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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. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Avant-Garde
Antiquarianism
Components of Actor's job
2. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Scenic Designer
Aristophanes
Slapstick
3. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Stage Manager
Off-off-Broadway
Designer
Mystery Plays
4. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Subtext
Catharsis
Wings
Empathy
5. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Concept
Producer
Emile Zola
Romantic Theory
6. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Vomitories
Romanticism
Callbacks
Variables of costume design
7. Spoken words
Vomitories
Dialogue
Verse
collaborator
8. Central character
Hypokrites
Ground plan
Protagonist
Public Domain
9. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Aeschylus
Orchestra
Components of Actor's job
10. Creates a visual home for the play
The Orestia
Broadway
Auteur
Scenic Designer
11. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Melodrama
The Globe
Arena
Blocking
12. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Neoclassic unities
Sense memory
Public Domain
Catharsis
13. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Auteur
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Orchestra
14. Author of play
Rhetorical Tradition
lighting designer
Playwright
Broadway
15. Author of play
Playwright
Upstage
Musical Theatre
Costume plot
16. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
collaborator
Concept
Auteur
17. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
18. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Costume Designer
Designer's job
Chorus
Stage manager
19. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
20. 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
The Globe
sound designer
Romantic Theory
Catharsis
21. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Costume plot
Front of House
Subplot
Prose
22. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Alienation Effect
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Auteur
Verse
23. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Linear Plot
Rhetorical Tradition
Copyright
Representational
24. Secondary line of action
Verse
Subplot
Director
Variables of costume design
25. 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
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Raked Stage
Cycles
Types of professional theater
26. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Empathy
Ground plan
Components of Actor's job
Proscenium
27. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Verisimilitude
Front of House
Orchestra
Designer's job
28. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Thrust
Black box
Director
Slapstick
29. The area farthest away from the audience
Thrust
Designer's job
Upstage
Chorus
30. Saint's plays
Proscenium
Miracle Plays
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
31. 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
Liturgical Drama
Mystery Plays
Dialogue
Proscenium
32. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Subplot
Blocking
William Shakespeare
33. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Aeschylus
Romanticism
Designer
Proscenium
34. First director
Prose
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Melodrama
Casting Director
35. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Reversal
Plato
Costume Designer
Rhetorical Tradition
36. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Constantin Stanislavski
The Globe
Off-Broadway
Wings
37. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Variables of costume design
Front of House
Off-Broadway
Alienation Effect
38. Fee for each performance
Playwright
Theatron
Royalty
Types of professional theater
39. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Off-off-Broadway
Presentational
Conflict
Copyright
40. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Auteur
Rendering
Director
41. Action - place - time
Hypokrites
Neoclassic unities
Plato
Theatron
42. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Types of professional theater
Skene
Aristophanes
Book musical
43. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Variables of costume design
Alienation Effect
Thespis
44. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
Constantin Stanislavski
Protagonist
Bertolt Brecht
45. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Public Domain
Concept
Verisimilitude
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
46. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Dionysus
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Raked Stage
Bertolt Brecht
47. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Callbacks
Producer
Stage manager
48. 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
Designer
Realism
Perspective Scenery
Orchestra
49. God of wine and fertility
Neoclassicism
Presentational
Designer's job
Dionysus
50. 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
Antiquarianism
Raked Stage
Stage Manager
The Orestia