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Theatre Appreciation 2
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
lighting designer
Stage manager
Mystery Plays
2. Body - voice - mind
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3. Seats 100-500; professional
Aesthetic Distance
Off-Broadway
Romantic Theory
Empathy
4. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
Components of Production
Verisimilitude
Producer
5. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Mystery Plays
Constantin Stanislavski
Auditions
Musical Theatre
6. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Verisimilitude
Henrik Ibsen
Dionysus
Plato
7. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Concept
Raked Stage
Raked Stage
University Wits
8. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Proscenium
lighting designer
Neoclassicism
Miracle Plays
9. The area farthest away from the audience
Commedia Dell'Arte
Miracle Plays
Scenic Designer
Upstage
10. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Rendering
Callbacks
Commedia Dell'Arte
Producer
11. Historical accuracy
Dialogue
Upstage
Melodrama
Antiquarianism
12. Standard tool for casting productions
Components of Production
Auditions
Miracle Plays
Commedia Dell'Arte
13. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Blocking
Empathy
Prose
14. Physical commedy
Slapstick
Eugene Scribe
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Musical Theatre
15. 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
Proscenium
Concept
Perspective Scenery
Skene
16. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Linear Plot
William Shakespeare
Types of professional theater
17. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Hypokrites
Commedia Dell'Arte
Aristophanes
Copyright
18. Central character
Protagonist
Proscenium
Copyright
Stage manager
19. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Costume Designer
Aristophanes
Aeschylus
Presentational
20. 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
Casting Director
Ground plan
Subtext
Director
21. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Aristotle
Designer
Auditions
Stage manager
22. Saint's plays
Auditions
Downstage
Orchestra
Miracle Plays
23. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Ground plan
Musical Theatre
Morality Plays
Aristotle
24. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Wings
Pageants
Verisimilitude
Theatron
25. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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26. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Commedia Dell'Arte
Rhetorical Tradition
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Casting Director
27. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Antiquarianism
Designer's job
Aesthetic Distance
28. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Aristotle
Musical Theatre
Off-off-Broadway
Orchestra
29. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
collaborator
Constantin Stanislavski
Concept
Designer
30. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Book musical
Constantin Stanislavski
Bertolt Brecht
Raked Stage
31. 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
Components of Actor's job
Dionysus
Aesthetic Distance
32. 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
The Globe
Front of House
Proscenium
33. Scenery
Ground plan
The Globe
Skene
Playwright
34. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Representational
Linear Plot
Producer
Royalty
35. Actor in 5th century Greece
Hypokrites
Director
Chorus
Thrust
36. God of wine and fertility
sound designer
Miracle Plays
Thrust
Dionysus
37. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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38. Fee for each performance
Catharsis
Subplot
Director
Royalty
39. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Actor's tools
Designer
Upstage
Romanticism
40. 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.
Aristophanes
Chorus
Downstage
Plato
41. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Playwright
Proscenium
The Orestia
42. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Aristotle
Rendering
Components of Actor's job
Skene
43. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Realism
Types of professional theater
Rendering
Ground plan
44. Appearance of truth
Avant-Garde
Verisimilitude
Antiquarianism
Concept
45. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Antagonist
Public Domain
The Globe
Variables of costume design
46. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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47. 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
Verisimilitude
Blocking
Morality Plays
48. Spoken words
Dialogue
Verse
Copyright
Subplot
49. Physical commedy
Musical Theatre
Slapstick
Commedia Dell'Arte
Presentational
50. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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