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Theatre Appreciation 2

Subject : 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. Secondary line of action






2. Scenery






3. Generally rhyming






4. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright






5. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)






6. Physical commedy






7. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion

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8. 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






9. Directors who operate with total control






10. First director






11. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)






12. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights






13. Attributed to writing over 700 plays






14. Appearance of truth






15. Seats 500-1800; professional.






16. 'seeing place'






17. Attempts to represent reality on stage






18. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light






19. 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






20. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy






21. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.






22. 'dancing space'






23. 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






24. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'






25. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily






26. Secondary line of action






27. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)

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28. Generally rhyming






29. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space






30. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play






31. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.






32. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light






33. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle

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34. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)






35. Seats 500-1800; professional.






36. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live






37. Seats less than 100; amateur.






38. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.






39. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism






40. 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






41. 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






42. Planned actor movement






43. Spoken words






44. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area






45. Body - voice - mind

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46. Director champions intention of playwright






47. Greatest dramatist of all time






48. Appearance of truth






49. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'






50. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'