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Theatre Appreciation 2
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Saint's plays
Sense memory
Orchestra
Conflict
Miracle Plays
2. 'dancing space'
Playwright
Antiquarianism
Orchestra
Theatron
3. Handles business aspects of show
Pageants
Royalty
Producer
Designer
4. God of wine and fertility
Costume plot
Dionysus
Off-Broadway
Director
5. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Casting Director
Protagonist
Neoclassic unities
sound designer
6. 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
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Romantic Theory
Raked Stage
Aristophanes
7. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Stage Manager
Front of House
Bertolt Brecht
Protagonist
8. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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9. Author of play
Hypokrites
Dramaturg
Designer's job
Playwright
10. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Concept
collaborator
University Wits
Proscenium
11. Collection of mystery plays
Components of Actor's job
Proscenium
Chorus
Cycles
12. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Aesthetic Distance
Pageants
Thespis
Constantin Stanislavski
13. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Callbacks
Director
Dramaturg
Antagonist
14. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Stage manager
Actor's tools
Musical Theatre
15. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Aristophanes
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Designer
Presentational
16. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Costume Designer
lighting designer
Broadway
Book musical
17. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Dialogue
Proscenium
Romanticism
Thespis
18. Directors who operate with total control
sound designer
Conflict
Auteur
Aesthetic Distance
19. Was in favor of theater
Aristotle
William Shakespeare
Royalty
Raked Stage
20. Physical commedy
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Slapstick
Components of Actor's job
Front of House
21. Action - place - time
Auteur
Dialogue
Neoclassic unities
Representational
22. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
William Shakespeare
Subtext
Prose
23. Central character
Hypokrites
Protagonist
Hypokrites
Antagonist
24. Director champions intention of playwright
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
collaborator
Morality Plays
Sense memory
25. 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
Director
Proscenium
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
sound designer
26. God of wine and fertility
Blocking
Dionysus
Proscenium
Producer
27. 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
Conflict
Raked Stage
Actor's tools
Dialogue
28. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Arena
Aristophanes
The Globe
collaborator
29. Scenery
Components of Actor's job
Bertolt Brecht
Skene
Ground plan
30. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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31. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Catharsis
Subplot
Off-off-Broadway
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
32. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Black box
Copyright
Presentational
33. 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
Orchestra
The Orestia
Avant-Garde
Perspective Scenery
34. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Casting Director
Costume Designer
Off-off-Broadway
Royalty
35. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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36. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Verisimilitude
Catharsis
collaborator
Black box
37. Standard tool for casting productions
Variables of costume design
Front of House
Linear Plot
Auditions
38. Fee for each performance
Scenic Designer
Royalty
Presentational
Neoclassic unities
39. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Perspective Scenery
Henrik Ibsen
Ground plan
Sense memory
40. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Antiquarianism
Royalty
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Copyright
41. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Musical Theatre
William Shakespeare
Costume plot
Proscenium
42. 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
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Subplot
Dramaturg
Realism
43. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Morality Plays
Pageants
Eugene Scribe
Stage manager
44. Greatest dramatist of all time
Prose
Arena
William Shakespeare
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
45. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Playwright
Linear Plot
Costume Designer
lighting designer
46. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Public Domain
Cycles
Dionysus
Musical Theatre
47. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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48. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Designer
Alienation Effect
Proscenium
Broadway
49. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Callbacks
Components of Production
lighting designer
Henrik Ibsen
50. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
The Globe
Components of Production
Miracle Plays
Aeschylus