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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. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Conflict
Off-off-Broadway
Concept
2. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Proscenium
Sense memory
Constantin Stanislavski
Theatron
3. Who or what opposes the central character
Antagonist
Constantin Stanislavski
Slapstick
Broadway
4. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Neoclassic unities
William Shakespeare
Emile Zola
Musical Theatre
5. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Melodrama
Aristophanes
Black box
Aristophanes
6. Director champions intention of playwright
Downstage
Aeschylus
collaborator
Wings
7. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Director
Actor's tools
Romanticism
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
8. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Stage Manager
Costume plot
Types of professional theater
Ground plan
9. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Designer's job
Proscenium
Sense memory
Bertolt Brecht
10. Scenery
Skene
Playwright
Theatron
Proscenium
11. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Blocking
Musical Theatre
Thrust
Morality Plays
12. Greatest dramatist of all time
Plato
Emile Zola
William Shakespeare
lighting designer
13. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Commedia Dell'Arte
Emile Zola
Components of Production
Cycles
14. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Copyright
Casting Director
sound designer
University Wits
15. Director champions intention of playwright
collaborator
Stage manager
Theatron
lighting designer
16. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Thrust
Antagonist
Subplot
Producer
17. 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
Black box
Stage manager
Henrik Ibsen
Raked Stage
18. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Subtext
Verisimilitude
Skene
Vomitories
19. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Subtext
Slapstick
Conflict
Constantin Stanislavski
20. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Designer
Neoclassic unities
Director
collaborator
21. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Mystery Plays
Actor's tools
Variables of costume design
Skene
22. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Antagonist
Perspective Scenery
Royalty
23. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Empathy
Aristophanes
Director
Costume plot
24. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Miracle Plays
Callbacks
Representational
Chorus
25. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Upstage
Book musical
Rendering
Thespis
26. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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27. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Constantin Stanislavski
Emile Zola
Linear Plot
Eugene Scribe
28. Handles business aspects of show
Proscenium
Reversal
Vomitories
Producer
29. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Prose
Off-Broadway
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Thrust
30. Spoken words
Dialogue
Perspective Scenery
Avant-Garde
Blocking
31. 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
Dionysus
Proscenium
Rhetorical Tradition
Morality Plays
32. Central character
Playwright
Protagonist
Rhetorical Tradition
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
33. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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34. 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.
Antagonist
Chorus
Miracle Plays
Sense memory
35. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Copyright
Front of House
Melodrama
Protagonist
36. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Sense memory
Romanticism
Bertolt Brecht
Sense memory
37. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Commedia Dell'Arte
lighting designer
Avant-Garde
38. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Variables of costume design
Types of professional theater
Orchestra
Henrik Ibsen
39. 'seeing place'
Verse
Downstage
Copyright
Theatron
40. Physical commedy
Slapstick
Royalty
Components of Actor's job
Public Domain
41. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Upstage
Liturgical Drama
sound designer
Antiquarianism
42. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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43. Saint's plays
Aeschylus
Dramaturg
Miracle Plays
Realism
44. 'seeing place'
Costume Designer
Ground plan
Hypokrites
Theatron
45. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Aristophanes
Vomitories
Musical Theatre
46. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Costume Designer
Proscenium
Linear Plot
Public Domain
47. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Wings
Components of Actor's job
Casting Director
Director
48. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Dionysus
Melodrama
Designer
Henrik Ibsen
49. Designs costumes for the show
The Orestia
Costume Designer
Types of professional theater
Prose
50. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Avant-Garde
sound designer
Representational
University Wits