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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. Planned actor movement
Reversal
Presentational
Musical Theatre
Blocking
2. 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
Catharsis
Vomitories
Neoclassic unities
3. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Director
Eugene Scribe
Reversal
Public Domain
4. 'seeing place'
Subplot
Prose
Stage manager
Theatron
5. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Eugene Scribe
Neoclassicism
Arena
Conflict
6. Was in favor of theater
Vomitories
Aristotle
Dramaturg
Orchestra
7. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Auteur
Auteur
Components of Actor's job
Broadway
8. Creates a visual home for the play
Avant-Garde
Commedia Dell'Arte
Callbacks
Scenic Designer
9. 'dancing space'
Auditions
Book musical
Orchestra
sound designer
10. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Sense memory
Romanticism
Proscenium
Director
11. 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
Off-off-Broadway
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Romantic Theory
Commedia Dell'Arte
12. Generally rhyming
Verse
Downstage
Stage manager
sound designer
13. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Arena
University Wits
Front of House
Eugene Scribe
14. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Royalty
Neoclassicism
Antagonist
Musical Theatre
15. Handles business aspects of show
Stage manager
Off-Broadway
Musical Theatre
Producer
16. Central character
Upstage
Protagonist
Black box
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
17. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Stage manager
Skene
Chorus
18. Scenery
Skene
Designer's job
Pageants
Thrust
19. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Vomitories
Auditions
Perspective Scenery
University Wits
20. Was in favor of theater
Melodrama
Variables of costume design
Miracle Plays
Aristotle
21. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Alienation Effect
Verisimilitude
Empathy
Prose
22. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Black box
Linear Plot
Linear Plot
Components of Production
23. Secondary line of action
Chorus
Subplot
Types of professional theater
The Globe
24. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Empathy
collaborator
Neoclassicism
Henrik Ibsen
25. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Musical Theatre
Off-off-Broadway
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Alienation Effect
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
Melodrama
Copyright
Proscenium
Stage manager
27. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Linear Plot
Perspective Scenery
Vomitories
Off-off-Broadway
28. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Henrik Ibsen
Director
Skene
Subplot
29. Actor in 5th century Greece
Designer
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Proscenium
Hypokrites
30. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Types of professional theater
The Globe
Morality Plays
31. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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32. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Subtext
Off-Broadway
Components of Production
Variables of costume design
33. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Black box
Rendering
Avant-Garde
Rhetorical Tradition
34. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Liturgical Drama
Theatron
Broadway
Linear Plot
35. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Thrust
William Shakespeare
lighting designer
Dramaturg
36. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Eugene Scribe
Components of Production
Thrust
37. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Theatron
Designer
Commedia Dell'Arte
Empathy
38. Spoken words
Variables of costume design
Thespis
Dialogue
Designer
39. When line of action suddenly switches
Realism
Reversal
Verisimilitude
Bertolt Brecht
40. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Melodrama
Designer's job
Aesthetic Distance
Henrik Ibsen
41. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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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
Romantic Theory
Alienation Effect
Melodrama
Representational
43. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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44. Action - place - time
Pageants
Neoclassic unities
Auteur
Downstage
45. Seats 100-500; professional
Vomitories
Alienation Effect
Off-Broadway
Reversal
46. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aristophanes
Neoclassicism
Sense memory
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
47. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Rhetorical Tradition
Components of Production
Pageants
Catharsis
48. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Bertolt Brecht
Callbacks
University Wits
Book musical
49. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Mystery Plays
Sense memory
Scenic Designer
Casting Director
50. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Plato
Miracle Plays
The Globe
Emile Zola