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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. Sentences/paragraph structure
Henrik Ibsen
Theatron
Skene
Prose
2. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Director
Realism
Miracle Plays
3. 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
Slapstick
Costume plot
Slapstick
Raked Stage
4. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Rhetorical Tradition
Rhetorical Tradition
Designer
Broadway
5. 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
Presentational
Playwright
Antagonist
Antiquarianism
6. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Concept
Thespis
Miracle Plays
Auditions
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
Morality Plays
Actor's tools
Thrust
Realism
8. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Playwright
Proscenium
Black box
Liturgical Drama
9. Collection of mystery plays
Aesthetic Distance
Raked Stage
Designer's job
Cycles
10. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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11. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Wings
collaborator
Stage Manager
Types of professional theater
12. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Stage manager
Catharsis
lighting designer
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
13. 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
Broadway
Wings
Downstage
Playwright
14. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Verse
Casting Director
Subtext
sound designer
15. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Commedia Dell'Arte
Casting Director
Antiquarianism
16. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Royalty
Raked Stage
Commedia Dell'Arte
Aristophanes
17. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Realism
Reversal
Empathy
Stage manager
18. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Musical Theatre
Casting Director
Conflict
Aristotle
19. Scenery
Playwright
Aristotle
Avant-Garde
Skene
20. 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
Linear Plot
Romantic Theory
Henrik Ibsen
Verisimilitude
21. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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22. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Aeschylus
Components of Actor's job
Producer
Avant-Garde
23. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Cycles
Romantic Theory
Copyright
24. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Actor's job
Avant-Garde
Components of Production
Conflict
25. 'seeing place'
Blocking
Theatron
Rhetorical Tradition
Eugene Scribe
26. Scenery
Arena
Skene
Auditions
Aristophanes
27. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Representational
Catharsis
Blocking
Designer
28. Physical commedy
Realism
Cycles
Proscenium
Slapstick
29. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
lighting designer
Subtext
Vomitories
30. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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31. Central character
Thrust
Protagonist
William Shakespeare
Representational
32. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Romantic Theory
Commedia Dell'Arte
Musical Theatre
Subtext
33. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Concept
Melodrama
Antagonist
Conflict
34. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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35. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Components of Actor's job
Prose
Eugene Scribe
The Orestia
36. Greatest dramatist of all time
Broadway
Components of Production
Raked Stage
William Shakespeare
37. Director champions intention of playwright
Costume Designer
Black box
collaborator
Broadway
38. Saint's plays
Miracle Plays
Constantin Stanislavski
Stage Manager
Aristophanes
39. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Melodrama
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Neoclassic unities
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
40. 'dancing space'
Front of House
Ground plan
Sense memory
Orchestra
41. Handles business aspects of show
Raked Stage
Royalty
Producer
Neoclassic unities
42. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Avant-Garde
Designer's job
Bertolt Brecht
Neoclassicism
43. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Rhetorical Tradition
Hypokrites
Black box
Off-off-Broadway
44. Generally rhyming
Verse
The Orestia
Costume plot
Miracle Plays
45. Seats 100-500; professional
Musical Theatre
Producer
Off-Broadway
Bertolt Brecht
46. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
lighting designer
Dionysus
Proscenium
Catharsis
47. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Linear Plot
Black box
Variables of costume design
Book musical
48. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Aesthetic Distance
Director
Off-off-Broadway
49. 'dancing space'
Theatron
Arena
Components of Actor's job
Orchestra
50. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Conflict
Aesthetic Distance
Representational
Pageants