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Theatre Appreciation 2
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Melodrama
Auteur
Musical Theatre
2. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Vomitories
Prose
Neoclassicism
Rhetorical Tradition
3. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
William Shakespeare
Sense memory
Neoclassic unities
Black box
4. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Casting Director
Ground plan
Dramaturg
5. When line of action suddenly switches
Blocking
Thrust
Reversal
Aeschylus
6. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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7. 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
Chorus
Empathy
Auteur
Realism
8. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Rendering
Avant-Garde
Chorus
9. Who or what opposes the central character
Raked Stage
Aristotle
Antagonist
Costume Designer
10. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Scenic Designer
Bertolt Brecht
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
11. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Concept
Antiquarianism
Pageants
12. Appearance of truth
Neoclassic unities
Slapstick
Verisimilitude
Stage Manager
13. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Royalty
The Orestia
Components of Production
Romanticism
14. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Book musical
Liturgical Drama
Commedia Dell'Arte
Presentational
15. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Blocking
Morality Plays
Arena
Subtext
16. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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17. Physical commedy
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Raked Stage
sound designer
Slapstick
18. Was in favor of theater
Prose
Downstage
Aristotle
Public Domain
19. Seats 100-500; professional
Designer's job
Front of House
Playwright
Off-Broadway
20. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Scenic Designer
collaborator
Bertolt Brecht
Emile Zola
21. Author of play
Black box
Liturgical Drama
Avant-Garde
Playwright
22. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Variables of costume design
Vomitories
Eugene Scribe
Dialogue
23. Secondary line of action
Empathy
Subplot
The Orestia
Antiquarianism
24. Central character
University Wits
Components of Actor's job
Protagonist
Producer
25. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Constantin Stanislavski
Proscenium
Reversal
Designer
26. 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
sound designer
Presentational
Commedia Dell'Arte
Musical Theatre
27. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Henrik Ibsen
Book musical
Ground plan
Conflict
28. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Upstage
Components of Production
Subtext
Variables of costume design
29. Actor in 5th century Greece
Neoclassic unities
Perspective Scenery
Costume plot
Hypokrites
30. Historical accuracy
Ground plan
Antiquarianism
University Wits
Proscenium
31. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Casting Director
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Callbacks
Representational
32. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Producer
Presentational
Commedia Dell'Arte
33. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Front of House
Dramaturg
Melodrama
Copyright
34. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Emile Zola
lighting designer
University Wits
35. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Copyright
Sense memory
Miracle Plays
36. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
collaborator
Antiquarianism
Morality Plays
Verse
37. Director champions intention of playwright
collaborator
Bertolt Brecht
Proscenium
Cycles
38. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Reversal
Catharsis
Scenic Designer
39. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Thrust
Romantic Theory
Verisimilitude
Royalty
40. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Copyright
Proscenium
Romanticism
Auditions
41. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Components of Actor's job
Vomitories
Verse
Melodrama
42. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
lighting designer
Reversal
Raked Stage
43. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Vomitories
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aristotle
Wings
44. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Front of House
Constantin Stanislavski
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
sound designer
45. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
The Globe
Romanticism
Producer
Eugene Scribe
46. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Prose
Front of House
Proscenium
Conflict
47. Author of play
Playwright
Director
Components of Actor's job
Blocking
48. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Stage Manager
Proscenium
Aristotle
Director
49. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Designer
Auteur
Off-off-Broadway
Proscenium
50. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Director
Neoclassicism
Realism
Upstage