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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. Secondary line of action
Off-off-Broadway
Subplot
Book musical
Scenic Designer
2. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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3. 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
Representational
Proscenium
Empathy
Linear Plot
4. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
lighting designer
Reversal
Realism
Rhetorical Tradition
5. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Dionysus
Aristophanes
Black box
6. 'seeing place'
Aesthetic Distance
Prose
Alienation Effect
Theatron
7. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Playwright
Antiquarianism
Aeschylus
Melodrama
8. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Thrust
Aristophanes
Components of Production
Bertolt Brecht
9. Appearance of truth
Commedia Dell'Arte
Director
lighting designer
Verisimilitude
10. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Front of House
Bertolt Brecht
Wings
11. Actor in 5th century Greece
Dramaturg
Neoclassic unities
Hypokrites
Wings
12. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aristophanes
Romanticism
Romantic Theory
Reversal
13. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Empathy
Raked Stage
Costume plot
Broadway
14. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Director
Proscenium
Off-Broadway
15. Action - place - time
Casting Director
Callbacks
Neoclassic unities
Subtext
16. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Vomitories
Chorus
The Orestia
17. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Director
Eugene Scribe
Subplot
sound designer
18. 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
Cycles
Copyright
Downstage
Pageants
19. Creates a visual home for the play
Reversal
Scenic Designer
Components of Actor's job
Upstage
20. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Protagonist
Upstage
Avant-Garde
Eugene Scribe
21. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
sound designer
Subtext
Aristotle
Public Domain
22. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Linear Plot
Designer
Thespis
Aristotle
23. Appearance of truth
Skene
Verse
Verisimilitude
Blocking
24. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Morality Plays
Aeschylus
Conflict
Sense memory
25. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Empathy
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Stage manager
Verisimilitude
26. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Aesthetic Distance
Designer
Royalty
Reversal
27. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Components of Production
Front of House
Aristophanes
Neoclassicism
28. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Eugene Scribe
Aristophanes
William Shakespeare
Raked Stage
29. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Empathy
Components of Production
Director
Aeschylus
30. God of wine and fertility
Designer's job
Conflict
Dionysus
Conflict
31. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Musical Theatre
Slapstick
Thrust
Director
32. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Auteur
Verse
The Globe
Pageants
33. The area farthest away from the audience
Bertolt Brecht
Antiquarianism
Aesthetic Distance
Upstage
34. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Royalty
Dramaturg
Copyright
Director
35. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Pageants
Avant-Garde
Emile Zola
Hypokrites
36. Fee for each performance
collaborator
William Shakespeare
Royalty
Conflict
37. Scenery
Conflict
Skene
Aesthetic Distance
Commedia Dell'Arte
38. Handles business aspects of show
Rendering
Producer
Aesthetic Distance
Thespis
39. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Emile Zola
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Subtext
Ground plan
40. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Components of Actor's job
sound designer
Skene
Romantic Theory
41. Saint's plays
Thrust
Theatron
Plato
Miracle Plays
42. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Wings
Conflict
sound designer
Stage Manager
43. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Black box
Wings
Catharsis
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
44. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Off-off-Broadway
Downstage
Components of Production
Public Domain
45. Director champions intention of playwright
Prose
Downstage
collaborator
Emile Zola
46. Seats 100-500; professional
Presentational
Morality Plays
Off-Broadway
Pageants
47. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Presentational
Thrust
Playwright
sound designer
48. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Musical Theatre
Constantin Stanislavski
Copyright
Stage Manager
49. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Emile Zola
Dialogue
Proscenium
Black box
50. Standard tool for casting productions
Casting Director
Reversal
Romanticism
Auditions
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