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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. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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2. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Avant-Garde
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Rendering
Verse
3. 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.
Chorus
Casting Director
Verisimilitude
Front of House
4. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
The Globe
Wings
Thespis
Public Domain
5. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Pageants
Aesthetic Distance
Reversal
Empathy
6. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Representational
Aeschylus
Sense memory
Subtext
7. Designs costumes for the show
Prose
Conflict
Prose
Costume Designer
8. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Raked Stage
Callbacks
Types of professional theater
Proscenium
9. Handles business aspects of show
Producer
University Wits
lighting designer
Bertolt Brecht
10. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Subtext
Neoclassicism
Costume Designer
Avant-Garde
11. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Playwright
Public Domain
sound designer
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
12. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Designer
Raked Stage
Empathy
Costume plot
13. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Book musical
Empathy
Blocking
Vomitories
14. Creates a visual home for the play
Scenic Designer
Liturgical Drama
Prose
Perspective Scenery
15. Body - voice - mind
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16. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Vomitories
Proscenium
Slapstick
Realism
17. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Auteur
Mystery Plays
Off-Broadway
Catharsis
18. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Prose
Sense memory
Eugene Scribe
Morality Plays
19. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Musical Theatre
Proscenium
Callbacks
20. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Aristotle
Prose
Romantic Theory
21. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Subtext
Off-off-Broadway
Verisimilitude
22. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Mystery Plays
Broadway
Emile Zola
23. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Melodrama
Constantin Stanislavski
Costume plot
Romantic Theory
24. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Romantic Theory
Costume Designer
Off-off-Broadway
Vomitories
25. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Variables of costume design
Scenic Designer
The Globe
Liturgical Drama
26. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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27. 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
Costume Designer
Prose
Black box
Realism
28. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Avant-Garde
Neoclassicism
Eugene Scribe
Front of House
29. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Components of Actor's job
Reversal
Sense memory
Aesthetic Distance
30. 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
Variables of costume design
Aristophanes
Dionysus
31. A drafting of the plan of the set as seen from overhead. A ground plan shows where any scenic pieces or set props (such as furniture) are to be placed
Designer
Proscenium
Ground plan
Auteur
32. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Front of House
Aesthetic Distance
Costume plot
Antiquarianism
33. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Representational
Rendering
Royalty
34. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Verisimilitude
Linear Plot
Thespis
Bertolt Brecht
35. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Commedia Dell'Arte
Components of Production
Public Domain
Concept
36. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Subtext
Director
Slapstick
Costume plot
37. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
sound designer
Emile Zola
William Shakespeare
Neoclassicism
38. Fee for each performance
lighting designer
Producer
Catharsis
Royalty
39. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Miracle Plays
Avant-Garde
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Off-off-Broadway
40. 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
Prose
Raked Stage
Blocking
Rhetorical Tradition
41. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Dramaturg
Romanticism
Copyright
Liturgical Drama
42. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Reversal
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Constantin Stanislavski
Stage Manager
43. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Empathy
Proscenium
Stage Manager
Producer
44. 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.
Chorus
University Wits
Representational
Aristophanes
45. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Public Domain
Morality Plays
Realism
Stage Manager
46. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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47. When line of action suddenly switches
Reversal
Presentational
Playwright
Antagonist
48. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
University Wits
Alienation Effect
Skene
Melodrama
49. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Off-off-Broadway
Wings
Public Domain
Broadway
50. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Dramaturg
Cycles
Producer