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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. 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
Auteur
Book musical
Proscenium
Off-off-Broadway
2. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Dionysus
Thespis
Producer
Emile Zola
3. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Morality Plays
Chorus
The Globe
4. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
University Wits
Musical Theatre
Royalty
5. 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
Verisimilitude
Downstage
Chorus
Slapstick
6. Scenery
Chorus
Constantin Stanislavski
Perspective Scenery
Skene
7. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Proscenium
Director
Skene
Neoclassic unities
8. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Plato
Designer
Actor's tools
9. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Slapstick
Off-Broadway
Broadway
Copyright
10. Sentences/paragraph structure
Casting Director
Cycles
Constantin Stanislavski
Prose
11. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Director
Designer
Morality Plays
Bertolt Brecht
12. First director
Wings
Aeschylus
Upstage
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
13. A movement of the late 19th century championing the depiction of everyday life on the stage and the frank treatment of social problems in the theatre. The plays of Henrick Ibsen of the 1870s were important in establishing a dramatic style for realism
Playwright
Downstage
Verse
Realism
14. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Vomitories
Cycles
Dramaturg
Hypokrites
15. 'dancing space'
Blocking
Protagonist
Actor's tools
Orchestra
16. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Antiquarianism
Vomitories
Proscenium
Director
17. 'seeing place'
Raked Stage
lighting designer
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Theatron
18. Body - voice - mind
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19. Directors who operate with total control
Upstage
Aristotle
Auteur
Perspective Scenery
20. Action - place - time
Neoclassicism
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Neoclassic unities
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
21. Secondary line of action
Designer
Rendering
Aristotle
Subplot
22. Director champions intention of playwright
Avant-Garde
Royalty
collaborator
Playwright
23. When line of action suddenly switches
Reversal
Actor's tools
Alienation Effect
Morality Plays
24. 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
Upstage
Callbacks
Presentational
Director
25. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Costume plot
Subtext
Arena
Copyright
26. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Pageants
Vomitories
Linear Plot
27. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Presentational
Catharsis
Antiquarianism
28. A movement of the late 19th century championing the depiction of everyday life on the stage and the frank treatment of social problems in the theatre. The plays of Henrick Ibsen of the 1870s were important in establishing a dramatic style for realism
Romantic Theory
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Realism
Reversal
29. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Plato
Director
collaborator
Arena
30. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Designer's job
Emile Zola
Orchestra
William Shakespeare
31. Who or what opposes the central character
Protagonist
Broadway
Antagonist
Realism
32. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
Dialogue
Thrust
Thespis
33. Director champions intention of playwright
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Sense memory
sound designer
collaborator
34. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Royalty
Realism
Aesthetic Distance
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
35. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Auditions
Antiquarianism
Arena
Emile Zola
36. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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37. A group of performers working together vocally and physically. A chorus of approximately 12-15 singer-dancers who interacted with and responded to the actors was an important element of ancient Greek theatre.
Royalty
Romantic Theory
Chorus
William Shakespeare
38. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Presentational
Miracle Plays
Dialogue
Neoclassicism
39. 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
Aristophanes
Romanticism
Downstage
Wings
40. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Alienation Effect
Stage manager
Auteur
Romanticism
41. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Sense memory
Thrust
Eugene Scribe
Vomitories
42. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
University Wits
Costume plot
Vomitories
Aristotle
43. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Producer
Callbacks
Wings
Components of Actor's job
44. Physical commedy
The Orestia
Slapstick
Chorus
Director
45. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Auditions
Eugene Scribe
lighting designer
Broadway
46. Central character
Concept
University Wits
Protagonist
Dramaturg
47. 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
Producer
Prose
Auditions
48. God of wine and fertility
Dionysus
Bertolt Brecht
Raked Stage
Henrik Ibsen
49. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Dialogue
sound designer
Mystery Plays
Ground plan
50. God of wine and fertility
Reversal
Variables of costume design
Dionysus
Playwright