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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Black box
Proscenium
Thrust
Avant-Garde
2. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Types of professional theater
Representational
Director
Rendering
3. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Constantin Stanislavski
Constantin Stanislavski
Alienation Effect
Black box
4. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Variables of costume design
Upstage
Vomitories
sound designer
5. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Public Domain
Emile Zola
Types of professional theater
Callbacks
6. 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
Components of Production
Perspective Scenery
Verse
Upstage
7. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Costume Designer
Bertolt Brecht
Casting Director
Theatron
8. Secondary line of action
Subtext
Protagonist
Ground plan
Subplot
9. 'dancing space'
Book musical
Orchestra
Realism
Avant-Garde
10. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Protagonist
Designer
Chorus
11. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Off-Broadway
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Mystery Plays
Casting Director
12. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Auteur
Mystery Plays
Scenic Designer
Public Domain
13. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Components of Production
Book musical
Antiquarianism
14. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Representational
Director
Linear Plot
Vomitories
15. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Avant-Garde
Representational
Producer
Components of Actor's job
16. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Representational
Downstage
Avant-Garde
17. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Subtext
Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway
Stage manager
18. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Conflict
Costume plot
Catharsis
19. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Mystery Plays
Presentational
Romanticism
Verse
20. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Linear Plot
lighting designer
Proscenium
Proscenium
21. When line of action suddenly switches
University Wits
Reversal
Perspective Scenery
collaborator
22. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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23. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Types of professional theater
Alienation Effect
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
24. Who or what opposes the central character
Eugene Scribe
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Antagonist
Constantin Stanislavski
25. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Aristotle
The Orestia
Designer's job
Casting Director
26. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Vomitories
Subplot
Romanticism
Casting Director
27. When line of action suddenly switches
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Romantic Theory
Reversal
Upstage
28. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Components of Actor's job
Verisimilitude
Commedia Dell'Arte
Designer
29. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Bertolt Brecht
Linear Plot
Scenic Designer
University Wits
30. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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31. Spoken words
Bertolt Brecht
Catharsis
Dialogue
Front of House
32. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Perspective Scenery
Downstage
Emile Zola
Morality Plays
33. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Cycles
Hypokrites
Components of Production
Verisimilitude
34. God of wine and fertility
Dionysus
Off-off-Broadway
Book musical
Downstage
35. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Morality Plays
Proscenium
Book musical
The Globe
36. Director champions intention of playwright
Ground plan
Miracle Plays
collaborator
Subplot
37. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
collaborator
Aristophanes
The Globe
38. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
Aesthetic Distance
Stage manager
Costume Designer
39. 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
Neoclassic unities
Arena
Downstage
Verse
40. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Neoclassic unities
Thrust
Aesthetic Distance
Miracle Plays
41. Was in favor of theater
Black box
Aristotle
Conflict
Proscenium
42. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Emile Zola
Antiquarianism
Aesthetic Distance
43. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Liturgical Drama
The Orestia
Neoclassicism
Henrik Ibsen
44. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dionysus
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Dramaturg
Auteur
45. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Components of Production
Morality Plays
Off-Broadway
46. Action - place - time
Aristophanes
Producer
Neoclassic unities
Ground plan
47. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Alienation Effect
Playwright
Empathy
Proscenium
48. Scenery
Thespis
Skene
Raked Stage
Aristotle
49. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Public Domain
Verse
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Skene
50. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Subplot
Representational
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Morality Plays
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