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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Representational
Stage manager
Proscenium
Emile Zola
2. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Avant-Garde
Off-off-Broadway
Director
Melodrama
3. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Verisimilitude
Proscenium
Black box
William Shakespeare
4. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Ground plan
Neoclassicism
Aesthetic Distance
Designer
5. 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.
Chorus
Miracle Plays
Casting Director
Catharsis
6. 'dancing space'
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Orchestra
Costume plot
Representational
7. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Black box
Plato
Chorus
Prose
8. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Stage Manager
Components of Actor's job
Auteur
Callbacks
9. Physical commedy
Director
Protagonist
Casting Director
Slapstick
10. 'dancing space'
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Orchestra
Vomitories
Aristotle
11. 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
Downstage
Raked Stage
Dionysus
Proscenium
12. Collection of mystery plays
Realism
Blocking
Vomitories
Cycles
13. Seats 100-500; professional
Linear Plot
Off-Broadway
Off-off-Broadway
Broadway
14. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Dramaturg
Liturgical Drama
Aristotle
sound designer
15. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Avant-Garde
Rendering
Catharsis
Aristotle
16. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Liturgical Drama
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Components of Production
17. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Orchestra
lighting designer
Henrik Ibsen
University Wits
18. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
Prose
Neoclassicism
The Globe
19. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Antiquarianism
The Globe
Callbacks
Downstage
20. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Mystery Plays
Blocking
Callbacks
Chorus
21. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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22. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Chorus
Front of House
Mystery Plays
Henrik Ibsen
23. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Liturgical Drama
Alienation Effect
Copyright
Antiquarianism
24. Was in favor of theater
Downstage
Aristotle
Dramaturg
Variables of costume design
25. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Costume Designer
lighting designer
Subtext
Vomitories
26. Designs costumes for the show
Alienation Effect
Costume Designer
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Dionysus
27. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Aeschylus
Designer's job
Dramaturg
Upstage
28. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
lighting designer
Slapstick
Melodrama
Realism
29. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Rendering
Producer
Front of House
Aristophanes
30. Central character
Protagonist
Aristophanes
Avant-Garde
Concept
31. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Costume plot
Eugene Scribe
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Book musical
32. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Sense memory
Dramaturg
Thrust
The Globe
33. 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
Auditions
Perspective Scenery
Dramaturg
Proscenium
34. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Theatron
Raked Stage
Aesthetic Distance
Avant-Garde
35. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Variables of costume design
Arena
Upstage
Downstage
36. 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
Ground plan
Actor's tools
Actor's tools
Reversal
37. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Romanticism
Skene
Antagonist
38. Fee for each performance
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Bertolt Brecht
Royalty
Reversal
39. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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40. Who or what opposes the central character
Antagonist
Types of professional theater
Skene
Arena
41. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Musical Theatre
Producer
Orchestra
Components of Actor's job
42. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Arena
Dramaturg
Protagonist
Proscenium
43. When line of action suddenly switches
Blocking
Reversal
Miracle Plays
Sense memory
44. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Empathy
Designer
Concept
Types of professional theater
45. Scenery
Realism
Costume plot
Skene
Thespis
46. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Neoclassic unities
Henrik Ibsen
Empathy
Book musical
47. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Scenic Designer
Thrust
Off-off-Broadway
Types of professional theater
48. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Antiquarianism
Front of House
Director
Dialogue
49. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Blocking
Slapstick
Types of professional theater
Director
50. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Henrik Ibsen
Producer
Commedia Dell'Arte