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Theatre Appreciation 2
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Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Dialogue
Upstage
Downstage
Plato
2. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Rendering
Avant-Garde
Subtext
Antagonist
3. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Arena
Romantic Theory
Subtext
Verse
4. Creates a visual home for the play
Chorus
Musical Theatre
Orchestra
Scenic Designer
5. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Bertolt Brecht
Concept
Linear Plot
6. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Actor's tools
Aristophanes
Stage Manager
Concept
7. God of wine and fertility
Dramaturg
Off-Broadway
Verisimilitude
Dionysus
8. Who or what opposes the central character
Broadway
Catharsis
Antagonist
Designer
9. First director
Upstage
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Ground plan
Neoclassic unities
10. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Thespis
Stage manager
Public Domain
Auditions
11. Historical accuracy
Concept
Playwright
Hypokrites
Antiquarianism
12. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Avant-Garde
Theatron
Variables of costume design
Alienation Effect
13. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Ground plan
Miracle Plays
Front of House
University Wits
14. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Chorus
Casting Director
Musical Theatre
15. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
Realism
Types of professional theater
Auteur
16. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Aeschylus
Proscenium
Aeschylus
Commedia Dell'Arte
17. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Rendering
Casting Director
Components of Production
Verisimilitude
18. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Stage manager
Designer
Sense memory
Mystery Plays
19. Physical commedy
Sense memory
Slapstick
Aesthetic Distance
Director
20. Historical accuracy
Costume plot
Antiquarianism
Bertolt Brecht
Emile Zola
21. 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
Romantic Theory
Book musical
Auditions
Actor's tools
22. The area farthest away from the audience
Prose
Upstage
Downstage
Theatron
23. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Raked Stage
collaborator
Components of Actor's job
24. Scenery
lighting designer
Prose
Skene
Auditions
25. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Antiquarianism
Dramaturg
Emile Zola
Costume Designer
26. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Variables of costume design
Antagonist
Morality Plays
The Globe
27. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Arena
Callbacks
Variables of costume design
28. Author of play
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Linear Plot
Bertolt Brecht
Playwright
29. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Aristotle
Liturgical Drama
Costume Designer
Stage Manager
30. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Public Domain
Variables of costume design
Actor's tools
Miracle Plays
31. Body - voice - mind
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32. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Liturgical Drama
Perspective Scenery
Actor's tools
Types of professional theater
33. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Commedia Dell'Arte
Cycles
Pageants
Black box
34. Author of play
Commedia Dell'Arte
Romantic Theory
Playwright
The Orestia
35. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Broadway
William Shakespeare
Rendering
36. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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37. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Components of Actor's job
Henrik Ibsen
Miracle Plays
Emile Zola
38. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Thespis
Mystery Plays
39. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Subtext
Concept
Off-off-Broadway
Proscenium
40. Directors who operate with total control
Emile Zola
Raked Stage
Black box
Auteur
41. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Playwright
Thespis
Conflict
42. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Wings
collaborator
Thrust
Dionysus
43. Action - place - time
Presentational
The Globe
Neoclassic unities
Realism
44. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Empathy
Scenic Designer
Bertolt Brecht
Hypokrites
45. 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
Verse
Antagonist
Presentational
Melodrama
46. Fee for each performance
Producer
Actor's tools
Aesthetic Distance
Royalty
47. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Vomitories
Mystery Plays
Antagonist
Arena
48. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Cycles
Blocking
Director
49. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Musical Theatre
Upstage
Theatron
Producer
50. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Theatron
Empathy
Ground plan
Scenic Designer