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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. Planned actor movement
Neoclassic unities
Stage manager
Blocking
Arena
2. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
3. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Designer
Vomitories
Alienation Effect
Henrik Ibsen
4. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Melodrama
Broadway
Representational
Designer's job
5. Scenery
Melodrama
Antagonist
Skene
Upstage
6. Who or what opposes the central character
Proscenium
Royalty
Antagonist
Callbacks
7. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Costume plot
Realism
Musical Theatre
Callbacks
8. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
The Globe
Cycles
Hypokrites
Perspective Scenery
9. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
10. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Mystery Plays
Proscenium
Auditions
Components of Production
11. Director champions intention of playwright
collaborator
Ground plan
Morality Plays
Verisimilitude
12. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Components of Actor's job
Wings
Linear Plot
Dialogue
13. Author of play
Linear Plot
Romantic Theory
Playwright
The Orestia
14. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Romantic Theory
Hypokrites
Catharsis
Vomitories
15. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Rendering
Dramaturg
Thrust
16. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
17. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Aristotle
Pageants
Protagonist
Auteur
18. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
The Orestia
Protagonist
Thespis
Playwright
19. 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
Romantic Theory
Rendering
Pageants
Sense memory
20. Physical commedy
Rhetorical Tradition
Slapstick
Callbacks
Protagonist
21. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Empathy
Romanticism
Orchestra
Verisimilitude
22. Standard tool for casting productions
Mystery Plays
Auditions
Stage manager
Verisimilitude
23. Style of production that acknowledges theatricality and does not attempt to created the impression of 'real life' on the stage. Presentational scenery - costumes - and lighting may suggest - distort - or even abstract reality. Presentational acting m
Types of professional theater
Royalty
Commedia Dell'Arte
Presentational
24. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Protagonist
Upstage
Vomitories
Dramaturg
25. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
26. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
27. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Chorus
Liturgical Drama
Melodrama
Auditions
28. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
29. 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.
Aristophanes
Reversal
Catharsis
Chorus
30. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Representational
Components of Actor's job
Musical Theatre
Stage manager
31. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Concept
Antiquarianism
Neoclassicism
Mystery Plays
32. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Melodrama
Liturgical Drama
Perspective Scenery
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
33. Directors who operate with total control
Auteur
Alienation Effect
Empathy
Neoclassic unities
34. 'seeing place'
Theatron
University Wits
Vomitories
sound designer
35. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Copyright
Conflict
Rhetorical Tradition
Playwright
36. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
lighting designer
Verisimilitude
Book musical
37. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
Downstage
Aesthetic Distance
Romanticism
38. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Catharsis
Eugene Scribe
Royalty
Melodrama
39. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Linear Plot
Rhetorical Tradition
Wings
Callbacks
40. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Variables of costume design
Emile Zola
Vomitories
Liturgical Drama
41. Fee for each performance
Slapstick
Royalty
Antiquarianism
Neoclassicism
42. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
University Wits
Orchestra
Aeschylus
Callbacks
43. Collection of mystery plays
Royalty
Stage Manager
Callbacks
Cycles
44. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Wings
Auditions
Representational
Mystery Plays
45. Style of production that acknowledges theatricality and does not attempt to created the impression of 'real life' on the stage. Presentational scenery - costumes - and lighting may suggest - distort - or even abstract reality. Presentational acting m
Ground plan
Melodrama
Empathy
Presentational
46. Secondary line of action
Subplot
Mystery Plays
Components of Production
Rhetorical Tradition
47. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Sense memory
Callbacks
Stage manager
Designer
48. 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.
Chorus
Verse
collaborator
Antiquarianism
49. Handles business aspects of show
Aesthetic Distance
Upstage
Auditions
Producer
50. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Thespis
William Shakespeare
Protagonist
Types of professional theater