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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. Saint's plays
Miracle Plays
Auteur
Royalty
Pageants
2. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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3. Scenery
Dramaturg
Skene
Dionysus
Linear Plot
4. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Pageants
Types of professional theater
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
5. Handles business aspects of show
Producer
Commedia Dell'Arte
Book musical
Components of Production
6. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Representational
Book musical
Protagonist
Off-Broadway
7. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Commedia Dell'Arte
Royalty
Linear Plot
Front of House
8. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Concept
Commedia Dell'Arte
Verse
Morality Plays
9. Secondary line of action
Aesthetic Distance
Ground plan
Broadway
Subplot
10. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Callbacks
Liturgical Drama
Pageants
11. 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
Copyright
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Rendering
12. 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
Reversal
Black box
Skene
Ground plan
13. The area farthest away from the audience
Upstage
Proscenium
Morality Plays
Chorus
14. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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15. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Rendering
Commedia Dell'Arte
Antagonist
Wings
16. When line of action suddenly switches
The Orestia
Dionysus
Callbacks
Reversal
17. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Emile Zola
Director
Alienation Effect
Romanticism
18. Body - voice - mind
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19. 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
Antiquarianism
Thrust
Alienation Effect
Realism
20. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Black box
Neoclassicism
Auditions
Pageants
21. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Neoclassicism
Callbacks
Conflict
Constantin Stanislavski
22. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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23. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Dionysus
Romanticism
Eugene Scribe
24. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Romanticism
Liturgical Drama
Slapstick
Upstage
25. Directors who operate with total control
Slapstick
Auteur
Neoclassic unities
Callbacks
26. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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27. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Casting Director
Chorus
Avant-Garde
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
28. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Stage Manager
Henrik Ibsen
Slapstick
Wings
29. Spoken words
Stage manager
Plato
Aristophanes
Dialogue
30. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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31. 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
lighting designer
Plato
Romantic Theory
Pageants
32. Generally rhyming
Black box
Arena
Melodrama
Verse
33. 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
Producer
Proscenium
Raked Stage
Components of Production
34. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Conflict
Constantin Stanislavski
Upstage
Musical Theatre
35. Generally rhyming
Subplot
Costume Designer
Verse
Presentational
36. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Sense memory
Representational
Broadway
Thrust
37. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
University Wits
Verse
Musical Theatre
collaborator
38. 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
Producer
Presentational
Chorus
Wings
39. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Playwright
Skene
Director
Linear Plot
40. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Catharsis
Emile Zola
Chorus
Liturgical Drama
41. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Sense memory
Auteur
sound designer
Mystery Plays
42. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
lighting designer
Upstage
Dramaturg
Presentational
43. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Rhetorical Tradition
Wings
Designer
Melodrama
44. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Thrust
Public Domain
Romanticism
45. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Callbacks
Variables of costume design
Director
Concept
46. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Orchestra
Empathy
Perspective Scenery
Downstage
47. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Downstage
Conflict
lighting designer
Liturgical Drama
48. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Blocking
University Wits
Representational
Bertolt Brecht
49. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Director
Plato
Verisimilitude
50. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Conflict
Rendering
Components of Production
Dramaturg