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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. Secondary line of action
Bertolt Brecht
Ground plan
Subplot
sound designer
2. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Thrust
Proscenium
Casting Director
Director
3. Generally rhyming
Verse
Designer
Wings
Upstage
4. Creates a visual home for the play
Scenic Designer
sound designer
Realism
Antiquarianism
5. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
The Orestia
collaborator
Scenic Designer
Proscenium
6. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Musical Theatre
Liturgical Drama
Antiquarianism
Eugene Scribe
7. The area farthest away from the audience
Reversal
Upstage
Aristophanes
Chorus
8. Director champions intention of playwright
Front of House
collaborator
Commedia Dell'Arte
Empathy
9. Scenery
Romanticism
Skene
Bertolt Brecht
Commedia Dell'Arte
10. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Alienation Effect
Director
Commedia Dell'Arte
Melodrama
11. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
The Globe
Casting Director
Proscenium
Rendering
12. First director
Sense memory
Public Domain
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Variables of costume design
13. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Proscenium
Verisimilitude
Representational
Costume plot
14. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Scenic Designer
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Variables of costume design
Actor's tools
15. Generally rhyming
Skene
Components of Production
sound designer
Verse
16. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Alienation Effect
Director
Verse
17. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Variables of costume design
Cycles
Verisimilitude
Representational
18. Saint's plays
Hypokrites
Miracle Plays
Cycles
The Orestia
19. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Representational
Romanticism
Dialogue
Slapstick
20. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Designer's job
Vomitories
Off-off-Broadway
Components of Production
21. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Vomitories
Aristotle
Perspective Scenery
22. 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
Director
Chorus
Perspective Scenery
William Shakespeare
23. Handles business aspects of show
Verse
Aristophanes
Dramaturg
Producer
24. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Skene
Aeschylus
Thrust
Proscenium
25. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Bertolt Brecht
Skene
Aristotle
Front of House
26. 'dancing space'
Auditions
Stage Manager
Prose
Orchestra
27. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
William Shakespeare
Wings
Arena
28. Seats 100-500; professional
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Melodrama
Off-Broadway
Book musical
29. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Callbacks
Stage Manager
Thrust
Aristophanes
30. The area farthest away from the audience
Costume plot
Empathy
Upstage
Romanticism
31. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Constantin Stanislavski
Sense memory
Casting Director
32. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Royalty
Musical Theatre
Actor's tools
Avant-Garde
33. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Director
Callbacks
34. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Director
Types of professional theater
Front of House
Concept
35. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Slapstick
Director
Director
36. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Miracle Plays
Commedia Dell'Arte
Director
Arena
37. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Broadway
Skene
collaborator
38. Physical commedy
Slapstick
Empathy
Broadway
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
39. Saint's plays
Scenic Designer
Miracle Plays
Henrik Ibsen
Concept
40. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Avant-Garde
Designer
Casting Director
41. 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
Pageants
Aeschylus
Proscenium
Dialogue
42. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Costume Designer
Dialogue
collaborator
Aristophanes
43. 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
Romantic Theory
Vomitories
Actor's tools
Costume Designer
44. 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
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Neoclassicism
Casting Director
Ground plan
45. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Off-off-Broadway
Neoclassic unities
The Orestia
Designer's job
46. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Conflict
Aristophanes
Avant-Garde
Antiquarianism
47. 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
Designer
Orchestra
Perspective Scenery
Casting Director
48. When line of action suddenly switches
Ground plan
Reversal
Public Domain
Perspective Scenery
49. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Dialogue
Costume Designer
Commedia Dell'Arte
50. Appearance of truth
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Black box
Verisimilitude
Actor's tools