Elements II REJ

1.

1 point

Bobby Jones provides examples of theatre from the past saying they can tell us more about our theatre today. Which of the following were his examples?

Romeo and Juliet

Oedipus

First performance of Antigone

Mystery and miracle plays of medieval times

Caveman

Hamlet

2.

1 point

According to REJ, what are the essentials of stage costume?

Comfort

Theatricality

Lavishness

Appropriateness

Simplicity

Practicality

3.

1 point

Which of the following analogies does Robert Edmond Jones use to describe the lighting design process?

A divine light inspired by the lord

An expansive river and a twinkling ocean

Light is a god-like intellection

Driving a high-powered machine, like a car or a plane, to handling streams of light

An inexhaustible shining spring

4.

1 point

REJ criticizes modern actors for not having the ”fine workmanship” that used to be present in theatre. He says that nowadays, if you wanted to see the best actors and hear the best voices, where would you go?

University Theatre

Broadway

International theatre

The opera

The local music scene

A movie theatre

5.

1 point

According to REJ, our first duty in the theatre is always to the:

Audience

Actor

Producer

Director’s vision

Profits

Unity of the play

6.

1 point

According to REJ, the theatre deals with:

All of these

Logic

Supernormality

Magic

Concepts

Reason

7.

1 point

According the Robert Edmund Jones, the scenery:

Should be a spectacle

Is just visual

Is unnecessary

Is an environment

Is a background

Sets the key of the play

8.

1 point

What animal does REJ relate theatre to?

Lion

Buck

Eagle

Phoenix

Stallion

Snake

9.

1 point

According to REJ, as designers, our first duty in the theatre is to whom?

The director

The playwright

ourselves

The actors

The audience

All of the above

10.

1 point

REJ believes that there is one aspect of theatre, one section of people, that we owe our first duty to. He says that “it is they who interpret the drama. The stage belongs to them and they must dominate it”. Who are these people?

Light designers

Costume designers

Actors

Playwrights

Directors

Set designers

11.

1 point

Robert Edmond Jones says that “our ____ give us schemes for drama, recipes for drama, definitions of drama….and in doing so, explain it all away”. Who is REJ talking about in this quote?

Playwrights

Set designers

Costume designers

Producers

Actors

Directors

12.

1 point

How does Robert Edmond Jones describe a dying theatre?

The architectural structure of the stage is only sent through moods by light

Dramas that are not illustrated or explained or embroidered

Theatre we know mixes its literalness with various arts including motion pictures

A bare stage with no scenery

It has become increasingly a theatre of journalism

Contemporary plays are uneasily conscious of the camera and the phonograph

13.

1 point

What kind of theater did Bobby Jones believe in?

It was an extension of life

It was a duplication of life

It was a heightening of life

It should portray reality over art

1 and 3

2 and 4

14.

1 point

According to Robert Edmond Jones, what is the main source designers must go to in order to enhance the play and utilize their imagination fully?

the play itself

the actors

the script

strictly aesthetic means

captivating images

15.

1 point

According to REJ, the stage-design should be ‘addressed’ to which of the following?

the inner eye of the audience member that experiences

the audience member’s physical eye that sees

the rational mind of the audience member

the unconscious, feeling life of the audience member

1 and 4

1 and 2

16.

1 point

Which pieces of advice does Robert Edmond Jones give to a young scenic designer?

Generate imaginative and theatrically charged research

Harp on the static and historically accurate aspects of research, over the fanciful or histrionic aspects of research

find the essential quality of the play, so others can see it as well

exceed the mechanics of theater, and focus on the poetic aspects of stage design

Detach your feeling and personal point of view from the research and design process

17.

1 point

Which of the following is a belief held by Robert Edmond Jones, in the Dramatic Imagination?

Theatre is no longer relevant in modern society

Designers should be very specific and realistic about the design if the show

Modern audiences have very short attention spans and should be spoon fed the story.

The artist, in his or her design, should give the audience only the spirit and the splendor of the show

18.

1 point

To Robert Edmond Jones, a stage designer is everything except

A maker of blueprints, murals and light-plots

A jack-of-all trades

A true master in one of the many areas that he has studied

A designer of sets and costumes

An artist of occasions

Understands architecture and painting