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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. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Liturgical Drama
Front of House
Subtext
2. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Chorus
The Globe
Rendering
Costume plot
3. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Ground plan
Romantic Theory
Pageants
4. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Subplot
Dramaturg
Subtext
5. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Proscenium
Skene
Playwright
6. Body - voice - mind
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7. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Upstage
Raked Stage
Dramaturg
Neoclassic unities
8. created by Augest von Schegel - the replacement of neoclassical structure: form should be directed by subject matter - not classical precedent. Romantics were fascinated with natural forces - the unexplainable - gothic - and mystical. Romantics drama
Commedia Dell'Arte
Romantic Theory
Subplot
Components of Actor's job
9. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Book musical
Eugene Scribe
Concept
Reversal
10. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Public Domain
Subtext
Emile Zola
Director
11. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Chorus
Stage Manager
Book musical
Actor's tools
12. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Constantin Stanislavski
Off-Broadway
Vomitories
Avant-Garde
13. When line of action suddenly switches
Reversal
Bertolt Brecht
Eugene Scribe
Slapstick
14. Seats 100-500; professional
Sense memory
Theatron
Neoclassicism
Off-Broadway
15. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Cycles
Mystery Plays
Producer
16. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Skene
Neoclassicism
Melodrama
sound designer
17. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Commedia Dell'Arte
Wings
Broadway
Prose
18. Standard tool for casting productions
Subtext
Melodrama
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Auditions
19. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Designer
Miracle Plays
Director
lighting designer
20. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
University Wits
Costume plot
Plato
Broadway
21. 'dancing space'
Concept
William Shakespeare
Orchestra
Antiquarianism
22. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Components of Actor's job
Constantin Stanislavski
William Shakespeare
Dialogue
23. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Cycles
Aeschylus
Producer
Stage Manager
24. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Theatron
Avant-Garde
Components of Production
Concept
25. Collection of mystery plays
Front of House
Cycles
Vomitories
The Orestia
26. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Royalty
Front of House
Royalty
Neoclassicism
27. Director champions intention of playwright
Hypokrites
Linear Plot
collaborator
Concept
28. Creates a visual home for the play
Plato
Orchestra
Scenic Designer
Stage manager
29. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Off-off-Broadway
Pageants
Concept
Front of House
30. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Theatron
Bertolt Brecht
Black box
Broadway
31. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Proscenium
lighting designer
Costume plot
Aristophanes
32. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
The Globe
Auditions
Alienation Effect
Components of Actor's job
33. Body - voice - mind
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34. 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
Actor's tools
Raked Stage
Liturgical Drama
Proscenium
35. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Director
Reversal
The Orestia
36. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Eugene Scribe
Bertolt Brecht
Rendering
Off-Broadway
37. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Ground plan
Emile Zola
Proscenium
Linear Plot
38. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Cycles
Copyright
Director
Broadway
39. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Romantic Theory
Protagonist
collaborator
40. 'seeing place'
Hypokrites
Callbacks
Theatron
Rendering
41. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Proscenium
Skene
Aesthetic Distance
The Globe
42. A movement of the late 19th century championing the depiction of everyday life on the stage and the frank treatment of social problems in the theatre. The plays of Henrick Ibsen of the 1870s were important in establishing a dramatic style for realism
Perspective Scenery
Realism
Callbacks
Arena
43. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Thrust
Dionysus
The Orestia
Ground plan
44. Action - place - time
Variables of costume design
Romanticism
University Wits
Neoclassic unities
45. God of wine and fertility
Empathy
Pageants
Prose
Dionysus
46. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Thespis
Conflict
Arena
Costume Designer
47. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Alienation Effect
Reversal
Romanticism
Verisimilitude
48. Fee for each performance
Romantic Theory
Royalty
Slapstick
Playwright
49. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Aesthetic Distance
Liturgical Drama
Auteur
Henrik Ibsen
50. Scenery
Types of professional theater
Constantin Stanislavski
Arena
Skene