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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. 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
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Costume plot
Liturgical Drama
2. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Eugene Scribe
Pageants
Alienation Effect
Liturgical Drama
3. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Costume Designer
Producer
lighting designer
Linear Plot
4. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Romantic Theory
Aristophanes
Henrik Ibsen
Producer
5. Secondary line of action
Protagonist
Proscenium
Subplot
Alienation Effect
6. 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
Proscenium
Designer
Downstage
Director
7. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Miracle Plays
Plato
Types of professional theater
Theatron
8. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Dionysus
Subtext
Costume Designer
9. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Front of House
Thespis
Romantic Theory
Types of professional theater
10. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Liturgical Drama
Rhetorical Tradition
Aeschylus
11. Directors who operate with total control
Alienation Effect
Components of Actor's job
Auteur
Neoclassicism
12. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Concept
Rendering
Commedia Dell'Arte
Thrust
13. Director champions intention of playwright
Aesthetic Distance
collaborator
Skene
Protagonist
14. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Mystery Plays
Off-Broadway
Sense memory
Henrik Ibsen
15. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Variables of costume design
Director
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Rendering
16. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Callbacks
Neoclassicism
Linear Plot
Realism
17. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Proscenium
Callbacks
Broadway
Book musical
18. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Liturgical Drama
Avant-Garde
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
19. Central character
Cycles
Chorus
Arena
Protagonist
20. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Types of professional theater
Royalty
Cycles
Conflict
21. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Aristophanes
Empathy
Stage manager
William Shakespeare
22. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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23. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Director
Conflict
Dionysus
Arena
24. 'dancing space'
Orchestra
William Shakespeare
Reversal
Sense memory
25. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Romantic Theory
Copyright
Bertolt Brecht
Director
26. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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27. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Ground plan
Presentational
Concept
Book musical
28. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Concept
Scenic Designer
Alienation Effect
The Orestia
29. Collection of mystery plays
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Realism
Cycles
Liturgical Drama
30. God of wine and fertility
Miracle Plays
Dionysus
Stage manager
Playwright
31. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Catharsis
Variables of costume design
Melodrama
Commedia Dell'Arte
32. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Dramaturg
Proscenium
Skene
Director
33. Saint's plays
Components of Production
Vomitories
Miracle Plays
Subtext
34. Actor in 5th century Greece
Concept
Hypokrites
collaborator
Aeschylus
35. Actor in 5th century Greece
Thrust
Hypokrites
Constantin Stanislavski
Sense memory
36. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Royalty
Stage manager
Mystery Plays
37. Was in favor of theater
Henrik Ibsen
Romanticism
Auteur
Aristotle
38. Sentences/paragraph structure
Copyright
Front of House
Prose
Liturgical Drama
39. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Empathy
Upstage
Conflict
40. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Realism
Vomitories
sound designer
Director
41. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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42. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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43. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Protagonist
University Wits
Book musical
Variables of costume design
44. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Subplot
The Orestia
Black box
45. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Arena
Costume plot
Morality Plays
Public Domain
46. Who or what opposes the central character
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Antagonist
Romantic Theory
Aesthetic Distance
47. Secondary line of action
Aesthetic Distance
Callbacks
Copyright
Subplot
48. Generally rhyming
Protagonist
Dionysus
Verse
Auditions
49. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Raked Stage
Eugene Scribe
lighting designer
Wings
50. Physical commedy
Slapstick
Orchestra
collaborator
Auteur
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