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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. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Emile Zola
Eugene Scribe
Types of professional theater
Skene
2. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Proscenium
Ground plan
Dionysus
3. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Off-off-Broadway
Casting Director
University Wits
Liturgical Drama
4. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Liturgical Drama
Bertolt Brecht
Book musical
5. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Plato
Wings
Prose
6. Designs costumes for the show
Dramaturg
Costume Designer
Slapstick
Morality Plays
7. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Concept
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Neoclassic unities
Downstage
8. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Mystery Plays
Cycles
Theatron
9. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Copyright
Melodrama
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Slapstick
10. God of wine and fertility
Scenic Designer
Dionysus
Bertolt Brecht
Perspective Scenery
11. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Dionysus
Variables of costume design
Proscenium
Bertolt Brecht
12. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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13. When line of action suddenly switches
Reversal
Costume Designer
Morality Plays
Slapstick
14. 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
Downstage
Ground plan
Auditions
Designer
15. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Alienation Effect
Director
Presentational
Catharsis
16. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Romanticism
Melodrama
Sense memory
Costume plot
17. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Miracle Plays
Thrust
Commedia Dell'Arte
Proscenium
18. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Proscenium
Costume Designer
Casting Director
Rhetorical Tradition
19. 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.
Constantin Stanislavski
Pageants
Aeschylus
Chorus
20. Body - voice - mind
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21. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Wings
Representational
Callbacks
Callbacks
22. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Royalty
Stage manager
Aesthetic Distance
Constantin Stanislavski
23. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Scenic Designer
Chorus
Black box
24. Secondary line of action
Sense memory
Emile Zola
Theatron
Subplot
25. Generally rhyming
Aeschylus
Linear Plot
Verse
Orchestra
26. Saint's plays
William Shakespeare
Upstage
Miracle Plays
Antagonist
27. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Stage Manager
Auditions
Melodrama
Miracle Plays
28. Body - voice - mind
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29. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
Dionysus
Auditions
Black box
30. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Public Domain
Presentational
Proscenium
Eugene Scribe
31. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Thespis
Mystery Plays
Avant-Garde
Aristotle
32. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Book musical
Dramaturg
Emile Zola
Off-off-Broadway
33. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Thrust
Public Domain
University Wits
34. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Slapstick
Protagonist
Auditions
Components of Production
35. 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
Vomitories
Proscenium
Dionysus
Perspective Scenery
36. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Plato
Downstage
Producer
Broadway
37. 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
Henrik Ibsen
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Realism
Alienation Effect
38. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Director
Musical Theatre
Empathy
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
39. Secondary line of action
Subplot
Theatron
Antiquarianism
Miracle Plays
40. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Upstage
Hypokrites
Empathy
Blocking
41. Directors who operate with total control
Front of House
Proscenium
Auteur
Types of professional theater
42. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Ground plan
Vomitories
Designer's job
Neoclassicism
43. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Stage Manager
Types of professional theater
Stage Manager
44. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Antagonist
Representational
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
45. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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46. Action - place - time
Designer's job
collaborator
Neoclassic unities
Stage Manager
47. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Constantin Stanislavski
The Globe
Conflict
Romanticism
48. The area farthest away from the audience
Director
Subplot
Upstage
Casting Director
49. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Subtext
Melodrama
Rhetorical Tradition
Alienation Effect
50. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Subtext
Public Domain
Blocking
Broadway