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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. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
sound designer
Designer
Thespis
Alienation Effect
2. Appearance of truth
Book musical
Verisimilitude
Bertolt Brecht
Neoclassicism
3. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Liturgical Drama
Pageants
Wings
Romantic Theory
4. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
lighting designer
Antagonist
Neoclassicism
Conflict
5. Action - place - time
Auditions
Wings
Neoclassic unities
Rhetorical Tradition
6. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Raked Stage
Off-off-Broadway
Broadway
Chorus
7. Central character
Chorus
Protagonist
Morality Plays
Sense memory
8. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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9. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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10. 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
Catharsis
collaborator
Hypokrites
Realism
11. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
Raked Stage
Ground plan
Orchestra
12. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Casting Director
Auditions
sound designer
13. Was in favor of theater
Aristotle
sound designer
Vomitories
Designer
14. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Subplot
Avant-Garde
Thespis
Copyright
15. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Auteur
The Orestia
Arena
Copyright
16. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
The Globe
Ground plan
Prose
17. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Liturgical Drama
Slapstick
Thrust
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
18. Sentences/paragraph structure
Director
Thespis
Morality Plays
Prose
19. Saint's plays
Raked Stage
Miracle Plays
Eugene Scribe
Pageants
20. 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
Front of House
Romantic Theory
Variables of costume design
Perspective Scenery
21. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Thrust
Concept
Vomitories
Slapstick
22. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Verse
William Shakespeare
Aristophanes
collaborator
23. Central character
sound designer
Casting Director
Protagonist
Rendering
24. 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
Callbacks
The Globe
William Shakespeare
Realism
25. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Upstage
Protagonist
Antiquarianism
Morality Plays
26. Was in favor of theater
sound designer
Aristotle
Slapstick
Subtext
27. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Blocking
Book musical
Costume Designer
Concept
28. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
University Wits
Chorus
Avant-Garde
Antiquarianism
29. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Vomitories
Broadway
Variables of costume design
Director
30. Physical commedy
Perspective Scenery
Antiquarianism
Slapstick
Aristotle
31. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Off-Broadway
Actor's tools
Reversal
32. 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
Director
Royalty
Aesthetic Distance
Raked Stage
33. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Off-off-Broadway
Subplot
Musical Theatre
Emile Zola
34. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Avant-Garde
Aeschylus
Concept
Stage manager
35. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Plato
Theatron
Costume plot
Dramaturg
36. Action - place - time
Concept
Neoclassic unities
Presentational
Upstage
37. 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
Sense memory
Proscenium
Antagonist
Off-off-Broadway
38. Creates a visual home for the play
Perspective Scenery
Scenic Designer
collaborator
Avant-Garde
39. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Rhetorical Tradition
Components of Production
Aristophanes
Arena
40. Planned actor movement
sound designer
Verisimilitude
Blocking
Prose
41. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
sound designer
Royalty
Morality Plays
Designer
42. Handles business aspects of show
Book musical
Producer
Designer
Empathy
43. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Proscenium
Callbacks
Commedia Dell'Arte
Romanticism
44. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Dialogue
Types of professional theater
Antagonist
Representational
45. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Sense memory
Chorus
Prose
Stage Manager
46. Greatest dramatist of all time
Miracle Plays
Skene
William Shakespeare
Costume plot
47. Planned actor movement
Casting Director
Blocking
Dialogue
Aristotle
48. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Auteur
sound designer
Director
Costume plot
49. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Dramaturg
Front of House
Constantin Stanislavski
Off-off-Broadway
50. Fee for each performance
Skene
Royalty
Designer
Representational