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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. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Dialogue
Bertolt Brecht
Downstage
sound designer
2. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Melodrama
The Orestia
Public Domain
sound designer
3. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Morality Plays
Aristophanes
Vomitories
Liturgical Drama
4. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Linear Plot
Components of Production
Constantin Stanislavski
Proscenium
5. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Arena
collaborator
Broadway
lighting designer
6. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Realism
Concept
Off-Broadway
Aristophanes
7. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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8. Actor in 5th century Greece
Avant-Garde
Hypokrites
Prose
Skene
9. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Variables of costume design
Actor's tools
sound designer
Proscenium
10. 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.
Skene
Stage manager
Chorus
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
11. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Reversal
Public Domain
Broadway
12. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
William Shakespeare
Realism
Off-off-Broadway
13. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Miracle Plays
Stage Manager
Book musical
Variables of costume design
14. Directors who operate with total control
Mystery Plays
William Shakespeare
Auteur
Aesthetic Distance
15. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Emile Zola
Linear Plot
Director
Sense memory
16. Who or what opposes the central character
Representational
Dialogue
Cycles
Antagonist
17. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Stage Manager
Thrust
Thrust
18. Central character
William Shakespeare
Melodrama
Components of Production
Protagonist
19. When line of action suddenly switches
Skene
Emile Zola
Reversal
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
20. Directors who operate with total control
Playwright
Public Domain
Auteur
Royalty
21. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Presentational
Verse
Broadway
Liturgical Drama
22. Spoken words
Alienation Effect
Dialogue
Royalty
Downstage
23. Sentences/paragraph structure
collaborator
Prose
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Subtext
24. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Scenic Designer
Melodrama
Off-off-Broadway
Cycles
25. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Designer's job
Stage manager
Thrust
Perspective Scenery
26. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Aristotle
lighting designer
Ground plan
Downstage
27. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Playwright
Casting Director
Designer's job
Realism
28. 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
Plato
Verisimilitude
Presentational
Cycles
29. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Director
Dionysus
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
30. Director champions intention of playwright
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
collaborator
Thespis
Antagonist
31. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Royalty
Producer
Realism
32. Handles business aspects of show
Melodrama
Producer
Henrik Ibsen
Blocking
33. God of wine and fertility
Book musical
Dionysus
Plato
Presentational
34. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Producer
Bertolt Brecht
Catharsis
Arena
35. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Black box
Plato
Miracle Plays
36. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Emile Zola
Costume plot
Perspective Scenery
Downstage
37. Planned actor movement
Broadway
Blocking
Stage Manager
Plato
38. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Empathy
Avant-Garde
Aesthetic Distance
Dramaturg
39. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Antiquarianism
Designer's job
Plato
Skene
40. Creates a visual home for the play
Avant-Garde
Ground plan
Scenic Designer
Hypokrites
41. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Dialogue
Neoclassicism
Actor's tools
Thespis
42. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
The Orestia
Emile Zola
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Vomitories
43. Central character
Miracle Plays
Antagonist
Aesthetic Distance
Protagonist
44. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Proscenium
Thespis
Off-Broadway
Designer
45. 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
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Antagonist
Raked Stage
Plato
46. 'seeing place'
Director
Theatron
Director
Neoclassicism
47. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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48. 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
Proscenium
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Mystery Plays
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
49. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Avant-Garde
Aristotle
Producer
Romantic Theory
50. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Miracle Plays
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Auditions