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Theatre Appreciation 2
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Directors who operate with total control
Verisimilitude
Playwright
Auteur
Liturgical Drama
2. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Designer's job
Pageants
William Shakespeare
3. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Eugene Scribe
Musical Theatre
Proscenium
4. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Scenic Designer
collaborator
Avant-Garde
Neoclassic unities
5. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Catharsis
Orchestra
Mystery Plays
Casting Director
6. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Morality Plays
Off-Broadway
Cycles
7. Secondary line of action
Arena
Subplot
Conflict
Director
8. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Black box
Scenic Designer
Neoclassicism
Auditions
9. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Constantin Stanislavski
Hypokrites
Cycles
Director
10. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Romantic Theory
Actor's tools
Broadway
Mystery Plays
11. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Empathy
The Orestia
Copyright
Protagonist
12. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Downstage
Public Domain
Off-Broadway
Proscenium
13. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Dramaturg
Mystery Plays
Callbacks
The Orestia
14. When line of action suddenly switches
Protagonist
Eugene Scribe
Reversal
The Orestia
15. God of wine and fertility
Dionysus
Reversal
Verse
Ground plan
16. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Conflict
Cycles
Designer
17. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Realism
Proscenium
Dramaturg
Mystery Plays
18. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Chorus
Types of professional theater
Melodrama
Skene
19. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Producer
Slapstick
The Orestia
Catharsis
20. 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
Variables of costume design
Neoclassic unities
Proscenium
Henrik Ibsen
21. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Raked Stage
Wings
The Globe
22. 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
Downstage
Henrik Ibsen
Director
Miracle Plays
23. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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24. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Designer
Proscenium
Stage manager
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
25. Standard tool for casting productions
Off-Broadway
Ground plan
Auditions
Catharsis
26. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Theatron
Mystery Plays
Antiquarianism
Aristophanes
27. 'dancing space'
Conflict
Orchestra
Skene
Broadway
28. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Avant-Garde
Slapstick
Constantin Stanislavski
Conflict
29. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Black box
Rendering
Copyright
Vomitories
30. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Theatron
Types of professional theater
Auditions
31. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Realism
Director
Dionysus
32. Actor in 5th century Greece
Hypokrites
Alienation Effect
Theatron
University Wits
33. 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
Miracle Plays
Dionysus
Off-Broadway
Realism
34. Appearance of truth
Proscenium
Producer
Morality Plays
Verisimilitude
35. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Antagonist
Conflict
Designer
Auditions
36. Fee for each performance
Mystery Plays
University Wits
Orchestra
Royalty
37. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Hypokrites
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Public Domain
Antagonist
38. A drafting of the plan of the set as seen from overhead. A ground plan shows where any scenic pieces or set props (such as furniture) are to be placed
Copyright
Linear Plot
Costume Designer
Ground plan
39. 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
Catharsis
Romantic Theory
Types of professional theater
Neoclassic unities
40. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Empathy
Aesthetic Distance
Vomitories
Conflict
41. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Thrust
Commedia Dell'Arte
Rendering
Romantic Theory
42. Sentences/paragraph structure
Cycles
Actor's tools
Costume Designer
Prose
43. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Rhetorical Tradition
Chorus
Constantin Stanislavski
Casting Director
44. Historical accuracy
Costume Designer
Designer's job
Henrik Ibsen
Antiquarianism
45. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Catharsis
Alienation Effect
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
46. Generally rhyming
Types of professional theater
Theatron
Broadway
Verse
47. Creates a visual home for the play
Bertolt Brecht
Hypokrites
Scenic Designer
Representational
48. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Catharsis
Stage Manager
Raked Stage
Thespis
49. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Designer
Rhetorical Tradition
Designer's job
50. Actor in 5th century Greece
Melodrama
Hypokrites
Casting Director
Presentational