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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. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Aristotle
Aesthetic Distance
Off-Broadway
2. 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
Bertolt Brecht
Antiquarianism
Proscenium
Neoclassicism
3. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Slapstick
Auteur
Book musical
Raked Stage
4. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Verisimilitude
Alienation Effect
Empathy
Auditions
5. 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.
sound designer
Chorus
Realism
Casting Director
6. Physical commedy
Black box
Slapstick
Rhetorical Tradition
Aristophanes
7. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Thespis
Miracle Plays
Romanticism
Arena
8. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Royalty
Catharsis
Skene
Thespis
9. Central character
Alienation Effect
Copyright
Protagonist
Linear Plot
10. Body - voice - mind
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11. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Auditions
Actor's tools
Melodrama
Aesthetic Distance
12. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Bertolt Brecht
13. The area farthest away from the audience
Reversal
Liturgical Drama
Upstage
Director
14. Greatest dramatist of all time
Director
The Orestia
William Shakespeare
Broadway
15. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Vomitories
Playwright
Pageants
Off-off-Broadway
16. Historical accuracy
Plato
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Antiquarianism
Hypokrites
17. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Eugene Scribe
Antagonist
Catharsis
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
18. Secondary line of action
Subplot
Realism
Commedia Dell'Arte
Orchestra
19. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Casting Director
Empathy
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
20. Body - voice - mind
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21. When line of action suddenly switches
Concept
Reversal
Musical Theatre
Proscenium
22. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Callbacks
Henrik Ibsen
Royalty
23. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Thrust
Liturgical Drama
Plato
24. 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
University Wits
Rhetorical Tradition
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
25. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Commedia Dell'Arte
Costume Designer
Stage manager
Romanticism
26. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Plato
Emile Zola
Aesthetic Distance
27. 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
Reversal
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Ground plan
lighting designer
28. 'dancing space'
Dionysus
Orchestra
Downstage
Subtext
29. Saint's plays
Dialogue
Reversal
Miracle Plays
Neoclassic unities
30. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
The Globe
lighting designer
Rendering
31. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Theatron
Proscenium
William Shakespeare
32. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Eugene Scribe
Callbacks
Pageants
Proscenium
33. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Romantic Theory
Callbacks
Ground plan
Miracle Plays
34. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Melodrama
Stage manager
Hypokrites
Costume plot
35. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Black box
Designer
Thrust
University Wits
36. Generally rhyming
Protagonist
Verse
Liturgical Drama
Perspective Scenery
37. 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
Proscenium
Linear Plot
Downstage
Sense memory
38. Scenery
Linear Plot
Variables of costume design
Scenic Designer
Skene
39. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Antagonist
Stage Manager
Arena
40. Fee for each performance
Auditions
Bertolt Brecht
The Orestia
Royalty
41. Standard tool for casting productions
Representational
Sense memory
Bertolt Brecht
Auditions
42. Actor in 5th century Greece
William Shakespeare
Public Domain
Hypokrites
Henrik Ibsen
43. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Musical Theatre
Sense memory
Casting Director
Book musical
44. Directors who operate with total control
Perspective Scenery
Copyright
Representational
Auteur
45. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Perspective Scenery
The Orestia
Protagonist
Rhetorical Tradition
46. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Aristotle
The Globe
sound designer
Melodrama
47. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Producer
Sense memory
Morality Plays
Vomitories
48. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Costume plot
Designer's job
Cycles
Designer
49. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Presentational
Copyright
Mystery Plays
Vomitories
50. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
The Globe
Hypokrites
Public Domain