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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. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Alienation Effect
William Shakespeare
Types of professional theater
2. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Romanticism
Rhetorical Tradition
Off-Broadway
Constantin Stanislavski
3. Scenery
Melodrama
Skene
Off-Broadway
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
4. Author of play
Playwright
Auditions
Verse
University Wits
5. Set at an angle. Early proscenium theatres featured a raked stage: the stage was elevated much higher at the back of the stage (upstage) than closer to the stage (downstage). Modern designers sometimes build a raked stage for a particular production
Raked Stage
Realism
Skene
University Wits
6. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Alienation Effect
Dialogue
Aesthetic Distance
The Globe
7. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
William Shakespeare
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
sound designer
Musical Theatre
8. 'seeing place'
Public Domain
Morality Plays
Subplot
Theatron
9. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Stage manager
Proscenium
Neoclassic unities
Variables of costume design
10. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Concept
Liturgical Drama
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Aristophanes
11. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Auditions
Skene
Subtext
Arena
12. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Subplot
Eugene Scribe
Stage Manager
Auteur
13. God of wine and fertility
Dionysus
Slapstick
Director
Components of Actor's job
14. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Morality Plays
Skene
Aristotle
15. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Liturgical Drama
sound designer
Morality Plays
Concept
16. Saint's plays
Royalty
Vomitories
Miracle Plays
Book musical
17. Creates a visual home for the play
Auditions
Scenic Designer
Romantic Theory
Neoclassic unities
18. When line of action suddenly switches
Dialogue
Costume plot
Reversal
Raked Stage
19. Author of play
Aristophanes
Orchestra
Empathy
Playwright
20. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Stage manager
Conflict
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Upstage
21. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Thrust
Variables of costume design
Linear Plot
Copyright
22. Spoken words
Aeschylus
Neoclassicism
Neoclassic unities
Dialogue
23. Saint's plays
Perspective Scenery
Miracle Plays
Rhetorical Tradition
Aeschylus
24. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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25. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Conflict
Catharsis
Presentational
Bertolt Brecht
26. 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
Producer
Dramaturg
Downstage
Conflict
27. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Prose
Auteur
The Orestia
Neoclassicism
28. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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29. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Empathy
Linear Plot
Henrik Ibsen
Rhetorical Tradition
30. Collection of mystery plays
Producer
Cycles
Proscenium
Henrik Ibsen
31. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Dialogue
Copyright
Components of Actor's job
The Globe
32. Spoken words
Dialogue
Skene
Emile Zola
Avant-Garde
33. Directors who operate with total control
Rhetorical Tradition
Auteur
Eugene Scribe
Morality Plays
34. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Dramaturg
Book musical
Downstage
Pageants
35. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Romanticism
Stage Manager
Commedia Dell'Arte
36. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Mystery Plays
Pageants
Henrik Ibsen
Vomitories
37. 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.
Antiquarianism
Public Domain
The Globe
Chorus
38. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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39. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Neoclassic unities
Director
Dramaturg
Thrust
40. Handles business aspects of show
Skene
Producer
Plato
Concept
41. Standard tool for casting productions
Callbacks
Director
Auditions
Antagonist
42. Body - voice - mind
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43. The area farthest away from the audience
Dionysus
Royalty
Upstage
Aristotle
44. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Miracle Plays
Neoclassic unities
Aristophanes
Variables of costume design
45. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
Dramaturg
Dramaturg
Thespis
46. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Empathy
Alienation Effect
Theatron
Rendering
47. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Catharsis
Emile Zola
Antiquarianism
Stage manager
48. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Components of Actor's job
Copyright
Morality Plays
49. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Presentational
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Protagonist
Director
50. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Playwright
Rhetorical Tradition
Subtext
Book musical