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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Front of House
University Wits
Rendering
Miracle Plays
2. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Skene
Realism
Verse
Constantin Stanislavski
3. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Costume plot
Perspective Scenery
Presentational
Melodrama
4. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Mystery Plays
Skene
Constantin Stanislavski
5. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
The Globe
The Orestia
Designer
Costume Designer
6. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Prose
Playwright
Proscenium
Thrust
7. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Producer
Copyright
Variables of costume design
Wings
8. Greatest dramatist of all time
Components of Actor's job
Eugene Scribe
Protagonist
William Shakespeare
9. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Types of professional theater
Liturgical Drama
Actor's tools
Concept
10. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
11. 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
Skene
The Orestia
Variables of costume design
12. Collection of mystery plays
Designer's job
Cycles
University Wits
Orchestra
13. 'dancing space'
Miracle Plays
Skene
Orchestra
Thespis
14. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Rendering
Romanticism
Proscenium
Dialogue
15. Standard tool for casting productions
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Hypokrites
Aristotle
Auditions
16. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Empathy
Plato
Arena
Costume Designer
17. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Rendering
Subplot
Hypokrites
18. Spoken words
Stage manager
Musical Theatre
Dialogue
Empathy
19. Historical accuracy
Liturgical Drama
Thespis
Antiquarianism
Catharsis
20. 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
Costume plot
Protagonist
Linear Plot
Proscenium
21. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
22. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Director
Stage Manager
Chorus
Rendering
23. When line of action suddenly switches
Reversal
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Verse
24. 'seeing place'
Proscenium
Avant-Garde
Theatron
Linear Plot
25. Seats 100-500; professional
lighting designer
The Orestia
Stage manager
Off-Broadway
26. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Ground plan
The Orestia
University Wits
Sense memory
27. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Types of professional theater
Alienation Effect
Presentational
Black box
28. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
The Orestia
William Shakespeare
Prose
29. Body - voice - mind
30. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Liturgical Drama
Linear Plot
Henrik Ibsen
Romanticism
31. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Morality Plays
Playwright
Dialogue
32. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Designer
Casting Director
Mystery Plays
33. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Variables of costume design
Costume plot
Subtext
Front of House
34. Director champions intention of playwright
Presentational
Catharsis
collaborator
Romanticism
35. Creates a visual home for the play
Proscenium
lighting designer
Vomitories
Scenic Designer
36. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Bertolt Brecht
Catharsis
Auditions
Off-off-Broadway
37. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Plato
Verse
Representational
Aeschylus
38. Secondary line of action
Subplot
Royalty
Front of House
University Wits
39. When line of action suddenly switches
Upstage
Neoclassicism
Antagonist
Reversal
40. Standard tool for casting productions
Auditions
Linear Plot
The Orestia
Public Domain
41. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Types of professional theater
Variables of costume design
Neoclassicism
Front of House
42. God of wine and fertility
The Orestia
Dionysus
collaborator
University Wits
43. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Antiquarianism
Empathy
Morality Plays
Upstage
44. 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
Components of Production
Dramaturg
Ground plan
Designer
45. Greatest dramatist of all time
William Shakespeare
Proscenium
Rendering
Subtext
46. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Subtext
Romanticism
Concept
Miracle Plays
47. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Auteur
Thespis
Realism
Copyright
48. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Black box
Henrik Ibsen
Dialogue
Antagonist
49. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Orchestra
University Wits
Rhetorical Tradition
Theatron
50. First director
Perspective Scenery
Dramaturg
Subtext
Duke of Saxe Meiningen