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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. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Linear Plot
Dramaturg
Vomitories
Mystery Plays
2. 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
Aristophanes
Actor's tools
3. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Concept
Front of House
Variables of costume design
Auditions
4. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Proscenium
Chorus
Black box
Types of professional theater
5. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Chorus
William Shakespeare
Hypokrites
6. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Aesthetic Distance
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Eugene Scribe
Bertolt Brecht
7. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Arena
Verisimilitude
collaborator
Subtext
8. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Empathy
Hypokrites
Reversal
Off-Broadway
9. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Presentational
Broadway
Proscenium
Producer
10. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Romantic Theory
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Neoclassicism
Alienation Effect
11. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Auditions
Verse
Bertolt Brecht
Front of House
12. Author of play
Playwright
Constantin Stanislavski
Thespis
Rendering
13. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Reversal
Prose
The Globe
Sense memory
14. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
Designer
Stage manager
Slapstick
15. 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
Neoclassicism
Stage Manager
William Shakespeare
16. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Aristotle
Thrust
Prose
Broadway
17. 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
Thespis
Ground plan
Constantin Stanislavski
Eugene Scribe
18. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Catharsis
Slapstick
Off-Broadway
The Globe
19. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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20. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Protagonist
Callbacks
Avant-Garde
Catharsis
21. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Proscenium
Sense memory
Auteur
Verse
22. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
Sense memory
Variables of costume design
Romanticism
23. 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
Actor's tools
Vomitories
Eugene Scribe
24. Spoken words
Dialogue
Eugene Scribe
Director
Realism
25. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Front of House
Rhetorical Tradition
Eugene Scribe
Pageants
26. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Slapstick
Skene
lighting designer
27. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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28. Saint's plays
Auditions
Miracle Plays
Book musical
Reversal
29. The area farthest away from the audience
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Upstage
Designer's job
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
30. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Thespis
Verse
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Representational
31. The area farthest away from the audience
Avant-Garde
Upstage
Rhetorical Tradition
Dionysus
32. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Verse
University Wits
Plato
Vomitories
33. Creates a visual home for the play
Scenic Designer
Cycles
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Prose
34. Sentences/paragraph structure
Blocking
Prose
Chorus
The Orestia
35. When line of action suddenly switches
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Commedia Dell'Arte
Reversal
Off-Broadway
36. Planned actor movement
Concept
Blocking
Upstage
Proscenium
37. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Designer's job
Wings
Public Domain
38. Central character
Upstage
Romanticism
Protagonist
Copyright
39. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Protagonist
Romantic Theory
Aristophanes
Orchestra
40. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Aeschylus
Linear Plot
The Orestia
Concept
41. 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
Playwright
The Globe
Melodrama
42. Scenery
Ground plan
Slapstick
Theatron
Skene
43. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Miracle Plays
Antiquarianism
sound designer
Rendering
44. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Upstage
Representational
Theatron
Emile Zola
45. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Stage Manager
Orchestra
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Liturgical Drama
46. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Skene
Emile Zola
Stage Manager
47. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Off-off-Broadway
Variables of costume design
Components of Production
Perspective Scenery
48. Directors who operate with total control
Avant-Garde
Empathy
Aristophanes
Auteur
49. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Upstage
Melodrama
Liturgical Drama
Producer
50. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Pageants
Public Domain
Orchestra
Copyright