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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. Standard tool for casting productions
Sense memory
Theatron
Auditions
Callbacks
2. Sentences/paragraph structure
Cycles
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Prose
Vomitories
3. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Upstage
Prose
Callbacks
Avant-Garde
4. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Cycles
Components of Production
Royalty
Copyright
5. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Book musical
Variables of costume design
Catharsis
Auditions
6. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Liturgical Drama
Ground plan
lighting designer
7. Actor in 5th century Greece
Royalty
Bertolt Brecht
sound designer
Hypokrites
8. Scenery
Antiquarianism
Empathy
Skene
Playwright
9. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Orchestra
Plato
Linear Plot
Romanticism
10. Appearance of truth
Actor's tools
Verisimilitude
Representational
Auteur
11. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Liturgical Drama
Concept
Antiquarianism
Morality Plays
12. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Public Domain
Broadway
Verisimilitude
Types of professional theater
13. Greatest dramatist of all time
William Shakespeare
Proscenium
Catharsis
Director
14. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Verse
Playwright
The Orestia
15. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Neoclassicism
Musical Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
Downstage
16. When line of action suddenly switches
Proscenium
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Reversal
Sense memory
17. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Wings
Black box
18. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Neoclassic unities
The Orestia
Aesthetic Distance
Liturgical Drama
19. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
William Shakespeare
Costume Designer
Public Domain
20. Generally rhyming
Miracle Plays
Verse
The Orestia
Stage Manager
21. Changeable scenery for specific plays (tragedies - comedies - pastoral tragicomedies). Appeared as early as 1508 and standardized approaches to such scenery were popularized by Sebastian Serlio. Ex: Wings - flats
Aesthetic Distance
Callbacks
Perspective Scenery
Romanticism
22. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Blocking
Stage Manager
Morality Plays
Liturgical Drama
23. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Auteur
Empathy
Alienation Effect
24. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Callbacks
Aeschylus
Catharsis
Vomitories
25. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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26. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Thrust
Components of Actor's job
Subtext
27. Secondary line of action
Cycles
Emile Zola
Subplot
Auteur
28. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Alienation Effect
Eugene Scribe
Romantic Theory
Proscenium
29. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Catharsis
Aesthetic Distance
Antagonist
30. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
Director
Protagonist
Dionysus
31. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Antiquarianism
Rendering
Theatron
Musical Theatre
32. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Royalty
Empathy
Components of Actor's job
Blocking
33. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Components of Actor's job
Thrust
Pageants
Dramaturg
34. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Royalty
Casting Director
Aesthetic Distance
Variables of costume design
35. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Conflict
Costume plot
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Components of Production
36. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
collaborator
Liturgical Drama
Henrik Ibsen
Off-off-Broadway
37. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Catharsis
Aristophanes
William Shakespeare
Raked Stage
38. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Costume plot
Subtext
Romanticism
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
39. The area farthest away from the audience
Pageants
Commedia Dell'Arte
Dialogue
Upstage
40. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Thespis
Components of Production
Wings
Front of House
41. 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.
Prose
Chorus
Verse
Upstage
42. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Musical Theatre
Components of Actor's job
Stage Manager
43. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Bertolt Brecht
Casting Director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
44. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Thrust
Constantin Stanislavski
Dionysus
Costume Designer
45. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Antagonist
Dialogue
Alienation Effect
Rendering
46. Spoken words
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Dialogue
Designer's job
47. Central character
Aesthetic Distance
Protagonist
Stage manager
Prose
48. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Royalty
Morality Plays
Morality Plays
The Orestia
49. Seats 100-500; professional
Proscenium
collaborator
Off-Broadway
Components of Production
50. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Proscenium
Aesthetic Distance
Black box
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