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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. Greatest dramatist of all time
Alienation Effect
William Shakespeare
Antiquarianism
Costume plot
2. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Eugene Scribe
Broadway
collaborator
Public Domain
3. 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
Eugene Scribe
Raked Stage
Constantin Stanislavski
Catharsis
4. When line of action suddenly switches
Orchestra
Representational
Proscenium
Reversal
5. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Dramaturg
Empathy
Romanticism
Subplot
6. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Eugene Scribe
Representational
Director
Arena
7. 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
Miracle Plays
Components of Actor's job
The Orestia
Raked Stage
8. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Slapstick
Off-off-Broadway
Plato
William Shakespeare
9. Historical accuracy
Stage manager
Proscenium
Downstage
Antiquarianism
10. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Skene
Stage manager
Henrik Ibsen
Realism
11. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
sound designer
Chorus
Subtext
Liturgical Drama
12. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Alienation Effect
Callbacks
Wings
Subplot
13. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Subtext
Royalty
Aeschylus
Commedia Dell'Arte
14. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Musical Theatre
Skene
Aristophanes
Catharsis
15. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Dionysus
Presentational
University Wits
Pageants
16. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Protagonist
Director
Concept
Broadway
17. Saint's plays
Liturgical Drama
Auditions
Miracle Plays
Protagonist
18. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Perspective Scenery
The Orestia
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
19. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Upstage
Blocking
Vomitories
Commedia Dell'Arte
20. 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.
Types of professional theater
Costume Designer
Proscenium
Chorus
21. 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
The Globe
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Variables of costume design
22. 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
Pageants
Romantic Theory
Blocking
Theatron
23. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Antagonist
Components of Production
Stage manager
Front of House
24. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
The Orestia
Theatron
Types of professional theater
Copyright
25. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Skene
Aristophanes
Wings
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
26. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Concept
Eugene Scribe
Director
Liturgical Drama
27. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Actor's tools
The Globe
Stage manager
Alienation Effect
28. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Vomitories
Dionysus
Eugene Scribe
Chorus
29. Director champions intention of playwright
collaborator
Eugene Scribe
Catharsis
Thrust
30. When line of action suddenly switches
Aesthetic Distance
collaborator
Reversal
Antiquarianism
31. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Aeschylus
Aristotle
Melodrama
Conflict
32. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Costume Designer
Romanticism
Downstage
33. 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
Romanticism
Proscenium
Callbacks
Linear Plot
34. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Costume plot
Neoclassic unities
Commedia Dell'Arte
35. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Perspective Scenery
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Neoclassic unities
Front of House
36. Physical commedy
Auditions
Constantin Stanislavski
Subplot
Slapstick
37. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Eugene Scribe
Broadway
Aeschylus
Presentational
38. A drafting of the plan of the set as seen from overhead. A ground plan shows where any scenic pieces or set props (such as furniture) are to be placed
Ground plan
Actor's tools
Casting Director
Verisimilitude
39. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Musical Theatre
Aristotle
Costume plot
Melodrama
40. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Concept
Dramaturg
Vomitories
Dramaturg
41. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Playwright
The Globe
Chorus
Slapstick
42. Planned actor movement
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Blocking
Neoclassic unities
Presentational
43. Creates a visual home for the play
Emile Zola
Downstage
Catharsis
Scenic Designer
44. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Antiquarianism
Antiquarianism
Director
Prose
45. Physical commedy
Broadway
Slapstick
Arena
Dialogue
46. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Concept
Copyright
Blocking
Wings
47. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Book musical
Actor's tools
Neoclassicism
48. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Neoclassic unities
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
sound designer
Bertolt Brecht
49. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Downstage
Avant-Garde
Aristotle
50. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Scenic Designer
Casting Director
Types of professional theater