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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Stage Manager
Proscenium
Callbacks
Perspective Scenery
2. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Rhetorical Tradition
sound designer
Aristotle
3. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Royalty
The Globe
The Orestia
Public Domain
4. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Downstage
Neoclassicism
Front of House
Broadway
5. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Rendering
Melodrama
Dionysus
Components of Actor's job
6. 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.
Playwright
Chorus
Neoclassicism
Thrust
7. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Morality Plays
Catharsis
Proscenium
lighting designer
8. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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9. Scenery
Skene
Upstage
Antiquarianism
Wings
10. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Avant-Garde
Romanticism
Scenic Designer
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
11. The area farthest away from the audience
Stage Manager
Director
Stage manager
Upstage
12. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
Melodrama
Orchestra
Playwright
13. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Callbacks
Costume Designer
Rendering
Chorus
14. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Prose
Proscenium
Concept
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
15. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Commedia Dell'Arte
collaborator
Antagonist
16. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Variables of costume design
Perspective Scenery
Off-off-Broadway
lighting designer
17. Body - voice - mind
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18. Fee for each performance
Theatron
Front of House
Royalty
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
19. 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
Public Domain
Mystery Plays
Downstage
Neoclassic unities
20. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Constantin Stanislavski
Public Domain
Casting Director
Auteur
21. Fee for each performance
Upstage
Henrik Ibsen
Rendering
Royalty
22. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Costume plot
Dramaturg
Liturgical Drama
Representational
23. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Costume plot
Presentational
Producer
Public Domain
24. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Stage manager
Components of Actor's job
Black box
25. Spoken words
Melodrama
The Orestia
Dialogue
Romantic Theory
26. Actor in 5th century Greece
Hypokrites
Commedia Dell'Arte
Costume Designer
Empathy
27. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Thrust
Components of Production
Off-off-Broadway
Sense memory
28. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Public Domain
Catharsis
Alienation Effect
Melodrama
29. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Antagonist
The Orestia
Eugene Scribe
Callbacks
30. Action - place - time
Antiquarianism
Producer
Romantic Theory
Neoclassic unities
31. Collection of mystery plays
Conflict
William Shakespeare
Antiquarianism
Cycles
32. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Auteur
Avant-Garde
Auditions
33. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Empathy
Scenic Designer
Mystery Plays
Reversal
34. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
The Globe
Commedia Dell'Arte
Raked Stage
Theatron
35. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Romantic Theory
Conflict
Liturgical Drama
Downstage
36. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Front of House
Callbacks
Book musical
Representational
37. Directors who operate with total control
Raked Stage
Constantin Stanislavski
Dionysus
Auteur
38. The area farthest away from the audience
Auteur
Empathy
Upstage
Royalty
39. Scenery
Skene
Subtext
Catharsis
Vomitories
40. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Public Domain
Miracle Plays
Aesthetic Distance
Hypokrites
41. 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
Dialogue
Ground plan
Aeschylus
Presentational
42. Designs costumes for the show
Stage manager
Variables of costume design
Concept
Costume Designer
43. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
Book musical
Concept
Antagonist
44. Who or what opposes the central character
Constantin Stanislavski
Antagonist
Prose
Dialogue
45. Director champions intention of playwright
Dramaturg
Sense memory
Skene
collaborator
46. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Auteur
Copyright
Chorus
Rhetorical Tradition
47. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Thrust
Constantin Stanislavski
Bertolt Brecht
William Shakespeare
48. 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
Cycles
Public Domain
Romantic Theory
Orchestra
49. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Empathy
Raked Stage
Downstage
Off-Broadway
50. God of wine and fertility
Downstage
Dionysus
Components of Actor's job
Theatron
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