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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. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
sound designer
Blocking
Off-Broadway
Variables of costume design
2. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
Presentational
lighting designer
Thespis
3. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Subplot
Proscenium
Concept
Royalty
4. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Realism
Orchestra
Mystery Plays
Neoclassicism
5. 'seeing place'
Producer
Neoclassic unities
Ground plan
Theatron
6. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Bertolt Brecht
Concept
Orchestra
7. Historical accuracy
Cycles
Romanticism
Antiquarianism
Cycles
8. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Prose
Concept
Pageants
Musical Theatre
9. Who or what opposes the central character
Melodrama
Dialogue
Antagonist
Downstage
10. The area farthest away from the audience
Catharsis
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Antiquarianism
Upstage
11. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
Sense memory
Scenic Designer
Neoclassic unities
12. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Vomitories
Musical Theatre
Slapstick
Presentational
13. Author of play
Conflict
Royalty
Callbacks
Playwright
14. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
collaborator
Aeschylus
Skene
Black box
15. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
Representational
Casting Director
Director
16. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Alienation Effect
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aeschylus
The Globe
17. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Aesthetic Distance
Wings
University Wits
Antiquarianism
18. Generally rhyming
Raked Stage
Copyright
Reversal
Verse
19. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Eugene Scribe
Off-Broadway
Off-off-Broadway
Romanticism
20. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Playwright
Components of Actor's job
Musical Theatre
Emile Zola
21. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Avant-Garde
Auditions
Henrik Ibsen
Representational
22. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Prose
Arena
Henrik Ibsen
Antagonist
23. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Commedia Dell'Arte
Catharsis
Vomitories
24. 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
Melodrama
Sense memory
Presentational
Downstage
25. Spoken words
Dialogue
Antiquarianism
Alienation Effect
Components of Production
26. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Copyright
Musical Theatre
University Wits
Wings
27. Physical commedy
Reversal
Slapstick
Aesthetic Distance
Prose
28. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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29. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Presentational
Morality Plays
Eugene Scribe
Wings
30. Central character
Costume plot
Protagonist
Callbacks
Rhetorical Tradition
31. 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
Aristophanes
Reversal
Downstage
Cycles
32. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Public Domain
Downstage
Book musical
Plato
33. 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
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Raked Stage
Antagonist
Royalty
34. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Liturgical Drama
Wings
Musical Theatre
Book musical
35. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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36. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Auteur
Miracle Plays
Casting Director
Components of Production
37. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Liturgical Drama
Costume Designer
The Orestia
Dialogue
38. 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
University Wits
Ground plan
Wings
Raked Stage
39. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Actor's tools
Melodrama
Plato
Theatron
40. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Costume Designer
Neoclassicism
Avant-Garde
sound designer
41. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Liturgical Drama
The Globe
Plato
Thrust
42. Appearance of truth
Musical Theatre
Presentational
Front of House
Verisimilitude
43. Handles business aspects of show
Skene
Producer
Dionysus
Protagonist
44. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Pageants
The Orestia
Actor's tools
45. Director champions intention of playwright
Variables of costume design
collaborator
Protagonist
Upstage
46. Spoken words
Protagonist
Dialogue
Front of House
Hypokrites
47. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Callbacks
Morality Plays
Producer
Copyright
48. Actor in 5th century Greece
Auteur
The Orestia
Subplot
Hypokrites
49. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Avant-Garde
Slapstick
Black box
Dramaturg
50. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Director
Rhetorical Tradition
Linear Plot
Commedia Dell'Arte