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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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2. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Neoclassicism
Auditions
Stage Manager
Neoclassicism
3. 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
Orchestra
Upstage
Raked Stage
Proscenium
4. First director
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Constantin Stanislavski
Verse
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
5. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Casting Director
lighting designer
Musical Theatre
The Orestia
6. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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7. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Mystery Plays
Neoclassic unities
Variables of costume design
Proscenium
8. Was in favor of theater
Aristotle
Vomitories
Copyright
Book musical
9. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Eugene Scribe
Upstage
Rendering
Mystery Plays
10. Who or what opposes the central character
Casting Director
Antiquarianism
Designer
Antagonist
11. Sentences/paragraph structure
Sense memory
Antagonist
Broadway
Prose
12. The area farthest away from the audience
Upstage
Dialogue
Director
Emile Zola
13. Fee for each performance
Rendering
Conflict
Royalty
Liturgical Drama
14. Body - voice - mind
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15. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Alienation Effect
Theatron
Eugene Scribe
Avant-Garde
16. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Arena
The Orestia
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Romantic Theory
17. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Scenic Designer
Concept
Plato
Off-off-Broadway
18. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Director
Broadway
Designer
Wings
19. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Verisimilitude
Front of House
Upstage
Reversal
20. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Casting Director
Broadway
Wings
Theatron
21. Secondary line of action
Stage Manager
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Subplot
Playwright
22. Actor in 5th century Greece
Dionysus
Orchestra
Playwright
Hypokrites
23. 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
Protagonist
collaborator
Concept
24. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Neoclassic unities
Orchestra
University Wits
25. Generally rhyming
Verse
Raked Stage
Bertolt Brecht
Auditions
26. Central character
Avant-Garde
Raked Stage
Types of professional theater
Protagonist
27. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Off-off-Broadway
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Melodrama
The Globe
28. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Aeschylus
Public Domain
collaborator
Orchestra
29. 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
Subtext
Ground plan
Costume Designer
Skene
30. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Aristotle
Pageants
Miracle Plays
31. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Designer's job
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Stage manager
Aristophanes
32. Saint's plays
Reversal
Miracle Plays
Aeschylus
Neoclassic unities
33. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Black box
Aeschylus
Orchestra
Wings
34. Central character
Protagonist
sound designer
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Orchestra
35. Appearance of truth
Subtext
Ground plan
Verisimilitude
Avant-Garde
36. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Neoclassic unities
Dramaturg
Stage manager
Off-off-Broadway
37. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Designer's job
Emile Zola
Arena
Director
38. Planned actor movement
Playwright
Antagonist
Blocking
Mystery Plays
39. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Arena
Front of House
Catharsis
Arena
40. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Bertolt Brecht
Reversal
Copyright
Henrik Ibsen
41. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
sound designer
William Shakespeare
Bertolt Brecht
Mystery Plays
42. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Mystery Plays
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Rhetorical Tradition
Aeschylus
43. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Thespis
Bertolt Brecht
Scenic Designer
44. 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.
Stage Manager
Chorus
Thrust
Bertolt Brecht
45. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Auditions
Dramaturg
Concept
Off-Broadway
46. Creates a visual home for the play
Aesthetic Distance
Scenic Designer
Neoclassicism
Proscenium
47. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
William Shakespeare
Verse
Director
48. 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
Cycles
Broadway
Perspective Scenery
Liturgical Drama
49. Body - voice - mind
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50. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Playwright
Realism
Romanticism
Sense memory
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