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Theatre Appreciation 2
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Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Proscenium
William Shakespeare
Subplot
2. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Off-off-Broadway
Eugene Scribe
Designer
Costume plot
3. Appearance of truth
Avant-Garde
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Reversal
Verisimilitude
4. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Concept
Subtext
Theatron
Proscenium
5. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Thespis
Bertolt Brecht
Book musical
Components of Actor's job
6. Collection of mystery plays
Actor's tools
Cycles
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Costume plot
7. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
lighting designer
Costume plot
Thespis
8. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Perspective Scenery
collaborator
Liturgical Drama
Melodrama
9. Spoken words
Dialogue
Romantic Theory
Wings
Proscenium
10. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Catharsis
Aesthetic Distance
Concept
Components of Production
11. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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12. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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13. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Verisimilitude
Thrust
Henrik Ibsen
Dionysus
14. Secondary line of action
Stage Manager
The Orestia
Dialogue
Subplot
15. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Black box
Dramaturg
Director
Conflict
16. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Proscenium
Empathy
Aeschylus
17. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Off-off-Broadway
Alienation Effect
Components of Actor's job
Costume plot
18. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
The Orestia
Actor's tools
Catharsis
Cycles
19. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Public Domain
Alienation Effect
lighting designer
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
20. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
Designer's job
Eugene Scribe
Conflict
21. Author of play
Protagonist
Playwright
Pageants
Variables of costume design
22. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Eugene Scribe
Aristophanes
Subplot
Subplot
23. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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24. Secondary line of action
Components of Production
Neoclassic unities
Musical Theatre
Subplot
25. Collection of mystery plays
Director
Playwright
Subtext
Cycles
26. Greatest dramatist of all time
William Shakespeare
Catharsis
Concept
Linear Plot
27. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Miracle Plays
Concept
Neoclassicism
Presentational
28. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Musical Theatre
collaborator
Royalty
Antiquarianism
29. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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30. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Conflict
Constantin Stanislavski
Subplot
31. Historical accuracy
Verse
Proscenium
Proscenium
Antiquarianism
32. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Neoclassic unities
Arena
Royalty
33. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Aesthetic Distance
Dialogue
Off-Broadway
Verse
34. 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
Romantic Theory
Downstage
Sense memory
Subtext
35. Directors who operate with total control
Auteur
Linear Plot
Aristophanes
Protagonist
36. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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37. Scenery
Constantin Stanislavski
Sense memory
Skene
Realism
38. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Eugene Scribe
Thrust
Vomitories
Off-off-Broadway
39. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Blocking
The Orestia
Representational
Cycles
40. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Off-Broadway
Actor's tools
Proscenium
41. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Commedia Dell'Arte
Dramaturg
Upstage
Avant-Garde
42. Handles business aspects of show
Skene
Dramaturg
Producer
Catharsis
43. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Variables of costume design
The Orestia
Skene
Royalty
44. Spoken words
Realism
Public Domain
Skene
Dialogue
45. 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
Hypokrites
Aristotle
Realism
Costume plot
46. Generally rhyming
Avant-Garde
Callbacks
Verse
Aeschylus
47. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Designer's job
Dionysus
Representational
Royalty
48. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Front of House
Costume Designer
collaborator
49. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
sound designer
Empathy
Miracle Plays
Costume plot
50. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Alienation Effect
Dramaturg
Callbacks
Catharsis