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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Prose
Cycles
Thespis
Actor's tools
2. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Vomitories
Broadway
Copyright
3. Body - voice - mind
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4. Scenery
Liturgical Drama
Verisimilitude
Skene
Empathy
5. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aristophanes
Dramaturg
Rhetorical Tradition
Director
6. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Stage Manager
Callbacks
Casting Director
University Wits
7. 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
Book musical
Subtext
Miracle Plays
8. Directors who operate with total control
Ground plan
Auteur
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
The Globe
9. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Front of House
Neoclassicism
Avant-Garde
Representational
10. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Designer
Variables of costume design
Aristophanes
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
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
Book musical
Romantic Theory
Raked Stage
Commedia Dell'Arte
12. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Components of Production
Broadway
Eugene Scribe
Dionysus
13. God of wine and fertility
sound designer
Hypokrites
Dionysus
Representational
14. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Mystery Plays
Actor's tools
Musical Theatre
Thespis
15. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Musical Theatre
Scenic Designer
Stage manager
Perspective Scenery
16. 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
Subtext
Perspective Scenery
Romantic Theory
Black box
17. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Costume Designer
Presentational
Romanticism
18. Was in favor of theater
Chorus
Catharsis
Avant-Garde
Aristotle
19. 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
Costume Designer
Empathy
Ground plan
Hypokrites
20. Secondary line of action
Subplot
Miracle Plays
Constantin Stanislavski
Auteur
21. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Stage manager
Neoclassic unities
Book musical
Alienation Effect
22. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Thrust
Black box
Presentational
Plato
23. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Dramaturg
University Wits
Thrust
Arena
24. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Commedia Dell'Arte
Costume Designer
Emile Zola
Aeschylus
25. 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
Verse
Representational
Realism
Variables of costume design
26. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Alienation Effect
Henrik Ibsen
Subtext
Blocking
27. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Prose
Chorus
Wings
Emile Zola
28. Greatest dramatist of all time
Blocking
Dialogue
Scenic Designer
William Shakespeare
29. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Protagonist
Empathy
Mystery Plays
Conflict
30. Director champions intention of playwright
collaborator
Broadway
Components of Production
Protagonist
31. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Director
collaborator
Theatron
sound designer
32. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Off-off-Broadway
Protagonist
Henrik Ibsen
Verisimilitude
33. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
sound designer
Mystery Plays
Avant-Garde
Perspective Scenery
34. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Liturgical Drama
Reversal
Commedia Dell'Arte
Blocking
35. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Empathy
Orchestra
Bertolt Brecht
Prose
36. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Dialogue
Blocking
Ground plan
Callbacks
37. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Off-Broadway
Concept
Realism
Proscenium
38. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Verisimilitude
Perspective Scenery
Catharsis
Orchestra
39. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Variables of costume design
University Wits
lighting designer
40. Body - voice - mind
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41. When line of action suddenly switches
Cycles
Musical Theatre
Conflict
Reversal
42. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Mystery Plays
Thrust
Avant-Garde
Perspective Scenery
43. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Presentational
Director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Arena
44. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Pageants
Melodrama
Aesthetic Distance
Mystery Plays
45. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Upstage
Slapstick
Catharsis
The Orestia
46. Designs costumes for the show
Aristotle
Costume Designer
Stage Manager
Director
47. Standard tool for casting productions
sound designer
Pageants
Plato
Auditions
48. Fee for each performance
Henrik Ibsen
Linear Plot
Auditions
Royalty
49. When line of action suddenly switches
Orchestra
Reversal
Constantin Stanislavski
Pageants
50. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Subplot
Casting Director
Blocking
Proscenium