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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. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Front of House
Auditions
Realism
2. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Broadway
Verse
Pageants
Eugene Scribe
3. 'seeing place'
Empathy
Neoclassic unities
Theatron
Skene
4. Appearance of truth
Rhetorical Tradition
Alienation Effect
Vomitories
Verisimilitude
5. Creates a visual home for the play
Scenic Designer
Thrust
Subplot
Off-off-Broadway
6. Fee for each performance
Auditions
Royalty
Aeschylus
Alienation Effect
7. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Avant-Garde
Costume plot
Reversal
Components of Production
8. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Emile Zola
Henrik Ibsen
Alienation Effect
Types of professional theater
9. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Off-off-Broadway
Dialogue
Designer
William Shakespeare
10. 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
Proscenium
Antagonist
Aeschylus
Director
11. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Antagonist
Vomitories
Variables of costume design
Components of Actor's job
12. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Aesthetic Distance
Costume Designer
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Romantic Theory
13. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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14. Directors who operate with total control
Prose
Auteur
Book musical
Verisimilitude
15. Sentences/paragraph structure
William Shakespeare
Prose
Rendering
Auditions
16. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Realism
Downstage
Eugene Scribe
Stage manager
17. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Constantin Stanislavski
Pageants
Skene
Musical Theatre
18. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
University Wits
Slapstick
lighting designer
William Shakespeare
19. Scenery
Plato
The Orestia
Skene
Public Domain
20. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Commedia Dell'Arte
Director
Black box
Alienation Effect
21. Standard tool for casting productions
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Miracle Plays
Linear Plot
Auditions
22. 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
Orchestra
Slapstick
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
23. 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
Ground plan
Antagonist
Components of Production
Proscenium
24. 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
Bertolt Brecht
Downstage
Slapstick
Variables of costume design
25. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Stage manager
Costume plot
Morality Plays
Aristophanes
26. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
The Orestia
Thrust
Mystery Plays
27. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Off-off-Broadway
collaborator
Henrik Ibsen
Auditions
28. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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29. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Public Domain
Eugene Scribe
Costume Designer
Director
30. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Raked Stage
Director
Neoclassic unities
31. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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32. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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33. Generally rhyming
Designer's job
Verse
Antiquarianism
Upstage
34. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Aristophanes
Director
Types of professional theater
Neoclassic unities
35. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Types of professional theater
Catharsis
Presentational
Bertolt Brecht
36. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Chorus
Representational
Front of House
Black box
37. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Auteur
Dialogue
Book musical
Ground plan
38. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Scenic Designer
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Musical Theatre
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
39. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Actor's tools
Costume Designer
Linear Plot
Stage Manager
40. Body - voice - mind
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41. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Thespis
Representational
Types of professional theater
Director
42. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
Mystery Plays
Aristophanes
Melodrama
43. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Aeschylus
Costume plot
Director
Sense memory
44. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Callbacks
Sense memory
Avant-Garde
Neoclassicism
45. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Aristophanes
Sense memory
Thespis
46. 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
Eugene Scribe
Costume Designer
Presentational
Aristotle
47. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Verse
Emile Zola
Slapstick
Variables of costume design
48. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Empathy
Actor's tools
Components of Production
49. Spoken words
Off-off-Broadway
Book musical
Dialogue
Off-off-Broadway
50. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Designer
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre