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Theatre Appreciation 2
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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. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Stage Manager
The Globe
Bertolt Brecht
Presentational
2. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Chorus
Presentational
Alienation Effect
3. Planned actor movement
William Shakespeare
Dionysus
Raked Stage
Blocking
4. Scenery
Skene
Cycles
Plato
Director
5. 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
Downstage
Actor's tools
Dionysus
Subtext
6. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Orchestra
Dionysus
Designer
Dramaturg
7. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Hypokrites
Melodrama
Blocking
Henrik Ibsen
8. Central character
William Shakespeare
Aristotle
Protagonist
Romanticism
9. Saint's plays
Commedia Dell'Arte
Romanticism
Perspective Scenery
Miracle Plays
10. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Empathy
Linear Plot
Costume plot
Catharsis
11. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Pageants
Components of Production
Types of professional theater
Front of House
12. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Actor's tools
Presentational
The Globe
13. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Public Domain
Designer's job
Constantin Stanislavski
Morality Plays
14. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Avant-Garde
Off-off-Broadway
Plato
Subplot
15. The area farthest away from the audience
Eugene Scribe
Alienation Effect
Director
Upstage
16. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
The Orestia
Upstage
Aeschylus
Stage manager
17. 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
Actor's tools
Rhetorical Tradition
Empathy
Realism
18. Author of play
Stage Manager
Playwright
Off-off-Broadway
Downstage
19. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
20. Creates a visual home for the play
Conflict
Scenic Designer
Designer
The Orestia
21. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Protagonist
Designer's job
Subtext
22. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
collaborator
Musical Theatre
Empathy
Antiquarianism
23. Sentences/paragraph structure
Verisimilitude
Verisimilitude
Public Domain
Prose
24. Generally rhyming
William Shakespeare
Presentational
Verse
Aristotle
25. Fee for each performance
Chorus
Wings
Royalty
Ground plan
26. Was in favor of theater
Arena
Morality Plays
Aristotle
Romantic Theory
27. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Copyright
Dionysus
Romanticism
Antiquarianism
28. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Thrust
Components of Production
Front of House
Mystery Plays
29. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Dialogue
Components of Production
Vomitories
University Wits
30. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Subtext
Dramaturg
Rhetorical Tradition
31. Author of play
Director
Off-off-Broadway
Reversal
Playwright
32. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Melodrama
The Globe
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Dramaturg
33. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
34. 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.
Book musical
Dramaturg
Chorus
Musical Theatre
35. 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
Henrik Ibsen
Playwright
Raked Stage
Playwright
36. When line of action suddenly switches
Reversal
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Auditions
Representational
37. Director champions intention of playwright
Plato
collaborator
Components of Production
Dialogue
38. 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
Aesthetic Distance
Romantic Theory
Henrik Ibsen
Sense memory
39. First director
lighting designer
Front of House
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Proscenium
40. The area farthest away from the audience
Ground plan
Upstage
The Orestia
Prose
41. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Auteur
Vomitories
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Melodrama
42. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Thrust
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Broadway
43. Invented by the Italians - a large open arch that marks the primary division between audience and performance space in a proscenium space. The proscenium arch frames the action of the play for the audience and limits the view of backstage areas
Aristophanes
Dionysus
Proscenium
Director
44. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Concept
Aristotle
Vomitories
Linear Plot
45. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Vomitories
Romantic Theory
Skene
Wings
46. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
Subtext
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Playwright
47. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Melodrama
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Plato
48. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Orchestra
Ground plan
Cycles
49. Collection of mystery plays
Callbacks
Cycles
Aesthetic Distance
Hypokrites
50. Directors who operate with total control
Dialogue
Auteur
Scenic Designer
Bertolt Brecht