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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. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Emile Zola
Components of Actor's job
Mystery Plays
Neoclassic unities
2. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Thrust
Components of Production
Romanticism
Alienation Effect
3. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Royalty
Producer
Morality Plays
4. Sentences/paragraph structure
Miracle Plays
Downstage
Henrik Ibsen
Prose
5. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Aeschylus
Auditions
Liturgical Drama
Wings
6. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Costume plot
Romantic Theory
Miracle Plays
Stage manager
7. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Skene
Antiquarianism
Eugene Scribe
collaborator
8. Body - voice - mind
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9. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Downstage
Broadway
Pageants
Bertolt Brecht
10. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Dionysus
Off-off-Broadway
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Arena
11. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Scenic Designer
Components of Production
Upstage
Auditions
12. Director champions intention of playwright
Protagonist
Henrik Ibsen
collaborator
Musical Theatre
13. The area farthest away from the audience
Antiquarianism
Skene
Components of Actor's job
Upstage
14. Handles business aspects of show
Aristotle
Producer
Dramaturg
Dramaturg
15. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Scenic Designer
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Casting Director
Slapstick
16. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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17. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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18. Was in favor of theater
Copyright
Aristotle
Stage Manager
Theatron
19. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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20. Sentences/paragraph structure
Public Domain
Prose
Producer
lighting designer
21. Standard tool for casting productions
Miracle Plays
Auditions
Romantic Theory
Morality Plays
22. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Aeschylus
Dialogue
Constantin Stanislavski
Types of professional theater
23. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Book musical
Pageants
Constantin Stanislavski
Designer
24. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Sense memory
Subplot
The Globe
Front of House
25. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Auteur
Slapstick
Antagonist
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
26. 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
Costume Designer
Ground plan
Verisimilitude
Pageants
27. Changeable scenery for specific plays (tragedies - comedies - pastoral tragicomedies). Appeared as early as 1508 and standardized approaches to such scenery were popularized by Sebastian Serlio. Ex: Wings - flats
Raked Stage
Scenic Designer
Mystery Plays
Perspective Scenery
28. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Stage Manager
Director
Wings
Chorus
29. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Slapstick
Dramaturg
Neoclassicism
Arena
30. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Eugene Scribe
Scenic Designer
Sense memory
31. Generally rhyming
Verse
Rhetorical Tradition
Romantic Theory
Musical Theatre
32. Collection of mystery plays
Cycles
Eugene Scribe
Off-Broadway
Aristotle
33. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Prose
Antiquarianism
Bertolt Brecht
Representational
34. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Off-off-Broadway
Emile Zola
Downstage
Concept
35. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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36. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Reversal
Proscenium
Ground plan
Designer
37. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Catharsis
Callbacks
Off-off-Broadway
Liturgical Drama
38. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Dionysus
Neoclassic unities
Stage manager
Rhetorical Tradition
39. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
The Orestia
Thrust
Variables of costume design
40. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Upstage
Casting Director
Alienation Effect
Stage Manager
41. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
The Globe
Concept
Producer
Antagonist
42. Action - place - time
Presentational
Neoclassic unities
Aristophanes
Chorus
43. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Dialogue
Musical Theatre
Chorus
44. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Pageants
Chorus
Producer
Dramaturg
45. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Aesthetic Distance
Rendering
Vomitories
Callbacks
46. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Eugene Scribe
William Shakespeare
Components of Production
Bertolt Brecht
47. Collection of mystery plays
Hypokrites
Scenic Designer
Playwright
Cycles
48. Author of play
Playwright
Components of Actor's job
Costume plot
Variables of costume design
49. Greatest dramatist of all time
Melodrama
Components of Actor's job
Wings
William Shakespeare
50. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Theatron
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Vomitories
Thespis