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Theatre Appreciation 2
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Aristophanes
Raked Stage
Verse
2. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Realism
Producer
Arena
Empathy
3. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Dramaturg
Upstage
Realism
Conflict
4. Saint's plays
Producer
Antagonist
Aesthetic Distance
Miracle Plays
5. Author of play
Slapstick
Mystery Plays
Playwright
Romanticism
6. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Designer's job
Components of Production
Perspective Scenery
Plato
7. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Auteur
Arena
Components of Actor's job
Verse
8. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Conflict
Wings
Reversal
Stage Manager
9. The area farthest away from the audience
Upstage
Public Domain
Constantin Stanislavski
Neoclassicism
10. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Eugene Scribe
Book musical
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Black box
11. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Concept
Eugene Scribe
Hypokrites
12. Creates a visual home for the play
Verse
Auteur
Public Domain
Scenic Designer
13. 'seeing place'
Perspective Scenery
Theatron
Front of House
sound designer
14. Collection of mystery plays
Royalty
Thespis
Cycles
University Wits
15. Saint's plays
Miracle Plays
Proscenium
Vomitories
Auteur
16. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
The Orestia
Prose
Stage manager
Sense memory
17. 'dancing space'
Ground plan
Black box
Romantic Theory
Orchestra
18. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Romanticism
Perspective Scenery
Liturgical Drama
Slapstick
19. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Proscenium
Subplot
Empathy
Wings
20. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Representational
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Romantic Theory
Designer
21. God of wine and fertility
Producer
Stage Manager
Dionysus
Aristophanes
22. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Director
Verisimilitude
Emile Zola
23. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Prose
Cycles
Sense memory
Blocking
24. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Constantin Stanislavski
Henrik Ibsen
Orchestra
25. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Antiquarianism
Romantic Theory
Proscenium
Book musical
26. 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.
Skene
Perspective Scenery
Chorus
Catharsis
27. Central character
Protagonist
Commedia Dell'Arte
Costume plot
Subtext
28. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Theatron
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Bertolt Brecht
Subtext
29. Physical commedy
Ground plan
Off-off-Broadway
Slapstick
University Wits
30. Was in favor of theater
Verse
Blocking
Aristotle
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
31. 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
Components of Production
Verse
Auteur
32. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Aesthetic Distance
Pageants
Emile Zola
33. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Conflict
Variables of costume design
sound designer
Concept
34. Central character
Protagonist
Front of House
Broadway
Raked Stage
35. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Blocking
Protagonist
Catharsis
Casting Director
36. 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.
Callbacks
Protagonist
Broadway
Chorus
37. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Playwright
Auditions
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Plato
38. Changeable scenery for specific plays (tragedies - comedies - pastoral tragicomedies). Appeared as early as 1508 and standardized approaches to such scenery were popularized by Sebastian Serlio. Ex: Wings - flats
Director
Perspective Scenery
Mystery Plays
Book musical
39. 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
Auditions
Presentational
lighting designer
Realism
40. Spoken words
Ground plan
sound designer
Dialogue
Chorus
41. Changeable scenery for specific plays (tragedies - comedies - pastoral tragicomedies). Appeared as early as 1508 and standardized approaches to such scenery were popularized by Sebastian Serlio. Ex: Wings - flats
William Shakespeare
Morality Plays
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Perspective Scenery
42. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Designer
William Shakespeare
Empathy
Liturgical Drama
43. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
sound designer
Dionysus
Melodrama
Auteur
44. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
University Wits
Aristotle
Eugene Scribe
Components of Production
45. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Verisimilitude
Bertolt Brecht
Stage Manager
46. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Realism
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Hypokrites
47. 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
Dramaturg
Raked Stage
Wings
Rendering
48. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Henrik Ibsen
Stage Manager
The Orestia
49. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
The Orestia
Vomitories
Costume plot
Stage Manager
50. Greatest dramatist of all time
William Shakespeare
Skene
Components of Production
Concept