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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. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Subtext
Romantic Theory
Variables of costume design
2. 'dancing space'
Orchestra
Presentational
Pageants
Morality Plays
3. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Melodrama
Commedia Dell'Arte
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Types of professional theater
4. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Orchestra
Director
Aristophanes
Linear Plot
5. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Proscenium
Liturgical Drama
Avant-Garde
Subtext
6. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Alienation Effect
Sense memory
Emile Zola
7. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Dialogue
Vomitories
Theatron
Stage Manager
8. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Rhetorical Tradition
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Callbacks
Neoclassic unities
9. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Subplot
Arena
Upstage
Aesthetic Distance
10. Planned actor movement
Melodrama
Copyright
Copyright
Blocking
11. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Off-off-Broadway
Types of professional theater
Emile Zola
12. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Hypokrites
Off-Broadway
Subtext
13. Fee for each performance
Components of Production
Royalty
Copyright
Costume plot
14. 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
Book musical
Realism
Downstage
Hypokrites
15. The area farthest away from the audience
Upstage
Front of House
Emile Zola
collaborator
16. Central character
Melodrama
Musical Theatre
Protagonist
Commedia Dell'Arte
17. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Royalty
Auditions
Callbacks
18. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
The Orestia
The Globe
Black box
Vomitories
19. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Verisimilitude
Stage Manager
sound designer
Catharsis
20. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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21. 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
Types of professional theater
Downstage
Henrik Ibsen
Raked Stage
22. 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
Chorus
Perspective Scenery
Copyright
Hypokrites
23. Creates a visual home for the play
Emile Zola
Musical Theatre
Scenic Designer
Subtext
24. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Aristotle
Pageants
Costume Designer
25. Body - voice - mind
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26. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Director
Variables of costume design
Linear Plot
Verisimilitude
27. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Scenic Designer
Skene
Dionysus
28. Physical commedy
William Shakespeare
Slapstick
Casting Director
Downstage
29. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Bertolt Brecht
Rendering
Concept
Romantic Theory
30. Sentences/paragraph structure
Producer
Romantic Theory
Downstage
Prose
31. Generally rhyming
Verse
Callbacks
Pageants
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
32. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Designer
Callbacks
William Shakespeare
33. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Sense memory
Bertolt Brecht
34. When line of action suddenly switches
Reversal
Types of professional theater
Off-Broadway
Black box
35. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Representational
Alienation Effect
Neoclassicism
Proscenium
36. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
Actor's tools
Casting Director
Verse
37. 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
Raked Stage
Proscenium
Emile Zola
Concept
38. 'dancing space'
Empathy
Orchestra
Concept
Verse
39. Was in favor of theater
Linear Plot
Neoclassicism
Aristotle
Wings
40. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Types of professional theater
Emile Zola
Auditions
Melodrama
41. 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
Bertolt Brecht
Costume plot
Book musical
Proscenium
42. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Costume plot
Antiquarianism
Wings
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
43. Sentences/paragraph structure
Theatron
Prose
Off-off-Broadway
Representational
44. Standard tool for casting productions
Avant-Garde
Auditions
Aristotle
Raked Stage
45. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Linear Plot
Designer's job
Musical Theatre
Off-off-Broadway
46. Director champions intention of playwright
Front of House
collaborator
Subplot
Neoclassic unities
47. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Morality Plays
Mystery Plays
Director
48. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Dialogue
Wings
lighting designer
Pageants
49. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Verisimilitude
Aristotle
Catharsis
Rhetorical Tradition
50. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Dialogue
Book musical
Plato
Liturgical Drama