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Theatre Appreciation 2
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who or what opposes the central character
Romanticism
Stage manager
Antagonist
Hypokrites
2. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
sound designer
Playwright
Neoclassic unities
3. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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4. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Types of professional theater
Antiquarianism
Front of House
Antagonist
5. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
The Orestia
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Empathy
6. God of wine and fertility
Producer
Romanticism
Pageants
Dionysus
7. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Proscenium
Royalty
Thrust
Types of professional theater
8. Creates a visual home for the play
Raked Stage
Scenic Designer
Linear Plot
Cycles
9. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Verisimilitude
Auteur
Front of House
Catharsis
10. Director champions intention of playwright
Auditions
Pageants
Black box
collaborator
11. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Auditions
Book musical
Melodrama
Musical Theatre
12. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Plato
Concept
Broadway
Sense memory
13. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Dramaturg
Neoclassic unities
Catharsis
Alienation Effect
14. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Wings
Chorus
Verse
Designer
15. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Stage Manager
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Producer
16. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Orchestra
Wings
Types of professional theater
Variables of costume design
17. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Downstage
Aristophanes
Stage Manager
Constantin Stanislavski
18. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Costume plot
Hypokrites
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Playwright
19. 'seeing place'
Chorus
Theatron
sound designer
Antiquarianism
20. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Aeschylus
Mystery Plays
Concept
Perspective Scenery
21. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Dramaturg
Commedia Dell'Arte
Royalty
Proscenium
22. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Hypokrites
Bertolt Brecht
Subtext
23. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Liturgical Drama
Vomitories
Mystery Plays
Empathy
24. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
The Globe
Alienation Effect
Royalty
25. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Vomitories
Subtext
Alienation Effect
26. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Callbacks
Rendering
Dramaturg
Wings
27. Seats 500-1800; professional.
University Wits
Broadway
Antagonist
Public Domain
28. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Raked Stage
The Globe
Linear Plot
Designer
29. 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
Stage manager
Realism
Costume Designer
Ground plan
30. Directors who operate with total control
Broadway
Auteur
Constantin Stanislavski
Perspective Scenery
31. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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32. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Scenic Designer
Aesthetic Distance
Neoclassicism
Concept
33. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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34. When line of action suddenly switches
Mystery Plays
Reversal
Verisimilitude
Stage Manager
35. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Black box
Upstage
Orchestra
Producer
36. 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
Pageants
Downstage
Antagonist
Ground plan
37. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
Front of House
Auteur
Types of professional theater
38. Scenery
Designer
Chorus
Skene
Off-off-Broadway
39. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
Arena
The Globe
collaborator
40. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Upstage
Slapstick
Actor's tools
Romanticism
41. Appearance of truth
Neoclassic unities
Prose
Off-off-Broadway
Verisimilitude
42. Generally rhyming
Variables of costume design
Verse
Liturgical Drama
Raked Stage
43. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Representational
Aesthetic Distance
Aesthetic Distance
44. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Royalty
Book musical
Romantic Theory
Avant-Garde
45. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Blocking
Designer
Henrik Ibsen
Concept
46. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Vomitories
Morality Plays
Linear Plot
47. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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48. Action - place - time
Off-Broadway
Neoclassic unities
Orchestra
Vomitories
49. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Designer's job
Types of professional theater
Callbacks
Liturgical Drama
50. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
Avant-Garde
Casting Director
Copyright