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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Slapstick
Musical Theatre
Empathy
Thrust
2. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Romanticism
Alienation Effect
Thespis
Actor's tools
3. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Dramaturg
Dialogue
Verse
4. Planned actor movement
Copyright
Blocking
Copyright
Subtext
5. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Verisimilitude
Aristophanes
Reversal
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
6. 'dancing space'
Alienation Effect
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Orchestra
Pageants
7. Generally rhyming
Verse
Theatron
Slapstick
Dionysus
8. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Wings
Neoclassicism
Director
Thrust
9. Saint's plays
The Orestia
Blocking
Miracle Plays
Slapstick
10. Body - voice - mind
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11. Standard tool for casting productions
Verse
Reversal
Constantin Stanislavski
Auditions
12. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Costume Designer
Sense memory
Avant-Garde
Off-off-Broadway
13. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Realism
University Wits
The Globe
Verisimilitude
14. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Upstage
Raked Stage
Orchestra
Rhetorical Tradition
15. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Aeschylus
Black box
Verisimilitude
16. First director
Conflict
Prose
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Downstage
17. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Dionysus
Sense memory
Catharsis
William Shakespeare
18. 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
Off-off-Broadway
Variables of costume design
Henrik Ibsen
Perspective Scenery
19. 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
Mystery Plays
Subplot
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Downstage
20. Generally rhyming
Designer's job
Royalty
Verse
Front of House
21. Secondary line of action
Eugene Scribe
Subplot
Liturgical Drama
Royalty
22. God of wine and fertility
Catharsis
Dionysus
Public Domain
collaborator
23. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Broadway
Liturgical Drama
Antagonist
Raked Stage
24. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Downstage
Sense memory
Aeschylus
Pageants
25. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Sense memory
Blocking
Avant-Garde
26. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Black box
Hypokrites
Rendering
Royalty
27. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Aesthetic Distance
Blocking
Copyright
Vomitories
28. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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29. 'seeing place'
Producer
Theatron
Presentational
Skene
30. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Subplot
Raked Stage
Reversal
Eugene Scribe
31. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Thrust
Producer
Verisimilitude
Orchestra
32. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Producer
Dramaturg
Constantin Stanislavski
Orchestra
33. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Chorus
Subplot
Book musical
The Orestia
34. 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
Director
Realism
Plato
Arena
35. Collection of mystery plays
Presentational
Costume Designer
Realism
Cycles
36. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Commedia Dell'Arte
Romantic Theory
Linear Plot
Aristotle
37. Planned actor movement
Slapstick
Eugene Scribe
Costume Designer
Blocking
38. 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
Realism
Verisimilitude
Plato
Callbacks
39. Actor in 5th century Greece
Concept
Thrust
Hypokrites
Playwright
40. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Stage Manager
Director
Ground plan
Henrik Ibsen
41. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Skene
Stage manager
Copyright
sound designer
42. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Stage manager
Royalty
Vomitories
Components of Actor's job
43. 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
Verse
Off-off-Broadway
Variables of costume design
44. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Protagonist
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Morality Plays
Playwright
45. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Neoclassic unities
Stage manager
Antiquarianism
Romanticism
46. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Theatron
Casting Director
Copyright
Costume Designer
47. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Off-off-Broadway
Melodrama
Book musical
48. Creates a visual home for the play
Prose
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Scenic Designer
Orchestra
49. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Callbacks
Arena
Romanticism
Producer
50. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Aesthetic Distance
Emile Zola
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
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