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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. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Prose
Front of House
Mystery Plays
Casting Director
2. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
collaborator
Variables of costume design
Antiquarianism
Slapstick
3. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Dionysus
Aristophanes
4. 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
Black box
Wings
Off-Broadway
Ground plan
5. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Liturgical Drama
Vomitories
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Neoclassic unities
6. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Callbacks
Dionysus
Arena
Royalty
7. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Components of Actor's job
Plato
Plato
Callbacks
8. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Constantin Stanislavski
Henrik Ibsen
Neoclassicism
Linear Plot
9. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Plato
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
The Orestia
Concept
10. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Variables of costume design
Director
Neoclassicism
University Wits
11. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Hypokrites
Scenic Designer
Antagonist
Liturgical Drama
12. 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
Cycles
Verse
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
13. 'dancing space'
Liturgical Drama
Presentational
Aesthetic Distance
Orchestra
14. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Thrust
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Stage manager
Rhetorical Tradition
15. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Rendering
Romantic Theory
Vomitories
16. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
Prose
Vomitories
Sense memory
17. The area farthest away from the audience
Sense memory
Concept
Thespis
Upstage
18. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Emile Zola
Morality Plays
Conflict
Costume plot
19. Fee for each performance
Subtext
Thrust
Royalty
Emile Zola
20. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Variables of costume design
Prose
Hypokrites
Off-off-Broadway
21. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Plato
Realism
Aeschylus
Catharsis
22. 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
Presentational
Reversal
Variables of costume design
Sense memory
23. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Scenic Designer
Mystery Plays
Ground plan
24. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Henrik Ibsen
Miracle Plays
Mystery Plays
Casting Director
25. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Aristotle
Melodrama
Wings
sound designer
26. Who or what opposes the central character
Downstage
Antagonist
Cycles
Producer
27. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Off-off-Broadway
Director
Hypokrites
Morality Plays
28. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
The Orestia
Wings
sound designer
Emile Zola
29. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Melodrama
Antiquarianism
30. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Concept
Subtext
Subtext
Aristophanes
31. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
Henrik Ibsen
Upstage
Components of Actor's job
32. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Eugene Scribe
Components of Actor's job
Realism
Aeschylus
33. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Dialogue
Mystery Plays
Wings
Callbacks
34. Fee for each performance
Mystery Plays
Costume plot
Royalty
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
35. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Empathy
Stage Manager
Aesthetic Distance
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
36. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Types of professional theater
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Vomitories
William Shakespeare
37. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Commedia Dell'Arte
Arena
Proscenium
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
38. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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39. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Antagonist
Concept
Constantin Stanislavski
Auteur
40. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Director
Book musical
Dialogue
Mystery Plays
41. 'seeing place'
Thespis
Theatron
Aristotle
lighting designer
42. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Henrik Ibsen
Auteur
Emile Zola
Stage manager
43. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Subplot
Subtext
Stage Manager
Actor's tools
44. Creates a visual home for the play
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Scenic Designer
The Orestia
Thrust
45. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Subplot
Liturgical Drama
Playwright
The Orestia
46. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Linear Plot
Plato
Melodrama
Ground plan
47. Generally rhyming
Representational
Casting Director
Romanticism
Verse
48. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Subtext
Antagonist
Prose
Blocking
49. When line of action suddenly switches
Reversal
Book musical
Stage Manager
Dramaturg
50. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Director
Costume Designer
Protagonist
Empathy