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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Sense memory
Callbacks
Neoclassic unities
Aristophanes
2. 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
Verisimilitude
Ground plan
Commedia Dell'Arte
Romantic Theory
3. Generally rhyming
University Wits
Verse
Eugene Scribe
lighting designer
4. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Scenic Designer
Callbacks
Proscenium
Concept
5. The area farthest away from the audience
Upstage
Arena
Pageants
Off-off-Broadway
6. Author of play
Designer's job
Slapstick
Playwright
Components of Actor's job
7. Was in favor of theater
Aristotle
Eugene Scribe
Conflict
Raked Stage
8. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
University Wits
Constantin Stanislavski
Presentational
Casting Director
9. 'seeing place'
Raked Stage
Henrik Ibsen
Theatron
Verse
10. God of wine and fertility
Variables of costume design
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Director
Dionysus
11. Saint's plays
Stage Manager
Costume Designer
Miracle Plays
Ground plan
12. Central character
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Front of House
Front of House
Protagonist
13. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Rhetorical Tradition
Producer
Subplot
14. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Cycles
Subplot
Arena
Broadway
15. 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
Proscenium
Verisimilitude
Mystery Plays
Downstage
16. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Director
Orchestra
Linear Plot
17. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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18. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Skene
Designer
Designer's job
19. Designs costumes for the show
Variables of costume design
Thrust
Designer's job
Costume Designer
20. 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
Conflict
William Shakespeare
Melodrama
Realism
21. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Arena
Casting Director
Neoclassic unities
Empathy
22. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Raked Stage
Plato
Antagonist
The Orestia
23. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Aristophanes
Broadway
Emile Zola
Commedia Dell'Arte
24. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Actor's tools
Types of professional theater
Arena
Pageants
25. 'dancing space'
Aristophanes
Henrik Ibsen
Cycles
Orchestra
26. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Actor's tools
The Orestia
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Proscenium
27. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Prose
Components of Production
Subtext
Alienation Effect
28. Actor in 5th century Greece
Mystery Plays
lighting designer
Aeschylus
Hypokrites
29. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Casting Director
Verisimilitude
Front of House
Sense memory
30. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Plato
The Globe
Eugene Scribe
Alienation Effect
31. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Designer
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Henrik Ibsen
Romantic Theory
32. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Aristophanes
Callbacks
Romanticism
Romantic Theory
33. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Public Domain
The Orestia
Commedia Dell'Arte
Blocking
34. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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35. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Perspective Scenery
Theatron
Thrust
Components of Actor's job
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.
Ground plan
Chorus
Proscenium
Bertolt Brecht
37. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Catharsis
Prose
Front of House
Director
38. Fee for each performance
Royalty
University Wits
Vomitories
Costume Designer
39. Action - place - time
Casting Director
Melodrama
Plato
Neoclassic unities
40. Body - voice - mind
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41. Secondary line of action
The Orestia
Hypokrites
Subplot
Prose
42. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Producer
sound designer
Costume plot
43. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Thespis
Playwright
Wings
Presentational
44. When line of action suddenly switches
Skene
Reversal
Antiquarianism
Actor's tools
45. 'seeing place'
Dialogue
Dionysus
Off-Broadway
Theatron
46. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Commedia Dell'Arte
Subtext
Bertolt Brecht
Producer
47. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Mystery Plays
Actor's tools
Musical Theatre
48. Generally rhyming
Proscenium
Verse
Hypokrites
Aristotle
49. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Concept
collaborator
Copyright
Black box
50. Creates a visual home for the play
Dialogue
Scenic Designer
Presentational
Neoclassicism
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