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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Components of Actor's job
Aeschylus
Stage Manager
Rhetorical Tradition
2. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Concept
Components of Production
Romantic Theory
3. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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4. First director
Antiquarianism
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Upstage
collaborator
5. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Components of Actor's job
Subtext
Black box
Romanticism
6. Fee for each performance
Wings
Melodrama
Royalty
Romantic Theory
7. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
collaborator
Sense memory
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Copyright
8. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Antagonist
Prose
Actor's tools
9. Generally rhyming
Dramaturg
Verse
Public Domain
Producer
10. Who or what opposes the central character
Miracle Plays
Director
Antagonist
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
11. Body - voice - mind
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12. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Blocking
Skene
Dramaturg
Costume plot
13. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Aristotle
Rendering
Copyright
Emile Zola
14. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romantic Theory
Romanticism
Prose
Bertolt Brecht
15. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Vomitories
Slapstick
Rhetorical Tradition
Rendering
16. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Emile Zola
Director
Linear Plot
17. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Dialogue
Variables of costume design
William Shakespeare
Broadway
18. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Public Domain
William Shakespeare
Neoclassicism
Linear Plot
19. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Realism
Chorus
Broadway
Avant-Garde
20. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Front of House
Off-off-Broadway
Costume Designer
Producer
21. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Eugene Scribe
Stage manager
Off-off-Broadway
Director
22. When line of action suddenly switches
Eugene Scribe
Realism
Upstage
Reversal
23. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Vomitories
Bertolt Brecht
Variables of costume design
Melodrama
24. 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
Aristotle
Perspective Scenery
Wings
Realism
25. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Arena
Dramaturg
Designer
Variables of costume design
26. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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27. Creates a visual home for the play
Musical Theatre
Neoclassicism
Scenic Designer
Plato
28. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Constantin Stanislavski
Callbacks
Thespis
Subplot
29. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Casting Director
sound designer
Stage Manager
Off-off-Broadway
30. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Wings
Casting Director
Thrust
Protagonist
31. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Miracle Plays
Thrust
Romantic Theory
The Orestia
32. Attempts to represent reality on stage
sound designer
Dramaturg
Representational
Concept
33. Appearance of truth
Empathy
Arena
Off-off-Broadway
Verisimilitude
34. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Scenic Designer
Dialogue
Director
Broadway
35. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Chorus
Aeschylus
The Globe
Bertolt Brecht
36. Scenery
Skene
Auteur
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Emile Zola
37. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Eugene Scribe
Empathy
Scenic Designer
Skene
38. 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
Morality Plays
Ground plan
collaborator
Emile Zola
39. Handles business aspects of show
Off-off-Broadway
Producer
Subtext
Romantic Theory
40. Designs costumes for the show
Hypokrites
Costume Designer
Variables of costume design
Cycles
41. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Realism
Blocking
Emile Zola
Catharsis
42. Standard tool for casting productions
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Auditions
Raked Stage
Conflict
43. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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44. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Mystery Plays
The Orestia
The Globe
45. Spoken words
Dialogue
Romanticism
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Public Domain
46. Greatest dramatist of all time
lighting designer
Dionysus
William Shakespeare
Hypokrites
47. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Stage Manager
Costume plot
Public Domain
Constantin Stanislavski
48. Historical accuracy
Rendering
Antiquarianism
Front of House
Casting Director
49. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Proscenium
Prose
Components of Production
50. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
The Orestia
Types of professional theater
Dramaturg
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