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Theatre Appreciation 2
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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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1. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Auditions
Casting Director
Rendering
Alienation Effect
2. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Linear Plot
Perspective Scenery
Stage Manager
3. Scenery
Scenic Designer
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Skene
Antiquarianism
4. 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
Designer
Broadway
Perspective Scenery
Aesthetic Distance
5. The area farthest away from the audience
Upstage
Theatron
Royalty
The Globe
6. Who or what opposes the central character
Designer's job
Aesthetic Distance
Off-Broadway
Antagonist
7. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Verse
Stage Manager
Aeschylus
8. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Emile Zola
Variables of costume design
Subtext
Avant-Garde
9. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Hypokrites
Reversal
Perspective Scenery
Designer
10. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Proscenium
Stage manager
Concept
Blocking
11. Spoken words
Casting Director
Theatron
Dialogue
Cycles
12. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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13. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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14. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Romanticism
Neoclassicism
Henrik Ibsen
Theatron
15. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Catharsis
Blocking
Arena
Constantin Stanislavski
16. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
Conflict
Musical Theatre
Scenic Designer
17. Central character
Protagonist
Arena
lighting designer
Royalty
18. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
The Globe
Components of Actor's job
Rhetorical Tradition
Sense memory
19. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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20. Historical accuracy
Verisimilitude
Antiquarianism
Rendering
Neoclassicism
21. Who or what opposes the central character
Musical Theatre
Dionysus
Callbacks
Antagonist
22. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Emile Zola
Book musical
Conflict
Variables of costume design
23. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Stage Manager
Constantin Stanislavski
Aesthetic Distance
Emile Zola
24. Action - place - time
Costume Designer
Subplot
Perspective Scenery
Neoclassic unities
25. Physical commedy
Avant-Garde
Empathy
Slapstick
Concept
26. Director champions intention of playwright
Plato
Miracle Plays
lighting designer
collaborator
27. Seats 100-500; professional
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Off-Broadway
University Wits
Raked Stage
28. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Off-off-Broadway
Types of professional theater
Reversal
Alienation Effect
29. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Skene
Henrik Ibsen
Front of House
Henrik Ibsen
30. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Types of professional theater
Rhetorical Tradition
Wings
Vomitories
31. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Director
Vomitories
Empathy
sound designer
32. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Off-Broadway
The Globe
Orchestra
Dramaturg
33. 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
Downstage
Auditions
lighting designer
Costume Designer
34. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Variables of costume design
Pageants
Verse
Concept
35. Greatest dramatist of all time
Book musical
Orchestra
William Shakespeare
Off-Broadway
36. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Dialogue
Antiquarianism
Theatron
Costume plot
37. Body - voice - mind
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38. When line of action suddenly switches
Reversal
Constantin Stanislavski
Theatron
Morality Plays
39. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Dramaturg
Raked Stage
Proscenium
Mystery Plays
40. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Casting Director
William Shakespeare
Black box
Empathy
41. 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
Components of Production
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Realism
Presentational
42. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Verse
Director
Components of Actor's job
Melodrama
43. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Subplot
Perspective Scenery
Sense memory
Director
44. God of wine and fertility
Scenic Designer
Alienation Effect
Dionysus
Pageants
45. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Off-off-Broadway
Miracle Plays
Mystery Plays
Skene
46. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Neoclassicism
Liturgical Drama
Copyright
Slapstick
47. Actor in 5th century Greece
Neoclassicism
University Wits
Casting Director
Hypokrites
48. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
sound designer
Subtext
Book musical
University Wits
49. Greatest dramatist of all time
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Antagonist
William Shakespeare
Off-Broadway
50. Author of play
Aesthetic Distance
Playwright
Plato
Aristotle