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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. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Theatron
Concept
Plato
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
2. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Cycles
The Globe
Presentational
Rhetorical Tradition
3. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Off-off-Broadway
Concept
Skene
Henrik Ibsen
4. Sentences/paragraph structure
Commedia Dell'Arte
Components of Actor's job
Prose
Designer
5. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
University Wits
Verisimilitude
The Orestia
sound designer
6. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
The Orestia
Designer
Wings
7. Fee for each performance
Dramaturg
Royalty
Plato
Director
8. Body - voice - mind
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9. Handles business aspects of show
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Empathy
Upstage
Producer
10. Appearance of truth
Musical Theatre
Verse
Romanticism
Verisimilitude
11. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Cycles
Vomitories
Bertolt Brecht
sound designer
12. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Callbacks
Alienation Effect
Variables of costume design
Ground plan
13. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Liturgical Drama
Presentational
Stage Manager
Orchestra
14. Greatest dramatist of all time
Auteur
Stage Manager
William Shakespeare
Costume plot
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
Chorus
Realism
Playwright
Dialogue
16. Actor in 5th century Greece
Constantin Stanislavski
Dialogue
The Orestia
Hypokrites
17. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Skene
Wings
Orchestra
Romantic Theory
18. God of wine and fertility
Public Domain
Components of Actor's job
Casting Director
Dionysus
19. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Royalty
Romanticism
Alienation Effect
Producer
20. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
sound designer
Mystery Plays
Bertolt Brecht
21. Seats 100-500; professional
Miracle Plays
Henrik Ibsen
Off-Broadway
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
22. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Playwright
Designer
The Orestia
Pageants
23. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Empathy
Verse
Prose
Skene
24. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Dionysus
Subplot
Aesthetic Distance
25. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Costume Designer
Alienation Effect
Conflict
Aristophanes
26. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
William Shakespeare
sound designer
Callbacks
Emile Zola
27. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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28. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Producer
The Orestia
Stage Manager
Representational
29. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Pageants
Front of House
Plato
Playwright
30. The area farthest away from the audience
Cycles
Blocking
Upstage
Proscenium
31. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Variables of costume design
Thespis
Mystery Plays
Royalty
32. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Romantic Theory
Theatron
Alienation Effect
33. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Linear Plot
Eugene Scribe
Romanticism
Aeschylus
34. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
Plato
Conflict
Presentational
35. 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
Raked Stage
Plato
Components of Actor's job
Proscenium
36. 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.
The Orestia
Black box
Chorus
Theatron
37. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Prose
Costume plot
The Globe
The Globe
38. Generally rhyming
Verse
The Globe
Black box
lighting designer
39. 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
Callbacks
The Globe
Liturgical Drama
Romantic Theory
40. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Constantin Stanislavski
Black box
Musical Theatre
Public Domain
41. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Dionysus
Subtext
Broadway
42. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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43. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Front of House
Producer
Constantin Stanislavski
Actor's tools
44. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Musical Theatre
Neoclassicism
Scenic Designer
Concept
45. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aristophanes
Skene
University Wits
Casting Director
46. Standard tool for casting productions
Auditions
Components of Production
Skene
Dialogue
47. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Designer's job
The Globe
Orchestra
Designer
48. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Scenic Designer
Thespis
Sense memory
Conflict
49. Generally rhyming
Prose
Costume plot
Variables of costume design
Verse
50. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Antagonist
Slapstick
lighting designer
Types of professional theater