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Theatre Appreciation 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Conflict
Liturgical Drama
Public Domain
William Shakespeare
2. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Raked Stage
Orchestra
Thespis
Antiquarianism
3. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Linear Plot
Upstage
Wings
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
4. Collection of mystery plays
Cycles
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Dialogue
Aesthetic Distance
5. Sentences/paragraph structure
Proscenium
Prose
Empathy
Rhetorical Tradition
6. A group of performers working together vocally and physically. A chorus of approximately 12-15 singer-dancers who interacted with and responded to the actors was an important element of ancient Greek theatre.
Rendering
Theatron
Dialogue
Chorus
7. Was in favor of theater
Commedia Dell'Arte
Verisimilitude
Aristotle
Dramaturg
8. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Morality Plays
Copyright
Neoclassicism
Stage manager
9. Actor in 5th century Greece
Prose
Designer's job
Reversal
Hypokrites
10. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Blocking
Prose
Dramaturg
11. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
sound designer
Thespis
Cycles
lighting designer
12. 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
Romantic Theory
Plato
The Orestia
Dionysus
13. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Musical Theatre
Broadway
Dramaturg
14. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Subplot
Director
University Wits
Raked Stage
15. 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
Perspective Scenery
Subplot
Liturgical Drama
Aesthetic Distance
16. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Casting Director
Designer's job
Scenic Designer
Linear Plot
17. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Dionysus
Musical Theatre
Alienation Effect
Cycles
18. Secondary line of action
Subplot
Constantin Stanislavski
Aristotle
Variables of costume design
19. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Constantin Stanislavski
Eugene Scribe
Chorus
Black box
20. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Musical Theatre
Hypokrites
Stage Manager
Antagonist
21. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Costume Designer
Hypokrites
Dionysus
Bertolt Brecht
22. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Costume Designer
Stage manager
Vomitories
23. Body - voice - mind
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24. Standard tool for casting productions
Director
Theatron
Plato
Auditions
25. Generally rhyming
Blocking
Rhetorical Tradition
Verse
Concept
26. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Prose
Perspective Scenery
Costume Designer
Subtext
27. Designs costumes for the show
Wings
Copyright
Costume Designer
Musical Theatre
28. First director
Plato
Pageants
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Neoclassic unities
29. 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
Proscenium
Liturgical Drama
Realism
Costume Designer
30. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Dialogue
Verse
Aesthetic Distance
Concept
31. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Henrik Ibsen
Protagonist
Rendering
Front of House
32. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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33. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
Slapstick
Rendering
Front of House
34. First director
Concept
Public Domain
Proscenium
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
35. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Aeschylus
Aristophanes
Cycles
Liturgical Drama
36. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Reversal
Dramaturg
Commedia Dell'Arte
Auditions
37. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Aristotle
Costume plot
Callbacks
Components of Production
38. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Blocking
Empathy
Broadway
Playwright
39. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
The Orestia
Raked Stage
sound designer
40. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Verse
Components of Actor's job
Theatron
41. Central character
Mystery Plays
Mystery Plays
Costume plot
Protagonist
42. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Verse
Conflict
Neoclassic unities
Plato
43. 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
Black box
Raked Stage
Conflict
The Globe
44. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Director
Avant-Garde
Catharsis
45. Handles business aspects of show
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Producer
Antiquarianism
The Globe
46. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Playwright
Casting Director
lighting designer
Playwright
47. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Mystery Plays
Proscenium
Thrust
Hypokrites
48. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Liturgical Drama
Proscenium
Director
Downstage
49. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Alienation Effect
Rhetorical Tradition
Empathy
Bertolt Brecht
50. 'dancing space'
Public Domain
Eugene Scribe
Orchestra
Alienation Effect