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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Empathy
Thespis
Plato
Melodrama
2. The stage area closest to the audience; on the raked stage of the Renaissance theatres - the stage literally sloped downward as it got closer to the audience
Emile Zola
Musical Theatre
Downstage
Miracle Plays
3. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Raked Stage
Verse
Verse
4. Director champions intention of playwright
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Dionysus
Antagonist
collaborator
5. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Romanticism
Miracle Plays
Concept
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
6. Saint's plays
Costume plot
Book musical
Subplot
Miracle Plays
7. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Avant-Garde
Eugene Scribe
Aristotle
8. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Designer's job
Arena
The Globe
Cycles
9. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Raked Stage
lighting designer
Henrik Ibsen
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
10. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Presentational
Bertolt Brecht
Downstage
11. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
William Shakespeare
Designer's job
Mystery Plays
Stage manager
12. 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
Cycles
Variables of costume design
Raked Stage
Plato
13. Collection of mystery plays
Arena
Melodrama
Sense memory
Cycles
14. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Subplot
Perspective Scenery
sound designer
Scenic Designer
15. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Dionysus
Verisimilitude
Public Domain
Stage Manager
16. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Actor's tools
Theatron
Director
Dialogue
17. Saint's plays
Aristophanes
Reversal
Scenic Designer
Miracle Plays
18. Body - voice - mind
19. Designs costumes for the show
Romantic Theory
Stage manager
Costume Designer
Verisimilitude
20. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Neoclassic unities
Designer
Morality Plays
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
21. Seats 100-500; professional
Antagonist
University Wits
Off-Broadway
Neoclassicism
22. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Costume Designer
Morality Plays
Conflict
Book musical
23. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Miracle Plays
Front of House
William Shakespeare
24. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Vomitories
Antiquarianism
Callbacks
Commedia Dell'Arte
25. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Stage Manager
Costume plot
Arena
Liturgical Drama
26. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Actor's tools
Presentational
Aristotle
Eugene Scribe
27. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Melodrama
Commedia Dell'Arte
Reversal
28. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Upstage
Copyright
Antiquarianism
Musical Theatre
29. Greatest dramatist of all time
William Shakespeare
Mystery Plays
The Globe
Bertolt Brecht
30. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Commedia Dell'Arte
Liturgical Drama
Protagonist
31. The area farthest away from the audience
Callbacks
Arena
Upstage
Chorus
32. Author of play
The Orestia
Playwright
Aesthetic Distance
Melodrama
33. Creates a visual home for the play
Arena
Scenic Designer
Aristotle
Neoclassicism
34. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Director
Liturgical Drama
Verisimilitude
Avant-Garde
35. 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
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Presentational
Aesthetic Distance
Raked Stage
36. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Book musical
Aesthetic Distance
Public Domain
37. Sentences/paragraph structure
Dramaturg
Catharsis
Costume plot
Prose
38. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Stage manager
Perspective Scenery
Reversal
Neoclassicism
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
Melodrama
lighting designer
Realism
40. Fee for each performance
The Orestia
Royalty
Designer's job
Chorus
41. Central character
Slapstick
Protagonist
Alienation Effect
Callbacks
42. When line of action suddenly switches
Constantin Stanislavski
Reversal
Subtext
Costume Designer
43. Sentences/paragraph structure
Ground plan
Book musical
Producer
Prose
44. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Designer's job
Thespis
Dionysus
45. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Upstage
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Empathy
Broadway
46. Author of play
lighting designer
Director
Constantin Stanislavski
Playwright
47. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
lighting designer
sound designer
Vomitories
48. Physical commedy
Director
Off-Broadway
Romantic Theory
Slapstick
49. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Aesthetic Distance
Raked Stage
Aristophanes
Constantin Stanislavski
50. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Emile Zola
Eugene Scribe
Director
Actor's tools