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Theatre Appreciation 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Realism
lighting designer
Henrik Ibsen
Melodrama
2. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Book musical
Neoclassic unities
Commedia Dell'Arte
Emile Zola
3. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Prose
Subplot
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Book musical
4. The area farthest away from the audience
Upstage
Emile Zola
Morality Plays
Eugene Scribe
5. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Mystery Plays
Alienation Effect
Components of Production
The Orestia
6. Actor in 5th century Greece
Rendering
Alienation Effect
Wings
Hypokrites
7. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Components of Production
Hypokrites
Thespis
Casting Director
8. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Designer's job
Scenic Designer
Neoclassic unities
Aristophanes
9. Who or what opposes the central character
Variables of costume design
Antagonist
Off-off-Broadway
Theatron
10. Standard tool for casting productions
Pageants
Blocking
Auditions
Constantin Stanislavski
11. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Bertolt Brecht
Rendering
Emile Zola
Components of Actor's job
12. Greatest dramatist of all time
Verse
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
William Shakespeare
Aristotle
13. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Rendering
The Orestia
Off-off-Broadway
Avant-Garde
14. Physical commedy
Chorus
Linear Plot
Slapstick
Arena
15. 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
sound designer
Realism
Book musical
Reversal
16. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Protagonist
The Orestia
Rhetorical Tradition
Front of House
17. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Upstage
collaborator
Avant-Garde
Henrik Ibsen
18. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Liturgical Drama
Romantic Theory
Commedia Dell'Arte
Copyright
19. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Morality Plays
Hypokrites
Antiquarianism
sound designer
20. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Director
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Morality Plays
Actor's tools
21. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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22. God of wine and fertility
Dionysus
Stage Manager
Prose
Auteur
23. 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
Arena
Downstage
Neoclassic unities
Proscenium
24. Was in favor of theater
Realism
Auditions
Designer's job
Aristotle
25. 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
Conflict
Thespis
Auteur
Romantic Theory
26. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Aesthetic Distance
Representational
Front of House
Cycles
27. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Empathy
Skene
Rhetorical Tradition
The Orestia
28. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Subtext
Thespis
Black box
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
29. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Black box
Auditions
Director
30. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Auditions
Subplot
Designer
Concept
31. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Skene
Emile Zola
Director
32. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
Off-off-Broadway
Sense memory
Neoclassicism
33. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
Aristophanes
Henrik Ibsen
Conflict
34. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Dialogue
Conflict
Romantic Theory
35. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Avant-Garde
Designer's job
Types of professional theater
Antagonist
36. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Dialogue
Front of House
Director
Stage manager
37. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Front of House
Sense memory
Director
Copyright
38. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Thrust
Neoclassic unities
Costume Designer
Concept
39. 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.
Components of Production
Chorus
Public Domain
Subplot
40. Historical accuracy
Book musical
Proscenium
Antiquarianism
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
41. 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
Realism
Perspective Scenery
Stage Manager
Neoclassicism
42. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
University Wits
The Orestia
Constantin Stanislavski
Sense memory
43. 'seeing place'
Miracle Plays
Melodrama
Theatron
Subtext
44. Director champions intention of playwright
collaborator
Plato
Components of Production
Liturgical Drama
45. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Aristotle
Aristophanes
The Globe
Subtext
46. Saint's plays
Miracle Plays
Casting Director
Aeschylus
Actor's tools
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
Downstage
Sense memory
Constantin Stanislavski
Auditions
48. Scenery
Skene
Hypokrites
Callbacks
Melodrama
49. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Representational
Aeschylus
Vomitories
Melodrama
50. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Front of House
Romanticism
Ground plan
Liturgical Drama