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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. 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
Realism
Skene
Alienation Effect
The Globe
2. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Costume plot
Bertolt Brecht
Subtext
Aesthetic Distance
3. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Types of professional theater
Linear Plot
Designer
Black box
4. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Commedia Dell'Arte
Mystery Plays
Callbacks
Aristophanes
5. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Components of Production
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Plato
Thespis
6. Directors who operate with total control
Auteur
Pageants
Concept
Plato
7. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Subplot
Callbacks
Musical Theatre
Public Domain
8. The area farthest away from the audience
Representational
Commedia Dell'Arte
Upstage
Dialogue
9. Standard tool for casting productions
Presentational
Front of House
Emile Zola
Auditions
10. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Proscenium
Verse
The Globe
Stage Manager
11. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Casting Director
Thespis
Ground plan
Realism
12. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Callbacks
Concept
Auteur
Slapstick
13. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Aristotle
Auteur
Components of Actor's job
lighting designer
14. The area farthest away from the audience
Realism
Public Domain
Upstage
Romanticism
15. When line of action suddenly switches
Subplot
Presentational
Components of Actor's job
Reversal
16. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Slapstick
Actor's tools
Neoclassicism
Wings
17. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Designer's job
Alienation Effect
Subplot
Public Domain
18. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Representational
Presentational
Neoclassicism
Auteur
19. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Melodrama
Dialogue
Book musical
Miracle Plays
20. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
collaborator
The Globe
Aristophanes
sound designer
21. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
The Orestia
sound designer
Morality Plays
Rhetorical Tradition
22. Creates a visual home for the play
Scenic Designer
lighting designer
Skene
sound designer
23. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Costume Designer
Pageants
Downstage
Liturgical Drama
24. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
The Orestia
Stage Manager
Actor's tools
Auditions
25. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
Verisimilitude
Blocking
Cycles
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
Thespis
Broadway
Ground plan
Blocking
27. 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.
Henrik Ibsen
Chorus
Off-Broadway
Actor's tools
28. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Avant-Garde
Variables of costume design
Blocking
Costume plot
29. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Verse
Variables of costume design
collaborator
30. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Reversal
Broadway
Stage manager
31. Secondary line of action
Arena
Producer
Reversal
Subplot
32. Central character
Raked Stage
Arena
Front of House
Protagonist
33. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Types of professional theater
Thespis
Subtext
34. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Scenic Designer
Auteur
Off-off-Broadway
Hypokrites
35. Collection of mystery plays
sound designer
Types of professional theater
Upstage
Cycles
36. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Plato
Aesthetic Distance
Costume plot
Off-off-Broadway
37. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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38. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Presentational
Aeschylus
Emile Zola
Copyright
39. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Musical Theatre
Verse
Costume Designer
Wings
40. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Designer
Verse
Protagonist
Catharsis
41. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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42. God of wine and fertility
Designer's job
Dionysus
Eugene Scribe
Proscenium
43. Central character
Thespis
Aristotle
Morality Plays
Protagonist
44. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Proscenium
Aeschylus
Black box
Commedia Dell'Arte
45. Spoken words
Components of Actor's job
Copyright
Dialogue
Commedia Dell'Arte
46. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Alienation Effect
Realism
Aeschylus
William Shakespeare
47. Greatest dramatist of all time
Producer
Ground plan
William Shakespeare
Raked Stage
48. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Reversal
Director
Dramaturg
49. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Aesthetic Distance
Conflict
Designer
Pageants
50. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Designer's job
Aristotle
Aeschylus
Copyright