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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. Author of play
lighting designer
Playwright
Components of Production
Subtext
2. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Casting Director
Types of professional theater
Romantic Theory
Slapstick
3. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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4. Central character
Components of Production
Protagonist
Downstage
Stage manager
5. 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
Avant-Garde
Public Domain
Liturgical Drama
Downstage
6. Who or what opposes the central character
Antagonist
Aristotle
William Shakespeare
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
7. Physical commedy
Concept
Upstage
Eugene Scribe
Slapstick
8. 'dancing space'
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Costume plot
Eugene Scribe
Orchestra
9. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Empathy
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Neoclassicism
10. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Proscenium
Representational
Components of Production
Pageants
11. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Dialogue
Representational
Stage Manager
Components of Production
12. 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
Dionysus
Casting Director
Proscenium
Slapstick
13. Body - voice - mind
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14. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Components of Production
Broadway
Reversal
Mystery Plays
15. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Components of Production
Aristotle
Neoclassicism
Thespis
16. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Romantic Theory
Musical Theatre
Upstage
Types of professional theater
17. 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
Raked Stage
Chorus
lighting designer
18. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Arena
Romanticism
Subplot
Stage manager
19. Body - voice - mind
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20. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Catharsis
collaborator
Sense memory
Ground plan
21. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Rhetorical Tradition
Reversal
Director
Raked Stage
22. God of wine and fertility
Dionysus
Concept
Designer's job
Types of professional theater
23. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Bertolt Brecht
Empathy
Book musical
Rhetorical Tradition
24. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Musical Theatre
William Shakespeare
Realism
Book musical
25. Historical accuracy
The Globe
Reversal
Royalty
Antiquarianism
26. 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
Perspective Scenery
Public Domain
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
collaborator
27. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Book musical
Arena
The Orestia
28. Who or what opposes the central character
Raked Stage
Types of professional theater
Antagonist
Aristotle
29. Scenery
Skene
Casting Director
lighting designer
Casting Director
30. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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31. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
The Globe
Orchestra
Catharsis
32. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Realism
Mystery Plays
Reversal
Dionysus
33. Standard tool for casting productions
Auditions
Variables of costume design
Broadway
Realism
34. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Pageants
Protagonist
Verse
35. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Vomitories
Downstage
Liturgical Drama
Director
36. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Aeschylus
Designer
Antagonist
Director
37. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Protagonist
Concept
Alienation Effect
Types of professional theater
38. Spoken words
Presentational
Dialogue
Melodrama
Subplot
39. 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
Verisimilitude
Neoclassic unities
Public Domain
Raked Stage
40. 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
Ground plan
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Front of House
Upstage
41. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Casting Director
Concept
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Antagonist
42. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Actor's tools
Commedia Dell'Arte
sound designer
William Shakespeare
43. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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44. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Variables of costume design
Designer
Book musical
Avant-Garde
45. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Sense memory
Black box
Neoclassicism
46. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Presentational
Stage manager
Thespis
Downstage
47. Appearance of truth
Front of House
Verisimilitude
Commedia Dell'Arte
Orchestra
48. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Liturgical Drama
Aesthetic Distance
Costume plot
49. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Liturgical Drama
Rhetorical Tradition
Dialogue
Neoclassic unities
50. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Subplot
Stage Manager
Designer
Scenic Designer