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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. Creates a visual home for the play
Constantin Stanislavski
Scenic Designer
Aeschylus
Actor's tools
2. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Costume plot
Callbacks
Protagonist
Arena
3. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Off-off-Broadway
Auteur
Off-off-Broadway
4. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Dialogue
Costume plot
Miracle Plays
5. 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
The Globe
Callbacks
Designer's job
Raked Stage
6. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Empathy
Blocking
William Shakespeare
Plato
7. Physical commedy
Callbacks
Subplot
Blocking
Slapstick
8. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Copyright
sound designer
Auteur
Pageants
9. Saint's plays
Black box
Miracle Plays
Costume plot
Front of House
10. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Catharsis
Linear Plot
Costume plot
Constantin Stanislavski
11. Body - voice - mind
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12. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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13. The area farthest away from the audience
Wings
Upstage
Melodrama
Realism
14. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Plato
Conflict
Bertolt Brecht
15. Scenery
Skene
Upstage
Pageants
Director
16. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Sense memory
Components of Production
Dramaturg
Components of Actor's job
17. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Slapstick
Dionysus
Off-Broadway
Plato
18. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Vomitories
Melodrama
Hypokrites
Rhetorical Tradition
19. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Upstage
Conflict
Aeschylus
Liturgical Drama
20. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Hypokrites
Representational
Avant-Garde
Verisimilitude
21. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Theatron
Concept
Downstage
Aristophanes
22. 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
Eugene Scribe
Romantic Theory
Public Domain
Proscenium
23. A group of performers working together vocally and physically. A chorus of approximately 12-15 singer-dancers who interacted with and responded to the actors was an important element of ancient Greek theatre.
Aristotle
Subtext
Verse
Chorus
24. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Verisimilitude
Ground plan
Variables of costume design
Components of Actor's job
25. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Concept
Aeschylus
Variables of costume design
Subtext
26. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
sound designer
Constantin Stanislavski
Auditions
Subplot
27. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Miracle Plays
Black box
Casting Director
Auteur
28. First director
Pageants
Orchestra
Director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
29. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Auditions
Liturgical Drama
Costume plot
Realism
30. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
University Wits
Neoclassicism
Broadway
Neoclassic unities
31. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Types of professional theater
Vomitories
Copyright
Cycles
32. Was in favor of theater
Black box
Vomitories
Aristotle
Slapstick
33. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Dionysus
Vomitories
Henrik Ibsen
Reversal
34. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Aesthetic Distance
Chorus
Avant-Garde
Commedia Dell'Arte
35. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Eugene Scribe
Aeschylus
Designer
Orchestra
36. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Henrik Ibsen
Catharsis
Blocking
37. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Aristophanes
collaborator
Linear Plot
Neoclassic unities
38. 'dancing space'
Mystery Plays
Auteur
Orchestra
sound designer
39. 'dancing space'
Orchestra
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Thespis
Rhetorical Tradition
40. 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
Presentational
Protagonist
Henrik Ibsen
Components of Production
41. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
Ground plan
Variables of costume design
Realism
42. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Morality Plays
Variables of costume design
Vomitories
43. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Antiquarianism
Protagonist
collaborator
44. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Romanticism
Wings
Cycles
45. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Royalty
University Wits
Director
sound designer
46. Who or what opposes the central character
Eugene Scribe
Emile Zola
The Orestia
Antagonist
47. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Aeschylus
Mystery Plays
Theatron
collaborator
48. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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49. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Scenic Designer
Representational
Scenic Designer
Downstage
50. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Melodrama
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Prose
Eugene Scribe
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