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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. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Catharsis
Costume plot
Dionysus
Miracle Plays
2. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Catharsis
Cycles
Romantic Theory
Variables of costume design
3. When line of action suddenly switches
Subplot
Subtext
Cycles
Reversal
4. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Commedia Dell'Arte
Chorus
Romantic Theory
Alienation Effect
5. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Director
Dionysus
Cycles
Aesthetic Distance
6. Author of play
Wings
Playwright
Protagonist
Antiquarianism
7. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Skene
Melodrama
Stage Manager
Representational
8. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Copyright
Commedia Dell'Arte
Thespis
Producer
9. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Perspective Scenery
Costume plot
Melodrama
Hypokrites
10. Scenery
Orchestra
Perspective Scenery
Morality Plays
Skene
11. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Presentational
Downstage
Skene
12. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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13. Actor in 5th century Greece
Ground plan
Conflict
Romanticism
Hypokrites
14. Historical accuracy
collaborator
Antiquarianism
Empathy
Costume plot
15. 'seeing place'
Realism
Theatron
Dionysus
Orchestra
16. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Bertolt Brecht
Catharsis
Sense memory
Types of professional theater
17. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Components of Actor's job
Representational
Aristotle
18. 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
Proscenium
Black box
Perspective Scenery
Verse
19. 'dancing space'
Orchestra
Cycles
Presentational
Neoclassic unities
20. Actor in 5th century Greece
Morality Plays
Stage Manager
Blocking
Hypokrites
21. 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 Actor's job
Raked Stage
Sense memory
Romantic Theory
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
Orchestra
Romantic Theory
Empathy
Skene
23. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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24. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Empathy
Commedia Dell'Arte
Mystery Plays
Aristophanes
25. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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26. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Mystery Plays
Black box
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
27. Sentences/paragraph structure
Broadway
The Globe
Prose
Presentational
28. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Dramaturg
Designer's job
Mystery Plays
Stage Manager
29. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
University Wits
Callbacks
Auditions
Linear Plot
30. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Stage Manager
Musical Theatre
Ground plan
31. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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32. Saint's plays
Slapstick
Catharsis
Director
Miracle Plays
33. Generally rhyming
Aristophanes
Dramaturg
Components of Production
Verse
34. Appearance of truth
Miracle Plays
Verisimilitude
Dramaturg
Components of Production
35. Collection of mystery plays
Ground plan
Realism
Cycles
University Wits
36. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Antagonist
sound designer
Actor's tools
Auditions
37. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Costume Designer
Subtext
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Off-off-Broadway
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
Reversal
Skene
Ground plan
Orchestra
39. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Dionysus
Producer
Aeschylus
Proscenium
40. 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
Antagonist
Romanticism
University Wits
Proscenium
41. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Pageants
Callbacks
Antagonist
42. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Proscenium
Blocking
Book musical
The Orestia
43. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Empathy
Hypokrites
Aristophanes
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
44. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Upstage
Catharsis
Antiquarianism
Pageants
45. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Proscenium
Representational
Avant-Garde
46. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Components of Actor's job
Skene
Vomitories
Costume plot
47. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
Protagonist
Conflict
Vomitories
48. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
The Globe
Presentational
Concept
Concept
49. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Avant-Garde
Henrik Ibsen
Broadway
Upstage
50. 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
Front of House
Realism
Aristophanes
Callbacks