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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. 'dancing space'
Perspective Scenery
Protagonist
Theatron
Orchestra
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.
University Wits
Proscenium
Concept
Designer's job
3. Director champions intention of playwright
William Shakespeare
Melodrama
Dialogue
collaborator
4. Standard tool for casting productions
Antagonist
Auditions
Auteur
Off-off-Broadway
5. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Auteur
Romanticism
Off-off-Broadway
Liturgical Drama
6. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Dionysus
Aeschylus
Downstage
lighting designer
7. Scenery
Skene
Public Domain
Playwright
Subtext
8. Appearance of truth
Reversal
Copyright
Black box
Verisimilitude
9. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Thrust
Types of professional theater
Costume plot
Costume Designer
10. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Public Domain
Proscenium
Components of Actor's job
Aesthetic Distance
11. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Costume Designer
Arena
Morality Plays
Concept
12. Handles business aspects of show
Off-off-Broadway
Producer
Thrust
Rendering
13. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Upstage
Vomitories
Plato
Chorus
14. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Orchestra
Aesthetic Distance
Dionysus
Subplot
15. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Auteur
Playwright
Skene
16. 'seeing place'
Mystery Plays
Linear Plot
Commedia Dell'Arte
Theatron
17. Greatest dramatist of all time
Morality Plays
William Shakespeare
Neoclassic unities
Linear Plot
18. Secondary line of action
Subplot
Blocking
Aeschylus
Public Domain
19. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Aesthetic Distance
Alienation Effect
Avant-Garde
Concept
20. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Subtext
Neoclassicism
Conflict
Representational
21. Planned actor movement
Dialogue
Cycles
Auditions
Blocking
22. When line of action suddenly switches
sound designer
Verisimilitude
Reversal
William Shakespeare
23. Physical commedy
The Orestia
Slapstick
Costume Designer
sound designer
24. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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25. Planned actor movement
Director
Black box
Proscenium
Blocking
26. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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27. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
Cycles
Rhetorical Tradition
Reversal
28. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Scenic Designer
Designer
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
collaborator
29. Historical accuracy
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Antiquarianism
Off-off-Broadway
Arena
30. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Proscenium
Protagonist
Emile Zola
Aeschylus
31. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Emile Zola
Director
Henrik Ibsen
Thrust
32. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Vomitories
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Off-Broadway
Constantin Stanislavski
33. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Auditions
Romanticism
The Globe
Empathy
34. Style of production that acknowledges theatricality and does not attempt to created the impression of 'real life' on the stage. Presentational scenery - costumes - and lighting may suggest - distort - or even abstract reality. Presentational acting m
Upstage
Conflict
Sense memory
Presentational
35. 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
Reversal
Realism
Costume plot
Conflict
36. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Bertolt Brecht
Director
collaborator
Aeschylus
37. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Verisimilitude
Miracle Plays
Empathy
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
38. 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
Empathy
Perspective Scenery
Musical Theatre
Book musical
39. 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
Mystery Plays
Dialogue
Proscenium
collaborator
40. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Proscenium
Off-Broadway
41. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Dialogue
Emile Zola
Proscenium
Costume plot
42. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Designer's job
Cycles
Arena
43. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Eugene Scribe
Stage manager
Romantic Theory
44. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
Dialogue
Black box
Mystery Plays
45. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
The Globe
Playwright
Variables of costume design
Constantin Stanislavski
46. 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
Empathy
Romantic Theory
Commedia Dell'Arte
Theatron
47. 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
Cycles
Proscenium
Scenic Designer
Ground plan
48. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Melodrama
Producer
Designer
Variables of costume design
49. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Romanticism
Wings
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
50. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Verisimilitude
Representational
Copyright
Black box
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