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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. When line of action suddenly switches
Musical Theatre
Book musical
Reversal
Public Domain
2. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Public Domain
Producer
Avant-Garde
Thrust
3. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Arena
Representational
Public Domain
Neoclassicism
4. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
The Orestia
Callbacks
Arena
Slapstick
5. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Black box
collaborator
Director
Empathy
6. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
The Globe
sound designer
Dramaturg
Upstage
7. 'dancing space'
Orchestra
Black box
Linear Plot
Vomitories
8. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
The Orestia
Dramaturg
Vomitories
Book musical
9. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Auditions
Public Domain
Thrust
Director
10. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Concept
Callbacks
Musical Theatre
11. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Designer
Antagonist
Dionysus
Eugene Scribe
12. 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
Stage manager
Romantic Theory
University Wits
Downstage
13. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Romanticism
The Orestia
Neoclassicism
Perspective Scenery
14. Central character
Sense memory
Mystery Plays
Protagonist
Upstage
15. Greatest dramatist of all time
Callbacks
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Director
William Shakespeare
16. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Casting Director
University Wits
Playwright
Concept
17. Body - voice - mind
18. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Eugene Scribe
Playwright
Concept
Book musical
19. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Copyright
Sense memory
Costume plot
Thrust
20. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Theatron
Producer
Book musical
Constantin Stanislavski
21. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Actor's tools
Melodrama
Perspective Scenery
Blocking
22. Historical accuracy
Protagonist
Antiquarianism
Off-off-Broadway
Wings
23. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Slapstick
Director
Avant-Garde
Hypokrites
24. Seats 100-500; professional
Auditions
Front of House
Off-Broadway
Morality Plays
25. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Sense memory
Director
Constantin Stanislavski
Emile Zola
26. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Public Domain
Antagonist
Copyright
sound designer
27. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Reversal
Upstage
The Orestia
Prose
28. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
Melodrama
Actor's tools
Off-Broadway
29. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Off-off-Broadway
Ground plan
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Stage Manager
30. 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.
University Wits
Empathy
Chorus
Miracle Plays
31. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Off-off-Broadway
Stage Manager
Cycles
Variables of costume design
32. 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
Costume Designer
Ground plan
Front of House
Linear Plot
33. Director champions intention of playwright
collaborator
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Components of Production
Rhetorical Tradition
34. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Costume plot
Raked Stage
Ground plan
Types of professional theater
35. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Arena
Emile Zola
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
36. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Empathy
Callbacks
Rhetorical Tradition
37. Physical commedy
Plato
Constantin Stanislavski
Alienation Effect
Slapstick
38. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Public Domain
Off-Broadway
Neoclassic unities
39. Was in favor of theater
Bertolt Brecht
Aristotle
Designer
Raked Stage
40. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
lighting designer
Proscenium
Constantin Stanislavski
Royalty
41. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
42. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Ground plan
Mystery Plays
Off-off-Broadway
Miracle Plays
43. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Antagonist
Catharsis
Stage Manager
Dramaturg
44. 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
Realism
Presentational
Concept
Vomitories
45. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Auteur
Callbacks
Liturgical Drama
Empathy
46. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Constantin Stanislavski
Neoclassicism
Variables of costume design
Front of House
47. Seats 100-500; professional
Book musical
Romanticism
Rhetorical Tradition
Off-Broadway
48. Who or what opposes the central character
Slapstick
Protagonist
Antagonist
Avant-Garde
49. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Rhetorical Tradition
Types of professional theater
Dialogue
Morality Plays
50. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Subplot
Aesthetic Distance
Aristophanes
Morality Plays