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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. Designs costumes for the show
Designer's job
Black box
Costume Designer
Public Domain
2. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Verse
Royalty
The Orestia
3. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
William Shakespeare
Types of professional theater
Costume plot
Stage manager
4. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Rhetorical Tradition
Empathy
Chorus
Thrust
5. A movement of the late 19th century championing the depiction of everyday life on the stage and the frank treatment of social problems in the theatre. The plays of Henrick Ibsen of the 1870s were important in establishing a dramatic style for realism
Liturgical Drama
Costume Designer
Morality Plays
Realism
6. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Antagonist
Cycles
Neoclassicism
Thrust
7. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Sense memory
Blocking
Auditions
Empathy
8. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Mystery Plays
Commedia Dell'Arte
Raked Stage
Aesthetic Distance
9. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Plato
Perspective Scenery
Ground plan
10. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Thrust
Mystery Plays
Copyright
Auditions
11. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Subtext
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Neoclassicism
12. Scenery
Skene
Catharsis
Proscenium
Neoclassic unities
13. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Slapstick
Melodrama
Callbacks
Downstage
14. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Catharsis
Raked Stage
Skene
15. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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16. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Neoclassic unities
Verisimilitude
Stage manager
Rendering
17. 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
Aristotle
Thespis
Ground plan
18. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Perspective Scenery
Romanticism
Catharsis
Playwright
19. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Scenic Designer
Representational
Vomitories
Plato
20. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Verisimilitude
Callbacks
Aristotle
Linear Plot
21. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Linear Plot
Miracle Plays
Stage Manager
Designer
22. 'dancing space'
Actor's tools
Realism
Orchestra
Constantin Stanislavski
23. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Callbacks
Verisimilitude
Musical Theatre
Catharsis
24. 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
Neoclassic unities
Slapstick
Romantic Theory
Romanticism
25. God of wine and fertility
Auditions
Costume plot
Auditions
Dionysus
26. Designs costumes for the show
Reversal
Types of professional theater
Auteur
Costume Designer
27. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aristophanes
Orchestra
Realism
Components of Production
28. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Concept
University Wits
Aristophanes
Casting Director
29. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Sense memory
Costume plot
Auteur
Copyright
30. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Slapstick
Melodrama
sound designer
Dionysus
31. 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
Perspective Scenery
Orchestra
Romantic Theory
Designer
32. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Components of Production
The Globe
lighting designer
Components of Production
33. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Broadway
Callbacks
Director
Concept
34. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Alienation Effect
Empathy
Callbacks
35. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Black box
The Orestia
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
The Globe
36. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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37. Director champions intention of playwright
Proscenium
Miracle Plays
Reversal
collaborator
38. 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
Protagonist
Proscenium
Emile Zola
Aesthetic Distance
39. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Designer
Morality Plays
Public Domain
Types of professional theater
40. Action - place - time
Scenic Designer
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Neoclassic unities
Scenic Designer
41. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Public Domain
Eugene Scribe
Aesthetic Distance
Realism
42. Appearance of truth
Sense memory
Verisimilitude
Producer
Public Domain
43. Creates a visual home for the play
Scenic Designer
Orchestra
Hypokrites
Melodrama
44. Author of play
Copyright
Playwright
Black box
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
45. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Liturgical Drama
Designer's job
Book musical
Aeschylus
46. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
The Orestia
Aeschylus
Callbacks
Actor's tools
47. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Representational
Arena
Romantic Theory
Book musical
48. 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
sound designer
Morality Plays
Prose
Downstage
49. Greatest dramatist of all time
Aristotle
William Shakespeare
Producer
Emile Zola
50. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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