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| All plays and play productions can be usefully analyzed and evaluated on the way they use the theatrical format to the best advantage and make us rethink the nature of theatrical production. |
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| take over for the director during the theatrical run |
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| a temporarily crafted stage piece that was set up in a public square and then moved about from day to day. |
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| The work of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson in England and Machiavelli and commedia dell’arte in Italy are all examples of Renaissance theatre. |
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| A member of the audience may see a play from five different critical and dramaturgical perspectives. What are five perspectives? |
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| social, personal, artistic, theatrical, and entertainment value |
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| production reviews , scholarly works, and online blogs and journals. |
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| The Royal era was characterized by the aristocracy’s support of public theatres, such as the Globe Theatre. |
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| The liturgical trope Quem Quaeritis |
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| A diverse tradition exists in Asian theatre. |
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| The primary foundations of theatre are ritual and dancing. |
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| Which drama, whose name means “storyplay,” originated in rural villages in the province of Kerala in the seventeenth century and is based on any of thousands of stories from two great Indian epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata? |
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| He wrote only for the court of Elizabeth I. |
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| The first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama was: |
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| Which genre, introduced in the golden age of the musical, is characterized by increasingly serious plots and sophisticated musical treatments? |
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| Which full-length black musical comedy challenged the old custom of white actors’ “blacking up,” was written and performed by African Americans (some in white face), and employed the emerging ragtime musical syncopations of early black revues? |
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| Bob Cole’s A Trip to Coontown (1898) |
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| A diverse tradition exists in Asian theatre. |
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| Rome’s greatest contribution to the theatre was |
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| According to the lecture, traditional drama was born when __________ was introduced to shamanistic ritual. |
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| The most comprehensive and detailed theatrical treatise of the ancient world, detailing analyses of dramatic texts, the theatre building, acting, staging, music, and even theatre-company organization, is |
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| the Sanskrit Natyasastra, or “treatise on theatre” |
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| Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Elizabethan public playhouse? |
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| The Restoration in England is marked by the return of __________ to the throne. |
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| The rise of this religion in the 700's AD virtually eliminated theatre in the areas it converted. |
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| Through images and metaphors, symbolism explores the inner realities which cannot be directly or literally perceived. |
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| Argued that social behavior was based on greed, class struggle, and primal amorality. |
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| Order components of a play by order of importance defined by Aristotle |
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| Dramatic Genre that deals with human issues on only the most superficial level, embellished with staging, flamboyant dialogue and contrived plotting? |
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| Element of drama that deals with dialogue, plays text, tone, imagery, verse, rhyme, ect |
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| Initiates the major conflict of the play, single actions |
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| an action focused around a particular conflict, which gives the action significance |
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| Visual aspects of the stage |
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| an external struggle. It is an internal struggle |
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| According to Eric Bentley, farce allows us to experience social taboos without consequence. |
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| The audience is not a part of the definition of conventions of the theatre. |
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| a place to act and a place to watch. |
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| Theatre performances can elicit the audience’s participation by arousing in the audience the feeling of empathy. |
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| How does a theatrical performance differ from a video or a filmed performance? |
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| theatre is live, with the audience and performers,aware of each other and mutually interact |
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| Representational performance is similar to stand-up comedy. |
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| Although the names and allocations of craft functions such as directing, producing, designing, and stage managing have changed over the course of the theatre’s history, the functions themselves have remained fairly constant. |
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| In the ancient Greek theatre, what physical and symbolic element separated the actors from the audience? |
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| Like viewers of television drama and movie-house films, theatre audiences assume an essentially one-on-one relationship with what is being viewed and do not communicate with other viewers. |
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| Although films are recorded, we perceive them as having a greater immediacy than theatre due to the fact that plays are rehearsed and repeated. |
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| Relationship between play and script |
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| The script is a silhouette or outline of the play itself, which fully exists in performance only. |
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| The distinctive feature of theatre, which separates it from other arts, is that theatre employs |
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| Who wrote "A raisin in the sun" |
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| Who wrote "Ma Raney's Black Bottom" |
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| Who wrote "Anna in the Tropics" |
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| Who wrote "Angels in America?" |
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| Who wrote "Glengarry Glen Ross" |
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| The playwright works with two fundamental tools: |
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| dialogue and physical action. |
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| The quality of a play that creates suspense by making us wonder what will happen next is called curiosity. |
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| Which playwright has branched out into writing librettos and adaptations of musicals for shows such as Aida and Tarzan? |
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| A play that deals with an issue of serious and lasting significance in humanity’s spiritual or intellectual life beyond the mere attempt to imitate profundity is said to possess |
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| Which New York-born, Louisiana-raised, playwright wrote Angels in America, which deals with the AIDS crisis, sexuality, gender, and politics? |
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| Compression, Economy, & Intensity |
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| __________ is defined as the condensation of story, consolidation of event, and uniqueness of moments |
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| Not good characterization? |
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| the character appears as a pawn in the playwright’s grand design and exists only to symbolize something. |
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| Stageability, Speakability, & Flow |
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| According to the lecture there are seven qualities of a fine play. __________ is defined as words and actions having maximum impact when staged. |
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| This playwright speaks of “two selves, the public and private self, the worlds that people juggle a lot of time just from being out there in the world |
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| A play in which events are connected to each other in strict, chronological, cause-effect continuity, and in which dramatic experience attempts to convey a lifelike progression of experience through time |
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| continuous in structure and linear in chronology |
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| Which playwright demonstrates a commitment to issues global human rights, as shown in Ruined? |
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| The "alienation effect" exemplifies the work of the playwright |
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| One difference between the playwright in Shakespeare’s time and the contemporary playwright is that |
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| the playwright no longer functions as a director but is now considered an independent artist. |
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| __________ is defined as the staged world being internally consistent and compelling. |
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| A linear plot proceeds by |
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| the point-to-point storytelling of events linked in chronological, cause-effect continuity. |
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| The mid-twentieth century saw an emphasis on “reality” and inner emotional life in the theatre. |
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| The three major stages of the "actor's routine" are acquiring an agent, rehearsing a role, and performing a role. |
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| Which two writers best exemplify the range of difference between external and internal approaches to assuming a character? |
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| Which faculty keeps the actor within established bounds and at the same time ensures artistic agility? |
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| David Mamet and William H. Macy |
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| Viewpoints is a form of actor training created by |
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| Mary Overlie and Anne Bogart |
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| In his first published work, Stanislavsky states that the “prime task” of the actors is to “create the |
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| inner life of the character |
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| personal history that exactly matches that of the character |
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| Great acting must transcend mere technique or training and elevate itself into something higher. |
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| The major psychological component of the actor’s instrument is the unconscious. |
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| Konstantin Stanislavsky, founder of the Moscow Art Theatre (1898), said “You must live the life of your character on stage.” Which style of acting does this statement describe most closely? |
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| the representational mode of acting. |
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| Who maintained that the actor should be “an unmoved and disinterested onlooker” and imitate emotion rather than feel it? |
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| What are the two fundamental notions of acting? |
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| representational and presentational |
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| an American acting style derived from the Russian actor-director Konstantin Stanislavsky’s self-proclaimed system |
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| Which of the following is NOT a postmodern design element? |
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| furniture taken directly from people’s homes |
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| Platforms, flats, and drapery are the traditional building blocks of fixed stage scenery. |
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| The production stage manager’s primary responsibility is the working and timing of lighting cues, ensuring that the lights support the play’s action and aesthetic. |
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| Which of the following is true of the history of lighting in scene design? |
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| Even before the advent of electricity, designers attempted to manipulate lighting with candles, oil lamps, and reflective surfaces. |
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| What kind of scenery uses evocative visual images to make a visual statement about the production’s intended mood or theme? |
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| Which of the following types of stage is completely surrounded by audience? |
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| Which invention brought lighting to the stage in its modern form and made lighting a more controlled part of the drama? |
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| A loosely woven fabric that looks opaque when lit from one side and transparent when lit from the other side is called a cyclorama. |
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| What kind of scenery attempts to depict, in great detail, a specific time and place in the observable world where the play’s events are presumed to take place? |
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| Makeup, like costuming, is |
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| both ceremonial and illustrative. |
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| Realistic costuming took over when which of the following became a major guiding principle in drama? |
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| __________ argued for light as the guiding principle of all design and defined the role of the modern lighting designer. |
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| The name given to the boards that elevate the actors above the level of the audience is a flat. |
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| Appia and Craig both thought that scenic design must be more realistic and less expressionistic. |
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| The order and process of developing a design for a play could be summarized by the following steps: |
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| reading the play, researching, imagining, creating a physical presentation, collaborating, approving for the budget, ensuring viability, implementing. |
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| The movement toward scenic abstraction began with the theoretical and occasionally practical works of Adolphe Appia. |
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| Ancient masks were thought to have supernatural powers. |
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| Makeup can serve all the functions EXCEPT which of the following? |
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| Makeup may be used to help improve the actor’s diction. |
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| It is almost impossible for costumes to address a character's occupation. |
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| A great directorial concept has the qualities of being generalized, well-established by tradition, intellectually relaxing, designer-oriented, and readily apparent. |
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| Which statement best describes the end of the director’s involvement with the play? |
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| The director may still change aspects of the play during previews or the run, but primarily has given over responsibility to the audience. |
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| What is meant by the “concept” of a play? |
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| the director’s central idea which focuses his or her interpretation |
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| As a response against Stanislavsky’s realism, the director Vsevolod Meyerhold evolved a theatre of “biomechanical constructivism” in Moscow. |
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| George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, is generally regarded as the first modern director. |
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| A director should possess all of the following EXCEPT |
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| a capable voice and an athletic physique, both which comprise the actor’s instrument. |
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| __________ founded the Theatre Libre in France. |
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| Which person is responsible for the financial support of the production and, working closely with the director, also contributes to many “directorial” decisions in the production process? |
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| How did the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’ emphasis on rationalism influence the director’s role? |
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| The demand for historical accuracy required the director to conduct comprehensive research, organization, and coordination. |
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| The timing and placement of a character’s entrances, exits, crosses, embraces, and other major movements is called |
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| This director assistant is responsible for compiling the prompt book. |
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| A producer may be an individual, such as an artistic director, or a partnership of individuals, such as a committee. |
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| As I traverse the stage in a direction away from the audience, I am traveling __________ |
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| This historic phase of the director passed on knowledge of "correct" technique. |
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| Which of the following is true of stylizing directors? |
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| They are unrestrained by rigid formulas with respect to verisimilitude or realistic behavior. |
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| The initial shows where a director can evaluate the production in terms of audience response and institute new changes are known as |
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| Which of the following tasks belong to the director? |
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| conceptualizing the play and giving it vision and purpose |
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| What does a director NOT seek in a designer-director collaboration? |
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| The "preplanned approach" is where the director and the actors work together to develop the movements and actions of the play. |
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| Small-scale movement on the stage, which an actor performs within the larger pattern of entrances and exits, is called |
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| The role of Jimmy was played by Tyler Wishall. |
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| The name of the theatre this production played in is called the __________. |
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| What is East's occupation? |
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| Marci is upset with Phil because he has forgotten their anniversary. |
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| What does Jimmy's tattoo say? |
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| According to his/her biography, the scenic designer was also the scenic designer for __________. |
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| The Managing Director was Mark Putman. |
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| When discussing the unique properties of his condition, Steve regularly cites references from his brother __________. |
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| This play was written by __________. |
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| What is in the small bag that Lendall gives to Gayle. |
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| Glory keeps __________ in her bag. |
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| Gayle carries all of her love for Lendall in blue bags. |
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| Pete uses a snowball to illustrate how Ginette is so far away. |
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| What activity were Phil and Marci doing during their "date"? |
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| At the top of Act II, Chad and Randy are comparing who has had the worst __________. |
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| Phil makes a wish upon a star. |
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| Why doesn't Hope recognize Danny? |
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| What object falls from the sky? |
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| Steve suffers from a condition called __________. |
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| What does Chad do when Randy tells him that he loves him? |
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| Steve's fear of cats catches Marvalyn off guard. |
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| Steve gets hit twice by __________. |
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| Glory believes that __________ are the torches of the souls of the recently departed. |
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| By the end of the play Ginette has traveled around the world. |
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| The agreement between the audience and the actor, which includes a whole set of tacit understandings that form the context of playwatching |
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