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






2. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production






3. Attempts to represent reality on stage






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






5. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism






6. Seats less than 100; amateur.






7. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance






8. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters


9. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production






10. 'seeing place'






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


12. Saint's plays






13. Action - place - time






14. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).






15. Art that pushes recognized boundaries






16. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging






17. Sentences/paragraph structure






18. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'






19. Seats 500-1800; professional.






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






21. Actor in 5th century Greece






22. Generally rhyming






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






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






25. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent






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






27. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion


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






29. A movement of the late 19th century championing the depiction of everyday life on the stage and the frank treatment of social problems in the theatre. The plays of Henrick Ibsen of the 1870s were important in establishing a dramatic style for realism






30. The stage area closest to the audience; on the raked stage of the Renaissance theatres - the stage literally sloped downward as it got closer to the audience






31. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.






32. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited






33. Seats 100-500; professional






34. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.






35. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel






36. Greatest dramatist of all time






37. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy






38. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected






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






40. Generally rhyming






41. Physical commedy






42. Seats 500-1800; professional.






43. Collection of mystery plays






44. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'






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






46. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs






47. Secondary line of action






48. Central character






49. 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






50. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy