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Theatre Appreciation 2
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
Royalty
Variables of costume design
Vomitories
2. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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3. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Melodrama
Melodrama
Plato
Pageants
4. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Downstage
Stage Manager
University Wits
Romanticism
5. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Aesthetic Distance
Director
Proscenium
Playwright
6. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Presentational
Dramaturg
collaborator
Pageants
7. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Representational
Pageants
Aristophanes
8. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Playwright
Copyright
Wings
Designer
9. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Off-off-Broadway
Aristotle
Scenic Designer
Actor's tools
10. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Casting Director
Cycles
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Costume Designer
11. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Plato
Verse
Musical Theatre
12. Designs costumes for the show
Vomitories
Slapstick
Costume Designer
Copyright
13. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Casting Director
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Plato
Bertolt Brecht
14. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Raked Stage
collaborator
Liturgical Drama
Thrust
15. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Antagonist
Subplot
Verse
Callbacks
16. 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
Playwright
Ground plan
Antagonist
Commedia Dell'Arte
17. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Dramaturg
Wings
Aesthetic Distance
Costume plot
18. Fee for each performance
Components of Actor's job
Royalty
Dionysus
Pageants
19. Generally rhyming
Avant-Garde
Antiquarianism
Verse
Proscenium
20. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Mystery Plays
Neoclassic unities
Aeschylus
21. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Verse
Royalty
Linear Plot
Skene
22. 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
Stage Manager
Vomitories
Romantic Theory
Auditions
23. Handles business aspects of show
Auteur
Royalty
Producer
Orchestra
24. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Producer
sound designer
Neoclassicism
25. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Actor's tools
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Variables of costume design
Realism
26. Invented by the Italians - a large open arch that marks the primary division between audience and performance space in a proscenium space. The proscenium arch frames the action of the play for the audience and limits the view of backstage areas
Proscenium
Liturgical Drama
Sense memory
Neoclassic unities
27. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Front of House
Concept
William Shakespeare
Ground plan
28. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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29. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
The Orestia
Liturgical Drama
Dialogue
Ground plan
30. Sentences/paragraph structure
Bertolt Brecht
Aristotle
Prose
Skene
31. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Orchestra
Stage Manager
Representational
Black box
32. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Chorus
Cycles
Aeschylus
33. Creates a visual home for the play
Scenic Designer
Neoclassic unities
Stage manager
Avant-Garde
34. Who or what opposes the central character
Actor's tools
Hypokrites
Emile Zola
Antagonist
35. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Blocking
Antagonist
Concept
36. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Prose
collaborator
sound designer
Producer
37. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
Henrik Ibsen
Morality Plays
Designer's job
38. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
The Orestia
Dionysus
Empathy
Concept
39. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Linear Plot
Director
Front of House
Pageants
40. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Copyright
Proscenium
Arena
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
41. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Upstage
Types of professional theater
Dionysus
Eugene Scribe
42. 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
Representational
Auditions
Bertolt Brecht
Romantic Theory
43. 'dancing space'
Sense memory
Casting Director
Orchestra
Actor's tools
44. Collection of mystery plays
Hypokrites
Conflict
Cycles
Thrust
45. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Antiquarianism
sound designer
Henrik Ibsen
46. Greatest dramatist of all time
Sense memory
William Shakespeare
Romanticism
Morality Plays
47. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Dramaturg
Bertolt Brecht
Vomitories
Mystery Plays
48. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Subtext
Romantic Theory
Broadway
Thrust
49. Set at an angle. Early proscenium theatres featured a raked stage: the stage was elevated much higher at the back of the stage (upstage) than closer to the stage (downstage). Modern designers sometimes build a raked stage for a particular production
Raked Stage
lighting designer
Skene
Hypokrites
50. Author of play
Verisimilitude
Avant-Garde
Perspective Scenery
Playwright