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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. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Types of professional theater
Plato
Mystery Plays
Concept
2. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Arena
Representational
Theatron
Stage Manager
3. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Downstage
University Wits
Aesthetic Distance
Musical Theatre
4. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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5. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Ground plan
Representational
Emile Zola
Catharsis
6. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Alienation Effect
Empathy
Casting Director
Proscenium
7. When line of action suddenly switches
Musical Theatre
Dialogue
Sense memory
Reversal
8. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Stage manager
Commedia Dell'Arte
Concept
Dialogue
9. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Casting Director
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Actor's tools
Plato
10. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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11. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Hypokrites
collaborator
Dramaturg
Director
12. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Morality Plays
Dialogue
Subtext
13. God of wine and fertility
Reversal
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Neoclassic unities
Dionysus
14. Attempts to represent reality on stage
lighting designer
Representational
Variables of costume design
William Shakespeare
15. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Off-off-Broadway
Realism
Auteur
Bertolt Brecht
16. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
The Globe
Rendering
Sense memory
Thrust
17. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Playwright
Thespis
Verisimilitude
Melodrama
18. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Subtext
Rendering
Actor's tools
19. 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
Proscenium
Raked Stage
Empathy
20. Seats 100-500; professional
Miracle Plays
Rhetorical Tradition
Neoclassic unities
Off-Broadway
21. Planned actor movement
Verse
Proscenium
Blocking
Public Domain
22. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Thrust
Auditions
Designer's job
23. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Conflict
Sense memory
Director
Musical Theatre
24. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Henrik Ibsen
Components of Actor's job
Eugene Scribe
Variables of costume design
25. Standard tool for casting productions
Off-Broadway
Alienation Effect
Auditions
Dionysus
26. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Public Domain
Concept
Sense memory
Henrik Ibsen
27. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Musical Theatre
Book musical
Arena
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
28. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Subtext
Verisimilitude
lighting designer
Sense memory
29. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
Concept
Public Domain
The Globe
30. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Orchestra
Components of Actor's job
Actor's tools
Aeschylus
31. 'seeing place'
Auditions
Skene
collaborator
Theatron
32. Author of play
Playwright
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Black box
Aesthetic Distance
33. Central character
Proscenium
Wings
Downstage
Protagonist
34. Director champions intention of playwright
Ground plan
Ground plan
collaborator
Types of professional theater
35. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Theatron
Commedia Dell'Arte
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Mystery Plays
36. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Aristophanes
Producer
Ground plan
Thrust
37. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Orchestra
Romanticism
Public Domain
38. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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39. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Actor's tools
Alienation Effect
Realism
Bertolt Brecht
40. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Auditions
Off-off-Broadway
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Copyright
41. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
Romanticism
Orchestra
Dramaturg
42. 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
Dialogue
Concept
Verse
Presentational
43. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Concept
Scenic Designer
Avant-Garde
Vomitories
44. Appearance of truth
Romantic Theory
Verisimilitude
Presentational
Copyright
45. Central character
Protagonist
sound designer
Public Domain
Variables of costume design
46. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Black box
Director
Arena
lighting designer
47. Was in favor of theater
Aristophanes
Royalty
Book musical
Aristotle
48. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Off-Broadway
Romanticism
Vomitories
Empathy
49. Saint's plays
Empathy
Raked Stage
Miracle Plays
Raked Stage
50. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Rendering
Alienation Effect
Proscenium