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Theatre Appreciation 2
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Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Morality Plays
Stage Manager
Wings
Proscenium
2. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Perspective Scenery
Romanticism
Black box
Pageants
3. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Director
The Globe
Catharsis
Dramaturg
4. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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5. Spoken words
Melodrama
Dialogue
Director
Proscenium
6. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Subtext
Neoclassicism
Black box
Thespis
7. Generally rhyming
Auteur
Designer's job
Components of Production
Verse
8. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Pageants
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Director
Designer's job
9. God of wine and fertility
Pageants
Black box
Dionysus
Ground plan
10. Director champions intention of playwright
collaborator
sound designer
Eugene Scribe
Thrust
11. 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
Broadway
Wings
Stage manager
Perspective Scenery
12. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Sense memory
Liturgical Drama
collaborator
Mystery Plays
13. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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14. 'dancing space'
Dramaturg
Components of Actor's job
Orchestra
Avant-Garde
15. 'seeing place'
Public Domain
Theatron
Components of Actor's job
Aeschylus
16. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Callbacks
Director
Perspective Scenery
Proscenium
17. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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18. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Subtext
Romanticism
Melodrama
Copyright
19. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Prose
Off-off-Broadway
Slapstick
Costume plot
20. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Blocking
Pageants
Public Domain
Auditions
21. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Alienation Effect
The Orestia
Auditions
Front of House
22. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Sense memory
Actor's tools
Romanticism
Rhetorical Tradition
23. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Reversal
Constantin Stanislavski
Theatron
Plato
24. Action - place - time
The Globe
Eugene Scribe
Book musical
Neoclassic unities
25. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
The Globe
Neoclassicism
Chorus
Subplot
26. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Director
Off-Broadway
Conflict
Costume plot
27. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Romanticism
sound designer
Romantic Theory
Empathy
28. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Black box
Copyright
Neoclassicism
29. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Dialogue
Antagonist
Representational
Rhetorical Tradition
30. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Black box
Book musical
Casting Director
Theatron
31. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Reversal
Copyright
Variables of costume design
Perspective Scenery
32. First director
Designer
Representational
Black box
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
33. 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
Neoclassicism
Auteur
Ground plan
Reversal
34. Central character
Auditions
Protagonist
Theatron
Empathy
35. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
Skene
Subplot
Prose
36. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Rhetorical Tradition
Plato
Royalty
Conflict
37. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Rhetorical Tradition
Constantin Stanislavski
Aristophanes
38. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Antagonist
Types of professional theater
Avant-Garde
Costume plot
39. Body - voice - mind
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40. 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
Perspective Scenery
William Shakespeare
Representational
Dionysus
41. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Proscenium
Antiquarianism
Rhetorical Tradition
Wings
42. Planned actor movement
Liturgical Drama
Blocking
Bertolt Brecht
Actor's tools
43. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Ground plan
Verisimilitude
Empathy
Antiquarianism
44. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Henrik Ibsen
Playwright
Alienation Effect
45. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Liturgical Drama
Ground plan
Costume plot
Subtext
46. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Stage Manager
sound designer
Costume plot
Slapstick
47. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Reversal
Romantic Theory
Broadway
Scenic Designer
48. Saint's plays
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Miracle Plays
Downstage
Auteur
49. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Auteur
Auditions
Aristophanes
Subtext
50. Scenery
Mystery Plays
Reversal
Skene
Variables of costume design