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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. Secondary line of action
Skene
Upstage
Subplot
Off-off-Broadway
2. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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3. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Royalty
Concept
lighting designer
Thespis
4. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Upstage
Public Domain
Designer
Stage Manager
5. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Black box
Dramaturg
Downstage
Components of Actor's job
6. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Plato
Subtext
Front of House
Variables of costume design
7. Seats 100-500; professional
sound designer
Stage manager
Off-Broadway
Liturgical Drama
8. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Antagonist
The Globe
Pageants
Proscenium
9. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Costume plot
Liturgical Drama
Downstage
10. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Front of House
Aeschylus
Realism
Reversal
11. Spoken words
Orchestra
Components of Production
Dialogue
Ground plan
12. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
William Shakespeare
Wings
Types of professional theater
Morality Plays
13. 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
Aristotle
Linear Plot
Thrust
14. Who or what opposes the central character
Empathy
The Orestia
Antagonist
Designer's job
15. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Playwright
Wings
16. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Aesthetic Distance
Callbacks
Aristotle
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
17. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
Variables of costume design
Henrik Ibsen
Blocking
18. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Representational
Theatron
Off-off-Broadway
sound designer
19. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Rendering
Upstage
Thrust
Vomitories
20. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Thrust
Off-off-Broadway
Subtext
Chorus
21. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Front of House
Proscenium
Callbacks
22. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Rendering
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Antagonist
23. Fee for each performance
Romanticism
Royalty
Off-off-Broadway
Mystery Plays
24. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Neoclassic unities
Plato
Callbacks
Antiquarianism
25. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Antagonist
Catharsis
Sense memory
Copyright
26. Collection of mystery plays
Slapstick
Reversal
Cycles
Antiquarianism
27. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rendering
Rhetorical Tradition
Vomitories
Broadway
28. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Representational
Romanticism
Mystery Plays
Director
29. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Off-off-Broadway
Dionysus
Royalty
Rendering
30. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Orchestra
Aristophanes
Components of Actor's job
Costume plot
31. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Variables of costume design
Plato
Henrik Ibsen
Types of professional theater
32. Creates a visual home for the play
Proscenium
Raked Stage
Scenic Designer
Proscenium
33. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Aeschylus
Henrik Ibsen
Arena
Designer's job
34. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Rhetorical Tradition
Dramaturg
Scenic Designer
Stage manager
35. 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
Perspective Scenery
Avant-Garde
Presentational
Broadway
36. Body - voice - mind
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37. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Callbacks
Costume plot
Emile Zola
38. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Eugene Scribe
Aristophanes
Copyright
Costume plot
39. Greatest dramatist of all time
Auteur
Broadway
Perspective Scenery
William Shakespeare
40. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Broadway
Royalty
Pageants
41. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Antiquarianism
Commedia Dell'Arte
Callbacks
Morality Plays
42. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Skene
Liturgical Drama
Aeschylus
Cycles
43. Seats 100-500; professional
Ground plan
Off-Broadway
The Orestia
Henrik Ibsen
44. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Subtext
Romanticism
Variables of costume design
Presentational
45. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Book musical
Components of Production
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Chorus
46. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Avant-Garde
Auteur
Romantic Theory
47. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Dramaturg
Constantin Stanislavski
Callbacks
48. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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49. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Reversal
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Broadway
Variables of costume design
50. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Proscenium
Stage Manager
Vomitories
Liturgical Drama