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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. Actor in 5th century Greece
Raked Stage
Upstage
Hypokrites
Callbacks
2. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Empathy
Dionysus
Aeschylus
Variables of costume design
3. Body - voice - mind
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4. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Musical Theatre
Off-Broadway
Aesthetic Distance
Off-off-Broadway
5. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Aristotle
Front of House
Representational
Proscenium
6. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Aristophanes
Catharsis
Slapstick
Dramaturg
7. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Conflict
Avant-Garde
Thrust
Neoclassicism
8. Body - voice - mind
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9. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Casting Director
Mystery Plays
Ground plan
William Shakespeare
10. The area farthest away from the audience
Upstage
Romanticism
Thrust
Proscenium
11. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Designer's job
Empathy
Ground plan
lighting designer
12. First director
Designer
Romanticism
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Producer
13. Fee for each performance
Plato
Royalty
Henrik Ibsen
Vomitories
14. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
University Wits
Off-Broadway
Dramaturg
15. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Variables of costume design
Costume Designer
Types of professional theater
University Wits
16. Directors who operate with total control
Auteur
Book musical
Antagonist
Components of Production
17. Handles business aspects of show
Antagonist
Aristotle
Romantic Theory
Producer
18. The area farthest away from the audience
Auteur
Royalty
Types of professional theater
Upstage
19. 'seeing place'
Auteur
Avant-Garde
Theatron
Actor's tools
20. Standard tool for casting productions
Scenic Designer
Romantic Theory
Auditions
Black box
21. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Romantic Theory
Rhetorical Tradition
Miracle Plays
Slapstick
22. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Representational
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
lighting designer
sound designer
23. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Playwright
Subplot
Romanticism
24. Standard tool for casting productions
Auditions
Costume plot
Broadway
Public Domain
25. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Copyright
Thrust
Stage manager
Reversal
26. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Antagonist
Aesthetic Distance
The Orestia
Linear Plot
27. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Front of House
Rhetorical Tradition
Scenic Designer
The Orestia
28. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Costume Designer
Copyright
Realism
Aristotle
29. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Liturgical Drama
Aristotle
Arena
Concept
30. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
The Orestia
Chorus
University Wits
Auteur
31. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Stage Manager
lighting designer
Stage Manager
Constantin Stanislavski
32. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Aristotle
Dramaturg
Miracle Plays
Representational
33. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Dramaturg
Eugene Scribe
Representational
Director
34. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Morality Plays
Aristotle
Prose
35. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Stage Manager
Aeschylus
Producer
Thespis
36. Spoken words
Types of professional theater
Designer's job
Broadway
Dialogue
37. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Conflict
Henrik Ibsen
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Concept
38. Greatest dramatist of all time
Subtext
Henrik Ibsen
Scenic Designer
William Shakespeare
39. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Components of Production
Theatron
Verisimilitude
Callbacks
40. Collection of mystery plays
Off-Broadway
Miracle Plays
Playwright
Cycles
41. Seats 100-500; professional
Bertolt Brecht
Prose
Off-Broadway
Director
42. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Rendering
Liturgical Drama
Romantic Theory
Rhetorical Tradition
43. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Rendering
Reversal
The Orestia
Components of Production
44. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Empathy
Wings
Antiquarianism
45. Secondary line of action
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Subplot
Casting Director
Proscenium
46. Creates a visual home for the play
Conflict
Musical Theatre
Scenic Designer
Thespis
47. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Designer
Protagonist
Conflict
Slapstick
48. 'dancing space'
Bertolt Brecht
Skene
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Orchestra
49. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
The Orestia
Linear Plot
The Globe
Liturgical Drama
50. Spoken words
Downstage
Designer's job
Melodrama
Dialogue