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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Stage Manager
The Orestia
Aeschylus
Neoclassicism
2. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Auditions
Broadway
Miracle Plays
Presentational
3. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Verisimilitude
Arena
Eugene Scribe
4. Physical commedy
Neoclassic unities
Rendering
Concept
Slapstick
5. Oversees artistic aspects of show
collaborator
Proscenium
Wings
Director
6. Body - voice - mind
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7. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Aristotle
Casting Director
Protagonist
Designer
8. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Antagonist
Copyright
Verse
The Globe
9. Standard tool for casting productions
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Auditions
Antagonist
Producer
10. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Representational
Royalty
Concept
Eugene Scribe
11. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Musical Theatre
Copyright
Off-off-Broadway
Off-off-Broadway
12. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Arena
Protagonist
Off-off-Broadway
13. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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14. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
Reversal
Director
Arena
15. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
Costume plot
Neoclassic unities
Off-Broadway
16. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Stage Manager
Actor's tools
Director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
17. Was in favor of theater
Aristotle
Royalty
Perspective Scenery
Protagonist
18. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Aeschylus
Public Domain
Callbacks
Musical Theatre
19. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Broadway
Verse
collaborator
Concept
20. Scenery
Protagonist
Thrust
Rendering
Skene
21. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Aristophanes
Proscenium
Bertolt Brecht
22. When line of action suddenly switches
Liturgical Drama
Reversal
Blocking
Front of House
23. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Designer
Constantin Stanislavski
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Costume plot
24. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Dramaturg
Public Domain
Components of Production
Reversal
25. Creates a visual home for the play
Antagonist
Emile Zola
Perspective Scenery
Scenic Designer
26. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Linear Plot
Upstage
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
27. 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
Auditions
Alienation Effect
Auteur
Ground plan
28. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Vomitories
Thrust
Stage manager
29. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Eugene Scribe
Eugene Scribe
Vomitories
Off-off-Broadway
30. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
The Globe
Cycles
Stage Manager
Rhetorical Tradition
31. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Subplot
Arena
Rendering
Alienation Effect
32. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Subtext
Concept
Orchestra
Liturgical Drama
33. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Theatron
Morality Plays
Emile Zola
Aristophanes
34. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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35. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Realism
Wings
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Costume plot
36. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
sound designer
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Romantic Theory
Subtext
37. When line of action suddenly switches
Costume Designer
Thrust
Antagonist
Reversal
38. Who or what opposes the central character
Presentational
Costume plot
Dialogue
Antagonist
39. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Catharsis
Dramaturg
Rhetorical Tradition
40. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Director
Proscenium
Neoclassicism
Dramaturg
41. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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42. 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
Black box
Slapstick
Downstage
Producer
43. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Blocking
Wings
Henrik Ibsen
Auditions
44. Directors who operate with total control
Auteur
Miracle Plays
Producer
Upstage
45. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Alienation Effect
Liturgical Drama
Subtext
The Globe
46. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Callbacks
Liturgical Drama
Aeschylus
The Orestia
47. Director champions intention of playwright
collaborator
Rhetorical Tradition
Eugene Scribe
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
48. Saint's plays
Blocking
Producer
Miracle Plays
Thespis
49. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Actor's tools
collaborator
Vomitories
50. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Dramaturg
Dionysus
Subplot
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