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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Liturgical Drama
Antiquarianism
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Costume plot
2. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Proscenium
Verse
Ground plan
3. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Chorus
Alienation Effect
Black box
collaborator
4. Directors who operate with total control
Auteur
Dialogue
Romanticism
Designer
5. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
The Globe
Pageants
Perspective Scenery
6. Who or what opposes the central character
Antagonist
University Wits
Orchestra
Aesthetic Distance
7. Collection of mystery plays
Royalty
Rhetorical Tradition
Cycles
Avant-Garde
8. Planned actor movement
Empathy
Morality Plays
Presentational
Blocking
9. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Playwright
The Globe
Aesthetic Distance
Scenic Designer
10. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Subtext
Aesthetic Distance
Catharsis
11. 'dancing space'
Theatron
Director
Orchestra
Aesthetic Distance
12. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Subplot
Wings
Off-Broadway
Auteur
13. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Dialogue
lighting designer
Skene
14. God of wine and fertility
Dionysus
Producer
Book musical
William Shakespeare
15. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Neoclassic unities
Dionysus
Book musical
lighting designer
16. 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
Miracle Plays
Romanticism
Ground plan
Scenic Designer
17. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Off-Broadway
Wings
Auditions
18. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
Romantic Theory
Proscenium
Eugene Scribe
19. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Liturgical Drama
Arena
Mystery Plays
Realism
20. Author of play
Ground plan
Downstage
Off-Broadway
Playwright
21. The area farthest away from the audience
The Globe
Upstage
Producer
Realism
22. God of wine and fertility
Aesthetic Distance
Arena
Dionysus
Alienation Effect
23. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
collaborator
Costume plot
Proscenium
Catharsis
24. Set at an angle. Early proscenium theatres featured a raked stage: the stage was elevated much higher at the back of the stage (upstage) than closer to the stage (downstage). Modern designers sometimes build a raked stage for a particular production
Raked Stage
Playwright
Director
Chorus
25. 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
Empathy
Perspective Scenery
Verisimilitude
Prose
26. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Casting Director
Dialogue
Upstage
Linear Plot
27. Actor in 5th century Greece
Callbacks
Representational
Hypokrites
Black box
28. Standard tool for casting productions
Royalty
Dionysus
Auditions
Reversal
29. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
Neoclassic unities
Components of Production
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
30. Physical commedy
Slapstick
Dramaturg
Morality Plays
Rendering
31. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Stage Manager
Verisimilitude
Components of Actor's job
32. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Subtext
Antagonist
Concept
33. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Constantin Stanislavski
Stage manager
University Wits
Theatron
34. Historical accuracy
Verisimilitude
Emile Zola
Antiquarianism
Thrust
35. Spoken words
Alienation Effect
Antiquarianism
Dialogue
Thrust
36. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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37. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Emile Zola
Commedia Dell'Arte
Upstage
38. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Empathy
William Shakespeare
Components of Production
Sense memory
39. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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40. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Director
Pageants
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
41. 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
Alienation Effect
Antagonist
University Wits
Proscenium
42. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Prose
Aristophanes
Public Domain
Realism
43. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Perspective Scenery
William Shakespeare
Scenic Designer
44. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Antagonist
Plato
Proscenium
Costume Designer
45. 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
Ground plan
Playwright
Costume Designer
Arena
46. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Director
Aeschylus
The Orestia
Wings
47. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Auteur
Upstage
The Orestia
Designer
48. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Melodrama
Avant-Garde
Stage Manager
Skene
49. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Linear Plot
Off-Broadway
Components of Production
Arena
50. Action - place - time
Components of Production
Neoclassic unities
Scenic Designer
Presentational
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