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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. Sentences/paragraph structure
Miracle Plays
Aristophanes
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Prose
2. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
collaborator
sound designer
Copyright
3. Action - place - time
Rendering
Neoclassic unities
Emile Zola
Orchestra
4. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Conflict
University Wits
Slapstick
Prose
5. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Orchestra
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Mystery Plays
Linear Plot
6. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Mystery Plays
Stage manager
Mystery Plays
Morality Plays
7. 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
Cycles
Romantic Theory
Dionysus
Sense memory
8. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Rhetorical Tradition
Dialogue
Realism
9. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Musical Theatre
Black box
lighting designer
Downstage
10. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
sound designer
Neoclassic unities
Concept
11. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
Verisimilitude
Slapstick
William Shakespeare
12. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Director
Protagonist
Wings
Arena
13. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Black box
Thrust
Cycles
Antagonist
14. First director
Designer
Types of professional theater
Thrust
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
15. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Book musical
Stage manager
Chorus
16. 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
sound designer
Plato
Neoclassicism
Proscenium
17. 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
Prose
Slapstick
Thrust
Perspective Scenery
18. God of wine and fertility
Designer
Dionysus
Bertolt Brecht
Variables of costume design
19. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
20. Was in favor of theater
Aristotle
Scenic Designer
Director
Skene
21. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Avant-Garde
Empathy
Representational
Hypokrites
22. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aristophanes
Subplot
Front of House
Dramaturg
23. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Wings
Morality Plays
Rhetorical Tradition
24. Sentences/paragraph structure
Front of House
Prose
Romantic Theory
Miracle Plays
25. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
Director
Cycles
Prose
26. Generally rhyming
Ground plan
Verse
Empathy
Dialogue
27. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
The Globe
Variables of costume design
Designer's job
Alienation Effect
28. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Raked Stage
Types of professional theater
Dialogue
Romanticism
29. The area farthest away from the audience
Avant-Garde
Aesthetic Distance
Upstage
Linear Plot
30. 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
Prose
Raked Stage
Protagonist
Morality Plays
31. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
32. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Alienation Effect
Prose
Liturgical Drama
Romanticism
33. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Skene
Romanticism
Designer
Morality Plays
34. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Eugene Scribe
Ground plan
Scenic Designer
35. Actor in 5th century Greece
Sense memory
Prose
Components of Production
Hypokrites
36. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Playwright
Director
Aristophanes
Chorus
37. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Director
Catharsis
Auditions
Eugene Scribe
38. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Eugene Scribe
Commedia Dell'Arte
Realism
William Shakespeare
39. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Empathy
Skene
Callbacks
Morality Plays
40. The area farthest away from the audience
Musical Theatre
Upstage
Aesthetic Distance
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
41. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Orchestra
Liturgical Drama
Costume plot
Henrik Ibsen
42. Physical commedy
Representational
Cycles
Thespis
Slapstick
43. Body - voice - mind
44. 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.
Chorus
Off-off-Broadway
Ground plan
Downstage
45. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
46. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Protagonist
Broadway
Neoclassic unities
Book musical
47. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
48. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Skene
Casting Director
sound designer
Hypokrites
49. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
50. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Costume plot
Arena
Neoclassic unities
Costume Designer