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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.
Theatron
Royalty
Bertolt Brecht
Black box
2. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Thrust
Auditions
Antagonist
sound designer
3. Actor in 5th century Greece
Off-Broadway
Romantic Theory
Aristophanes
Hypokrites
4. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Wings
William Shakespeare
Costume plot
Cycles
5. Designs costumes for the show
Playwright
Bertolt Brecht
Costume Designer
Linear Plot
6. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Aesthetic Distance
Book musical
Black box
Skene
7. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Playwright
Costume Designer
Book musical
Constantin Stanislavski
8. Physical commedy
sound designer
Public Domain
Slapstick
sound designer
9. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Stage manager
Blocking
Producer
10. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Empathy
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Mystery Plays
Components of Production
11. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Subtext
Book musical
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Casting Director
12. 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
Rendering
Romantic Theory
Ground plan
Downstage
13. Author of play
Dialogue
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Antiquarianism
Playwright
14. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Vomitories
Constantin Stanislavski
Actor's tools
Rhetorical Tradition
15. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Rendering
sound designer
Thespis
16. Directors who operate with total control
Auteur
Thrust
Aristophanes
Dialogue
17. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Auteur
Neoclassicism
Actor's tools
Conflict
18. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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19. 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
Melodrama
Bertolt Brecht
Romantic Theory
Mystery Plays
20. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Royalty
Rhetorical Tradition
Concept
Ground plan
21. Generally rhyming
collaborator
Rhetorical Tradition
Designer
Verse
22. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Melodrama
Components of Actor's job
Types of professional theater
The Orestia
23. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Copyright
Proscenium
Eugene Scribe
Cycles
24. Style of production that acknowledges theatricality and does not attempt to created the impression of 'real life' on the stage. Presentational scenery - costumes - and lighting may suggest - distort - or even abstract reality. Presentational acting m
Scenic Designer
Copyright
Presentational
Neoclassic unities
25. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Types of professional theater
Dramaturg
Representational
26. Actor in 5th century Greece
Book musical
Sense memory
sound designer
Hypokrites
27. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Protagonist
Plato
Director
Producer
28. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Proscenium
Public Domain
Mystery Plays
29. Sentences/paragraph structure
Sense memory
Prose
Upstage
Playwright
30. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Dramaturg
Melodrama
Rendering
Costume Designer
31. Director champions intention of playwright
collaborator
Henrik Ibsen
Components of Actor's job
Producer
32. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Empathy
Pageants
Copyright
Theatron
33. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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34. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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35. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Thrust
Ground plan
Orchestra
36. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Proscenium
Pageants
Bertolt Brecht
37. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Scenic Designer
Cycles
Costume plot
38. Collection of mystery plays
Sense memory
Cycles
Variables of costume design
Raked Stage
39. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Dramaturg
Costume Designer
Orchestra
Plato
40. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Proscenium
Aristophanes
Callbacks
41. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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42. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Protagonist
Representational
Dionysus
Conflict
43. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Raked Stage
Vomitories
Royalty
Components of Production
44. 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
Director
Romantic Theory
Hypokrites
Alienation Effect
45. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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46. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Costume Designer
Neoclassic unities
Romanticism
47. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Auditions
Aesthetic Distance
Constantin Stanislavski
Hypokrites
48. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Off-Broadway
Upstage
Liturgical Drama
Verisimilitude
49. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
Aeschylus
The Orestia
Commedia Dell'Arte
50. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Vomitories
Stage Manager
Linear Plot
Front of House
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