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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. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Proscenium
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Upstage
2. Changeable scenery for specific plays (tragedies - comedies - pastoral tragicomedies). Appeared as early as 1508 and standardized approaches to such scenery were popularized by Sebastian Serlio. Ex: Wings - flats
Playwright
Antiquarianism
Rhetorical Tradition
Perspective Scenery
3. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Liturgical Drama
Emile Zola
Book musical
Prose
4. Secondary line of action
Broadway
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Variables of costume design
Subplot
5. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Aeschylus
Realism
Representational
lighting designer
6. Sentences/paragraph structure
Miracle Plays
Rendering
Romanticism
Prose
7. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
8. Seats 100-500; professional
Sense memory
Off-Broadway
Aristotle
Verse
9. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Director
Morality Plays
Emile Zola
10. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Dionysus
Casting Director
Prose
The Orestia
11. Standard tool for casting productions
Blocking
Components of Production
Cycles
Auditions
12. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Dionysus
Sense memory
William Shakespeare
Arena
13. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Mystery Plays
Musical Theatre
Verisimilitude
Types of professional theater
14. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Thespis
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Aeschylus
15. Actor in 5th century Greece
Hypokrites
Components of Production
Rhetorical Tradition
Off-off-Broadway
16. 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
Proscenium
Realism
Protagonist
Linear Plot
17. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Designer's job
Royalty
Romanticism
18. Author of play
Eugene Scribe
Proscenium
Playwright
Slapstick
19. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Dramaturg
Black box
Front of House
Concept
20. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Presentational
Musical Theatre
Alienation Effect
Upstage
21. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Callbacks
Empathy
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Stage Manager
22. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Aristophanes
University Wits
Aesthetic Distance
Verisimilitude
23. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Verse
Skene
sound designer
Arena
24. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Broadway
Romanticism
Empathy
Morality Plays
25. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Components of Production
Mystery Plays
Designer's job
Book musical
26. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Vomitories
Rendering
University Wits
Subplot
27. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Public Domain
Protagonist
Rendering
Book musical
28. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
29. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Auditions
Pageants
Sense memory
Empathy
30. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Commedia Dell'Arte
Costume plot
Liturgical Drama
Arena
31. Changeable scenery for specific plays (tragedies - comedies - pastoral tragicomedies). Appeared as early as 1508 and standardized approaches to such scenery were popularized by Sebastian Serlio. Ex: Wings - flats
Morality Plays
Ground plan
Commedia Dell'Arte
Perspective Scenery
32. 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
Royalty
Commedia Dell'Arte
Presentational
Actor's tools
33. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Broadway
Reversal
Eugene Scribe
34. Handles business aspects of show
Prose
Producer
Blocking
Stage Manager
35. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Concept
Neoclassic unities
Catharsis
sound designer
36. 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
Upstage
Director
Stage Manager
Presentational
37. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Chorus
Proscenium
Broadway
Copyright
38. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Wings
Romanticism
Scenic Designer
Henrik Ibsen
39. Historical accuracy
Stage manager
Aristophanes
Downstage
Antiquarianism
40. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Book musical
Broadway
Components of Production
Off-Broadway
41. Physical commedy
Ground plan
Perspective Scenery
Neoclassicism
Slapstick
42. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Romantic Theory
Chorus
Perspective Scenery
Wings
43. God of wine and fertility
Auteur
Dionysus
Slapstick
Playwright
44. 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
Off-Broadway
Ground plan
Blocking
Romanticism
45. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Off-Broadway
Eugene Scribe
lighting designer
Ground plan
46. Collection of mystery plays
Morality Plays
Director
Cycles
Representational
47. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
University Wits
Aristophanes
University Wits
Plato
48. Central character
Broadway
Black box
Protagonist
Neoclassic unities
49. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
50. Standard tool for casting productions
Upstage
Sense memory
Director
Auditions