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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. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Director
Designer
Liturgical Drama
2. Physical commedy
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Slapstick
Casting Director
Off-off-Broadway
3. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Casting Director
Sense memory
Arena
Emile Zola
4. Sentences/paragraph structure
Realism
Prose
Conflict
Hypokrites
5. Generally rhyming
Alienation Effect
Verse
Aristotle
Representational
6. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Catharsis
Pageants
Melodrama
Copyright
7. Body - voice - mind
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8. 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
Ground plan
Romantic Theory
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Realism
9. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Producer
Neoclassicism
Perspective Scenery
Proscenium
10. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Aeschylus
Prose
Aristotle
Thrust
11. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Types of professional theater
Aeschylus
Musical Theatre
12. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Prose
Director
Aeschylus
13. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Callbacks
Morality Plays
Emile Zola
Aesthetic Distance
14. 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
Perspective Scenery
Aristotle
Commedia Dell'Arte
Front of House
15. Creates a visual home for the play
Scenic Designer
Rhetorical Tradition
Miracle Plays
Off-Broadway
16. Seats 100-500; professional
Pageants
Emile Zola
Off-Broadway
Actor's tools
17. Actor in 5th century Greece
lighting designer
Hypokrites
Reversal
Realism
18. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Mystery Plays
Sense memory
lighting designer
Musical Theatre
19. Was in favor of theater
Aristotle
Designer
Morality Plays
Broadway
20. Standard tool for casting productions
Plato
Prose
Front of House
Auditions
21. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Producer
Thespis
Designer's job
Broadway
22. Spoken words
Aristophanes
Dialogue
Eugene Scribe
Director
23. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Neoclassicism
Presentational
Stage Manager
The Orestia
24. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Cycles
Pageants
Front of House
Concept
25. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
Theatron
collaborator
Scenic Designer
26. Action - place - time
Proscenium
Neoclassic unities
Subtext
Rhetorical Tradition
27. Physical commedy
Mystery Plays
Raked Stage
University Wits
Slapstick
28. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Verse
Bertolt Brecht
Commedia Dell'Arte
Musical Theatre
29. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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30. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Off-off-Broadway
Antiquarianism
University Wits
Bertolt Brecht
31. Who or what opposes the central character
Musical Theatre
Liturgical Drama
Rendering
Antagonist
32. Collection of mystery plays
Cycles
Aeschylus
Antiquarianism
Components of Actor's job
33. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Skene
Copyright
Catharsis
Auditions
34. 'dancing space'
Dramaturg
Dialogue
Director
Orchestra
35. Appearance of truth
Costume Designer
Empathy
Verisimilitude
Dionysus
36. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Henrik Ibsen
Public Domain
Off-off-Broadway
Constantin Stanislavski
37. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Raked Stage
Neoclassic unities
Public Domain
Copyright
38. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Auteur
Aristotle
Vomitories
39. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Variables of costume design
Costume Designer
Stage Manager
Ground plan
40. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Front of House
Slapstick
Orchestra
lighting designer
41. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Empathy
Callbacks
Designer
Auteur
42. 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
Wings
Upstage
Presentational
Costume Designer
43. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Presentational
Dionysus
Thespis
Designer
44. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Royalty
Sense memory
Aristotle
Producer
45. Author of play
Aristotle
Commedia Dell'Arte
Playwright
Conflict
46. God of wine and fertility
Mystery Plays
Aesthetic Distance
Perspective Scenery
Dionysus
47. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Aesthetic Distance
Aristophanes
Designer's job
Dramaturg
48. Greatest dramatist of all time
Thespis
Mystery Plays
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
William Shakespeare
49. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Protagonist
The Globe
Producer
Prose
50. The area farthest away from the audience
Upstage
Romanticism
Sense memory
Copyright