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Theatre Appreciation 2
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Scenic Designer
Callbacks
Conflict
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
2. Oversees artistic aspects of show
William Shakespeare
Director
Types of professional theater
Dionysus
3. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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4. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Thespis
Aristophanes
Slapstick
Bertolt Brecht
5. Attempts to represent reality on stage
University Wits
Representational
Designer
Antiquarianism
6. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Royalty
Black box
Vomitories
Public Domain
7. Sentences/paragraph structure
Musical Theatre
Prose
Aesthetic Distance
Antiquarianism
8. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Catharsis
Romantic Theory
Aristophanes
9. Designs costumes for the show
Playwright
Antagonist
Costume Designer
Constantin Stanislavski
10. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Slapstick
Types of professional theater
Bertolt Brecht
11. 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
Proscenium
Auditions
Empathy
Alienation Effect
12. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Subplot
Miracle Plays
Subtext
13. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Raked Stage
Aeschylus
Producer
Prose
14. Spoken words
Protagonist
Dialogue
Realism
Alienation Effect
15. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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16. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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17. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Subplot
Verse
Avant-Garde
Melodrama
18. Actor in 5th century Greece
Hypokrites
Public Domain
Aristotle
Variables of costume design
19. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Dramaturg
Playwright
Henrik Ibsen
Vomitories
20. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Scenic Designer
The Orestia
Perspective Scenery
Royalty
21. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Emile Zola
The Globe
Dramaturg
sound designer
22. 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
Presentational
Miracle Plays
Constantin Stanislavski
Rendering
23. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Avant-Garde
Constantin Stanislavski
Auditions
Dionysus
24. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Romanticism
Constantin Stanislavski
Costume plot
Downstage
25. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Auditions
Antagonist
Concept
Components of Actor's job
26. Creates a visual home for the play
Antagonist
Scenic Designer
Slapstick
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
27. Was in favor of theater
Book musical
Components of Production
Aristotle
Plato
28. Directors who operate with total control
Antagonist
Auteur
Liturgical Drama
Emile Zola
29. Secondary line of action
Subplot
Royalty
Director
Verse
30. Director champions intention of playwright
William Shakespeare
Components of Production
Protagonist
collaborator
31. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Neoclassic unities
Types of professional theater
Thrust
32. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Emile Zola
Skene
Musical Theatre
Hypokrites
33. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
Skene
Stage manager
Playwright
34. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Auteur
Perspective Scenery
Skene
35. Director champions intention of playwright
Romanticism
lighting designer
Aeschylus
collaborator
36. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Blocking
Hypokrites
Playwright
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
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Prose
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Raked Stage
38. Directors who operate with total control
Auteur
Verisimilitude
Arena
Theatron
39. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Arena
Prose
The Orestia
40. Handles business aspects of show
Callbacks
Dramaturg
sound designer
Producer
41. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Director
Mystery Plays
Ground plan
Perspective Scenery
42. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Costume plot
Skene
Mystery Plays
Producer
43. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Arena
Director
Dionysus
Ground plan
44. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Downstage
Dialogue
Aristophanes
Casting Director
45. Author of play
Black box
Costume Designer
Blocking
Playwright
46. Fee for each performance
Perspective Scenery
Pageants
Proscenium
Royalty
47. Scenery
Skene
Director
Catharsis
Constantin Stanislavski
48. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Antiquarianism
Blocking
Thespis
49. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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50. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
The Globe
Components of Production
Bertolt Brecht
Wings