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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. Body - voice - mind
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2. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Black box
sound designer
Plato
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
3. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Types of professional theater
Dramaturg
Downstage
Wings
4. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Auditions
Skene
Proscenium
Sense memory
5. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Neoclassicism
Verse
Arena
Verisimilitude
6. Sentences/paragraph structure
Verisimilitude
Front of House
Commedia Dell'Arte
Prose
7. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Neoclassic unities
Emile Zola
Perspective Scenery
Catharsis
8. God of wine and fertility
Slapstick
Director
Dionysus
Mystery Plays
9. When line of action suddenly switches
Reversal
Subplot
Avant-Garde
William Shakespeare
10. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Public Domain
Aristophanes
Liturgical Drama
Reversal
11. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Miracle Plays
Verse
Book musical
Dramaturg
12. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Representational
Sense memory
Arena
Concept
13. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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14. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Stage manager
Director
Reversal
Proscenium
15. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
The Globe
University Wits
16. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
lighting designer
Arena
Orchestra
17. 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.
Components of Actor's job
Wings
Chorus
Vomitories
18. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Downstage
Miracle Plays
Public Domain
Stage Manager
19. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Downstage
Aeschylus
Alienation Effect
Mystery Plays
20. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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21. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Black box
Arena
Thespis
collaborator
22. 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
Dialogue
Types of professional theater
Presentational
Melodrama
23. 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
Protagonist
Ground plan
Dialogue
Thespis
24. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Hypokrites
Cycles
Director
Proscenium
25. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Commedia Dell'Arte
Director
Components of Actor's job
26. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Skene
Black box
William Shakespeare
27. Physical commedy
Slapstick
Subtext
Miracle Plays
Proscenium
28. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Bertolt Brecht
Wings
Off-Broadway
Pageants
29. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Designer's job
Callbacks
Casting Director
Proscenium
30. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Book musical
Wings
The Orestia
Musical Theatre
31. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Designer
The Globe
Romantic Theory
Actor's tools
32. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
Eugene Scribe
Hypokrites
Liturgical Drama
33. Was in favor of theater
collaborator
Sense memory
Stage Manager
Aristotle
34. Who or what opposes the central character
The Orestia
Vomitories
Raked Stage
Antagonist
35. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Off-off-Broadway
Empathy
Prose
Thespis
36. Director champions intention of playwright
Copyright
lighting designer
Cycles
collaborator
37. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Vomitories
Actor's tools
Dionysus
Morality Plays
38. Directors who operate with total control
Musical Theatre
Auteur
Avant-Garde
Henrik Ibsen
39. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Morality Plays
Verse
Aeschylus
Morality Plays
40. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Director
Designer
Antiquarianism
Melodrama
41. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Sense memory
Conflict
Playwright
42. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
Upstage
Eugene Scribe
Antiquarianism
43. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Director
Liturgical Drama
Plato
Realism
44. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Henrik Ibsen
Designer
University Wits
45. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Thrust
Theatron
Chorus
Alienation Effect
46. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Stage Manager
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Royalty
47. Fee for each performance
Royalty
William Shakespeare
Casting Director
Vomitories
48. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Neoclassicism
Raked Stage
Catharsis
Skene
49. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Subtext
Catharsis
Chorus
Commedia Dell'Arte
50. The area farthest away from the audience
Orchestra
Dialogue
Melodrama
Upstage