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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. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Public Domain
Empathy
Presentational
Morality Plays
2. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Henrik Ibsen
William Shakespeare
Components of Production
3. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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4. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
Miracle Plays
Antagonist
Sense memory
5. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Romantic Theory
sound designer
Protagonist
Book musical
6. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Director
Morality Plays
Components of Production
William Shakespeare
7. 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
Verisimilitude
Downstage
sound designer
Mystery Plays
8. Author of play
Romanticism
Mystery Plays
Costume plot
Playwright
9. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Aristophanes
Rendering
Alienation Effect
Avant-Garde
10. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Reversal
Romanticism
Conflict
Ground plan
11. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Types of professional theater
Henrik Ibsen
Emile Zola
12. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Variables of costume design
Presentational
Director
Thespis
13. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Public Domain
University Wits
Wings
Prose
14. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Broadway
Proscenium
Prose
Callbacks
15. Collection of mystery plays
Aeschylus
Theatron
Cycles
Prose
16. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Bertolt Brecht
Variables of costume design
Rendering
Director
17. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
collaborator
Public Domain
Verse
18. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Plato
Concept
Thrust
Aeschylus
19. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Catharsis
Aesthetic Distance
Types of professional theater
Producer
20. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Costume Designer
Sense memory
Casting Director
sound designer
21. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Prose
Eugene Scribe
Royalty
Aeschylus
22. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Proscenium
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Emile Zola
Upstage
23. 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
Rhetorical Tradition
Presentational
Off-off-Broadway
Wings
24. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Catharsis
Director
Prose
Variables of costume design
25. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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26. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
William Shakespeare
Melodrama
collaborator
Designer
27. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Neoclassic unities
The Orestia
Constantin Stanislavski
28. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Empathy
Producer
Henrik Ibsen
29. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Subplot
Off-Broadway
Mystery Plays
Vomitories
30. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Morality Plays
Arena
Broadway
Rhetorical Tradition
31. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Costume plot
Raked Stage
Black box
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
32. Body - voice - mind
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33. Standard tool for casting productions
Alienation Effect
Dionysus
Auditions
Upstage
34. Historical accuracy
Playwright
Stage manager
Rendering
Antiquarianism
35. Spoken words
Wings
Protagonist
Dialogue
Costume Designer
36. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Antiquarianism
Henrik Ibsen
Book musical
Mystery Plays
37. Generally rhyming
Subtext
Verse
Conflict
Royalty
38. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Thrust
Presentational
Catharsis
39. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Rhetorical Tradition
Conflict
Dionysus
Constantin Stanislavski
40. Greatest dramatist of all time
Skene
William Shakespeare
Linear Plot
Off-off-Broadway
41. Body - voice - mind
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42. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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43. Handles business aspects of show
Romantic Theory
Producer
Hypokrites
Morality Plays
44. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Variables of costume design
Conflict
Auteur
Eugene Scribe
45. 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
Actor's tools
Verisimilitude
Representational
Raked Stage
46. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Eugene Scribe
Pageants
Rhetorical Tradition
Director
47. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Avant-Garde
Chorus
Black box
Miracle Plays
48. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Black box
Stage Manager
Eugene Scribe
Conflict
49. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Plato
Theatron
Book musical
Producer
50. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Mystery Plays
Slapstick
Vomitories
Royalty