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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. Was in favor of theater
Aristotle
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Front of House
Wings
2. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Neoclassic unities
Neoclassic unities
3. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Off-off-Broadway
Thrust
Sense memory
Realism
4. Sentences/paragraph structure
Designer
Plato
Dramaturg
Prose
5. Sentences/paragraph structure
Melodrama
Protagonist
Neoclassicism
Prose
6. 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
Realism
Proscenium
Bertolt Brecht
Vomitories
7. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Bertolt Brecht
The Orestia
Aristophanes
Concept
8. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Dionysus
Stage Manager
Ground plan
Callbacks
9. 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
Presentational
Scenic Designer
Cycles
Alienation Effect
10. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
Front of House
Verisimilitude
Realism
11. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Sense memory
Stage manager
12. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Dialogue
Neoclassic unities
Liturgical Drama
Dramaturg
13. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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14. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Melodrama
Director
Black box
Liturgical Drama
15. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Antagonist
Subtext
Melodrama
Eugene Scribe
16. Directors who operate with total control
Auteur
lighting designer
Playwright
Aristophanes
17. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Verisimilitude
Front of House
Components of Production
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
18. Greatest dramatist of all time
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Ground plan
Aeschylus
William Shakespeare
19. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Types of professional theater
Variables of costume design
Blocking
Subtext
20. Scenery
Constantin Stanislavski
Skene
Empathy
Broadway
21. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Representational
Aesthetic Distance
Sense memory
Black box
22. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Aristotle
Mystery Plays
Upstage
23. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
William Shakespeare
Proscenium
Miracle Plays
Off-Broadway
24. 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
Copyright
Romantic Theory
Stage manager
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
25. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Linear Plot
Morality Plays
Designer
Henrik Ibsen
26. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Melodrama
Henrik Ibsen
Antagonist
Slapstick
27. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Aristophanes
sound designer
Alienation Effect
Rendering
28. 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
Henrik Ibsen
Presentational
Protagonist
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
29. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Wings
Orchestra
The Globe
Linear Plot
30. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Thrust
Proscenium
Henrik Ibsen
31. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Henrik Ibsen
Avant-Garde
Costume Designer
32. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Director
Rendering
Costume Designer
Romanticism
33. Author of play
Stage manager
Playwright
Romanticism
Chorus
34. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Public Domain
Stage manager
Aesthetic Distance
The Orestia
35. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Variables of costume design
Henrik Ibsen
Avant-Garde
Perspective Scenery
36. 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
Cycles
Reversal
Public Domain
Downstage
37. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Aesthetic Distance
Dionysus
Romanticism
Designer
38. Generally rhyming
Scenic Designer
Book musical
Verse
Alienation Effect
39. 'dancing space'
Protagonist
Proscenium
Neoclassicism
Orchestra
40. Director champions intention of playwright
collaborator
Thrust
Blocking
Henrik Ibsen
41. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Subtext
Copyright
Auteur
Romanticism
42. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Skene
Dialogue
Romantic Theory
Stage manager
43. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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44. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Stage Manager
Mystery Plays
Thespis
Copyright
45. Author of play
Playwright
Components of Production
Avant-Garde
Protagonist
46. First director
Concept
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Orchestra
Sense memory
47. Planned actor movement
Avant-Garde
Antiquarianism
Blocking
Mystery Plays
48. Secondary line of action
Broadway
Director
Subplot
Emile Zola
49. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Components of Actor's job
Stage Manager
Plato
sound designer
50. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Rhetorical Tradition
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Rhetorical Tradition
Costume Designer