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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Costume plot
Subplot
Rhetorical Tradition
Catharsis
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
Downstage
Avant-Garde
Pageants
Black box
3. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Verse
Musical Theatre
Mystery Plays
4. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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5. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Vomitories
Pageants
Callbacks
Hypokrites
6. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Callbacks
Book musical
Subtext
Representational
7. Historical accuracy
Empathy
Callbacks
The Orestia
Antiquarianism
8. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Variables of costume design
Designer
Auteur
Proscenium
9. Greatest dramatist of all time
Off-Broadway
William Shakespeare
Linear Plot
Components of Actor's job
10. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Proscenium
Aeschylus
Ground plan
Arena
11. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
Arena
University Wits
Realism
12. Secondary line of action
The Orestia
Subplot
Off-off-Broadway
Melodrama
13. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Pageants
Presentational
Eugene Scribe
Copyright
14. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Miracle Plays
Realism
Presentational
The Orestia
15. Fee for each performance
Proscenium
Musical Theatre
Proscenium
Royalty
16. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
The Globe
Aristophanes
Romantic Theory
Mystery Plays
17. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Representational
Components of Production
Wings
18. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Downstage
Book musical
Playwright
Linear Plot
19. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Plato
Empathy
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Pageants
20. Secondary line of action
Designer's job
Book musical
lighting designer
Subplot
21. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Aesthetic Distance
Conflict
Broadway
22. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Scenic Designer
Proscenium
Slapstick
Aeschylus
23. Collection of mystery plays
Subtext
Realism
Cycles
Bertolt Brecht
24. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Antagonist
Reversal
Cycles
25. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Dramaturg
The Globe
Concept
Book musical
26. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Proscenium
Callbacks
Liturgical Drama
27. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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28. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Copyright
Scenic Designer
Verse
29. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Representational
Catharsis
Cycles
30. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Proscenium
Casting Director
Prose
Perspective Scenery
31. Standard tool for casting productions
sound designer
Auditions
Hypokrites
Perspective Scenery
32. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Bertolt Brecht
Orchestra
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Neoclassicism
33. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Vomitories
William Shakespeare
Callbacks
34. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Aristophanes
Royalty
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Off-off-Broadway
35. Physical commedy
Slapstick
University Wits
Emile Zola
Royalty
36. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Eugene Scribe
Aeschylus
Black box
Broadway
37. God of wine and fertility
Actor's tools
Hypokrites
sound designer
Dionysus
38. 'dancing space'
Liturgical Drama
Alienation Effect
Commedia Dell'Arte
Orchestra
39. Directors who operate with total control
Rhetorical Tradition
Avant-Garde
Romantic Theory
Auteur
40. Who or what opposes the central character
Director
Cycles
Antagonist
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
41. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Avant-Garde
Producer
Black box
Rendering
42. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Rhetorical Tradition
Casting Director
Wings
Proscenium
43. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
lighting designer
Presentational
Types of professional theater
Components of Production
44. 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
Stage Manager
Proscenium
Rhetorical Tradition
Ground plan
45. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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46. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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47. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Upstage
Conflict
Henrik Ibsen
Blocking
48. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Raked Stage
Theatron
49. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Thespis
Rendering
Public Domain
Antiquarianism
50. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Slapstick
Actor's tools
Bertolt Brecht
Black box
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