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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. Body - voice - mind
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2. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Antagonist
Concept
Wings
Thrust
3. 'seeing place'
Designer
Verse
Theatron
Plato
4. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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5. Generally rhyming
Subtext
Concept
Verse
collaborator
6. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Verisimilitude
Stage manager
Aesthetic Distance
Designer
7. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Presentational
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Prose
8. Actor in 5th century Greece
Hypokrites
lighting designer
Subtext
Emile Zola
9. 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
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Ground plan
Royalty
Linear Plot
10. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Subtext
Wings
Chorus
Pageants
11. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Empathy
Orchestra
Copyright
Musical Theatre
12. 'dancing space'
Orchestra
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Auteur
Variables of costume design
13. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Dramaturg
Melodrama
Director
Costume plot
14. Planned actor movement
Theatron
Aristotle
Public Domain
Blocking
15. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Components of Production
Miracle Plays
Stage Manager
Constantin Stanislavski
16. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Casting Director
Playwright
Subplot
17. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Dialogue
collaborator
Designer
Vomitories
18. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Blocking
Antiquarianism
Plato
Ground plan
19. Standard tool for casting productions
Casting Director
Off-Broadway
The Orestia
Auditions
20. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Black box
Slapstick
Aesthetic Distance
Avant-Garde
21. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Slapstick
Components of Production
Morality Plays
Thespis
22. Was in favor of theater
Aristotle
Bertolt Brecht
collaborator
Orchestra
23. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Pageants
Playwright
Scenic Designer
24. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Alienation Effect
Front of House
Costume plot
Representational
25. Directors who operate with total control
Empathy
Auteur
Alienation Effect
Rhetorical Tradition
26. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aristophanes
Concept
The Orestia
collaborator
27. Saint's plays
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Auditions
lighting designer
Miracle Plays
28. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
Neoclassicism
Commedia Dell'Arte
Cycles
29. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Rhetorical Tradition
collaborator
Black box
30. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Rendering
Catharsis
University Wits
Eugene Scribe
31. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Thespis
Aristophanes
Slapstick
32. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Perspective Scenery
Neoclassic unities
Henrik Ibsen
Off-Broadway
33. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
Producer
Antiquarianism
Proscenium
34. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Subtext
Linear Plot
Scenic Designer
Neoclassicism
35. Scenery
Skene
Stage Manager
Plato
Bertolt Brecht
36. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Proscenium
Public Domain
Blocking
Designer's job
37. Handles business aspects of show
Aristotle
Alienation Effect
Producer
Commedia Dell'Arte
38. Handles business aspects of show
Producer
Bertolt Brecht
Chorus
Arena
39. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Book musical
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
40. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Pageants
Neoclassicism
Dramaturg
Copyright
41. Collection of mystery plays
Cycles
Stage manager
Orchestra
Musical Theatre
42. Creates a visual home for the play
Cycles
Casting Director
Components of Actor's job
Scenic Designer
43. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Blocking
Copyright
Conflict
sound designer
44. 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
Designer's job
Bertolt Brecht
Ground plan
Proscenium
45. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Antagonist
Variables of costume design
Verisimilitude
Callbacks
46. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Eugene Scribe
Pageants
Conflict
Components of Actor's job
47. Who or what opposes the central character
Rhetorical Tradition
Antagonist
Aesthetic Distance
Subplot
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
Designer
Perspective Scenery
Dialogue
Sense memory
49. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Off-Broadway
Musical Theatre
50. 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
Director
Callbacks
Theatron
Romantic Theory