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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. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Proscenium
Costume Designer
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Pageants
2. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Black box
Casting Director
Aesthetic Distance
3. Designs costumes for the show
Romantic Theory
Costume Designer
Arena
Plato
4. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Broadway
Pageants
Henrik Ibsen
William Shakespeare
5. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Antagonist
Aesthetic Distance
Callbacks
Arena
6. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Upstage
Playwright
Presentational
Rhetorical Tradition
7. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Variables of costume design
Perspective Scenery
Eugene Scribe
8. Handles business aspects of show
Rhetorical Tradition
Upstage
Director
Producer
9. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Proscenium
lighting designer
Downstage
Romantic Theory
10. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Auditions
Raked Stage
Book musical
Proscenium
11. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Copyright
Miracle Plays
Copyright
Mystery Plays
12. Fee for each performance
Cycles
Royalty
Perspective Scenery
Romantic Theory
13. Standard tool for casting productions
Verse
Verse
Perspective Scenery
Auditions
14. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Subtext
Copyright
Concept
Auditions
15. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Morality Plays
Components of Production
Arena
Dramaturg
16. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
William Shakespeare
Broadway
Downstage
The Orestia
17. Designs costumes for the show
Eugene Scribe
Director
University Wits
Costume Designer
18. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
The Globe
Proscenium
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Concept
19. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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20. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
sound designer
University Wits
Designer
Eugene Scribe
21. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Liturgical Drama
Components of Actor's job
Empathy
Reversal
22. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Commedia Dell'Arte
Thrust
Rhetorical Tradition
Melodrama
23. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Mystery Plays
Commedia Dell'Arte
Verse
Musical Theatre
24. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Linear Plot
Plato
Vomitories
Prose
25. When line of action suddenly switches
Proscenium
Broadway
Scenic Designer
Reversal
26. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Liturgical Drama
Morality Plays
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
27. When line of action suddenly switches
Callbacks
Subtext
Wings
Reversal
28. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Representational
Thrust
Stage manager
Alienation Effect
29. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Wings
Presentational
Blocking
30. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Slapstick
Sense memory
Subtext
31. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
lighting designer
Concept
Thespis
Rendering
32. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Eugene Scribe
Broadway
Cycles
Aristotle
33. Directors who operate with total control
Neoclassicism
Auteur
Royalty
Costume plot
34. Secondary line of action
Actor's tools
Miracle Plays
Subplot
Callbacks
35. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Linear Plot
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Copyright
Types of professional theater
36. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Avant-Garde
Plato
Book musical
Constantin Stanislavski
37. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Conflict
Public Domain
Aristophanes
Black box
38. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Orchestra
Liturgical Drama
Miracle Plays
Director
39. 'dancing space'
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Orchestra
Costume plot
Realism
40. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Rendering
Verse
Empathy
Aesthetic Distance
41. 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.
William Shakespeare
Theatron
Chorus
Royalty
42. 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.
Director
Chorus
Verisimilitude
Callbacks
43. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
Off-off-Broadway
Mystery Plays
Miracle Plays
44. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Aristotle
Bertolt Brecht
Casting Director
Subtext
45. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Proscenium
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Public Domain
Types of professional theater
46. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Liturgical Drama
Conflict
Antiquarianism
Linear Plot
47. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Designer's job
Proscenium
Romantic Theory
48. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Antagonist
Director
Callbacks
Cycles
49. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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50. Directors who operate with total control
Antagonist
Eugene Scribe
Auteur
Morality Plays