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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. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Neoclassicism
Miracle Plays
Theatron
Broadway
2. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Public Domain
Callbacks
Emile Zola
Scenic Designer
3. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Arena
Romantic Theory
Melodrama
Designer
4. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Prose
Orchestra
Eugene Scribe
Stage manager
5. Scenery
Skene
Auteur
Antagonist
Royalty
6. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Empathy
Avant-Garde
Henrik Ibsen
Plato
7. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Perspective Scenery
Aesthetic Distance
Cycles
8. God of wine and fertility
Antiquarianism
Dionysus
Public Domain
Protagonist
9. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Protagonist
Off-off-Broadway
Arena
Emile Zola
10. Director champions intention of playwright
Hypokrites
Protagonist
Miracle Plays
collaborator
11. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Designer's job
Costume Designer
Subtext
Sense memory
12. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Thrust
Off-off-Broadway
Dramaturg
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
13. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Playwright
Linear Plot
Avant-Garde
Orchestra
14. Set at an angle. Early proscenium theatres featured a raked stage: the stage was elevated much higher at the back of the stage (upstage) than closer to the stage (downstage). Modern designers sometimes build a raked stage for a particular production
Dialogue
William Shakespeare
Raked Stage
Verse
15. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Front of House
Upstage
Morality Plays
16. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Presentational
Miracle Plays
Musical Theatre
17. Style of production that acknowledges theatricality and does not attempt to created the impression of 'real life' on the stage. Presentational scenery - costumes - and lighting may suggest - distort - or even abstract reality. Presentational acting m
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Musical Theatre
Thespis
Presentational
18. 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.
Ground plan
Chorus
Thrust
Presentational
19. Generally rhyming
Dionysus
Off-Broadway
Verse
Thrust
20. Handles business aspects of show
Producer
Liturgical Drama
Romanticism
Designer
21. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Subplot
Conflict
Avant-Garde
Musical Theatre
22. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aristotle
Dionysus
Actor's tools
Aristophanes
23. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Aeschylus
Components of Production
Bertolt Brecht
Stage manager
24. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Slapstick
Rendering
Mystery Plays
25. Designs costumes for the show
Cycles
Costume Designer
Verisimilitude
Components of Actor's job
26. Creates a visual home for the play
Playwright
Wings
Mystery Plays
Scenic Designer
27. First director
Designer's job
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Vomitories
Director
28. Physical commedy
Slapstick
Morality Plays
Types of professional theater
The Globe
29. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Arena
Downstage
Dramaturg
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
30. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Perspective Scenery
Avant-Garde
Aristotle
Director
31. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Components of Production
Variables of costume design
Off-Broadway
Bertolt Brecht
32. Directors who operate with total control
Upstage
Auteur
Presentational
Romanticism
33. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Stage manager
Public Domain
Emile Zola
34. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Auditions
Neoclassic unities
Proscenium
Hypokrites
35. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Designer's job
Skene
Empathy
Aristotle
36. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Conflict
Morality Plays
Constantin Stanislavski
37. 'dancing space'
Callbacks
Orchestra
Antiquarianism
Chorus
38. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Emile Zola
Components of Production
Ground plan
Slapstick
39. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Verse
Aesthetic Distance
Skene
Avant-Garde
40. Secondary line of action
The Globe
Subplot
Playwright
Copyright
41. Action - place - time
Costume plot
Actor's tools
Neoclassic unities
Reversal
42. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Plato
Bertolt Brecht
sound designer
Stage Manager
43. The area farthest away from the audience
The Orestia
Upstage
Dialogue
Miracle Plays
44. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Romantic Theory
Director
Stage Manager
45. Secondary line of action
Skene
Subplot
Casting Director
Stage Manager
46. Central character
Protagonist
Playwright
Mystery Plays
Types of professional theater
47. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Eugene Scribe
The Globe
Constantin Stanislavski
Wings
48. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Downstage
Stage Manager
Eugene Scribe
49. 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
Representational
Off-Broadway
Callbacks
Downstage
50. Handles business aspects of show
Thrust
Producer
Subtext
University Wits