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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. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Romantic Theory
Skene
Dramaturg
Subtext
2. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
The Globe
Skene
Components of Production
Variables of costume design
3. The area farthest away from the audience
Upstage
Melodrama
Blocking
Aristotle
4. Standard tool for casting productions
Catharsis
Liturgical Drama
Auteur
Auditions
5. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Playwright
Downstage
Vomitories
Perspective Scenery
6. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Dramaturg
Melodrama
Hypokrites
Designer
7. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Alienation Effect
Designer
Scenic Designer
Black box
8. Was in favor of theater
lighting designer
Aristotle
Broadway
Raked Stage
9. Creates a visual home for the play
Perspective Scenery
Scenic Designer
Book musical
Slapstick
10. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Eugene Scribe
Public Domain
Pageants
Components of Actor's job
11. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Avant-Garde
Catharsis
Public Domain
Actor's tools
12. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
Theatron
Dialogue
Book musical
13. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Catharsis
Costume Designer
Presentational
The Orestia
14. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Black box
Melodrama
Types of professional theater
Components of Production
15. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Melodrama
Realism
Antiquarianism
Dramaturg
16. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Vomitories
Commedia Dell'Arte
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Producer
17. 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
Mystery Plays
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Proscenium
18. 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
Romantic Theory
Chorus
Reversal
Off-off-Broadway
19. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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20. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Dialogue
Downstage
Aeschylus
21. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Eugene Scribe
sound designer
Rendering
Raked Stage
22. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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23. Designs costumes for the show
The Globe
Director
Costume Designer
Presentational
24. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Wings
Conflict
Auteur
Neoclassic unities
25. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Pageants
Public Domain
Stage Manager
Liturgical Drama
26. Secondary line of action
Subplot
Callbacks
Sense memory
Off-Broadway
27. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Front of House
Morality Plays
lighting designer
Dramaturg
28. 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
University Wits
Components of Actor's job
Black box
Ground plan
29. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Variables of costume design
Thrust
Producer
Casting Director
30. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Catharsis
Mystery Plays
Dialogue
Proscenium
31. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Catharsis
Liturgical Drama
Copyright
Wings
32. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Theatron
Designer
Costume plot
Vomitories
33. 'dancing space'
Orchestra
Chorus
Dialogue
Aristophanes
34. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
collaborator
Concept
Romanticism
Concept
35. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Black box
The Globe
Book musical
Pageants
36. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aeschylus
Dialogue
Book musical
Aristophanes
37. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Empathy
Producer
Aristotle
38. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Rhetorical Tradition
Sense memory
39. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
lighting designer
Subtext
Miracle Plays
William Shakespeare
40. Director champions intention of playwright
Aeschylus
collaborator
Costume plot
The Orestia
41. Directors who operate with total control
Bertolt Brecht
Aesthetic Distance
Components of Production
Auteur
42. Director champions intention of playwright
collaborator
Aeschylus
Mystery Plays
Black box
43. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Off-off-Broadway
Eugene Scribe
Alienation Effect
Proscenium
44. 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
Royalty
Blocking
Romantic Theory
Hypokrites
45. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Presentational
Director
Protagonist
46. Historical accuracy
lighting designer
William Shakespeare
Morality Plays
Antiquarianism
47. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Auteur
Arena
sound designer
Director
48. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Subtext
Variables of costume design
Front of House
Auditions
49. Central character
Public Domain
Playwright
Romantic Theory
Protagonist
50. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Public Domain
Mystery Plays
Plato
Director