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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. Scenery
Skene
Copyright
Aristotle
Callbacks
2. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Neoclassicism
Romanticism
sound designer
collaborator
3. Planned actor movement
Aristophanes
Blocking
Perspective Scenery
Morality Plays
4. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Mystery Plays
University Wits
Rendering
Producer
5. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Realism
Broadway
Constantin Stanislavski
Eugene Scribe
6. Saint's plays
Skene
Dionysus
Front of House
Miracle Plays
7. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
sound designer
Romanticism
Downstage
Casting Director
8. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Callbacks
Proscenium
Cycles
Pageants
9. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Catharsis
Director
Actor's tools
Miracle Plays
10. Handles business aspects of show
Broadway
Constantin Stanislavski
Producer
Playwright
11. Central character
Thrust
Aristotle
William Shakespeare
Protagonist
12. 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
lighting designer
Aristotle
Stage manager
13. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Dionysus
Director
Downstage
The Orestia
14. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Wings
Off-off-Broadway
15. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Types of professional theater
Dialogue
Black box
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
16. Saint's plays
Aesthetic Distance
Costume Designer
Components of Production
Miracle Plays
17. When line of action suddenly switches
Emile Zola
Linear Plot
Reversal
Catharsis
18. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Aristophanes
Book musical
Conflict
Avant-Garde
19. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Stage Manager
Neoclassicism
Book musical
Emile Zola
20. Action - place - time
Aeschylus
Neoclassic unities
The Orestia
Constantin Stanislavski
21. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Casting Director
Wings
Thrust
Verisimilitude
22. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Costume plot
Conflict
Melodrama
The Globe
23. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Subplot
Dialogue
Orchestra
Aesthetic Distance
24. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Royalty
Linear Plot
sound designer
Liturgical Drama
25. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
sound designer
Off-off-Broadway
Proscenium
26. 'seeing place'
Blocking
Theatron
Public Domain
Realism
27. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Actor's tools
Pageants
Proscenium
Catharsis
28. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Actor's tools
Proscenium
Morality Plays
Representational
29. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Proscenium
Vomitories
Downstage
Rendering
30. Directors who operate with total control
Scenic Designer
William Shakespeare
Auteur
sound designer
31. Author of play
Playwright
Proscenium
Bertolt Brecht
Casting Director
32. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Subtext
Raked Stage
Alienation Effect
Components of Production
33. Appearance of truth
Blocking
Verisimilitude
Pageants
The Orestia
34. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Wings
sound designer
lighting designer
Mystery Plays
35. 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
Neoclassic unities
Proscenium
Henrik Ibsen
36. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
Conflict
lighting designer
lighting designer
37. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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38. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Skene
Raked Stage
Aeschylus
Subtext
39. 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
Stage manager
Copyright
Off-Broadway
Proscenium
40. Spoken words
Morality Plays
Skene
Dialogue
Downstage
41. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Producer
William Shakespeare
Melodrama
42. Greatest dramatist of all time
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Melodrama
William Shakespeare
Playwright
43. Fee for each performance
Verisimilitude
Royalty
Front of House
Dramaturg
44. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Prose
Casting Director
Proscenium
45. Was in favor of theater
Slapstick
Aristotle
Off-Broadway
Catharsis
46. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Royalty
Playwright
Costume plot
47. Scenery
Designer's job
Pageants
Presentational
Skene
48. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Antagonist
Rhetorical Tradition
49. Secondary line of action
Aeschylus
Components of Production
Subplot
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
50. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Chorus
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
The Orestia