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Theatre Appreciation 2

Subject : performing-arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Action - place - time






2. Secondary line of action






3. 'seeing place'






4. Attempts to represent reality on stage






5. Actor in 5th century Greece






6. Scenery






7. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy






8. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society






9. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights






10. 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






11. Generally rhyming






12. Sentences/paragraph structure






13. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation






14. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)

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15. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.






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.






17. Historical accuracy






18. Fee for each performance






19. Directors who operate with total control






20. Spoken words






21. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.






22. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space






23. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright






24. Attributed to writing over 700 plays






25. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions






26. Directors who operate with total control






27. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'






28. 'dancing space'






29. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre






30. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live






31. Art that pushes recognized boundaries






32. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production






33. Greatest dramatist of all time






34. Seats less than 100; amateur.






35. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.






36. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production






37. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs






38. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.






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






40. The area farthest away from the audience






41. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production






42. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words






43. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.






44. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C






45. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.






46. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government






47. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live






48. Creates a visual home for the play






49. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging






50. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.






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