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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. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Neoclassicism
Off-Broadway
Rendering
2. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Rhetorical Tradition
Actor's tools
Royalty
3. Greatest dramatist of all time
Playwright
Raked Stage
William Shakespeare
Plato
4. Body - voice - mind
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5. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Linear Plot
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Plato
University Wits
6. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Commedia Dell'Arte
Reversal
Sense memory
Emile Zola
7. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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8. 'dancing space'
William Shakespeare
Orchestra
Alienation Effect
Book musical
9. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
Director
Perspective Scenery
Producer
10. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Playwright
Representational
Stage manager
Thrust
11. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Aeschylus
lighting designer
Costume plot
Commedia Dell'Arte
12. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
sound designer
Public Domain
Skene
Upstage
13. Actor in 5th century Greece
Aesthetic Distance
Hypokrites
Raked Stage
Chorus
14. Action - place - time
Orchestra
Realism
Reversal
Neoclassic unities
15. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Arena
Antagonist
Concept
Downstage
16. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Empathy
Constantin Stanislavski
Director
Linear Plot
17. 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
Catharsis
Presentational
Avant-Garde
Verisimilitude
18. Scenery
Catharsis
Skene
Sense memory
Aristophanes
19. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
University Wits
Empathy
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
20. Secondary line of action
Antiquarianism
Concept
Types of professional theater
Subplot
21. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Antiquarianism
Front of House
Avant-Garde
Reversal
22. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
The Globe
Public Domain
Book musical
Plato
23. Spoken words
Dialogue
Auteur
Realism
Realism
24. Handles business aspects of show
Producer
Reversal
Wings
Constantin Stanislavski
25. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Neoclassic unities
Vomitories
Protagonist
Types of professional theater
26. 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
Front of House
lighting designer
sound designer
Proscenium
27. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Variables of costume design
Public Domain
Royalty
Romantic Theory
28. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aristophanes
Proscenium
Dialogue
Designer
29. Generally rhyming
Romanticism
Verse
Cycles
Dramaturg
30. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Emile Zola
Concept
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Auteur
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
Mystery Plays
Romantic Theory
Protagonist
Auteur
32. Fee for each performance
Antagonist
Liturgical Drama
University Wits
Royalty
33. 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.
Chorus
Eugene Scribe
Actor's tools
Actor's tools
34. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Mystery Plays
Callbacks
Melodrama
Presentational
35. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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36. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Emile Zola
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Playwright
Book musical
37. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Thespis
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Dialogue
Proscenium
38. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Slapstick
Musical Theatre
39. Sentences/paragraph structure
Melodrama
Cycles
Prose
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
40. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Off-off-Broadway
Antiquarianism
Proscenium
Vomitories
41. 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
Downstage
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Miracle Plays
Director
42. Standard tool for casting productions
Auditions
collaborator
Callbacks
Dionysus
43. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Catharsis
Dramaturg
Commedia Dell'Arte
44. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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45. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Variables of costume design
Avant-Garde
Playwright
Cycles
46. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Auditions
Producer
Commedia Dell'Arte
Sense memory
47. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Variables of costume design
Designer's job
Perspective Scenery
Costume plot
48. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Linear Plot
Avant-Garde
Sense memory
49. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Subtext
Slapstick
Dionysus
Melodrama
50. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Orchestra
Costume Designer
Front of House
Aristophanes