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Theatre Appreciation 2
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Presentational
Constantin Stanislavski
Mystery Plays
Rhetorical Tradition
2. Greatest dramatist of all time
Linear Plot
Protagonist
Romantic Theory
William Shakespeare
3. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Proscenium
Liturgical Drama
Casting Director
Constantin Stanislavski
4. Saint's plays
Public Domain
Miracle Plays
Vomitories
Auteur
5. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Wings
Concept
Musical Theatre
Front of House
6. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
sound designer
Director
Conflict
Pageants
7. Physical commedy
Alienation Effect
Verisimilitude
Slapstick
Costume Designer
8. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Casting Director
Scenic Designer
Thespis
Ground plan
9. 'seeing place'
Public Domain
Black box
Off-off-Broadway
Theatron
10. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Dramaturg
Realism
Proscenium
Subtext
11. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Mystery Plays
Thrust
Rhetorical Tradition
Producer
12. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Variables of costume design
Stage Manager
Broadway
13. Author of play
Aesthetic Distance
Playwright
Thrust
Aeschylus
14. 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.
Concept
Skene
Aesthetic Distance
Chorus
15. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
William Shakespeare
Commedia Dell'Arte
sound designer
Rendering
16. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Constantin Stanislavski
Copyright
Representational
Hypokrites
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
Catharsis
Linear Plot
Raked Stage
Melodrama
18. Designs costumes for the show
Aristotle
Costume Designer
Neoclassic unities
Producer
19. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Musical Theatre
Costume plot
Wings
Thespis
20. Handles business aspects of show
Romantic Theory
Sense memory
Producer
Stage Manager
21. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Eugene Scribe
Public Domain
Prose
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
22. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Designer
Director
Types of professional theater
Miracle Plays
23. Collection of mystery plays
Cycles
Musical Theatre
Costume plot
Rhetorical Tradition
24. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
University Wits
Alienation Effect
Off-Broadway
25. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Protagonist
Melodrama
Mystery Plays
sound designer
26. Actor in 5th century Greece
Hypokrites
Subplot
Subtext
Aristotle
27. 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
Designer's job
Raked Stage
Morality Plays
Book musical
28. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Rendering
Costume plot
Aeschylus
Thrust
29. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Aesthetic Distance
The Globe
Eugene Scribe
Designer
30. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Black box
William Shakespeare
Slapstick
31. Saint's plays
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Miracle Plays
Director
Aristophanes
32. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
William Shakespeare
Catharsis
Antagonist
33. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Musical Theatre
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Presentational
Variables of costume design
34. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Director
Stage Manager
Presentational
Melodrama
35. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Arena
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Mystery Plays
Chorus
36. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Eugene Scribe
Proscenium
Alienation Effect
Bertolt Brecht
37. Collection of mystery plays
Cycles
Rhetorical Tradition
Dialogue
Director
38. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Prose
Ground plan
Verse
Musical Theatre
39. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Reversal
Sense memory
Subplot
Romanticism
40. 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
Liturgical Drama
Callbacks
Off-Broadway
41. Physical commedy
Avant-Garde
Actor's tools
Director
Slapstick
42. The area farthest away from the audience
Romanticism
Royalty
Upstage
Thespis
43. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Antiquarianism
Stage manager
Mystery Plays
44. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Broadway
Linear Plot
Pageants
Arena
45. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Musical Theatre
Components of Actor's job
Thrust
Rhetorical Tradition
46. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Designer
Wings
Dionysus
47. Fee for each performance
Realism
Types of professional theater
Royalty
The Globe
48. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Public Domain
Proscenium
Neoclassicism
Liturgical Drama
49. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Stage manager
Plato
Types of professional theater
Miracle Plays
50. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Arena
Conflict
Romanticism
Thespis