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Theatre Appreciation 2
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Costume plot
Cycles
Representational
Aeschylus
2. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Hypokrites
Chorus
Broadway
Verse
3. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Antagonist
Aesthetic Distance
Subplot
Subtext
4. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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5. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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6. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Slapstick
Vomitories
Off-off-Broadway
Antiquarianism
7. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Orchestra
Public Domain
Subtext
Dionysus
8. Body - voice - mind
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9. 'dancing space'
Orchestra
Theatron
Emile Zola
Verisimilitude
10. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Raked Stage
Stage manager
Public Domain
Director
11. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Linear Plot
Wings
Thrust
lighting designer
12. Seats 100-500; professional
Types of professional theater
Scenic Designer
Director
Off-Broadway
13. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Costume Designer
Concept
Pageants
Upstage
14. Actor in 5th century Greece
Subtext
Linear Plot
Hypokrites
Producer
15. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Perspective Scenery
Subtext
Representational
16. 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
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Director
Romantic Theory
The Orestia
17. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Reversal
Representational
Director
The Globe
18. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Wings
Types of professional theater
Melodrama
Constantin Stanislavski
19. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Realism
Sense memory
Dramaturg
Morality Plays
20. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Representational
Arena
Raked Stage
Henrik Ibsen
21. Invented by the Italians - a large open arch that marks the primary division between audience and performance space in a proscenium space. The proscenium arch frames the action of the play for the audience and limits the view of backstage areas
Upstage
Proscenium
Royalty
Rendering
22. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Sense memory
Costume plot
Conflict
23. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Casting Director
lighting designer
Stage manager
Dialogue
24. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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25. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Royalty
Concept
Broadway
26. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Costume plot
Rhetorical Tradition
Dramaturg
Aristotle
27. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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28. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Antiquarianism
Aristophanes
Verse
Subplot
29. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
Director
Subtext
Off-Broadway
30. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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31. Secondary line of action
Musical Theatre
Royalty
Constantin Stanislavski
Subplot
32. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Musical Theatre
Liturgical Drama
Types of professional theater
33. 'seeing place'
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Rhetorical Tradition
Neoclassic unities
Theatron
34. Secondary line of action
Designer
Book musical
Subplot
Slapstick
35. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Aeschylus
Plato
Eugene Scribe
Copyright
36. Fee for each performance
Neoclassicism
Royalty
Reversal
Liturgical Drama
37. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Neoclassic unities
Designer's job
Melodrama
Callbacks
38. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Henrik Ibsen
Bertolt Brecht
Concept
Blocking
39. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Downstage
Representational
Black box
40. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Dramaturg
Arena
Thespis
41. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
Dialogue
Morality Plays
Off-off-Broadway
42. Directors who operate with total control
Auteur
Arena
Antiquarianism
Book musical
43. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Wings
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Broadway
University Wits
44. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Concept
Avant-Garde
Thrust
45. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Casting Director
Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre
Plato
46. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Eugene Scribe
Romanticism
Skene
Front of House
47. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Neoclassic unities
Arena
lighting designer
Components of Actor's job
48. Creates a visual home for the play
Scenic Designer
Components of Actor's job
Types of professional theater
Alienation Effect
49. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Eugene Scribe
Designer
Costume plot
University Wits
50. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Copyright
Rendering
Protagonist
Blocking