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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. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
2. 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
Dionysus
Avant-Garde
Front of House
Presentational
3. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Stage Manager
Arena
lighting designer
Avant-Garde
4. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Plato
Vomitories
Off-off-Broadway
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
5. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
University Wits
University Wits
Auteur
6. Handles business aspects of show
Melodrama
Antagonist
Producer
Empathy
7. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Bertolt Brecht
Skene
Thespis
Costume plot
8. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Neoclassicism
Arena
Mystery Plays
9. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Auditions
Proscenium
Copyright
10. God of wine and fertility
Dionysus
Representational
Chorus
Antiquarianism
11. Was in favor of theater
Aristotle
Ground plan
Components of Actor's job
Chorus
12. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Arena
Henrik Ibsen
The Globe
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
13. Spoken words
collaborator
Neoclassicism
Dialogue
Front of House
14. When line of action suddenly switches
Romantic Theory
Broadway
Auteur
Reversal
15. 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.
Types of professional theater
Black box
Henrik Ibsen
Chorus
16. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Producer
Pageants
Broadway
Liturgical Drama
17. 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
sound designer
Avant-Garde
Prose
18. 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
Proscenium
Representational
Costume Designer
19. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
Producer
University Wits
Bertolt Brecht
20. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Stage manager
The Orestia
Designer
lighting designer
21. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Front of House
lighting designer
Black box
Raked Stage
22. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
lighting designer
Public Domain
Proscenium
Orchestra
23. Collection of mystery plays
Skene
Cycles
Vomitories
Components of Production
24. 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
University Wits
Orchestra
Proscenium
Aesthetic Distance
25. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Designer's job
University Wits
Emile Zola
Verisimilitude
26. 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
Alienation Effect
Chorus
Romantic Theory
Avant-Garde
27. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Dialogue
Verse
Henrik Ibsen
Thespis
28. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Verse
Royalty
Black box
Miracle Plays
29. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Designer's job
Public Domain
Components of Production
Proscenium
30. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
The Orestia
Rhetorical Tradition
Upstage
Copyright
31. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Producer
Aeschylus
Dramaturg
Morality Plays
32. Actor in 5th century Greece
Orchestra
Thrust
Hypokrites
Constantin Stanislavski
33. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Avant-Garde
Off-Broadway
sound designer
Pageants
34. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Pageants
Costume plot
Vomitories
Melodrama
35. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Off-off-Broadway
Aeschylus
Orchestra
Auditions
36. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Broadway
Romantic Theory
Public Domain
37. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Ground plan
Alienation Effect
collaborator
Concept
38. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Casting Director
Downstage
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Types of professional theater
39. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Stage manager
William Shakespeare
sound designer
40. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Aesthetic Distance
Eugene Scribe
Prose
Director
41. Creates a visual home for the play
Morality Plays
Dramaturg
Scenic Designer
Representational
42. Greatest dramatist of all time
Miracle Plays
Protagonist
William Shakespeare
Avant-Garde
43. God of wine and fertility
Stage Manager
Romanticism
Director
Dionysus
44. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
45. Author of play
Playwright
Commedia Dell'Arte
The Orestia
Empathy
46. 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
Emile Zola
Subtext
Proscenium
Arena
47. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Cycles
Chorus
Actor's tools
Neoclassicism
48. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Empathy
Downstage
49. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Proscenium
Scenic Designer
Romantic Theory
Mystery Plays
50. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Linear Plot
Components of Actor's job
Chorus