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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. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Variables of costume design
Thrust
Producer
Mystery Plays
2. Saint's plays
Off-off-Broadway
Miracle Plays
Sense memory
Alienation Effect
3. 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
Off-Broadway
Stage Manager
Romantic Theory
Slapstick
4. 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
Blocking
Avant-Garde
Dialogue
Romantic Theory
5. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Rendering
Copyright
Black box
Romantic Theory
6. Scenery
Slapstick
Melodrama
Skene
Ground plan
7. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Thrust
Aesthetic Distance
collaborator
Subtext
8. 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
Auteur
Black box
Bertolt Brecht
Downstage
9. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Linear Plot
Constantin Stanislavski
Theatron
Subtext
10. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Variables of costume design
Avant-Garde
Designer's job
Book musical
11. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Commedia Dell'Arte
Callbacks
Scenic Designer
Book musical
12. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Rhetorical Tradition
Book musical
Director
Upstage
13. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Variables of costume design
Stage Manager
Catharsis
Realism
14. 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
Raked Stage
Perspective Scenery
Avant-Garde
Book musical
15. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
16. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Thrust
Callbacks
William Shakespeare
Subtext
17. Body - voice - mind
18. Generally rhyming
Costume plot
Commedia Dell'Arte
Verse
Orchestra
19. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Melodrama
Playwright
Thrust
Avant-Garde
20. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Melodrama
Proscenium
Aristotle
21. Standard tool for casting productions
Presentational
Auditions
Wings
collaborator
22. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
The Globe
Emile Zola
Playwright
Components of Actor's job
23. Standard tool for casting productions
Components of Actor's job
Catharsis
Auditions
sound designer
24. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
25. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
The Orestia
Conflict
Sense memory
Chorus
26. Directors who operate with total control
Thrust
Auteur
Concept
Scenic Designer
27. Historical accuracy
Upstage
Proscenium
Off-Broadway
Antiquarianism
28. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Antagonist
Skene
Perspective Scenery
29. Seats 100-500; professional
Subtext
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Off-Broadway
Blocking
30. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Subplot
Designer
Commedia Dell'Arte
31. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Proscenium
Stage Manager
Black box
Alienation Effect
32. 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
Constantin Stanislavski
Theatron
Proscenium
Romanticism
33. Physical commedy
Sense memory
Aristophanes
Slapstick
Chorus
34. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Director
Melodrama
Dialogue
Off-off-Broadway
35. Planned actor movement
Producer
Presentational
Catharsis
Blocking
36. Greatest dramatist of all time
Playwright
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Melodrama
William Shakespeare
37. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Casting Director
Eugene Scribe
sound designer
Off-off-Broadway
38. 'dancing space'
Types of professional theater
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Royalty
Orchestra
39. Handles business aspects of show
Pageants
Chorus
Public Domain
Producer
40. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Orchestra
Casting Director
Wings
41. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Components of Actor's job
Proscenium
Casting Director
Bertolt Brecht
42. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Concept
Proscenium
Book musical
Black box
43. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Book musical
Proscenium
The Globe
Perspective Scenery
44. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Aristophanes
Arena
Book musical
45. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Romanticism
sound designer
Director
Book musical
46. Spoken words
Proscenium
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aeschylus
Dialogue
47. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Catharsis
Chorus
Conflict
Auditions
48. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Bertolt Brecht
Conflict
Front of House
Orchestra
49. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
University Wits
Romanticism
Wings
Morality Plays
50. 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
Sense memory
Prose
Director
Ground plan