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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Hypokrites
Variables of costume design
Bertolt Brecht
Theatron
2. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Perspective Scenery
Variables of costume design
Pageants
Rendering
3. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Emile Zola
Miracle Plays
University Wits
Stage manager
4. First director
Verisimilitude
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
The Orestia
Rendering
5. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Concept
Realism
Vomitories
Costume plot
6. Was in favor of theater
Mystery Plays
Rhetorical Tradition
Aristotle
Constantin Stanislavski
7. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Off-Broadway
Scenic Designer
Actor's tools
Thrust
8. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Public Domain
Upstage
Rendering
Neoclassic unities
9. 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
Chorus
collaborator
Emile Zola
10. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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11. Seats 100-500; professional
Black box
Proscenium
Off-Broadway
Raked Stage
12. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Avant-Garde
Melodrama
Catharsis
Stage manager
13. 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
University Wits
Miracle Plays
14. 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.
Theatron
Chorus
Public Domain
Downstage
15. Action - place - time
Subplot
Presentational
Neoclassic unities
Types of professional theater
16. Handles business aspects of show
Producer
Theatron
University Wits
Realism
17. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Constantin Stanislavski
Aesthetic Distance
The Globe
18. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Neoclassic unities
Arena
lighting designer
Casting Director
19. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Dramaturg
lighting designer
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Raked Stage
20. Action - place - time
Thrust
Alienation Effect
Neoclassic unities
Slapstick
21. Body - voice - mind
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22. 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
Scenic Designer
Realism
Wings
Stage Manager
23. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Raked Stage
Callbacks
Black box
Representational
24. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Musical Theatre
William Shakespeare
Casting Director
Components of Production
25. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Dramaturg
Front of House
University Wits
Liturgical Drama
26. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
The Globe
Bertolt Brecht
Upstage
Rhetorical Tradition
27. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Constantin Stanislavski
Aesthetic Distance
Auditions
28. When line of action suddenly switches
Emile Zola
Avant-Garde
Representational
Reversal
29. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Bertolt Brecht
Mystery Plays
Designer
Sense memory
30. Generally rhyming
Upstage
Verse
collaborator
Ground plan
31. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Presentational
Concept
Commedia Dell'Arte
Neoclassicism
32. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Front of House
Neoclassicism
Arena
Orchestra
33. Planned actor movement
Aeschylus
Romantic Theory
Miracle Plays
Blocking
34. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Scenic Designer
Eugene Scribe
Romanticism
Arena
35. Fee for each performance
Stage Manager
Empathy
Royalty
Casting Director
36. Who or what opposes the central character
Antagonist
Thrust
Blocking
Director
37. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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38. 'dancing space'
Upstage
Book musical
Orchestra
Off-off-Broadway
39. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Vomitories
Neoclassic unities
Antiquarianism
Designer
40. 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
Orchestra
Designer's job
Off-off-Broadway
Downstage
41. Handles business aspects of show
Rhetorical Tradition
Verse
Producer
Ground plan
42. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Copyright
The Orestia
lighting designer
Antagonist
43. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Melodrama
Stage Manager
Arena
Conflict
44. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Representational
Miracle Plays
Stage Manager
45. God of wine and fertility
Blocking
Alienation Effect
Dionysus
Book musical
46. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Upstage
Empathy
Wings
The Globe
47. Author of play
Upstage
Playwright
Blocking
Skene
48. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Auteur
Rhetorical Tradition
Linear Plot
49. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Subtext
Linear Plot
Auteur
50. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Rhetorical Tradition
Designer's job
Book musical
Musical Theatre
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