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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. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Romanticism
Thrust
Romantic Theory
Presentational
2. 'dancing space'
Bertolt Brecht
Vomitories
Arena
Orchestra
3. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
collaborator
Constantin Stanislavski
Off-off-Broadway
Aristophanes
4. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Costume Designer
sound designer
Raked Stage
Chorus
5. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Vomitories
Copyright
Romantic Theory
Public Domain
6. God of wine and fertility
Dionysus
Downstage
Sense memory
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
7. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Front of House
Public Domain
Plato
Thespis
8. Directors who operate with total control
The Orestia
Producer
Auteur
Components of Actor's job
9. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Components of Production
Henrik Ibsen
Costume Designer
Bertolt Brecht
10. Saint's plays
Constantin Stanislavski
Auditions
Concept
Miracle Plays
11. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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12. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Melodrama
Vomitories
Front of House
13. God of wine and fertility
Verse
Reversal
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Dionysus
14. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Realism
Aristophanes
Emile Zola
Constantin Stanislavski
15. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Slapstick
Orchestra
Alienation Effect
Designer
16. The area farthest away from the audience
Upstage
The Orestia
Liturgical Drama
Actor's tools
17. Director champions intention of playwright
Costume Designer
Royalty
Presentational
collaborator
18. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Antiquarianism
Romantic Theory
Stage manager
Henrik Ibsen
19. 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
Casting Director
Empathy
Romantic Theory
Concept
20. Central character
Protagonist
Proscenium
Subtext
Public Domain
21. Designs costumes for the show
Subtext
Costume Designer
Callbacks
Prose
22. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Book musical
Off-off-Broadway
lighting designer
sound designer
23. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Neoclassicism
Realism
Conflict
24. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Eugene Scribe
Subtext
Costume Designer
Auteur
25. Handles business aspects of show
Subplot
Callbacks
Producer
collaborator
26. 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
Auditions
Reversal
The Globe
Realism
27. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
collaborator
Producer
Presentational
Copyright
28. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
William Shakespeare
Melodrama
Dionysus
29. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Blocking
Catharsis
collaborator
Black box
30. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Reversal
Downstage
Dialogue
31. Author of play
Royalty
Playwright
Scenic Designer
Front of House
32. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
Thrust
Public Domain
Catharsis
33. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Musical Theatre
Liturgical Drama
Cycles
Perspective Scenery
34. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Costume plot
Director
Linear Plot
Public Domain
35. Saint's plays
Rendering
Mystery Plays
Aristotle
Miracle Plays
36. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Auteur
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Subtext
37. 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
Actor's tools
Perspective Scenery
Proscenium
Constantin Stanislavski
38. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Copyright
Producer
Vomitories
Director
39. Greatest dramatist of all time
Aristotle
William Shakespeare
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Black box
40. 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.
Chorus
Stage manager
Presentational
Designer
41. Designs costumes for the show
Chorus
Reversal
Costume Designer
Rendering
42. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Thespis
Upstage
Dialogue
Plato
43. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Aeschylus
Stage Manager
Blocking
44. Generally rhyming
Black box
Verse
Reversal
Bertolt Brecht
45. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Playwright
Dramaturg
Wings
46. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Romantic Theory
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Plato
Perspective Scenery
47. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Producer
Neoclassicism
Arena
Melodrama
48. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Book musical
sound designer
Director
Black box
49. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Aristophanes
Upstage
Catharsis
Front of House
50. Collection of mystery plays
Auditions
Upstage
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Cycles