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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. Who or what opposes the central character
Antagonist
Thrust
Neoclassic unities
Skene
2. Director champions intention of playwright
Henrik Ibsen
Designer's job
collaborator
Aristophanes
3. Fee for each performance
Musical Theatre
Royalty
Broadway
Rendering
4. Directors who operate with total control
Auteur
Conflict
William Shakespeare
Rhetorical Tradition
5. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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6. Central character
Types of professional theater
Off-off-Broadway
Catharsis
Protagonist
7. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Aristophanes
Thespis
The Globe
Callbacks
8. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Musical Theatre
Proscenium
Types of professional theater
9. Secondary line of action
Types of professional theater
Royalty
Subplot
Copyright
10. Author of play
Representational
Playwright
William Shakespeare
Constantin Stanislavski
11. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Director
Dramaturg
Dialogue
12. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Black box
Plato
Casting Director
Proscenium
13. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Aristotle
Stage Manager
Sense memory
Scenic Designer
14. Spoken words
Commedia Dell'Arte
Dialogue
Cycles
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
15. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Representational
Stage manager
Aristophanes
Aesthetic Distance
16. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
sound designer
Broadway
Conflict
Director
17. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
The Globe
Public Domain
Verse
Melodrama
18. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Thespis
Components of Production
Dialogue
Alienation Effect
19. 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
Wings
Actor's tools
Romantic Theory
Components of Production
20. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Melodrama
collaborator
Black box
Theatron
21. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Blocking
Reversal
Callbacks
Neoclassicism
22. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Dialogue
Playwright
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Types of professional theater
23. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Subplot
Callbacks
Eugene Scribe
Emile Zola
24. Secondary line of action
Orchestra
Director
Subplot
Auteur
25. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Catharsis
Rendering
Cycles
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
26. When line of action suddenly switches
Playwright
Orchestra
Commedia Dell'Arte
Reversal
27. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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28. Standard tool for casting productions
Downstage
Empathy
Catharsis
Auditions
29. Saint's plays
Musical Theatre
Rendering
Concept
Miracle Plays
30. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Off-off-Broadway
Sense memory
Eugene Scribe
Morality Plays
31. Generally rhyming
Protagonist
Stage Manager
Verse
Commedia Dell'Arte
32. Scenery
Catharsis
Skene
Scenic Designer
Concept
33. 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
Presentational
Aristophanes
Pageants
34. 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
Perspective Scenery
Vomitories
Liturgical Drama
Downstage
35. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Melodrama
Off-off-Broadway
Empathy
Producer
36. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Musical Theatre
Dramaturg
Broadway
Dionysus
37. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Auteur
Theatron
Slapstick
Linear Plot
38. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Casting Director
Henrik Ibsen
Off-off-Broadway
Eugene Scribe
39. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Sense memory
Front of House
Stage manager
Arena
40. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Book musical
Avant-Garde
Slapstick
Proscenium
41. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Black box
Vomitories
Off-Broadway
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
42. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Musical Theatre
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Wings
Rendering
43. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
The Globe
Public Domain
Perspective Scenery
Neoclassic unities
44. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
The Orestia
Sense memory
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Components of Production
45. 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
Verse
Wings
Presentational
Commedia Dell'Arte
46. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Thrust
Arena
Miracle Plays
Costume Designer
47. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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48. 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
Components of Production
Stage Manager
William Shakespeare
49. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Antagonist
Front of House
Aristophanes
Skene
50. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
sound designer
Dramaturg
Book musical