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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Constantin Stanislavski
Upstage
Emile Zola
Copyright
2. Physical commedy
Constantin Stanislavski
Verse
sound designer
Slapstick
3. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Conflict
sound designer
The Orestia
Stage manager
4. Actor in 5th century Greece
Hypokrites
Aristophanes
Eugene Scribe
Thespis
5. Action - place - time
Verisimilitude
Neoclassic unities
Casting Director
The Orestia
6. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Alienation Effect
Avant-Garde
Auditions
Liturgical Drama
7. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Arena
Plato
Empathy
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
8. 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
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Morality Plays
Auteur
Ground plan
9. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Wings
Musical Theatre
Melodrama
Morality Plays
10. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Hypokrites
Front of House
Rhetorical Tradition
11. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Components of Actor's job
Costume plot
University Wits
Book musical
12. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Public Domain
Front of House
Types of professional theater
Aeschylus
13. Standard tool for casting productions
Aristophanes
Producer
Auditions
Thrust
14. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Rendering
Sense memory
Concept
Avant-Garde
15. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Constantin Stanislavski
Producer
Linear Plot
Hypokrites
16. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Melodrama
Antagonist
Dramaturg
Representational
17. Planned actor movement
Aristotle
Arena
Costume plot
Blocking
18. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Broadway
Royalty
Romanticism
19. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Romanticism
Protagonist
Callbacks
Blocking
20. 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
Book musical
Conflict
Director
Romantic Theory
21. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Empathy
Neoclassic unities
Prose
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
22. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Orchestra
Conflict
Presentational
Aristophanes
23. The area farthest away from the audience
Upstage
Wings
Ground plan
Dialogue
24. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Musical Theatre
Hypokrites
Stage Manager
25. 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.
Raked Stage
Chorus
Designer
Conflict
26. 'dancing space'
The Orestia
Orchestra
Scenic Designer
Rendering
27. Body - voice - mind
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28. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Constantin Stanislavski
Proscenium
Stage manager
Perspective Scenery
29. Action - place - time
Realism
Designer
Designer's job
Neoclassic unities
30. Collection of mystery plays
Cycles
Morality Plays
Dialogue
Upstage
31. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Sense memory
Rendering
Antagonist
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
32. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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33. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Components of Production
Dialogue
Callbacks
Sense memory
34. Physical commedy
Slapstick
Conflict
Antagonist
Commedia Dell'Arte
35. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
The Orestia
Callbacks
Front of House
Playwright
36. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Book musical
Callbacks
Ground plan
Dramaturg
37. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Broadway
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Playwright
Constantin Stanislavski
38. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Antagonist
Copyright
Royalty
39. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Prose
Public Domain
Orchestra
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
40. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Verisimilitude
Black box
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Mystery Plays
41. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Avant-Garde
Aeschylus
Auteur
42. Directors who operate with total control
Off-Broadway
Protagonist
Prose
Auteur
43. Was in favor of theater
Callbacks
Aeschylus
Aristotle
Protagonist
44. Scenery
Copyright
Costume Designer
Skene
Romantic Theory
45. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aristophanes
Miracle Plays
Presentational
Linear Plot
46. Central character
Aeschylus
Protagonist
Neoclassic unities
Copyright
47. When line of action suddenly switches
Upstage
Reversal
Actor's tools
Sense memory
48. Historical accuracy
Ground plan
Director
Antiquarianism
Callbacks
49. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Antiquarianism
Ground plan
Skene
50. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Romanticism
Constantin Stanislavski
Director
lighting designer
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