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Theatre Appreciation 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Concept
Aesthetic Distance
Avant-Garde
Subtext
2. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Slapstick
Neoclassic unities
Constantin Stanislavski
Verisimilitude
3. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Off-off-Broadway
Liturgical Drama
Director
Stage Manager
4. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Neoclassicism
William Shakespeare
Mystery Plays
Broadway
5. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Off-Broadway
lighting designer
Pageants
6. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Casting Director
Henrik Ibsen
Representational
Designer
7. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
Rendering
Blocking
lighting designer
8. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Costume Designer
Rendering
Callbacks
Aeschylus
9. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Catharsis
Empathy
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Thrust
10. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Aesthetic Distance
Public Domain
The Globe
11. Actor in 5th century Greece
Hypokrites
Front of House
Vomitories
Emile Zola
12. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Auteur
Concept
Black box
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
13. Fee for each performance
Rendering
Royalty
Bertolt Brecht
Perspective Scenery
14. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Bertolt Brecht
Commedia Dell'Arte
Proscenium
Copyright
15. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Avant-Garde
Prose
Catharsis
Off-off-Broadway
16. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Presentational
The Orestia
Variables of costume design
Romanticism
17. 'dancing space'
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Orchestra
Melodrama
Realism
18. created by Augest von Schegel - the replacement of neoclassical structure: form should be directed by subject matter - not classical precedent. Romantics were fascinated with natural forces - the unexplainable - gothic - and mystical. Romantics drama
Broadway
Callbacks
Romanticism
Romantic Theory
19. Standard tool for casting productions
Auditions
Downstage
Actor's tools
Melodrama
20. Was in favor of theater
Rhetorical Tradition
sound designer
The Globe
Aristotle
21. Secondary line of action
Subplot
Aeschylus
Orchestra
Stage Manager
22. Set at an angle. Early proscenium theatres featured a raked stage: the stage was elevated much higher at the back of the stage (upstage) than closer to the stage (downstage). Modern designers sometimes build a raked stage for a particular production
Types of professional theater
The Orestia
Ground plan
Raked Stage
23. When line of action suddenly switches
Avant-Garde
Reversal
Auditions
Off-off-Broadway
24. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Front of House
Rendering
Verisimilitude
25. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Rendering
Stage Manager
collaborator
26. Directors who operate with total control
Hypokrites
Auteur
Dionysus
Romanticism
27. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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28. Planned actor movement
Subtext
Blocking
Mystery Plays
Raked Stage
29. Action - place - time
Mystery Plays
Raked Stage
Neoclassic unities
Subplot
30. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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31. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Ground plan
Rhetorical Tradition
Alienation Effect
32. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Melodrama
Front of House
Avant-Garde
Sense memory
33. Spoken words
Dionysus
Dialogue
Proscenium
The Orestia
34. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Rhetorical Tradition
Romanticism
Designer
Off-off-Broadway
35. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Aristotle
Constantin Stanislavski
Avant-Garde
36. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Thespis
Henrik Ibsen
Musical Theatre
Upstage
37. God of wine and fertility
Book musical
Skene
Dionysus
Actor's tools
38. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Catharsis
Rhetorical Tradition
Commedia Dell'Arte
Thrust
39. Fee for each performance
Linear Plot
Producer
Catharsis
Royalty
40. The stage area closest to the audience; on the raked stage of the Renaissance theatres - the stage literally sloped downward as it got closer to the audience
Director
Romanticism
Downstage
Casting Director
41. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Concept
Costume Designer
Linear Plot
Callbacks
42. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Casting Director
Arena
Off-Broadway
Playwright
43. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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44. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Designer's job
Henrik Ibsen
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Cycles
45. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Avant-Garde
Wings
Scenic Designer
Musical Theatre
46. Set at an angle. Early proscenium theatres featured a raked stage: the stage was elevated much higher at the back of the stage (upstage) than closer to the stage (downstage). Modern designers sometimes build a raked stage for a particular production
Auteur
Proscenium
Antagonist
Raked Stage
47. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Rendering
Presentational
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Representational
48. A group of performers working together vocally and physically. A chorus of approximately 12-15 singer-dancers who interacted with and responded to the actors was an important element of ancient Greek theatre.
Chorus
Producer
Proscenium
Thespis
49. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Romantic Theory
Wings
Casting Director
Black box
50. A group of performers working together vocally and physically. A chorus of approximately 12-15 singer-dancers who interacted with and responded to the actors was an important element of ancient Greek theatre.
Perspective Scenery
Chorus
Cycles
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude