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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. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Casting Director
Constantin Stanislavski
Aeschylus
Stage Manager
2. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Aeschylus
Romanticism
Wings
3. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Thespis
Verisimilitude
Chorus
Costume Designer
4. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Royalty
Verse
Musical Theatre
Neoclassic unities
5. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Subtext
Musical Theatre
Costume Designer
Melodrama
6. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Proscenium
Conflict
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
Pageants
Wings
Empathy
8. Was in favor of theater
Dramaturg
Aristotle
Director
Catharsis
9. Physical commedy
Perspective Scenery
Commedia Dell'Arte
Slapstick
Raked Stage
10. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Musical Theatre
Broadway
Arena
Sense memory
11. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Romanticism
Constantin Stanislavski
Romantic Theory
Skene
12. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Designer
Playwright
Arena
Aristophanes
13. 'dancing space'
Conflict
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Orchestra
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
14. 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
Presentational
Perspective Scenery
Director
Plato
15. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
collaborator
Costume plot
Constantin Stanislavski
Wings
16. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Liturgical Drama
Concept
Stage manager
17. Generally rhyming
The Globe
Subplot
Front of House
Verse
18. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Orchestra
Pageants
Neoclassicism
Sense memory
19. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Melodrama
Neoclassicism
Actor's tools
Vomitories
20. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Subtext
Rhetorical Tradition
Cycles
Thrust
21. 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
Orchestra
Stage manager
Subplot
Romantic Theory
22. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Eugene Scribe
Emile Zola
Front of House
Mystery Plays
23. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Off-off-Broadway
Linear Plot
Hypokrites
Aeschylus
24. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
Stage manager
Public Domain
Theatron
25. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Off-off-Broadway
Variables of costume design
Skene
26. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Raked Stage
Bertolt Brecht
Alienation Effect
Broadway
27. Secondary line of action
Stage Manager
Off-Broadway
Subplot
Concept
28. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Dialogue
Avant-Garde
Concept
lighting designer
29. Who or what opposes the central character
Subplot
Costume Designer
Antagonist
collaborator
30. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Types of professional theater
Avant-Garde
Stage manager
Proscenium
31. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Stage manager
Casting Director
Arena
Alienation Effect
32. Who or what opposes the central character
Callbacks
Antagonist
Avant-Garde
Romanticism
33. Author of play
Subtext
Playwright
Verse
Off-Broadway
34. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Upstage
Subplot
Mystery Plays
The Globe
35. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Morality Plays
lighting designer
Perspective Scenery
Raked Stage
36. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
sound designer
Catharsis
Playwright
Chorus
37. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Designer's job
Off-off-Broadway
Rendering
Raked Stage
38. 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
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Conflict
Realism
Stage manager
39. Actor in 5th century Greece
Callbacks
Hypokrites
University Wits
Public Domain
40. Designs costumes for the show
Bertolt Brecht
Aristotle
The Orestia
Costume Designer
41. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Linear Plot
Off-off-Broadway
Callbacks
Director
42. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Designer
University Wits
Eugene Scribe
Realism
43. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Subplot
Black box
Romantic Theory
Downstage
44. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Linear Plot
Morality Plays
Arena
Casting Director
45. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
Avant-Garde
Commedia Dell'Arte
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
46. Directors who operate with total control
Auteur
Antiquarianism
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Director
47. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Realism
Linear Plot
Royalty
The Globe
48. Handles business aspects of show
Actor's tools
Producer
Concept
The Orestia
49. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Concept
Variables of costume design
Realism
Plato
50. Spoken words
Emile Zola
Dionysus
Dialogue
Representational