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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Verisimilitude
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Rhetorical Tradition
Public Domain
2. Action - place - time
Realism
Auditions
University Wits
Neoclassic unities
3. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Constantin Stanislavski
Neoclassicism
Designer
4. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Subplot
Director
Upstage
University Wits
5. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Casting Director
Subtext
Types of professional theater
6. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Components of Actor's job
Arena
Romantic Theory
7. 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
Thespis
Chorus
Presentational
Dramaturg
8. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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9. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Vomitories
Concept
Auteur
Liturgical Drama
10. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Miracle Plays
Rendering
The Globe
Plato
11. 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
Broadway
Dramaturg
Neoclassic unities
Realism
12. 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
Realism
Eugene Scribe
Skene
Melodrama
13. 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
Mystery Plays
Black box
Rendering
14. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Thespis
Avant-Garde
Representational
Casting Director
15. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Theatron
Director
Off-off-Broadway
Stage Manager
16. Greatest dramatist of all time
Upstage
Components of Production
The Orestia
William Shakespeare
17. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Pageants
Aristotle
Antiquarianism
18. Generally rhyming
Verse
Front of House
Dionysus
Cycles
19. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Slapstick
Romantic Theory
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
20. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Dionysus
Alienation Effect
Copyright
Romantic Theory
21. Body - voice - mind
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22. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Pageants
Empathy
Realism
23. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Melodrama
Subtext
Hypokrites
Rendering
24. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
sound designer
Liturgical Drama
Subtext
Proscenium
25. Spoken words
lighting designer
Eugene Scribe
Dialogue
Representational
26. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Proscenium
Book musical
Ground plan
Subtext
27. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
The Globe
Reversal
Components of Production
Antagonist
28. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Cycles
Raked Stage
University Wits
Neoclassicism
29. God of wine and fertility
Dionysus
Verisimilitude
Thespis
Miracle Plays
30. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Realism
Broadway
Scenic Designer
Dialogue
31. 'seeing place'
Reversal
Melodrama
Subtext
Theatron
32. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Aristotle
Subtext
Antagonist
Bertolt Brecht
33. Fee for each performance
Proscenium
Perspective Scenery
Royalty
Proscenium
34. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Protagonist
Variables of costume design
Auditions
Callbacks
35. Author of play
Sense memory
Components of Actor's job
Playwright
Morality Plays
36. Action - place - time
Linear Plot
Orchestra
Sense memory
Neoclassic unities
37. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Dramaturg
Emile Zola
Hypokrites
Commedia Dell'Arte
38. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Miracle Plays
Book musical
Costume plot
39. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Designer's job
Aesthetic Distance
Henrik Ibsen
Verisimilitude
40. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Off-Broadway
Plato
Empathy
41. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Empathy
Linear Plot
Costume plot
Producer
42. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Book musical
Scenic Designer
Aristophanes
43. The area farthest away from the audience
Pageants
Aesthetic Distance
Pageants
Upstage
44. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Ground plan
Black box
Melodrama
Stage Manager
45. Historical accuracy
Neoclassicism
Designer
Subtext
Antiquarianism
46. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Variables of costume design
Casting Director
Antagonist
Designer
47. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Alienation Effect
Casting Director
Callbacks
Plato
48. 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
Raked Stage
Types of professional theater
Perspective Scenery
Orchestra
49. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Subplot
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Theatron
50. Actor in 5th century Greece
Hypokrites
Skene
Liturgical Drama
Romantic Theory
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