mid-twentieth century.
FALSE

28. A movie theatre is configured most like a thrust theatre.

FALSE

29. One disadvantage of the proscenium stage is that it tends to lose the intimacy that is found
in other types of theatre spaces.
TRUE

30. English theatres like the Globe were constructed so that the theatre was both indoors and
outdoors.
TRUE

31. The need for elaborate scenery has put many arena theatres out of business.
FALSE

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