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Theatre Appreciation 2

Subject : performing-arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Actor in 5th century Greece






2. Seats 500-1800; professional.






3. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area






4. Actor in 5th century Greece






5. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights






6. First director






7. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism






8. Who or what opposes the central character






9. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)

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10. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.






11. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy






12. Humanity's struggle with good and evil






13. Attempts to represent reality on stage






14. 'dancing space'






15. Designs costumes for the show






16. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging






17. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.






18. Action - place - time






19. Planned actor movement






20. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.






21. Attributed to writing over 700 plays






22. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.






23. 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






24. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre






25. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited






26. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.






27. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)

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28. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.






29. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other






30. Director champions intention of playwright






31. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily






32. The area farthest away from the audience






33. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)






34. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights






35. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice






36. Handles business aspects of show






37. Body - voice - mind

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38. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle

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39. Creates a visual home for the play






40. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production






41. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'






42. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'






43. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation






44. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government






45. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'






46. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society






47. Spoken words






48. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild






49. 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






50. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.