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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. Appearance of truth
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Constantin Stanislavski
Raked Stage
Verisimilitude
2. 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
Arena
Presentational
Broadway
Stage manager
3. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
The Globe
Auditions
Alienation Effect
Casting Director
4. Planned actor movement
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Slapstick
Blocking
Mystery Plays
5. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Subtext
Cycles
Stage Manager
Costume plot
6. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Wings
Reversal
Black box
University Wits
7. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Eugene Scribe
Henrik Ibsen
Director
University Wits
8. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Morality Plays
Romanticism
Variables of costume design
Blocking
9. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
sound designer
Liturgical Drama
Playwright
Realism
10. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Linear Plot
Raked Stage
Alienation Effect
11. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Casting Director
Chorus
Orchestra
12. 'dancing space'
Scenic Designer
Antiquarianism
Auditions
Orchestra
13. Actor in 5th century Greece
Skene
Rhetorical Tradition
Theatron
Hypokrites
14. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Arena
Rhetorical Tradition
Dramaturg
Designer
15. Saint's plays
Miracle Plays
Vomitories
Avant-Garde
Alienation Effect
16. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Actor's tools
Empathy
Book musical
17. Secondary line of action
Reversal
Subplot
Henrik Ibsen
Prose
18. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Romantic Theory
Auteur
Orchestra
19. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Morality Plays
Subtext
Melodrama
Blocking
20. 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
Rhetorical Tradition
Raked Stage
Copyright
collaborator
21. 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
Reversal
Orchestra
Perspective Scenery
Royalty
22. First director
Downstage
Reversal
Aristotle
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
23. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Stage manager
Rhetorical Tradition
Subtext
Copyright
24. Standard tool for casting productions
Playwright
Proscenium
Auditions
Commedia Dell'Arte
25. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Eugene Scribe
Components of Production
Auditions
Subplot
26. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Auditions
Slapstick
University Wits
Linear Plot
27. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Proscenium
Prose
Romanticism
Off-off-Broadway
28. Scenery
Skene
Rendering
Components of Production
Aristophanes
29. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Perspective Scenery
Henrik Ibsen
Rhetorical Tradition
Melodrama
30. 'dancing space'
Orchestra
Black box
Miracle Plays
Upstage
31. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Sense memory
Cycles
Thrust
Wings
32. Creates a visual home for the play
Components of Production
Royalty
Scenic Designer
Concept
33. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Off-off-Broadway
Thespis
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
34. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
sound designer
Subplot
Off-off-Broadway
Verse
35. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Arena
Aristotle
Musical Theatre
Components of Production
36. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
The Globe
Royalty
Arena
Alienation Effect
37. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Aesthetic Distance
Realism
Henrik Ibsen
Aristophanes
38. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Designer's job
Linear Plot
Emile Zola
Thrust
39. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Prose
Producer
Musical Theatre
Director
40. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Rendering
Romantic Theory
Aristophanes
41. 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
Romanticism
William Shakespeare
Neoclassicism
42. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Off-off-Broadway
Raked Stage
Melodrama
Thrust
43. Author of play
Blocking
Playwright
Rhetorical Tradition
Liturgical Drama
44. Appearance of truth
Plato
Subplot
Verisimilitude
Neoclassicism
45. 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
Subtext
Proscenium
Subplot
Slapstick
46. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Mystery Plays
Aristotle
Emile Zola
Royalty
47. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Miracle Plays
Empathy
Designer
48. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Skene
Dionysus
Conflict
Dialogue
49. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
Linear Plot
Costume Designer
Playwright
50. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Realism
Aristophanes
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
The Orestia