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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. 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
Raked Stage
Prose
Components of Production
Broadway
2. Saint's plays
Director
Pageants
Prose
Miracle Plays
3. Action - place - time
Skene
Public Domain
Vomitories
Neoclassic unities
4. Author of play
Playwright
Rhetorical Tradition
The Orestia
Costume plot
5. Greatest dramatist of all time
Off-Broadway
Producer
Reversal
William Shakespeare
6. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Wings
Mystery Plays
Catharsis
Black box
7. Greatest dramatist of all time
William Shakespeare
Neoclassic unities
Prose
The Globe
8. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Plato
Pageants
Constantin Stanislavski
9. Who or what opposes the central character
Antagonist
The Globe
Casting Director
Perspective Scenery
10. When line of action suddenly switches
Reversal
Empathy
Public Domain
Constantin Stanislavski
11. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Aeschylus
Downstage
Director
Conflict
12. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
The Orestia
Aeschylus
Concept
Downstage
13. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Aesthetic Distance
Emile Zola
Commedia Dell'Arte
Prose
14. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Antagonist
Eugene Scribe
Designer
Theatron
15. 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
Thrust
collaborator
Blocking
16. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Director
Copyright
Melodrama
Constantin Stanislavski
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
Neoclassicism
Proscenium
Linear Plot
18. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Thrust
Plato
Skene
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
19. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Aeschylus
Eugene Scribe
Romantic Theory
20. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Vomitories
Director
Melodrama
21. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Alienation Effect
Stage Manager
Royalty
22. First director
Casting Director
Off-Broadway
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Theatron
23. Scenery
Eugene Scribe
Aeschylus
Blocking
Skene
24. Designs costumes for the show
Director
Auteur
Costume Designer
Sense memory
25. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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26. Collection of mystery plays
Conflict
Prose
Scenic Designer
Cycles
27. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Director
Avant-Garde
Catharsis
lighting designer
28. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Liturgical Drama
Blocking
Proscenium
Rhetorical Tradition
29. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Casting Director
Subplot
Bertolt Brecht
Emile Zola
30. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Bertolt Brecht
Antagonist
Mystery Plays
Rendering
31. Handles business aspects of show
Producer
William Shakespeare
Playwright
Aesthetic Distance
32. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Rendering
Neoclassic unities
Constantin Stanislavski
Black box
33. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Conflict
Romanticism
Designer
Wings
34. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Designer
Upstage
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Casting Director
35. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Casting Director
Orchestra
Linear Plot
Avant-Garde
36. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Perspective Scenery
Antagonist
Aristophanes
Theatron
37. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Rhetorical Tradition
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Copyright
Public Domain
38. Central character
Upstage
Skene
Protagonist
Bertolt Brecht
39. Author of play
Rendering
Raked Stage
Playwright
Proscenium
40. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Realism
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Morality Plays
Auteur
41. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Romantic Theory
Alienation Effect
Copyright
sound designer
42. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Raked Stage
Copyright
Emile Zola
43. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Hypokrites
Antiquarianism
Romanticism
The Globe
44. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Romantic Theory
Hypokrites
Concept
Skene
45. Secondary line of action
Royalty
Neoclassicism
Presentational
Subplot
46. Standard tool for casting productions
The Globe
Dramaturg
Auditions
Neoclassicism
47. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Chorus
Romanticism
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Public Domain
48. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Romantic Theory
Components of Production
Costume Designer
Rendering
49. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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50. 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
Alienation Effect
Components of Production
Proscenium
Neoclassicism