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Theatre Appreciation 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Miracle Plays
Downstage
Orchestra
2. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Off-off-Broadway
Hypokrites
Henrik Ibsen
Arena
3. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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4. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Antiquarianism
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Proscenium
5. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Liturgical Drama
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Musical Theatre
Off-off-Broadway
6. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
Proscenium
lighting designer
Pageants
7. Saint's plays
Liturgical Drama
Orchestra
Miracle Plays
Theatron
8. Standard tool for casting productions
Emile Zola
Sense memory
Chorus
Auditions
9. 'seeing place'
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
collaborator
Broadway
Theatron
10. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Dionysus
Pageants
Rhetorical Tradition
Scenic Designer
11. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
collaborator
Neoclassicism
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Aristophanes
12. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
The Orestia
Stage manager
Book musical
Neoclassic unities
13. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Aristophanes
Dramaturg
Designer
Arena
14. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Variables of costume design
Eugene Scribe
Proscenium
Plato
15. The area farthest away from the audience
Aesthetic Distance
Antiquarianism
collaborator
Upstage
16. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Off-off-Broadway
Downstage
Avant-Garde
Casting Director
17. 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
Proscenium
Casting Director
Raked Stage
Playwright
18. Director champions intention of playwright
Broadway
collaborator
Variables of costume design
Neoclassicism
19. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Playwright
Skene
Aeschylus
lighting designer
20. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Thrust
Aesthetic Distance
Pageants
21. Collection of mystery plays
Broadway
Avant-Garde
Wings
Cycles
22. Directors who operate with total control
Morality Plays
Auteur
Alienation Effect
The Globe
23. Physical commedy
sound designer
Constantin Stanislavski
Rhetorical Tradition
Slapstick
24. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Sense memory
Conflict
Types of professional theater
25. Generally rhyming
Director
Verse
Plato
Callbacks
26. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Stage Manager
Stage manager
Wings
Plato
27. Seats 100-500; professional
Broadway
Off-Broadway
Costume plot
Protagonist
28. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Mystery Plays
Aesthetic Distance
Downstage
Producer
29. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
collaborator
Upstage
Thrust
Conflict
30. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Neoclassic unities
Slapstick
Conflict
Dialogue
31. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Antagonist
Designer's job
Romanticism
32. Historical accuracy
Types of professional theater
Antiquarianism
Bertolt Brecht
Arena
33. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Avant-Garde
Dionysus
Eugene Scribe
Representational
34. 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
Royalty
Off-off-Broadway
Downstage
The Orestia
35. Designs costumes for the show
The Globe
Auteur
Costume Designer
Components of Actor's job
36. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Alienation Effect
Proscenium
Callbacks
37. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Off-Broadway
Aeschylus
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Constantin Stanislavski
38. Was in favor of theater
Prose
Slapstick
Aristotle
Hypokrites
39. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Actor's tools
Aristophanes
Rendering
Director
40. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Alienation Effect
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Off-Broadway
41. Who or what opposes the central character
Off-off-Broadway
Proscenium
Antagonist
Variables of costume design
42. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Eugene Scribe
Cycles
Catharsis
43. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Concept
Vomitories
Aristotle
The Globe
44. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Slapstick
Bertolt Brecht
Linear Plot
Types of professional theater
45. Greatest dramatist of all time
Royalty
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Arena
William Shakespeare
46. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Front of House
Conflict
Liturgical Drama
Public Domain
47. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Copyright
William Shakespeare
Aesthetic Distance
The Globe
48. Greatest dramatist of all time
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
William Shakespeare
Off-off-Broadway
University Wits
49. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Avant-Garde
Henrik Ibsen
Thespis
Broadway
50. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Catharsis
Commedia Dell'Arte
Subtext
The Globe