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Theatre Appreciation 2
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Subject
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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Variables of costume design
Scenic Designer
Conflict
Rhetorical Tradition
2. 'seeing place'
Eugene Scribe
Callbacks
Alienation Effect
Theatron
3. Central character
Front of House
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Protagonist
Cycles
4. Creates a visual home for the play
Cycles
Henrik Ibsen
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Scenic Designer
5. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Stage Manager
Designer
Wings
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
6. 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
Variables of costume design
Downstage
Empathy
Producer
7. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Representational
Theatron
Designer
8. 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
Scenic Designer
Designer
Broadway
Proscenium
9. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Liturgical Drama
Verisimilitude
Black box
The Globe
10. Planned actor movement
Mystery Plays
Wings
Antiquarianism
Blocking
11. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Eugene Scribe
Linear Plot
Liturgical Drama
12. First director
Off-off-Broadway
Verisimilitude
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Reversal
13. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
Components of Actor's job
Stage manager
Proscenium
14. Designs costumes for the show
Slapstick
Bertolt Brecht
Costume Designer
Upstage
15. Body - voice - mind
16. God of wine and fertility
Dionysus
Mystery Plays
sound designer
Book musical
17. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Concept
William Shakespeare
Realism
Blocking
18. 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
Director
collaborator
Book musical
Realism
19. Sentences/paragraph structure
Protagonist
Mystery Plays
Antiquarianism
Prose
20. Directors who operate with total control
Pageants
Stage Manager
Director
Auteur
21. Saint's plays
Public Domain
Pageants
Miracle Plays
collaborator
22. Seats 100-500; professional
Public Domain
Off-Broadway
Raked Stage
Front of House
23. 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
Emile Zola
Ground plan
Off-Broadway
Stage manager
24. Spoken words
Thespis
Dialogue
Liturgical Drama
Front of House
25. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Protagonist
Cycles
Producer
Rhetorical Tradition
26. Actor in 5th century Greece
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Hypokrites
Dialogue
Dramaturg
27. Physical commedy
Chorus
Protagonist
Raked Stage
Slapstick
28. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Director
Designer
Catharsis
Thrust
29. 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
Miracle Plays
Presentational
Constantin Stanislavski
Components of Actor's job
30. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Thrust
Bertolt Brecht
Components of Production
Melodrama
31. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Director
Skene
Designer's job
Aristophanes
32. Standard tool for casting productions
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Auditions
Pageants
Dramaturg
33. Who or what opposes the central character
Dionysus
Antagonist
Ground plan
Wings
34. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Hypokrites
Mystery Plays
Public Domain
35. Greatest dramatist of all time
Constantin Stanislavski
Actor's tools
Thrust
William Shakespeare
36. 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.
Costume plot
Chorus
Designer's job
Constantin Stanislavski
37. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Liturgical Drama
Thespis
Vomitories
Empathy
38. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Broadway
The Globe
Alienation Effect
Orchestra
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
Pageants
Rendering
Proscenium
Aesthetic Distance
40. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Thrust
Antiquarianism
Designer
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
41. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Avant-Garde
Vomitories
Hypokrites
Royalty
42. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Realism
Rhetorical Tradition
Types of professional theater
Conflict
43. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Black box
Empathy
Henrik Ibsen
Avant-Garde
44. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
45. Action - place - time
Dialogue
Presentational
Hypokrites
Neoclassic unities
46. Body - voice - mind
47. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Director
Rendering
sound designer
Components of Production
48. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Pageants
collaborator
Scenic Designer
49. 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
Hypokrites
Sense memory
Mystery Plays
Realism
50. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Neoclassic unities
Theatron
Designer's job
Costume plot