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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. 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
Empathy
Off-Broadway
Skene
Realism
2. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Costume plot
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Director
3. 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
Catharsis
Henrik Ibsen
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Proscenium
4. 'seeing place'
Copyright
Theatron
Morality Plays
Prose
5. 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
Playwright
Presentational
Skene
6. Action - place - time
Commedia Dell'Arte
Conflict
Neoclassic unities
Empathy
7. Saint's plays
Variables of costume design
Miracle Plays
Alienation Effect
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
8. Secondary line of action
Rendering
Off-Broadway
Subplot
Types of professional theater
9. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
10. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Reversal
Broadway
Producer
11. Collection of mystery plays
Copyright
Perspective Scenery
Musical Theatre
Cycles
12. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Verse
Broadway
Casting Director
Neoclassicism
13. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Pageants
Aristophanes
Types of professional theater
Liturgical Drama
14. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Scenic Designer
Neoclassicism
Realism
15. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Romanticism
Dionysus
Stage manager
Wings
16. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Scenic Designer
Ground plan
Raked Stage
17. Action - place - time
Proscenium
Neoclassic unities
Skene
lighting designer
18. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
Dialogue
Avant-Garde
Auditions
19. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Catharsis
Prose
Verse
Vomitories
20. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Book musical
Thrust
Costume plot
21. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Costume plot
Musical Theatre
Chorus
Producer
22. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Thrust
Components of Actor's job
Casting Director
Components of Production
23. Greatest dramatist of all time
Orchestra
Dionysus
William Shakespeare
Raked Stage
24. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Rendering
Morality Plays
Dionysus
Catharsis
25. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Hypokrites
Black box
Commedia Dell'Arte
Wings
26. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Designer
Wings
Orchestra
Commedia Dell'Arte
27. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Actor's tools
Components of Actor's job
Playwright
Rendering
28. Body - voice - mind
29. 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
Upstage
Downstage
Conflict
Perspective Scenery
30. Collection of mystery plays
Dialogue
Verisimilitude
Cycles
Costume Designer
31. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Concept
Representational
Subtext
32. Creates a visual home for the play
Stage Manager
Cycles
Scenic Designer
Stage Manager
33. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Upstage
Pageants
Emile Zola
Raked Stage
34. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Protagonist
Components of Actor's job
Henrik Ibsen
Prose
35. Seats 100-500; professional
Hypokrites
Romantic Theory
Dialogue
Off-Broadway
36. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Dialogue
Eugene Scribe
University Wits
Constantin Stanislavski
37. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Alienation Effect
Off-Broadway
Henrik Ibsen
Musical Theatre
38. Was in favor of theater
Theatron
sound designer
Aristotle
Stage Manager
39. Director champions intention of playwright
collaborator
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Concept
Reversal
40. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Off-Broadway
Dialogue
Components of Production
Mystery Plays
41. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Empathy
Components of Production
Proscenium
Rhetorical Tradition
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.
William Shakespeare
Royalty
Director
Chorus
43. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Miracle Plays
Public Domain
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
44. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Morality Plays
Alienation Effect
Representational
Wings
45. 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
lighting designer
Presentational
Pageants
Ground plan
46. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Antagonist
Black box
Representational
Aristotle
47. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Prose
Aesthetic Distance
Thrust
Emile Zola
48. Fee for each performance
Variables of costume design
Ground plan
Skene
Royalty
49. When line of action suddenly switches
Reversal
Antiquarianism
Cycles
Black box
50. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Types of professional theater
Mystery Plays
Components of Actor's job
Director