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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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2. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Off-Broadway
Perspective Scenery
Representational
Arena
3. Physical commedy
Slapstick
Skene
Components of Production
Constantin Stanislavski
4. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Protagonist
Aeschylus
Linear Plot
Pageants
5. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Components of Actor's job
Bertolt Brecht
Arena
6. Was in favor of theater
Variables of costume design
Copyright
Cycles
Aristotle
7. 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
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Components of Production
Musical Theatre
Downstage
8. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Catharsis
Proscenium
Dialogue
9. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Morality Plays
Prose
Representational
Verisimilitude
10. 'seeing place'
Rhetorical Tradition
Playwright
Theatron
Concept
11. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Callbacks
Cycles
The Orestia
Types of professional theater
12. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
William Shakespeare
Playwright
Subplot
Costume plot
13. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Alienation Effect
Variables of costume design
Director
14. Directors who operate with total control
Empathy
Auteur
Mystery Plays
Sense memory
15. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Ground plan
Cycles
Public Domain
16. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Thrust
University Wits
Sense memory
Eugene Scribe
17. Changeable scenery for specific plays (tragedies - comedies - pastoral tragicomedies). Appeared as early as 1508 and standardized approaches to such scenery were popularized by Sebastian Serlio. Ex: Wings - flats
sound designer
Plato
Bertolt Brecht
Perspective Scenery
18. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Perspective Scenery
Broadway
Morality Plays
Melodrama
19. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Antagonist
Casting Director
Catharsis
Dialogue
20. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Downstage
The Globe
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Dionysus
21. God of wine and fertility
Dionysus
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Presentational
Front of House
22. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Verisimilitude
Representational
Director
Stage Manager
23. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
William Shakespeare
Aesthetic Distance
The Globe
Stage Manager
24. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Neoclassic unities
Romantic Theory
Pageants
25. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Musical Theatre
Theatron
Director
Broadway
26. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
The Globe
University Wits
Director
Director
27. First director
Rendering
Conflict
Plato
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
28. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Public Domain
The Orestia
Callbacks
Downstage
29. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Thespis
Arena
Empathy
University Wits
30. 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
Commedia Dell'Arte
Mystery Plays
Antiquarianism
Raked Stage
31. When line of action suddenly switches
Aristotle
Reversal
Broadway
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
32. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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33. Collection of mystery plays
The Globe
Dionysus
Cycles
Scenic Designer
34. 'dancing space'
Henrik Ibsen
Stage Manager
Orchestra
Rendering
35. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
The Globe
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Realism
Cycles
36. Director champions intention of playwright
Auteur
collaborator
Conflict
Aesthetic Distance
37. Central character
Components of Production
Stage manager
Protagonist
William Shakespeare
38. Historical accuracy
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Morality Plays
Antiquarianism
Bertolt Brecht
39. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Hypokrites
Liturgical Drama
Aristophanes
University Wits
40. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Downstage
Proscenium
Producer
Director
41. 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
Hypokrites
Rhetorical Tradition
Aristotle
Romantic Theory
42. Greatest dramatist of all time
Cycles
Representational
Prose
William Shakespeare
43. 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.
Copyright
Plato
Chorus
The Orestia
44. When line of action suddenly switches
Musical Theatre
Stage manager
Reversal
Director
45. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Verisimilitude
Designer
Ground plan
Hypokrites
46. Secondary line of action
lighting designer
Sense memory
Subplot
The Orestia
47. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Front of House
Melodrama
Producer
48. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Subtext
Reversal
Perspective Scenery
49. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Melodrama
Aesthetic Distance
Subtext
Commedia Dell'Arte
50. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Constantin Stanislavski
Sense memory
Aristotle
Liturgical Drama
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