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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Alienation Effect
Costume plot
Bertolt Brecht
Stage manager
2. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Front of House
Romanticism
Rhetorical Tradition
Verisimilitude
3. Standard tool for casting productions
Auditions
Producer
William Shakespeare
Upstage
4. Creates a visual home for the play
Bertolt Brecht
Romantic Theory
Scenic Designer
Miracle Plays
5. Spoken words
Dialogue
Musical Theatre
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
The Globe
6. Collection of mystery plays
Rendering
Aristophanes
Cycles
Chorus
7. Appearance of truth
Auditions
Copyright
Verisimilitude
Stage Manager
8. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Costume plot
Blocking
Romantic Theory
9. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Black box
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Casting Director
10. 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
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Casting Director
Director
11. Spoken words
Components of Actor's job
Dialogue
Costume Designer
Copyright
12. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Verse
Thespis
Liturgical Drama
Off-Broadway
13. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
Copyright
Dramaturg
Casting Director
14. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Reversal
Book musical
Rendering
Public Domain
15. Handles business aspects of show
Auteur
Producer
Presentational
The Orestia
16. 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
Plato
University Wits
Dramaturg
Raked Stage
17. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Neoclassic unities
Dionysus
Alienation Effect
Designer
18. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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19. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Skene
Plato
Cycles
Bertolt Brecht
20. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Arena
Linear Plot
Scenic Designer
21. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Protagonist
Eugene Scribe
Aesthetic Distance
Aristophanes
22. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Melodrama
Aristophanes
Costume Designer
23. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Rendering
Thrust
Verse
Realism
24. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Aesthetic Distance
Copyright
Catharsis
collaborator
25. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
The Orestia
Perspective Scenery
Plato
Avant-Garde
26. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Concept
Morality Plays
Costume plot
Skene
27. Scenery
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Linear Plot
University Wits
Skene
28. Director champions intention of playwright
Linear Plot
Avant-Garde
Verse
collaborator
29. 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
Stage Manager
Presentational
Antagonist
Aristotle
30. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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31. 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
lighting designer
Variables of costume design
Proscenium
Linear Plot
32. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Chorus
Plato
Protagonist
Avant-Garde
33. Appearance of truth
Proscenium
Aristotle
Verisimilitude
Chorus
34. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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35. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Director
Presentational
Prose
Antagonist
36. 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
Broadway
Prose
Constantin Stanislavski
37. Who or what opposes the central character
Commedia Dell'Arte
Vomitories
Aeschylus
Antagonist
38. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Rhetorical Tradition
collaborator
Broadway
Proscenium
39. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Reversal
Aeschylus
Skene
Alienation Effect
40. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Henrik Ibsen
Neoclassicism
Liturgical Drama
Off-off-Broadway
41. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Commedia Dell'Arte
Liturgical Drama
Upstage
Chorus
42. When line of action suddenly switches
Proscenium
Morality Plays
Reversal
Proscenium
43. Author of play
Slapstick
Playwright
Copyright
Actor's tools
44. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Aristotle
Romanticism
Components of Production
Designer
45. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Avant-Garde
Thespis
Reversal
46. Was in favor of theater
Dionysus
Book musical
Morality Plays
Aristotle
47. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
Stage Manager
Realism
Miracle Plays
48. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Director
Constantin Stanislavski
Plato
Cycles
49. Was in favor of theater
Liturgical Drama
Off-off-Broadway
Aristotle
William Shakespeare
50. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Stage manager
Alienation Effect
The Orestia
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