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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Subtext
Raked Stage
Director
Thrust
2. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Black box
Romanticism
Stage Manager
Melodrama
3. Designs costumes for the show
Rendering
Costume Designer
Chorus
Miracle Plays
4. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Aesthetic Distance
Scenic Designer
Linear Plot
Proscenium
5. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
University Wits
Book musical
Actor's tools
Linear Plot
6. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Prose
lighting designer
Aristophanes
7. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Aesthetic Distance
Liturgical Drama
Director
8. 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
Verisimilitude
sound designer
Perspective Scenery
Royalty
9. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Reversal
Liturgical Drama
Mystery Plays
Henrik Ibsen
10. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Commedia Dell'Arte
Eugene Scribe
Verse
Stage Manager
11. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Proscenium
Romantic Theory
Musical Theatre
Callbacks
12. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Romanticism
Empathy
Subtext
Dramaturg
13. When line of action suddenly switches
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Neoclassicism
Producer
Reversal
14. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Chorus
William Shakespeare
Stage manager
15. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Dialogue
Variables of costume design
Copyright
16. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Neoclassicism
Ground plan
Broadway
17. 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
Callbacks
Ground plan
Protagonist
Off-off-Broadway
18. 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
Eugene Scribe
Auditions
Romanticism
Presentational
19. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Designer
Romantic Theory
Copyright
Dionysus
20. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Stage Manager
Royalty
Verse
sound designer
21. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Designer's job
Types of professional theater
22. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Proscenium
Copyright
Aesthetic Distance
23. Handles business aspects of show
Commedia Dell'Arte
Producer
Stage manager
Morality Plays
24. Generally rhyming
Antiquarianism
Broadway
Verse
Henrik Ibsen
25. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Dramaturg
Representational
Neoclassicism
Chorus
26. Generally rhyming
Verse
Costume plot
Eugene Scribe
Liturgical Drama
27. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Presentational
Melodrama
Perspective Scenery
Thespis
28. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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29. Seats 100-500; professional
Dialogue
Off-Broadway
Melodrama
Casting Director
30. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Costume Designer
Components of Actor's job
Designer
University Wits
31. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Stage Manager
Subplot
Antagonist
Aristophanes
32. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
The Globe
Thespis
Raked Stage
Protagonist
33. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Rendering
Raked Stage
Sense memory
34. Creates a visual home for the play
Designer's job
Scenic Designer
Linear Plot
Melodrama
35. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Downstage
Thrust
Aesthetic Distance
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
36. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Neoclassic unities
Off-Broadway
Stage manager
Variables of costume design
37. 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
Ground plan
Proscenium
lighting designer
Morality Plays
38. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Off-off-Broadway
Rhetorical Tradition
Front of House
Catharsis
39. Standard tool for casting productions
Auditions
Neoclassicism
sound designer
Subplot
40. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Casting Director
Variables of costume design
Chorus
Components of Production
41. Secondary line of action
Subplot
Royalty
Black box
Bertolt Brecht
42. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Antagonist
Catharsis
Sense memory
Scenic Designer
43. The area farthest away from the audience
Upstage
Skene
Royalty
Romanticism
44. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Director
collaborator
Constantin Stanislavski
Playwright
45. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
William Shakespeare
Thespis
Public Domain
Musical Theatre
46. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Variables of costume design
Verse
The Orestia
Romanticism
47. 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
Blocking
Constantin Stanislavski
Romantic Theory
Downstage
48. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Liturgical Drama
Casting Director
Slapstick
Proscenium
49. Spoken words
Rhetorical Tradition
Blocking
Realism
Dialogue
50. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
sound designer
Off-off-Broadway
Realism
Upstage
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