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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. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Linear Plot
Ground plan
Plato
Raked Stage
2. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Cycles
lighting designer
Bertolt Brecht
Avant-Garde
3. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Upstage
Auteur
Antagonist
4. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Linear Plot
Conflict
Reversal
Aeschylus
5. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Verisimilitude
Avant-Garde
Costume Designer
Director
6. 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
Producer
Aeschylus
Representational
Downstage
7. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
University Wits
Off-off-Broadway
Scenic Designer
8. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Henrik Ibsen
Black box
Subplot
Melodrama
9. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Conflict
Proscenium
Constantin Stanislavski
10. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Commedia Dell'Arte
University Wits
Chorus
Aeschylus
11. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Downstage
Wings
Chorus
Conflict
12. Collection of mystery plays
Cycles
Blocking
Thrust
Broadway
13. Body - voice - mind
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14. Sentences/paragraph structure
Avant-Garde
Components of Actor's job
Neoclassic unities
Prose
15. Appearance of truth
Designer's job
Verisimilitude
Morality Plays
Variables of costume design
16. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Producer
Presentational
Thespis
Aristophanes
17. Physical commedy
Slapstick
Catharsis
Eugene Scribe
Protagonist
18. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Director
Chorus
Romanticism
Front of House
19. Designs costumes for the show
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Protagonist
Costume Designer
Subtext
20. 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
Protagonist
Downstage
Aristotle
Raked Stage
21. Historical accuracy
Orchestra
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Antiquarianism
Henrik Ibsen
22. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Thrust
Aeschylus
Black box
Casting Director
23. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Stage Manager
Catharsis
Neoclassicism
Front of House
24. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Raked Stage
Avant-Garde
Dionysus
Broadway
25. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Proscenium
The Orestia
Emile Zola
Subplot
26. 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-off-Broadway
Ground plan
Henrik Ibsen
Antiquarianism
27. Handles business aspects of show
Black box
Designer's job
Aristophanes
Producer
28. Action - place - time
Theatron
Musical Theatre
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Neoclassic unities
29. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Melodrama
Plato
Rhetorical Tradition
Alienation Effect
30. 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
Perspective Scenery
Presentational
Concept
Aeschylus
31. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Miracle Plays
Linear Plot
Producer
Royalty
32. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Reversal
Components of Actor's job
Subtext
Catharsis
33. Scenery
Subplot
Thrust
Skene
Costume Designer
34. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Conflict
Prose
Rendering
Components of Production
35. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Variables of costume design
Concept
Prose
Alienation Effect
36. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
lighting designer
Stage manager
Proscenium
Thespis
37. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
lighting designer
The Globe
Rendering
Book musical
38. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Romantic Theory
Director
Scenic Designer
Upstage
39. 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
Romantic Theory
Types of professional theater
Broadway
Book musical
40. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Auteur
Catharsis
Downstage
sound designer
41. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Subtext
Wings
Liturgical Drama
Callbacks
42. Secondary line of action
Slapstick
Morality Plays
Miracle Plays
Subplot
43. The area farthest away from the audience
Upstage
Wings
Representational
Realism
44. First director
Callbacks
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Linear Plot
45. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Aeschylus
Auteur
Orchestra
Melodrama
46. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Off-Broadway
Commedia Dell'Arte
Rhetorical Tradition
Cycles
47. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Auteur
Arena
Catharsis
lighting designer
48. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Linear Plot
Morality Plays
Melodrama
Types of professional theater
49. Spoken words
Antiquarianism
Musical Theatre
Theatron
Dialogue
50. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Conflict
The Globe
Thespis