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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. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Royalty
William Shakespeare
Thespis
Protagonist
2. Creates a visual home for the play
Bertolt Brecht
Catharsis
Scenic Designer
Verisimilitude
3. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Wings
Slapstick
lighting designer
Director
4. Scenery
Skene
Realism
Verse
Variables of costume design
5. Seats 100-500; professional
Designer's job
Off-Broadway
Variables of costume design
Chorus
6. Director champions intention of playwright
Cycles
Callbacks
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
collaborator
7. 'seeing place'
Sense memory
Antiquarianism
Theatron
Emile Zola
8. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Constantin Stanislavski
Concept
Pageants
University Wits
9. God of wine and fertility
Rendering
Emile Zola
Subplot
Dionysus
10. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Antiquarianism
lighting designer
Constantin Stanislavski
Empathy
11. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Aesthetic Distance
Playwright
Costume plot
Bertolt Brecht
12. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Director
Front of House
Empathy
Henrik Ibsen
13. Generally rhyming
Verse
Neoclassicism
Romantic Theory
Components of Production
14. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Conflict
Morality Plays
Melodrama
Empathy
15. Physical commedy
Actor's tools
Aesthetic Distance
Liturgical Drama
Slapstick
16. First director
Miracle Plays
Aesthetic Distance
Skene
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
17. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Arena
Dramaturg
Mystery Plays
Types of professional theater
18. Spoken words
Rendering
Neoclassicism
Dialogue
lighting designer
19. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Melodrama
Perspective Scenery
Casting Director
Subplot
20. Scenery
Auteur
Perspective Scenery
Skene
Linear Plot
21. Action - place - time
Prose
Wings
Commedia Dell'Arte
Neoclassic unities
22. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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23. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Reversal
Thespis
Emile Zola
Designer
24. Who or what opposes the central character
Aesthetic Distance
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Antagonist
Linear Plot
25. Action - place - time
Aesthetic Distance
Neoclassic unities
lighting designer
Playwright
26. When line of action suddenly switches
Empathy
Rhetorical Tradition
Reversal
Vomitories
27. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Casting Director
Aesthetic Distance
Verse
Book musical
28. Seats 100-500; professional
Avant-Garde
Conflict
Off-Broadway
Neoclassicism
29. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Musical Theatre
Plato
Liturgical Drama
Vomitories
30. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Book musical
Actor's tools
Liturgical Drama
31. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Subplot
Realism
Proscenium
Romanticism
32. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Pageants
Antiquarianism
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Mystery Plays
33. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Henrik Ibsen
Rhetorical Tradition
Producer
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
34. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Actor's tools
Romanticism
Chorus
Director
35. God of wine and fertility
Stage manager
Dionysus
Raked Stage
lighting designer
36. Creates a visual home for the play
Melodrama
Liturgical Drama
Scenic Designer
Emile Zola
37. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Orchestra
Director
Components of Production
Liturgical Drama
38. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
lighting designer
Avant-Garde
Callbacks
sound designer
39. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Antagonist
Avant-Garde
Cycles
Melodrama
40. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Proscenium
Verisimilitude
Subtext
41. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Casting Director
Neoclassicism
Skene
Copyright
42. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Broadway
Upstage
Eugene Scribe
Theatron
43. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Ground plan
Thrust
Types of professional theater
collaborator
44. Appearance of truth
Designer's job
Romantic Theory
Director
Verisimilitude
45. 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
The Orestia
Rhetorical Tradition
Vomitories
Raked Stage
46. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Royalty
Off-off-Broadway
Eugene Scribe
Morality Plays
47. 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.
Chorus
Verisimilitude
Conflict
Emile Zola
48. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Broadway
Liturgical Drama
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Alienation Effect
49. 'dancing space'
Orchestra
Thespis
Aristophanes
Romantic Theory
50. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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