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Theatre Appreciation 2
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Protagonist
The Globe
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Presentational
2. 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
Downstage
The Orestia
lighting designer
Raked Stage
3. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Downstage
Commedia Dell'Arte
Slapstick
4. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Verse
Aristophanes
Director
Skene
5. Style of production that acknowledges theatricality and does not attempt to created the impression of 'real life' on the stage. Presentational scenery - costumes - and lighting may suggest - distort - or even abstract reality. Presentational acting m
Subplot
Presentational
Copyright
Ground plan
6. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Avant-Garde
Stage manager
Producer
Concept
7. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Antiquarianism
Variables of costume design
Dialogue
Subtext
8. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Rendering
Designer
Thespis
sound designer
9. 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
Protagonist
Public Domain
Broadway
Proscenium
10. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
The Orestia
Costume plot
Neoclassic unities
Public Domain
11. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Scenic Designer
Rhetorical Tradition
Book musical
Aesthetic Distance
12. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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13. Scenery
sound designer
Realism
Proscenium
Skene
14. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Variables of costume design
Proscenium
Melodrama
Protagonist
15. Who or what opposes the central character
Stage Manager
Emile Zola
Antagonist
Costume Designer
16. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Arena
Theatron
Neoclassicism
Avant-Garde
17. Central character
Hypokrites
Protagonist
The Orestia
Musical Theatre
18. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Variables of costume design
Empathy
Mystery Plays
Pageants
19. The area farthest away from the audience
Upstage
Romantic Theory
Front of House
Musical Theatre
20. Fee for each performance
Plato
Slapstick
Royalty
Proscenium
21. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Hypokrites
Subtext
Conflict
Vomitories
22. Greatest dramatist of all time
Musical Theatre
William Shakespeare
Romantic Theory
Public Domain
23. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Emile Zola
Copyright
Upstage
24. Secondary line of action
Subplot
Costume plot
Aristotle
Wings
25. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Stage Manager
Alienation Effect
Dramaturg
Neoclassic unities
26. Sentences/paragraph structure
Callbacks
Pageants
Prose
Subplot
27. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Aesthetic Distance
Theatron
Sense memory
collaborator
28. Physical commedy
Henrik Ibsen
Proscenium
Slapstick
Black box
29. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Designer
Off-off-Broadway
Costume Designer
Costume plot
30. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Morality Plays
Alienation Effect
Romanticism
Rendering
31. Spoken words
Neoclassic unities
Constantin Stanislavski
Dialogue
Empathy
32. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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33. When line of action suddenly switches
Antagonist
Reversal
Representational
Costume plot
34. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
Wings
Realism
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
35. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Theatron
University Wits
Romanticism
36. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Sense memory
Downstage
sound designer
Morality Plays
37. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
The Orestia
Public Domain
Director
Eugene Scribe
38. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Dionysus
Musical Theatre
Broadway
Emile Zola
39. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Stage Manager
Catharsis
Subtext
Melodrama
40. Generally rhyming
Arena
Chorus
Verse
Morality Plays
41. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Variables of costume design
Book musical
Playwright
Conflict
42. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Director
University Wits
Avant-Garde
The Orestia
43. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
The Orestia
lighting designer
Director
Liturgical Drama
44. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Aristophanes
Avant-Garde
University Wits
Eugene Scribe
45. Physical commedy
Thrust
Prose
Slapstick
Auditions
46. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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47. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Sense memory
Subtext
Theatron
Costume plot
48. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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49. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Emile Zola
Verisimilitude
Melodrama
Designer
50. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Alienation Effect
Auditions
Costume plot