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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. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Reversal
Sense memory
2. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Sense memory
Dramaturg
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Eugene Scribe
3. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Orchestra
Stage Manager
Broadway
Components of Production
4. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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5. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
William Shakespeare
collaborator
Wings
Conflict
6. Collection of mystery plays
Cycles
Aeschylus
Aristotle
Components of Production
7. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Vomitories
Rendering
Subtext
Constantin Stanislavski
8. Planned actor movement
William Shakespeare
Blocking
Subplot
Costume Designer
9. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Blocking
Pageants
Rendering
Thrust
10. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
Costume plot
Linear Plot
The Globe
11. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Aristotle
Director
Arena
Designer
12. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Scenic Designer
Liturgical Drama
Variables of costume design
Reversal
13. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Variables of costume design
Subplot
Henrik Ibsen
Emile Zola
14. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Conflict
Aeschylus
Orchestra
Black box
15. Generally rhyming
Protagonist
Verse
Cycles
Alienation Effect
16. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
The Globe
Producer
Theatron
Copyright
17. Physical commedy
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Slapstick
Off-off-Broadway
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
18. Action - place - time
Catharsis
Orchestra
Neoclassic unities
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
19. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Dionysus
Aesthetic Distance
Aristophanes
20. Actor in 5th century Greece
Protagonist
Rendering
Stage Manager
Hypokrites
21. Body - voice - mind
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22. Who or what opposes the central character
Scenic Designer
Aeschylus
Morality Plays
Antagonist
23. Appearance of truth
Miracle Plays
Costume plot
Verisimilitude
Dionysus
24. The area farthest away from the audience
Concept
Upstage
Director
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
25. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Bertolt Brecht
Aesthetic Distance
Aeschylus
Emile Zola
26. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Vomitories
Costume plot
Casting Director
Mystery Plays
27. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Neoclassic unities
Romanticism
Aeschylus
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
28. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Aeschylus
Casting Director
Melodrama
Components of Production
29. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Wings
Representational
Subplot
30. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
Orchestra
Book musical
Musical Theatre
31. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Pageants
Eugene Scribe
Emile Zola
Bertolt Brecht
32. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Off-off-Broadway
Scenic Designer
Components of Actor's job
Wings
33. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Dialogue
William Shakespeare
Dionysus
Costume plot
34. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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35. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Designer's job
Hypokrites
Neoclassic unities
Linear Plot
36. 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
Melodrama
Pageants
Presentational
Public Domain
37. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Rendering
Off-off-Broadway
Skene
Copyright
38. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Callbacks
Arena
William Shakespeare
collaborator
39. Directors who operate with total control
lighting designer
Hypokrites
Auteur
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
40. 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
Musical Theatre
Realism
Subplot
Thespis
41. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Cycles
Stage Manager
Aesthetic Distance
Linear Plot
42. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Producer
Components of Actor's job
Plato
Callbacks
43. Designs costumes for the show
Bertolt Brecht
Black box
Costume Designer
Concept
44. 'seeing place'
Liturgical Drama
Scenic Designer
Theatron
Wings
45. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Empathy
Romanticism
lighting designer
Liturgical Drama
46. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Antagonist
Musical Theatre
Reversal
47. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Liturgical Drama
Subtext
Designer
Blocking
48. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Components of Actor's job
Commedia Dell'Arte
Alienation Effect
Book musical
49. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Copyright
Rendering
Stage manager
Aristophanes
50. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Thespis
Off-off-Broadway
Bertolt Brecht
Concept