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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Stage manager
Cycles
The Orestia
Protagonist
2. Greatest dramatist of all time
William Shakespeare
Bertolt Brecht
Vomitories
Neoclassic unities
3. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Royalty
Raked Stage
Morality Plays
Neoclassic unities
4. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Public Domain
Subtext
Producer
Ground plan
5. 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
Neoclassicism
Downstage
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Playwright
6. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Henrik Ibsen
Callbacks
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Thespis
7. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Antagonist
Components of Production
Henrik Ibsen
Plato
8. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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9. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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10. Creates a visual home for the play
Aristophanes
Scenic Designer
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Bertolt Brecht
11. Author of play
Proscenium
Playwright
Aristophanes
Scenic Designer
12. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Representational
Dialogue
Musical Theatre
13. 'dancing space'
Orchestra
Dramaturg
Raked Stage
Musical Theatre
14. Greatest dramatist of all time
sound designer
Linear Plot
William Shakespeare
Proscenium
15. Designs costumes for the show
Musical Theatre
Casting Director
Emile Zola
Costume Designer
16. Collection of mystery plays
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Cycles
Black box
Producer
17. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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18. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Book musical
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Thrust
19. Directors who operate with total control
collaborator
Dialogue
Actor's tools
Auteur
20. Handles business aspects of show
Morality Plays
Orchestra
Protagonist
Producer
21. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Public Domain
Stage manager
Commedia Dell'Arte
Dionysus
22. Generally rhyming
Verisimilitude
Sense memory
Verse
Callbacks
23. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
The Globe
Liturgical Drama
Rendering
24. Body - voice - mind
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25. Was in favor of theater
Arena
The Orestia
Emile Zola
Aristotle
26. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Scenic Designer
Liturgical Drama
27. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Romantic Theory
Designer
Black box
Dialogue
28. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Cycles
Callbacks
Concept
Subtext
29. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Subplot
Auditions
Thrust
Types of professional theater
30. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Commedia Dell'Arte
collaborator
Black box
31. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Off-Broadway
Bertolt Brecht
Linear Plot
The Globe
32. 'seeing place'
Orchestra
Perspective Scenery
Theatron
Constantin Stanislavski
33. 'seeing place'
Callbacks
Aristophanes
Verisimilitude
Theatron
34. Scenery
collaborator
Avant-Garde
Blocking
Skene
35. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Prose
Types of professional theater
Broadway
Costume plot
36. Appearance of truth
Avant-Garde
University Wits
Vomitories
Verisimilitude
37. 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
Components of Production
Scenic Designer
Cycles
Raked Stage
38. Director champions intention of playwright
Orchestra
collaborator
Morality Plays
Dialogue
39. The area farthest away from the audience
Upstage
Presentational
Conflict
Cycles
40. Fee for each performance
Slapstick
Verse
Royalty
sound designer
41. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Aesthetic Distance
Mystery Plays
Director
Cycles
42. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Mystery Plays
Public Domain
Proscenium
Rhetorical Tradition
43. 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
Realism
Constantin Stanislavski
Romantic Theory
Catharsis
44. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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45. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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46. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Dialogue
Rhetorical Tradition
Casting Director
Proscenium
47. Directors who operate with total control
Prose
Auteur
The Orestia
Musical Theatre
48. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
sound designer
Thespis
Cycles
Liturgical Drama
49. 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
Eugene Scribe
Presentational
Antagonist
Rendering
50. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Reversal
Avant-Garde
The Orestia
Aeschylus
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