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Theatre Appreciation 2

Subject : 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. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production






2. Designs costumes for the show






3. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)






4. Seats less than 100; amateur.






5. Greatest dramatist of all time






6. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.






7. Attributed to writing over 700 plays






8. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play






9. Historical accuracy






10. Action - place - time






11. Creates a visual home for the play






12. 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






13. Designs costumes for the show






14. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government






15. A group of performers working together vocally and physically. A chorus of approximately 12-15 singer-dancers who interacted with and responded to the actors was an important element of ancient Greek theatre.






16. When line of action suddenly switches






17. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C






18. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre






19. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy






20. When line of action suddenly switches






21. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle

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22. 'dancing space'






23. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.






24. Humanity's struggle with good and evil






25. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism






26. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.






27. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)






28. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture






29. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.






30. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.






31. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights






32. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'






33. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other






34. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy






35. A group of performers working together vocally and physically. A chorus of approximately 12-15 singer-dancers who interacted with and responded to the actors was an important element of ancient Greek theatre.






36. Attempts to represent reality on stage






37. Planned actor movement






38. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light






39. Directors who operate with total control






40. Generally rhyming






41. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space






42. Spoken words






43. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C






44. Scenery






45. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected






46. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily






47. 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






48. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)






49. Oversees artistic aspects of show






50. 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