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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. Scenery
Public Domain
Actor's tools
Skene
Hypokrites
2. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Miracle Plays
Emile Zola
Antiquarianism
3. Appearance of truth
Broadway
Auteur
Orchestra
Verisimilitude
4. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Arena
Proscenium
Callbacks
The Globe
5. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Scenic Designer
Chorus
Linear Plot
Prose
6. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Costume Designer
lighting designer
Representational
Book musical
7. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Raked Stage
Thrust
Verse
Theatron
8. Scenery
Front of House
Theatron
Skene
Auteur
9. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
The Globe
Verisimilitude
Costume Designer
10. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Bertolt Brecht
Variables of costume design
Scenic Designer
11. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
University Wits
Stage manager
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Public Domain
12. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Realism
Variables of costume design
Downstage
Representational
13. Directors who operate with total control
Aeschylus
Proscenium
Orchestra
Auteur
14. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Designer
The Globe
Off-off-Broadway
Neoclassicism
15. 'seeing place'
Henrik Ibsen
Theatron
Chorus
Conflict
16. Central character
Protagonist
Rendering
Rendering
Representational
17. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Public Domain
The Globe
Alienation Effect
Variables of costume design
18. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Dialogue
Wings
Off-off-Broadway
19. Was in favor of theater
Perspective Scenery
Aristotle
Wings
Components of Production
20. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Auditions
Empathy
Vomitories
21. Planned actor movement
Auditions
Blocking
Types of professional theater
Skene
22. Actor in 5th century Greece
Romanticism
Skene
Hypokrites
Romantic Theory
23. Spoken words
Black box
Linear Plot
Arena
Dialogue
24. Saint's plays
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Romanticism
Hypokrites
Miracle Plays
25. 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
Raked Stage
Designer
Reversal
Costume Designer
26. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Thrust
Dialogue
Broadway
Off-Broadway
27. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Scenic Designer
Subtext
Hypokrites
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
28. Designs costumes for the show
Theatron
Representational
Costume Designer
Chorus
29. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Auteur
Empathy
Dramaturg
Mystery Plays
30. Who or what opposes the central character
Antagonist
Emile Zola
Raked Stage
Aristotle
31. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Front of House
Mystery Plays
Miracle Plays
Designer
32. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Off-Broadway
Dionysus
Melodrama
Rendering
33. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Mystery Plays
Designer's job
Conflict
Sense memory
34. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Melodrama
Musical Theatre
Ground plan
Thespis
35. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Constantin Stanislavski
Musical Theatre
Dramaturg
Vomitories
36. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Types of professional theater
Conflict
Broadway
Stage manager
37. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Director
Costume plot
Dramaturg
Subtext
38. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Rendering
William Shakespeare
Broadway
Proscenium
39. 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
Components of Actor's job
Perspective Scenery
Thrust
Reversal
40. Sentences/paragraph structure
Antiquarianism
Representational
The Orestia
Prose
41. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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42. Greatest dramatist of all time
William Shakespeare
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Neoclassic unities
Linear Plot
43. Who or what opposes the central character
Antagonist
Aristophanes
Bertolt Brecht
Neoclassicism
44. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Thrust
Bertolt Brecht
Eugene Scribe
Rendering
45. Greatest dramatist of all time
Copyright
William Shakespeare
Downstage
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
46. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Aeschylus
Arena
Catharsis
Mystery Plays
47. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
William Shakespeare
Wings
Mystery Plays
Director
48. 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
Empathy
Downstage
Presentational
Conflict
49. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Verse
Verisimilitude
Empathy
Emile Zola
50. God of wine and fertility
Catharsis
Prose
Dionysus
Types of professional theater