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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Alienation Effect
Plato
William Shakespeare
Proscenium
2. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Costume plot
Pageants
collaborator
Dramaturg
3. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Raked Stage
Concept
Broadway
4. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aristophanes
Antiquarianism
Empathy
Cycles
5. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Protagonist
Black box
Pageants
Constantin Stanislavski
6. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Musical Theatre
Off-off-Broadway
Director
Subplot
7. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Stage Manager
Costume Designer
Royalty
University Wits
8. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
9. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Aeschylus
Director
Vomitories
sound designer
10. 'seeing place'
Theatron
collaborator
Aesthetic Distance
Presentational
11. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
12. Saint's plays
Neoclassic unities
Miracle Plays
Alienation Effect
Romantic Theory
13. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Rendering
Scenic Designer
Emile Zola
14. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Ground plan
Scenic Designer
Designer
collaborator
15. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Orchestra
Avant-Garde
Bertolt Brecht
Copyright
16. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Components of Production
Concept
Aeschylus
17. Sentences/paragraph structure
Subtext
Prose
Conflict
Arena
18. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Black box
Front of House
Aesthetic Distance
Plato
19. Seats 500-1800; professional.
collaborator
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Broadway
Representational
20. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Types of professional theater
The Orestia
Thespis
Scenic Designer
21. Actor in 5th century Greece
Subtext
Representational
Aristotle
Hypokrites
22. Generally rhyming
Empathy
Pageants
Verse
Bertolt Brecht
23. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Realism
Black box
Prose
Auditions
24. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Perspective Scenery
lighting designer
Director
Liturgical Drama
25. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Components of Actor's job
Blocking
Presentational
Variables of costume design
26. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Empathy
Types of professional theater
Cycles
The Globe
27. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
28. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Designer
Costume plot
Reversal
Dramaturg
29. A movement of the late 19th century championing the depiction of everyday life on the stage and the frank treatment of social problems in the theatre. The plays of Henrick Ibsen of the 1870s were important in establishing a dramatic style for realism
Actor's tools
sound designer
Realism
Wings
30. 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
The Orestia
Copyright
Orchestra
31. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Dramaturg
Musical Theatre
Cycles
Alienation Effect
32. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Verse
Callbacks
Variables of costume design
William Shakespeare
33. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Variables of costume design
Costume plot
Dionysus
34. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Catharsis
Skene
Blocking
Off-Broadway
35. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Stage manager
Rendering
Romantic Theory
sound designer
36. Greatest dramatist of all time
William Shakespeare
Theatron
Neoclassicism
Avant-Garde
37. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Front of House
The Orestia
Orchestra
Auditions
38. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Dramaturg
William Shakespeare
Producer
Public Domain
39. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Romanticism
Components of Actor's job
Bertolt Brecht
Upstage
40. Generally rhyming
Thespis
Variables of costume design
Verse
Rhetorical Tradition
41. Physical commedy
Skene
Slapstick
Presentational
Proscenium
42. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Auteur
Verse
Commedia Dell'Arte
Broadway
43. Collection of mystery plays
Chorus
Public Domain
Verisimilitude
Cycles
44. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Arena
Ground plan
Dialogue
Emile Zola
45. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Off-off-Broadway
Thrust
lighting designer
Aristotle
46. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Melodrama
Linear Plot
Book musical
Director
47. Secondary line of action
lighting designer
Emile Zola
Subplot
Stage manager
48. Central character
Protagonist
Off-Broadway
Bertolt Brecht
Playwright
49. 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
Subtext
Ground plan
Liturgical Drama
Skene
50. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Aeschylus
Dionysus
Conflict