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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. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Sense memory
Types of professional theater
sound designer
2. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Types of professional theater
Director
Variables of costume design
3. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Callbacks
Off-off-Broadway
Catharsis
Antagonist
4. Greatest dramatist of all time
Auteur
William Shakespeare
Off-off-Broadway
University Wits
5. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Melodrama
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Bertolt Brecht
6. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Mystery Plays
Dialogue
7. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Slapstick
Hypokrites
Bertolt Brecht
Constantin Stanislavski
8. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Pageants
Rendering
Aesthetic Distance
Scenic Designer
9. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Auditions
Arena
Neoclassic unities
Neoclassicism
10. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Designer's job
Hypokrites
Arena
Mystery Plays
11. Seats 100-500; professional
collaborator
Rhetorical Tradition
Off-Broadway
Theatron
12. First director
Front of House
Casting Director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Auditions
13. When line of action suddenly switches
Downstage
Hypokrites
Neoclassic unities
Reversal
14. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Neoclassicism
Aesthetic Distance
Concept
Broadway
15. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Off-off-Broadway
Mystery Plays
Front of House
16. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Verse
The Globe
Public Domain
17. 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.
Conflict
Theatron
Catharsis
Chorus
18. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Dialogue
Morality Plays
Orchestra
Perspective Scenery
19. Fee for each performance
Types of professional theater
Downstage
Royalty
Dramaturg
20. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Concept
Linear Plot
Types of professional theater
collaborator
21. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Theatron
lighting designer
Conflict
Theatron
22. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Rhetorical Tradition
lighting designer
Off-off-Broadway
Catharsis
23. Was in favor of theater
Aristotle
Empathy
Morality Plays
Proscenium
24. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
sound designer
Aeschylus
Director
Linear Plot
25. Standard tool for casting productions
Callbacks
The Orestia
Protagonist
Auditions
26. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Variables of costume design
Presentational
Empathy
Raked Stage
27. Collection of mystery plays
Cycles
collaborator
Commedia Dell'Arte
Realism
28. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Chorus
Dramaturg
Book musical
Off-Broadway
29. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aristophanes
Subplot
Subtext
Conflict
30. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Vomitories
Neoclassic unities
Liturgical Drama
Aesthetic Distance
31. Saint's plays
Avant-Garde
Public Domain
Verse
Miracle Plays
32. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Broadway
Upstage
Bertolt Brecht
Wings
33. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Upstage
Emile Zola
Cycles
34. Scenery
Rhetorical Tradition
Skene
Playwright
Emile Zola
35. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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36. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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37. 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
Morality Plays
Empathy
Casting Director
Downstage
38. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Verse
Arena
Representational
Henrik Ibsen
39. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Variables of costume design
Proscenium
Playwright
Constantin Stanislavski
40. God of wine and fertility
Off-Broadway
Ground plan
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Dionysus
41. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Off-off-Broadway
Aeschylus
Rendering
Romanticism
42. Secondary line of action
Book musical
Subplot
Reversal
William Shakespeare
43. 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.
Romanticism
Eugene Scribe
Orchestra
Chorus
44. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Broadway
Chorus
Representational
Avant-Garde
45. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Arena
collaborator
Scenic Designer
Costume Designer
46. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Broadway
Components of Production
Conflict
William Shakespeare
47. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Mystery Plays
Designer
Protagonist
Chorus
48. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Designer
Variables of costume design
Orchestra
Emile Zola
49. Directors who operate with total control
Bertolt Brecht
Auteur
Aristotle
Theatron
50. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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