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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Liturgical Drama
Stage Manager
Components of Actor's job
Proscenium
2. Actor in 5th century Greece
University Wits
Upstage
Arena
Hypokrites
3. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Thespis
Playwright
Broadway
Wings
4. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Mystery Plays
Dramaturg
Musical Theatre
5. Central character
Protagonist
Dionysus
Slapstick
Black box
6. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Hypokrites
Copyright
Book musical
7. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Alienation Effect
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Thespis
8. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Auteur
Avant-Garde
Callbacks
Sense memory
9. First director
Bertolt Brecht
Types of professional theater
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Chorus
10. Planned actor movement
Melodrama
Realism
Blocking
Chorus
11. Body - voice - mind
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12. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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13. Planned actor movement
Verse
Musical Theatre
Blocking
Rhetorical Tradition
14. Fee for each performance
Neoclassic unities
Dialogue
Miracle Plays
Royalty
15. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Components of Production
Book musical
Subtext
Sense memory
16. Style of production that acknowledges theatricality and does not attempt to created the impression of 'real life' on the stage. Presentational scenery - costumes - and lighting may suggest - distort - or even abstract reality. Presentational acting m
collaborator
Presentational
Ground plan
Skene
17. Author of play
Director
Neoclassic unities
Playwright
Callbacks
18. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Alienation Effect
Pageants
Dramaturg
Mystery Plays
19. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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20. Was in favor of theater
Miracle Plays
Auteur
Reversal
Aristotle
21. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Linear Plot
Dramaturg
Plato
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
Protagonist
Romantic Theory
Copyright
sound designer
23. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Black box
Dramaturg
Ground plan
24. Central character
Producer
Blocking
Scenic Designer
Protagonist
25. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Copyright
sound designer
Neoclassic unities
Plato
26. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Stage manager
Neoclassicism
Romantic Theory
Sense memory
27. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Scenic Designer
Subtext
Emile Zola
Copyright
28. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
The Orestia
Components of Production
Proscenium
Proscenium
29. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Dialogue
Verisimilitude
Henrik Ibsen
Eugene Scribe
30. Handles business aspects of show
Theatron
Designer's job
Romanticism
Producer
31. Was in favor of theater
Empathy
Aristotle
Stage Manager
Actor's tools
32. Physical commedy
Eugene Scribe
Thrust
Off-Broadway
Slapstick
33. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Ground plan
sound designer
Alienation Effect
Upstage
34. God of wine and fertility
Producer
Dialogue
Dionysus
Components of Actor's job
35. Greatest dramatist of all time
Scenic Designer
William Shakespeare
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Director
36. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Dialogue
Thespis
Public Domain
Presentational
37. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Neoclassic unities
Henrik Ibsen
Rhetorical Tradition
Conflict
38. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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39. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Subplot
Rhetorical Tradition
Alienation Effect
Romanticism
40. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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41. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Linear Plot
Avant-Garde
lighting designer
Arena
42. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Director
lighting designer
Thespis
Avant-Garde
43. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Antiquarianism
Downstage
Designer
44. Sentences/paragraph structure
Auditions
Director
Prose
Off-off-Broadway
45. Creates a visual home for the play
The Orestia
Scenic Designer
Variables of costume design
Stage manager
46. The area farthest away from the audience
Orchestra
Aristophanes
Upstage
The Orestia
47. Generally rhyming
Stage Manager
Designer's job
Verse
Auteur
48. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
Aristotle
Perspective Scenery
Chorus
49. Historical accuracy
Playwright
Orchestra
Antiquarianism
Commedia Dell'Arte
50. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Cycles
University Wits
Conflict
Dionysus
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