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Theatre Appreciation 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
The Orestia
Pageants
Auteur
Chorus
2. Generally rhyming
Designer's job
Verse
Rhetorical Tradition
Director
3. Director champions intention of playwright
Vomitories
sound designer
collaborator
Wings
4. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Emile Zola
Stage manager
Dramaturg
Book musical
5. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Variables of costume design
Rendering
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Slapstick
6. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Components of Actor's job
Stage manager
Romantic Theory
Linear Plot
7. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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8. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Blocking
Aristophanes
Neoclassicism
Avant-Garde
9. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Empathy
Pageants
Antagonist
Types of professional theater
10. Creates a visual home for the play
Scenic Designer
Realism
Wings
Neoclassicism
11. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Concept
Designer's job
Director
Broadway
12. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Morality Plays
Liturgical Drama
Dramaturg
Realism
13. God of wine and fertility
Costume plot
Subtext
Dionysus
Casting Director
14. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Miracle Plays
The Orestia
Blocking
15. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Variables of costume design
The Globe
Antiquarianism
Rendering
16. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Henrik Ibsen
Variables of costume design
Romantic Theory
Eugene Scribe
17. Director champions intention of playwright
Copyright
The Globe
collaborator
Components of Production
18. Was in favor of theater
Stage Manager
Reversal
collaborator
Aristotle
19. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Callbacks
Director
Verisimilitude
Upstage
20. Sentences/paragraph structure
Designer
Representational
Components of Production
Prose
21. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Subplot
Representational
Stage manager
Perspective Scenery
22. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Aristophanes
Bertolt Brecht
Aesthetic Distance
Aristotle
23. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Orchestra
Copyright
Stage manager
lighting designer
24. The area farthest away from the audience
Components of Production
Variables of costume design
Upstage
Aesthetic Distance
25. God of wine and fertility
Dionysus
Ground plan
Copyright
Verse
26. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Subplot
Conflict
Constantin Stanislavski
Romanticism
27. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Variables of costume design
Commedia Dell'Arte
Pageants
Sense memory
28. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Rhetorical Tradition
Downstage
Eugene Scribe
Constantin Stanislavski
29. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Vomitories
Morality Plays
Neoclassic unities
Catharsis
30. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Aristophanes
Front of House
Blocking
Miracle Plays
31. 'dancing space'
Components of Actor's job
Orchestra
Ground plan
Wings
32. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Black box
Thrust
Cycles
collaborator
33. 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
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Slapstick
Types of professional theater
Proscenium
34. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
lighting designer
Presentational
Alienation Effect
Off-off-Broadway
35. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Liturgical Drama
sound designer
Proscenium
36. 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
Scenic Designer
Sense memory
Aristophanes
Realism
37. The area farthest away from the audience
Copyright
Director
Representational
Upstage
38. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Vomitories
Costume plot
Constantin Stanislavski
Components of Actor's job
39. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Rendering
Catharsis
Black box
40. Author of play
Variables of costume design
Wings
Arena
Playwright
41. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aeschylus
Off-off-Broadway
Dramaturg
42. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Casting Director
Prose
Thespis
University Wits
43. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Sense memory
Representational
Romanticism
Realism
44. Central character
Director
Thrust
Protagonist
Linear Plot
45. 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
Presentational
William Shakespeare
Romantic Theory
Protagonist
46. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Concept
Linear Plot
Director
Eugene Scribe
47. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
sound designer
Costume plot
Director
Romanticism
48. 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
Musical Theatre
Mystery Plays
Raked Stage
Henrik Ibsen
49. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Callbacks
Liturgical Drama
Aesthetic Distance
50. Saint's plays
Black box
Components of Production
Miracle Plays
Mystery Plays