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Theatre Appreciation 2
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Fee for each performance
Thespis
Rhetorical Tradition
Rhetorical Tradition
Royalty
2. Physical commedy
Prose
Neoclassicism
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Slapstick
3. Greatest dramatist of all time
Components of Production
The Orestia
William Shakespeare
Aristotle
4. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Plato
lighting designer
Neoclassic unities
Emile Zola
5. Standard tool for casting productions
Auditions
Commedia Dell'Arte
Commedia Dell'Arte
University Wits
6. Scenery
Commedia Dell'Arte
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Skene
7. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Blocking
Stage manager
Miracle Plays
Costume Designer
8. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Alienation Effect
Protagonist
Thrust
9. Body - voice - mind
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10. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Protagonist
Off-Broadway
Front of House
Dramaturg
11. 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
Alienation Effect
Director
Playwright
12. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Melodrama
Linear Plot
Rendering
Avant-Garde
13. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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14. 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
Raked Stage
The Orestia
Actor's tools
15. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Copyright
Callbacks
Components of Production
16. Spoken words
Dialogue
Black box
Representational
Morality Plays
17. When line of action suddenly switches
Emile Zola
Empathy
Reversal
The Globe
18. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Rendering
Conflict
Producer
Callbacks
19. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Catharsis
Cycles
Chorus
Director
20. God of wine and fertility
Mystery Plays
Front of House
Raked Stage
Dionysus
21. 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
Aristophanes
Raked Stage
Dramaturg
Prose
22. Director champions intention of playwright
Callbacks
Rendering
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
collaborator
23. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
The Orestia
Verisimilitude
Proscenium
Pageants
24. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Rhetorical Tradition
Sense memory
Concept
Thespis
25. 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
Presentational
Liturgical Drama
Types of professional theater
Aristotle
26. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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27. Body - voice - mind
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28. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
The Globe
Black box
Proscenium
29. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Bertolt Brecht
Rhetorical Tradition
Presentational
Prose
30. 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
Perspective Scenery
Verse
Hypokrites
Front of House
31. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Book musical
Aristophanes
Aesthetic Distance
Vomitories
32. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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33. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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34. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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35. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Costume Designer
Auditions
Designer's job
36. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Protagonist
Conflict
Stage manager
Copyright
37. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Aeschylus
Representational
Designer
Neoclassic unities
38. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Dramaturg
Liturgical Drama
Proscenium
39. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Catharsis
Hypokrites
Copyright
Actor's tools
40. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Royalty
Rendering
Stage Manager
Designer's job
41. Planned actor movement
Hypokrites
Conflict
Linear Plot
Blocking
42. 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
Aeschylus
Realism
Sense memory
Aeschylus
43. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Types of professional theater
Antagonist
Subtext
44. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Off-off-Broadway
Vomitories
Designer
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
45. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Front of House
Henrik Ibsen
Wings
Liturgical Drama
46. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Variables of costume design
The Orestia
Sense memory
Linear Plot
47. Seats 100-500; professional
Casting Director
lighting designer
Broadway
Off-Broadway
48. Generally rhyming
Verse
Blocking
Perspective Scenery
William Shakespeare
49. Action - place - time
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
The Globe
Prose
Neoclassic unities
50. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
The Globe
The Globe
Components of Actor's job