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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. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
Eugene Scribe
Aristophanes
Romantic Theory
2. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Verse
Scenic Designer
Subtext
Neoclassicism
3. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Wings
Auditions
Costume plot
Aesthetic Distance
4. First director
Verisimilitude
Neoclassic unities
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Book musical
5. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Empathy
Copyright
Auditions
6. Sentences/paragraph structure
Representational
Prose
Thrust
Scenic Designer
7. 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
Catharsis
Protagonist
Realism
Raked Stage
8. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Cycles
Empathy
Aesthetic Distance
9. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Stage manager
Plato
University Wits
10. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
The Orestia
Musical Theatre
Proscenium
Types of professional theater
11. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Variables of costume design
Realism
Arena
Rhetorical Tradition
12. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Chorus
Components of Production
Off-off-Broadway
13. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Vomitories
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Emile Zola
Public Domain
14. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Proscenium
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Hypokrites
15. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Realism
Variables of costume design
Slapstick
Verse
16. The area farthest away from the audience
Aristophanes
Rendering
Dramaturg
Upstage
17. Directors who operate with total control
Auditions
Auteur
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Designer's job
18. 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
Linear Plot
Realism
The Globe
Neoclassicism
19. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Antiquarianism
Verse
lighting designer
20. Greatest dramatist of all time
The Orestia
William Shakespeare
Aesthetic Distance
Orchestra
21. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Black box
Emile Zola
Thespis
Protagonist
22. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Henrik Ibsen
collaborator
Wings
Royalty
23. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Conflict
Romantic Theory
Proscenium
24. Seats 100-500; professional
Antiquarianism
Off-Broadway
Vomitories
Subplot
25. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Stage manager
Proscenium
Romantic Theory
Commedia Dell'Arte
26. Handles business aspects of show
Auditions
lighting designer
Casting Director
Producer
27. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Vomitories
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
lighting designer
Components of Production
28. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Stage Manager
Variables of costume design
Verisimilitude
The Globe
29. Who or what opposes the central character
Hypokrites
Black box
Antagonist
Upstage
30. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Bertolt Brecht
Linear Plot
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Empathy
31. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Catharsis
Stage Manager
William Shakespeare
Producer
32. 'seeing place'
Linear Plot
Costume Designer
Theatron
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
33. Creates a visual home for the play
Ground plan
Director
Downstage
Scenic Designer
34. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Theatron
Aristophanes
Bertolt Brecht
Avant-Garde
35. 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
Designer
Musical Theatre
Director
Ground plan
36. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Designer
Stage Manager
Linear Plot
The Orestia
37. Handles business aspects of show
Stage manager
Slapstick
Dialogue
Producer
38. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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39. Appearance of truth
Director
Verisimilitude
Thespis
Variables of costume design
40. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Proscenium
Mystery Plays
University Wits
Front of House
41. Actor in 5th century Greece
Mystery Plays
Plato
Royalty
Hypokrites
42. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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43. 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
Constantin Stanislavski
Antiquarianism
Realism
Miracle Plays
44. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Bertolt Brecht
Proscenium
Alienation Effect
Antiquarianism
45. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Costume Designer
Dramaturg
Bertolt Brecht
Aeschylus
46. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Conflict
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Romantic Theory
47. First director
Eugene Scribe
Proscenium
Skene
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
48. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Representational
Designer
Black box
49. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Sense memory
Broadway
Chorus
50. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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