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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. Designs costumes for the show
Book musical
Costume plot
Costume Designer
Aristophanes
2. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Hypokrites
Romanticism
Theatron
lighting designer
3. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Protagonist
Constantin Stanislavski
Bertolt Brecht
Commedia Dell'Arte
4. 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
Musical Theatre
Perspective Scenery
Casting Director
Arena
5. Body - voice - mind
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6. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Blocking
Henrik Ibsen
Reversal
Neoclassic unities
7. created by Augest von Schegel - the replacement of neoclassical structure: form should be directed by subject matter - not classical precedent. Romantics were fascinated with natural forces - the unexplainable - gothic - and mystical. Romantics drama
Romantic Theory
sound designer
Front of House
Dionysus
8. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Romantic Theory
Off-off-Broadway
The Orestia
Representational
9. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
University Wits
Dramaturg
Upstage
10. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Components of Production
Mystery Plays
Scenic Designer
11. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
University Wits
Thrust
Aeschylus
Book musical
12. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Sense memory
Romantic Theory
Variables of costume design
Stage Manager
13. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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14. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Protagonist
Dramaturg
Linear Plot
Plato
15. First director
Aristotle
sound designer
Components of Actor's job
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
16. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Presentational
Dialogue
Costume plot
lighting designer
17. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Royalty
Designer's job
Conflict
Playwright
18. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Costume plot
Thrust
Proscenium
Morality Plays
19. Appearance of truth
Stage Manager
Thespis
Thespis
Verisimilitude
20. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Alienation Effect
Morality Plays
Broadway
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
21. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
The Globe
Morality Plays
Broadway
22. Greatest dramatist of all time
Arena
William Shakespeare
lighting designer
Constantin Stanislavski
23. Who or what opposes the central character
Antiquarianism
Antagonist
Perspective Scenery
Stage manager
24. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Presentational
Conflict
Constantin Stanislavski
Protagonist
25. Creates a visual home for the play
Rhetorical Tradition
Scenic Designer
Vomitories
Blocking
26. Seats 100-500; professional
Front of House
Prose
Catharsis
Off-Broadway
27. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
The Globe
Black box
The Orestia
Types of professional theater
28. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Proscenium
Reversal
Linear Plot
Bertolt Brecht
29. Fee for each performance
Concept
Royalty
Slapstick
Casting Director
30. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Dionysus
Broadway
Dialogue
31. Sentences/paragraph structure
Downstage
Prose
Antiquarianism
Off-Broadway
32. 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
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Rhetorical Tradition
Presentational
Blocking
33. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Vomitories
Alienation Effect
Liturgical Drama
Copyright
34. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Aristotle
Dramaturg
lighting designer
35. created by Augest von Schegel - the replacement of neoclassical structure: form should be directed by subject matter - not classical precedent. Romantics were fascinated with natural forces - the unexplainable - gothic - and mystical. Romantics drama
Auditions
Romantic Theory
Arena
Thrust
36. 'dancing space'
Bertolt Brecht
Perspective Scenery
Stage Manager
Orchestra
37. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Broadway
Book musical
Designer's job
38. Fee for each performance
Emile Zola
Royalty
Verse
Theatron
39. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Playwright
Downstage
Slapstick
Melodrama
40. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Rendering
Verse
Musical Theatre
Verisimilitude
41. Oversees artistic aspects of show
The Orestia
Aesthetic Distance
Director
Bertolt Brecht
42. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Broadway
Stage manager
Thespis
43. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Representational
Aristophanes
Black box
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
44. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Commedia Dell'Arte
Director
Aeschylus
Verisimilitude
45. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Miracle Plays
Callbacks
Thespis
Musical Theatre
46. God of wine and fertility
Dionysus
Theatron
Cycles
Off-Broadway
47. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Subplot
Neoclassicism
lighting designer
Casting Director
48. Handles business aspects of show
Antiquarianism
Scenic Designer
Casting Director
Producer
49. 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
The Globe
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Ground plan
lighting designer
50. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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