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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. Action - place - time
Hypokrites
Neoclassic unities
Protagonist
University Wits
2. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Wings
Upstage
William Shakespeare
Thespis
3. The area farthest away from the audience
Upstage
Front of House
Chorus
Representational
4. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Morality Plays
The Orestia
Black box
Mystery Plays
5. 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
Proscenium
Ground plan
Designer
Aristotle
6. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Bertolt Brecht
Proscenium
Linear Plot
Sense memory
7. Actor in 5th century Greece
Hypokrites
Costume Designer
Verse
Melodrama
8. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Upstage
Callbacks
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Prose
9. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Chorus
Hypokrites
Slapstick
10. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Realism
Dionysus
Alienation Effect
11. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Eugene Scribe
Costume plot
Aeschylus
12. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Verse
Aristotle
Antagonist
13. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Actor's job
Protagonist
Components of Production
Alienation Effect
14. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Melodrama
Thespis
Dramaturg
Ground plan
15. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Royalty
lighting designer
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
16. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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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
Auteur
collaborator
Perspective Scenery
Verse
18. Saint's plays
Catharsis
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Miracle Plays
Arena
19. 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
Proscenium
Arena
Concept
Sense memory
20. Directors who operate with total control
Auteur
Actor's tools
Miracle Plays
Verisimilitude
21. 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
Realism
Subtext
Callbacks
The Orestia
22. Author of play
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Representational
Playwright
Emile Zola
23. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
The Orestia
Off-off-Broadway
Stage manager
24. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Linear Plot
Eugene Scribe
Off-off-Broadway
Avant-Garde
25. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Off-off-Broadway
Emile Zola
Designer
Public Domain
26. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Director
Representational
Thrust
Wings
27. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Antagonist
Reversal
Proscenium
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
28. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Callbacks
Book musical
Director
Orchestra
29. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Black box
Dramaturg
Components of Production
30. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Melodrama
Plato
Costume plot
Black box
31. Planned actor movement
Constantin Stanislavski
Blocking
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
sound designer
32. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Neoclassicism
Emile Zola
Royalty
Auteur
33. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Actor's tools
Scenic Designer
Pageants
Front of House
34. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Bertolt Brecht
Dramaturg
Actor's tools
35. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Thrust
Aristophanes
Concept
The Globe
36. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Raked Stage
Dialogue
Callbacks
Bertolt Brecht
37. Sentences/paragraph structure
Aristophanes
Prose
Melodrama
Melodrama
38. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Casting Director
Rendering
Producer
Dionysus
39. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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40. Spoken words
Aristotle
Dialogue
Reversal
Designer
41. First director
Book musical
Proscenium
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Designer
42. Director champions intention of playwright
Presentational
Subplot
Arena
collaborator
43. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Orchestra
Off-off-Broadway
Melodrama
sound designer
44. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Aeschylus
sound designer
Auteur
Eugene Scribe
45. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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46. When line of action suddenly switches
Reversal
Aeschylus
Royalty
Proscenium
47. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Orchestra
Casting Director
Perspective Scenery
48. Fee for each performance
Costume plot
Royalty
Auteur
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
49. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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50. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Subtext
Director
sound designer
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude