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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. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Off-off-Broadway
Reversal
Upstage
Eugene Scribe
2. The area farthest away from the audience
Stage manager
Orchestra
Presentational
Upstage
3. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Director
Alienation Effect
Dialogue
Dionysus
4. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Aristophanes
Melodrama
Alienation Effect
Casting Director
5. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Aristophanes
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
William Shakespeare
6. Who or what opposes the central character
Aristophanes
Orchestra
Subtext
Antagonist
7. Planned actor movement
Callbacks
Plato
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Blocking
8. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Aristophanes
Designer
Vomitories
Casting Director
9. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Concept
Vomitories
Aesthetic Distance
Rhetorical Tradition
10. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Verisimilitude
Components of Actor's job
Vomitories
Melodrama
11. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
William Shakespeare
Alienation Effect
Reversal
Romanticism
12. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Rendering
Director
Realism
Skene
13. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
The Globe
Blocking
Subplot
Copyright
14. Physical commedy
Aesthetic Distance
Thespis
Slapstick
Off-off-Broadway
15. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
Catharsis
William Shakespeare
Book musical
16. First director
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Romanticism
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Antagonist
17. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
The Globe
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aristophanes
Morality Plays
18. When line of action suddenly switches
Reversal
Verisimilitude
Stage manager
Types of professional theater
19. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
20. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Components of Actor's job
Verisimilitude
collaborator
21. Actor in 5th century Greece
Morality Plays
Slapstick
Theatron
Hypokrites
22. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Slapstick
sound designer
Stage Manager
Empathy
23. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Romanticism
Henrik Ibsen
Book musical
Alienation Effect
24. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
sound designer
Hypokrites
Casting Director
Liturgical Drama
25. Planned actor movement
Aristophanes
Director
Blocking
Neoclassic unities
26. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Chorus
Thrust
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Neoclassicism
27. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
28. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Off-off-Broadway
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Auditions
29. Sentences/paragraph structure
Vomitories
Prose
Actor's tools
Concept
30. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Eugene Scribe
Dionysus
Designer's job
31. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Melodrama
Alienation Effect
Costume plot
Producer
32. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Concept
Downstage
Romantic Theory
Playwright
33. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Slapstick
Liturgical Drama
Bertolt Brecht
Book musical
34. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Thrust
Scenic Designer
Components of Production
Concept
35. 'dancing space'
Liturgical Drama
Orchestra
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Dialogue
36. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Components of Production
Callbacks
Conflict
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
37. 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
Empathy
Concept
Romantic Theory
Costume Designer
38. Scenery
Components of Production
Theatron
Reversal
Skene
39. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Public Domain
Empathy
Aesthetic Distance
Casting Director
40. 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.
William Shakespeare
Presentational
Miracle Plays
Chorus
41. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
Verisimilitude
Dialogue
Black box
42. Standard tool for casting productions
Raked Stage
Neoclassic unities
Perspective Scenery
Auditions
43. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Off-off-Broadway
Arena
Wings
Dramaturg
44. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Arena
Stage manager
Verisimilitude
Morality Plays
45. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Auditions
Thespis
Producer
46. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Realism
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Public Domain
lighting designer
47. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Chorus
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Avant-Garde
Rendering
48. Author of play
Thrust
Playwright
Auteur
Scenic Designer
49. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Thrust
Director
Representational
Casting Director
50. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Costume Designer
Linear Plot
Musical Theatre
Catharsis