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Theatre Appreciation 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Linear Plot
Theatron
Rendering
2. Physical commedy
Henrik Ibsen
Musical Theatre
Slapstick
Commedia Dell'Arte
3. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Plato
Vomitories
Empathy
Rhetorical Tradition
4. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Director
Plato
Alienation Effect
Auteur
5. 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
Front of House
Proscenium
Romanticism
Emile Zola
6. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Aesthetic Distance
Director
Plato
Rendering
7. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Costume plot
Linear Plot
Stage manager
8. Seats 100-500; professional
Arena
Proscenium
Off-Broadway
Aesthetic Distance
9. When line of action suddenly switches
Reversal
Hypokrites
Public Domain
Hypokrites
10. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Representational
Constantin Stanislavski
Dramaturg
Thespis
11. Designs costumes for the show
Callbacks
Costume Designer
Wings
Slapstick
12. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Scenic Designer
Aesthetic Distance
Types of professional theater
Upstage
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
Dialogue
Royalty
Rhetorical Tradition
14. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Black box
Broadway
lighting designer
Constantin Stanislavski
15. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Auteur
Conflict
Producer
Cycles
16. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Dramaturg
Romanticism
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Dialogue
17. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Realism
Romanticism
Stage manager
Front of House
18. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
The Globe
Bertolt Brecht
Musical Theatre
Avant-Garde
19. Style of production that acknowledges theatricality and does not attempt to created the impression of 'real life' on the stage. Presentational scenery - costumes - and lighting may suggest - distort - or even abstract reality. Presentational acting m
Blocking
Wings
Designer
Presentational
20. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Orchestra
Dionysus
Director
Emile Zola
21. Who or what opposes the central character
Vomitories
Book musical
Antagonist
Pageants
22. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Commedia Dell'Arte
Casting Director
Skene
Neoclassicism
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
Proscenium
Perspective Scenery
Blocking
Neoclassic unities
24. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Slapstick
Pageants
Bertolt Brecht
University Wits
25. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Linear Plot
Dramaturg
Henrik Ibsen
Aristophanes
26. Physical commedy
Variables of costume design
Upstage
Downstage
Slapstick
27. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Variables of costume design
Slapstick
Miracle Plays
28. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Costume Designer
Verisimilitude
Upstage
Pageants
29. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Antagonist
Theatron
Public Domain
Neoclassic unities
30. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Prose
Subplot
Pageants
31. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Downstage
Book musical
Conflict
Cycles
32. Action - place - time
Dionysus
Stage Manager
Neoclassic unities
Rendering
33. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Orchestra
lighting designer
Theatron
34. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Avant-Garde
Melodrama
Costume Designer
Verse
35. Director champions intention of playwright
Scenic Designer
Neoclassicism
collaborator
Aesthetic Distance
36. Historical accuracy
The Globe
Antiquarianism
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Melodrama
37. Fee for each performance
Dionysus
Verse
Subtext
Royalty
38. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Aristotle
Liturgical Drama
Costume plot
39. Was in favor of theater
Aristotle
Constantin Stanislavski
The Globe
Presentational
40. Standard tool for casting productions
Dramaturg
Rendering
Designer
Auditions
41. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Romantic Theory
Avant-Garde
The Orestia
42. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Romantic Theory
Orchestra
Rhetorical Tradition
Eugene Scribe
43. Director champions intention of playwright
collaborator
Perspective Scenery
Casting Director
Royalty
44. Actor in 5th century Greece
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Dramaturg
Neoclassicism
Hypokrites
45. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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46. 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
Realism
Skene
Rhetorical Tradition
Aristotle
47. 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
Alienation Effect
Perspective Scenery
Constantin Stanislavski
Hypokrites
48. Planned actor movement
Romanticism
Blocking
Cycles
Broadway
49. Secondary line of action
Henrik Ibsen
Proscenium
Cycles
Subplot
50. Scenery
Auditions
Skene
Protagonist
Aesthetic Distance