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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. Appearance of truth
Eugene Scribe
Verisimilitude
Commedia Dell'Arte
Callbacks
2. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
sound designer
Presentational
Book musical
Proscenium
3. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
4. Seats 500-1800; professional.
The Orestia
Aesthetic Distance
Broadway
Protagonist
5. Director champions intention of playwright
Playwright
Casting Director
collaborator
Proscenium
6. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Producer
The Globe
Antiquarianism
7. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Actor's tools
William Shakespeare
Aristophanes
Bertolt Brecht
8. Spoken words
Liturgical Drama
Thrust
Plato
Dialogue
9. Action - place - time
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Components of Production
Verisimilitude
Neoclassic unities
10. 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
Avant-Garde
Actor's tools
Dramaturg
Romantic Theory
11. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Off-Broadway
Proscenium
Arena
Commedia Dell'Arte
12. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Book musical
Realism
Dialogue
Morality Plays
13. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Upstage
Skene
Components of Actor's job
14. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Morality Plays
University Wits
Designer
Arena
15. Actor in 5th century Greece
Commedia Dell'Arte
Plato
Hypokrites
Book musical
16. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Components of Production
Morality Plays
Casting Director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
17. Directors who operate with total control
Vomitories
Verisimilitude
Auteur
Aristophanes
18. Collection of mystery plays
Ground plan
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Cycles
University Wits
19. Secondary line of action
Auditions
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Subplot
Casting Director
20. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aristotle
Components of Production
Linear Plot
21. 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
Catharsis
Director
Realism
Commedia Dell'Arte
22. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
The Globe
Off-off-Broadway
Thrust
Musical Theatre
23. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
sound designer
Vomitories
Downstage
Slapstick
24. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Costume plot
Neoclassic unities
Callbacks
Upstage
25. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Stage manager
Liturgical Drama
Henrik Ibsen
Cycles
26. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Costume plot
Copyright
Romanticism
collaborator
27. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Public Domain
Director
Thespis
University Wits
28. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
William Shakespeare
Conflict
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
29. Designs costumes for the show
Skene
Orchestra
Auditions
Costume Designer
30. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Theatron
University Wits
Plato
Types of professional theater
31. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Off-off-Broadway
Stage Manager
Romantic Theory
Thespis
32. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Front of House
Representational
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Miracle Plays
33. Collection of mystery plays
Actor's tools
Royalty
Components of Production
Cycles
34. Saint's plays
Miracle Plays
Musical Theatre
Blocking
Pageants
35. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Representational
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Designer
Front of House
36. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Book musical
Aristophanes
Cycles
Subtext
37. Seats 100-500; professional
Orchestra
Components of Production
Morality Plays
Off-Broadway
38. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Neoclassicism
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Constantin Stanislavski
Skene
39. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Playwright
Scenic Designer
Empathy
Theatron
40. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Prose
Reversal
Types of professional theater
Dialogue
41. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
42. Standard tool for casting productions
Auditions
Prose
Neoclassicism
Rhetorical Tradition
43. Scenery
Skene
Proscenium
Aesthetic Distance
Avant-Garde
44. The area farthest away from the audience
Designer
Components of Actor's job
Conflict
Upstage
45. Scenery
Avant-Garde
Skene
Dramaturg
Public Domain
46. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Cycles
Romanticism
Linear Plot
Liturgical Drama
47. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Protagonist
Henrik Ibsen
Prose
48. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Arena
Henrik Ibsen
Orchestra
Empathy
49. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Auditions
Stage Manager
lighting designer
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
50. Generally rhyming
Henrik Ibsen
Empathy
Verse
Romanticism