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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Aeschylus
Casting Director
Producer
Auteur
2. Author of play
Playwright
Cycles
Auteur
Concept
3. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Antagonist
Constantin Stanislavski
Chorus
Prose
4. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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5. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
University Wits
Components of Production
Melodrama
Auteur
6. 'seeing place'
Costume Designer
Prose
Book musical
Theatron
7. Director champions intention of playwright
Components of Actor's job
Henrik Ibsen
collaborator
Aristophanes
8. 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
Conflict
Raked Stage
Black box
Avant-Garde
9. Historical accuracy
Perspective Scenery
Subplot
Royalty
Antiquarianism
10. Physical commedy
Slapstick
lighting designer
Mystery Plays
Wings
11. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Subtext
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Presentational
12. Who or what opposes the central character
Antagonist
Blocking
Verisimilitude
Designer's job
13. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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14. Handles business aspects of show
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Musical Theatre
The Globe
Producer
15. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
Hypokrites
Melodrama
Representational
16. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Realism
Designer
Plato
Stage manager
17. Body - voice - mind
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18. When line of action suddenly switches
Presentational
Arena
Reversal
Alienation Effect
19. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Callbacks
Hypokrites
Eugene Scribe
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
20. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Morality Plays
Sense memory
Proscenium
Wings
21. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
lighting designer
Aristotle
Melodrama
Rendering
22. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Upstage
Thespis
Stage manager
Chorus
23. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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24. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Copyright
Miracle Plays
25. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Representational
Romanticism
Casting Director
Chorus
26. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Rhetorical Tradition
Constantin Stanislavski
Director
Pageants
27. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Verse
Sense memory
Alienation Effect
28. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Vomitories
Producer
Broadway
Designer's job
29. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
William Shakespeare
Henrik Ibsen
Raked Stage
sound designer
30. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Public Domain
Alienation Effect
Musical Theatre
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
31. Director champions intention of playwright
Alienation Effect
Reversal
Proscenium
collaborator
32. Creates a visual home for the play
Cycles
Playwright
Broadway
Scenic Designer
33. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
Theatron
Realism
Actor's tools
34. Creates a visual home for the play
Types of professional theater
Raked Stage
Copyright
Scenic Designer
35. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Book musical
Aristotle
University Wits
Conflict
36. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Upstage
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Morality Plays
Book musical
37. First director
Miracle Plays
The Globe
Royalty
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
38. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Subtext
Liturgical Drama
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Bertolt Brecht
39. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Vomitories
Copyright
Off-Broadway
Casting Director
40. Author of play
Downstage
Royalty
Slapstick
Playwright
41. Fee for each performance
Costume Designer
Emile Zola
Auteur
Royalty
42. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Director
Royalty
Realism
Liturgical Drama
43. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Verse
Off-off-Broadway
Downstage
Presentational
44. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Arena
Dramaturg
Commedia Dell'Arte
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
Ground plan
Black box
Book musical
Proscenium
46. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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47. 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
Auditions
Subtext
Downstage
Aristophanes
48. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
Rendering
Playwright
Raked Stage
49. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Variables of costume design
Casting Director
Avant-Garde
Costume Designer
50. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Verisimilitude
Constantin Stanislavski
Producer
Perspective Scenery
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