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Theatre Appreciation 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
sound designer
Neoclassic unities
Henrik Ibsen
Neoclassicism
2. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Verse
Eugene Scribe
Aristotle
Broadway
3. Historical accuracy
Components of Production
Antagonist
Antiquarianism
Components of Actor's job
4. Historical accuracy
Romanticism
Antiquarianism
Cycles
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
5. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Neoclassic unities
sound designer
Black box
Stage Manager
6. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Callbacks
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Ground plan
7. 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
Front of House
Ground plan
Emile Zola
Blocking
8. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Aeschylus
The Orestia
Slapstick
University Wits
9. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Director
Melodrama
Protagonist
Musical Theatre
10. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Auteur
Proscenium
Concept
Wings
11. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Conflict
Callbacks
Empathy
Prose
12. Seats 100-500; professional
Copyright
Aristophanes
Upstage
Off-Broadway
13. 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.
Henrik Ibsen
Chorus
Protagonist
Representational
14. Action - place - time
Casting Director
Royalty
Emile Zola
Neoclassic unities
15. Physical commedy
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Slapstick
Blocking
Verse
16. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Romanticism
Bertolt Brecht
Reversal
Ground plan
17. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
William Shakespeare
Avant-Garde
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
lighting designer
18. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Black box
Components of Production
Dionysus
Subtext
19. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Neoclassicism
Public Domain
Skene
20. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Producer
Dionysus
Wings
Sense memory
21. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Black box
Constantin Stanislavski
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Romantic Theory
22. Body - voice - mind
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23. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Raked Stage
Constantin Stanislavski
Producer
24. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Thrust
Director
Pageants
Designer
25. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Commedia Dell'Arte
Skene
The Orestia
26. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Royalty
Thrust
Costume plot
Avant-Garde
27. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Emile Zola
Alienation Effect
Rhetorical Tradition
Vomitories
28. 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
William Shakespeare
Proscenium
Romanticism
29. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Actor's tools
Public Domain
Liturgical Drama
Stage Manager
30. Greatest dramatist of all time
William Shakespeare
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Designer's job
Verisimilitude
31. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Aesthetic Distance
Romanticism
Aeschylus
32. 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
Blocking
Proscenium
Henrik Ibsen
Dialogue
33. Standard tool for casting productions
Components of Production
Wings
Auditions
sound designer
34. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Variables of costume design
Components of Production
Public Domain
Front of House
35. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Constantin Stanislavski
Copyright
Chorus
Skene
36. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Auteur
Emile Zola
Raked Stage
Melodrama
37. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Alienation Effect
Plato
Avant-Garde
Bertolt Brecht
38. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Slapstick
Types of professional theater
Morality Plays
Antiquarianism
39. 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
Miracle Plays
Actor's tools
Eugene Scribe
40. Collection of mystery plays
Perspective Scenery
Cycles
Reversal
Director
41. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Romanticism
Black box
Downstage
Ground plan
42. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Stage Manager
Rendering
Off-off-Broadway
Representational
43. Handles business aspects of show
Producer
Antagonist
Mystery Plays
Front of House
44. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
lighting designer
Linear Plot
Presentational
Aesthetic Distance
45. 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
Designer
Ground plan
Actor's tools
Dialogue
46. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
University Wits
Melodrama
Perspective Scenery
47. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Mystery Plays
Perspective Scenery
Subtext
Public Domain
48. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Miracle Plays
Director
Designer's job
Aeschylus
49. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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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
Hypokrites
Orchestra
Romanticism
Realism