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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. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Antiquarianism
Emile Zola
Sense memory
Arena
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
Presentational
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Dionysus
Designer
3. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Auteur
Arena
Conflict
Commedia Dell'Arte
4. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Off-Broadway
Prose
collaborator
5. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Skene
Sense memory
6. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Reversal
Melodrama
Copyright
7. Generally rhyming
The Globe
Morality Plays
Verse
Copyright
8. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
William Shakespeare
Melodrama
9. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Scenic Designer
Costume plot
Thrust
Melodrama
10. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Hypokrites
Linear Plot
Verisimilitude
Dionysus
11. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Rhetorical Tradition
Presentational
Off-Broadway
Bertolt Brecht
12. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Subtext
Public Domain
Components of Actor's job
13. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Liturgical Drama
Dramaturg
Subplot
Aristophanes
14. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Emile Zola
Rendering
Melodrama
Liturgical Drama
15. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Eugene Scribe
Types of professional theater
Bertolt Brecht
Proscenium
16. Greatest dramatist of all time
Theatron
William Shakespeare
Stage Manager
Costume plot
17. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Reversal
Book musical
Henrik Ibsen
Subtext
18. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Emile Zola
Eugene Scribe
Raked Stage
19. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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20. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Concept
William Shakespeare
Rhetorical Tradition
Musical Theatre
21. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Auditions
Neoclassic unities
Director
University Wits
22. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Bertolt Brecht
Pageants
Vomitories
Orchestra
23. Handles business aspects of show
Cycles
Producer
The Globe
Vomitories
24. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Neoclassicism
Mystery Plays
Henrik Ibsen
Off-off-Broadway
25. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Antagonist
Stage manager
Black box
Plato
26. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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27. 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
William Shakespeare
Arena
Raked Stage
Downstage
28. Directors who operate with total control
Perspective Scenery
Auteur
Copyright
Director
29. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Thrust
Henrik Ibsen
Melodrama
Vomitories
30. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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31. Scenery
Constantin Stanislavski
Dramaturg
Stage manager
Skene
32. Spoken words
Henrik Ibsen
Presentational
Designer's job
Dialogue
33. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Emile Zola
Commedia Dell'Arte
Variables of costume design
Designer
34. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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35. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Components of Actor's job
Copyright
Eugene Scribe
Aeschylus
36. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Public Domain
Emile Zola
Components of Production
Presentational
37. Greatest dramatist of all time
William Shakespeare
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Chorus
Dialogue
38. Sentences/paragraph structure
Avant-Garde
Orchestra
Prose
sound designer
39. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Producer
Dramaturg
Neoclassic unities
Thrust
40. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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41. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Public Domain
Cycles
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Subplot
42. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Representational
Public Domain
Off-Broadway
Mystery Plays
43. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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44. Seats 100-500; professional
Copyright
Orchestra
Liturgical Drama
Off-Broadway
45. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Romanticism
Wings
Director
Callbacks
46. Fee for each performance
Hypokrites
Stage Manager
Royalty
Henrik Ibsen
47. Creates a visual home for the play
Thrust
Costume plot
Slapstick
Scenic Designer
48. Director champions intention of playwright
Subtext
collaborator
Representational
Eugene Scribe
49. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Cycles
Rhetorical Tradition
Broadway
The Globe
50. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Aristophanes
Auditions
Avant-Garde
Hypokrites