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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. Planned actor movement
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Perspective Scenery
Blocking
The Globe
2. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Thespis
Aeschylus
Melodrama
Thrust
3. Who or what opposes the central character
Antagonist
Designer
Off-Broadway
Variables of costume design
4. Designs costumes for the show
Verisimilitude
Concept
Producer
Costume Designer
5. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Neoclassicism
Callbacks
Chorus
Dramaturg
6. A movement of the late 19th century championing the depiction of everyday life on the stage and the frank treatment of social problems in the theatre. The plays of Henrick Ibsen of the 1870s were important in establishing a dramatic style for realism
Concept
Verse
Realism
Director
7. Scenery
Aesthetic Distance
Skene
Chorus
Components of Production
8. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
Casting Director
Upstage
Off-Broadway
9. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
The Orestia
Proscenium
Alienation Effect
Upstage
10. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
University Wits
Proscenium
Skene
11. A movement of the late 19th century championing the depiction of everyday life on the stage and the frank treatment of social problems in the theatre. The plays of Henrick Ibsen of the 1870s were important in establishing a dramatic style for realism
Realism
Wings
Rhetorical Tradition
Melodrama
12. Author of play
Stage manager
Components of Actor's job
Playwright
Miracle Plays
13. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Prose
Types of professional theater
Copyright
Dramaturg
14. First director
Thrust
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Thespis
Realism
15. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Thrust
Components of Production
Verisimilitude
Plato
16. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Romanticism
Designer
Components of Production
Antiquarianism
17. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Reversal
Off-off-Broadway
Vomitories
collaborator
18. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
lighting designer
Melodrama
Broadway
Callbacks
19. Director champions intention of playwright
Antiquarianism
Off-Broadway
Vomitories
collaborator
20. Actor in 5th century Greece
Aeschylus
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Hypokrites
William Shakespeare
21. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Liturgical Drama
Dionysus
The Orestia
Eugene Scribe
22. Invented by the Italians - a large open arch that marks the primary division between audience and performance space in a proscenium space. The proscenium arch frames the action of the play for the audience and limits the view of backstage areas
Public Domain
Book musical
Proscenium
Chorus
23. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Director
Casting Director
Raked Stage
Blocking
24. Style of production that acknowledges theatricality and does not attempt to created the impression of 'real life' on the stage. Presentational scenery - costumes - and lighting may suggest - distort - or even abstract reality. Presentational acting m
Antagonist
Realism
Presentational
collaborator
25. 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
Alienation Effect
Scenic Designer
Callbacks
Romantic Theory
26. Was in favor of theater
Upstage
Aeschylus
Aristotle
Director
27. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
lighting designer
Subtext
Protagonist
Bertolt Brecht
28. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Liturgical Drama
Thespis
Catharsis
Scenic Designer
29. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Components of Production
Front of House
Thrust
Neoclassicism
30. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Representational
Book musical
Rendering
31. First director
Raked Stage
Empathy
Dramaturg
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
32. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Romantic Theory
Presentational
Dionysus
33. Actor in 5th century Greece
Hypokrites
Alienation Effect
Cycles
Slapstick
34. Seats 500-1800; professional.
sound designer
Broadway
collaborator
Hypokrites
35. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Costume Designer
Blocking
Romanticism
collaborator
36. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
University Wits
Casting Director
Prose
Neoclassicism
37. Style of production that acknowledges theatricality and does not attempt to created the impression of 'real life' on the stage. Presentational scenery - costumes - and lighting may suggest - distort - or even abstract reality. Presentational acting m
William Shakespeare
Types of professional theater
Presentational
Empathy
38. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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39. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Perspective Scenery
Constantin Stanislavski
The Orestia
Black box
40. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Dialogue
Musical Theatre
Thrust
Rhetorical Tradition
41. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Perspective Scenery
lighting designer
Downstage
42. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Aesthetic Distance
Dionysus
Auditions
43. Designs costumes for the show
The Orestia
Costume Designer
Dramaturg
Morality Plays
44. 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
Off-off-Broadway
Casting Director
Rendering
Downstage
45. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Neoclassic unities
Dramaturg
Components of Production
Miracle Plays
46. Handles business aspects of show
Components of Production
Pageants
Producer
William Shakespeare
47. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Antagonist
Theatron
Avant-Garde
Concept
48. 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
Raked Stage
Alienation Effect
Auditions
Protagonist
49. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
lighting designer
Rendering
Upstage
50. The area farthest away from the audience
Verse
Eugene Scribe
Upstage
Catharsis
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