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Theatre Appreciation 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Ground plan
sound designer
Empathy
2. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Romanticism
Proscenium
Prose
Morality Plays
3. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Blocking
Reversal
Off-off-Broadway
Components of Production
4. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Arena
Dramaturg
Henrik Ibsen
Thespis
5. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Thespis
Proscenium
Representational
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
6. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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7. 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
Ground plan
Variables of costume design
The Globe
Variables of costume design
8. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Public Domain
Director
Alienation Effect
Antagonist
9. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Miracle Plays
Dialogue
Director
Catharsis
10. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Dionysus
Variables of costume design
Plato
Callbacks
11. Who or what opposes the central character
Constantin Stanislavski
Actor's tools
Antagonist
Costume Designer
12. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
The Globe
Antiquarianism
lighting designer
13. 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
Romantic Theory
Theatron
William Shakespeare
The Orestia
14. 'dancing space'
Proscenium
Wings
Orchestra
Bertolt Brecht
15. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Chorus
Prose
Downstage
16. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Raked Stage
Stage manager
Scenic Designer
Alienation Effect
17. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Designer
Antagonist
Neoclassicism
Reversal
18. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Rhetorical Tradition
Antagonist
Avant-Garde
Broadway
19. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Subplot
Wings
Aristotle
Proscenium
20. 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.
sound designer
Aristotle
lighting designer
Chorus
21. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Orchestra
Avant-Garde
Components of Actor's job
Variables of costume design
22. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Romantic Theory
Stage Manager
Conflict
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
23. Action - place - time
Constantin Stanislavski
Chorus
Neoclassic unities
Mystery Plays
24. Seats 100-500; professional
Aeschylus
Costume plot
Liturgical Drama
Off-Broadway
25. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Representational
sound designer
Dialogue
Vomitories
26. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Liturgical Drama
Dramaturg
Casting Director
Wings
27. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Dionysus
Copyright
Melodrama
Aeschylus
28. Handles business aspects of show
Raked Stage
Producer
Alienation Effect
Subplot
29. Fee for each performance
Avant-Garde
Royalty
Actor's tools
Wings
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
Constantin Stanislavski
Aeschylus
Alienation Effect
Raked Stage
31. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Costume plot
Eugene Scribe
Callbacks
Scenic Designer
32. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Concept
collaborator
Off-off-Broadway
Reversal
33. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Miracle Plays
Components of Production
Bertolt Brecht
34. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
Aeschylus
Conflict
Types of professional theater
35. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Playwright
Sense memory
Broadway
Proscenium
36. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Verse
The Globe
Variables of costume design
Liturgical Drama
37. When line of action suddenly switches
Types of professional theater
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Reversal
Stage Manager
38. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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39. Was in favor of theater
Linear Plot
Musical Theatre
Aristotle
Arena
40. The area farthest away from the audience
Aeschylus
Upstage
Components of Production
Plato
41. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Melodrama
Antiquarianism
Antiquarianism
Sense memory
42. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Callbacks
Romanticism
Callbacks
43. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
The Globe
Book musical
Vomitories
44. God of wine and fertility
Dionysus
Vomitories
Costume plot
Thespis
45. Directors who operate with total control
The Globe
Verisimilitude
Raked Stage
Auteur
46. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Musical Theatre
Aeschylus
Liturgical Drama
Musical Theatre
47. 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
Raked Stage
Presentational
Verse
Subtext
48. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Subtext
Proscenium
lighting designer
Royalty
49. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Eugene Scribe
Director
Aristophanes
Vomitories
50. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
University Wits
Casting Director
Thrust
collaborator