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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. Author of play
Variables of costume design
Thespis
Playwright
Auditions
2. Directors who operate with total control
Henrik Ibsen
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Variables of costume design
Auteur
3. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Neoclassicism
Empathy
Auditions
Proscenium
4. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
The Orestia
Components of Production
Actor's tools
Aesthetic Distance
5. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Antiquarianism
Antagonist
Chorus
6. Director champions intention of playwright
Costume plot
collaborator
Mystery Plays
Playwright
7. Designs costumes for the show
University Wits
Perspective Scenery
Skene
Costume Designer
8. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Catharsis
Subplot
Royalty
Hypokrites
9. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Melodrama
Musical Theatre
Representational
Aristophanes
10. 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
Aristotle
Proscenium
Public Domain
Upstage
11. Who or what opposes the central character
Playwright
Variables of costume design
The Globe
Antagonist
12. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Components of Production
Neoclassicism
Commedia Dell'Arte
13. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Subtext
Stage manager
Liturgical Drama
Pageants
14. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Hypokrites
Commedia Dell'Arte
Producer
Sense memory
15. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Verisimilitude
Director
Bertolt Brecht
Casting Director
16. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Chorus
Ground plan
Upstage
Subtext
17. 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
Antiquarianism
Public Domain
The Globe
Realism
18. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Playwright
sound designer
Scenic Designer
Vomitories
19. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
Hypokrites
Auteur
Romantic Theory
20. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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21. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Copyright
Concept
Alienation Effect
Callbacks
22. Central character
Alienation Effect
Rendering
Protagonist
Off-off-Broadway
23. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Public Domain
Melodrama
Book musical
Casting Director
24. Seats 100-500; professional
Constantin Stanislavski
Off-Broadway
Orchestra
Constantin Stanislavski
25. Handles business aspects of show
collaborator
Producer
Designer's job
Aesthetic Distance
26. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Designer
Liturgical Drama
Black box
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
27. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Hypokrites
Aristophanes
Miracle Plays
28. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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29. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Alienation Effect
Aeschylus
Rhetorical Tradition
Dionysus
30. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Actor's tools
Representational
Hypokrites
Book musical
31. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Constantin Stanislavski
Book musical
Skene
Public Domain
32. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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33. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Verisimilitude
Ground plan
Subplot
Stage Manager
34. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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35. Creates a visual home for the play
Representational
Producer
Scenic Designer
Components of Production
36. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Director
Realism
Components of Actor's job
Broadway
37. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Conflict
Variables of costume design
Bertolt Brecht
Front of House
38. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Verisimilitude
Variables of costume design
Proscenium
Wings
39. 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
Romantic Theory
Antagonist
Actor's tools
Realism
40. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Royalty
Hypokrites
Costume Designer
41. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Playwright
Black box
Public Domain
Prose
42. Appearance of truth
Miracle Plays
Hypokrites
University Wits
Verisimilitude
43. Scenery
Skene
Emile Zola
William Shakespeare
Raked Stage
44. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Avant-Garde
Aesthetic Distance
University Wits
Scenic Designer
45. Physical commedy
Romanticism
Slapstick
The Orestia
Scenic Designer
46. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Playwright
Miracle Plays
Romanticism
Types of professional theater
47. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Off-off-Broadway
Alienation Effect
lighting designer
Dramaturg
48. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Eugene Scribe
Dialogue
Chorus
Costume plot
49. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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50. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Royalty
Front of House
Realism
Ground plan