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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 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
Black box
University Wits
Actor's tools
2. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
sound designer
Conflict
Liturgical Drama
Proscenium
3. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Costume Designer
Arena
Upstage
lighting designer
4. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Aristophanes
Components of Actor's job
Slapstick
Representational
5. 'dancing space'
Linear Plot
Orchestra
Off-Broadway
Ground plan
6. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Concept
Sense memory
University Wits
7. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Verisimilitude
Orchestra
Stage manager
Eugene Scribe
8. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Constantin Stanislavski
Reversal
Dionysus
The Orestia
9. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Protagonist
Linear Plot
Off-off-Broadway
lighting designer
10. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Off-off-Broadway
Theatron
Liturgical Drama
Theatron
11. First director
Antiquarianism
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Verisimilitude
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
12. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Components of Production
Rendering
Dialogue
Slapstick
13. Planned actor movement
Public Domain
Designer's job
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Blocking
14. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
The Globe
Public Domain
Off-off-Broadway
Types of professional theater
15. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Eugene Scribe
Sense memory
Emile Zola
Orchestra
16. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Aristotle
Playwright
Aesthetic Distance
Variables of costume design
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
Presentational
Front of House
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Rendering
18. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
19. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Bertolt Brecht
Arena
Broadway
20. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Eugene Scribe
Ground plan
Linear Plot
Broadway
21. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Morality Plays
Variables of costume design
Orchestra
22. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Upstage
Verisimilitude
Proscenium
Aeschylus
23. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Neoclassicism
Broadway
Rhetorical Tradition
Subplot
24. 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
Upstage
Stage manager
Prose
25. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
lighting designer
Pageants
Rendering
Musical Theatre
26. God of wine and fertility
Slapstick
Antiquarianism
Dionysus
Subtext
27. Spoken words
Stage manager
Dialogue
Skene
Romantic Theory
28. Appearance of truth
Subtext
Producer
Verisimilitude
lighting designer
29. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Orchestra
Slapstick
The Globe
Constantin Stanislavski
30. Spoken words
Dialogue
Linear Plot
Commedia Dell'Arte
Wings
31. 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
Director
Components of Production
Designer's job
Raked Stage
32. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
33. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Henrik Ibsen
Alienation Effect
Protagonist
34. 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
Perspective Scenery
Verisimilitude
Cycles
Antagonist
35. Sentences/paragraph structure
Casting Director
Prose
Morality Plays
Slapstick
36. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
37. 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.
Vomitories
Components of Production
Copyright
Chorus
38. Saint's plays
William Shakespeare
Dialogue
Morality Plays
Miracle Plays
39. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Off-Broadway
Director
Protagonist
Reversal
40. 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
Downstage
Empathy
Neoclassicism
Actor's tools
41. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Playwright
Casting Director
Director
Components of Actor's job
42. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Emile Zola
Director
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Eugene Scribe
43. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Protagonist
Aeschylus
Types of professional theater
William Shakespeare
44. Generally rhyming
Designer
Constantin Stanislavski
The Globe
Verse
45. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Rhetorical Tradition
Rendering
Plato
Henrik Ibsen
46. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Book musical
Off-Broadway
Off-off-Broadway
Director
47. Was in favor of theater
Commedia Dell'Arte
Skene
Aristotle
Components of Production
48. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Upstage
Copyright
Aesthetic Distance
Aristophanes
49. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Designer
Black box
Costume Designer
Commedia Dell'Arte
50. God of wine and fertility
Stage Manager
Miracle Plays
Scenic Designer
Dionysus