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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. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Sense memory
lighting designer
Antagonist
Scenic Designer
2. 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
Conflict
Downstage
Blocking
Empathy
3. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Alienation Effect
Representational
lighting designer
Ground plan
4. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Rendering
Constantin Stanislavski
Slapstick
5. Body - voice - mind
6. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Cycles
Linear Plot
Copyright
Upstage
7. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Dramaturg
Costume plot
Linear Plot
Bertolt Brecht
8. Directors who operate with total control
Auteur
Aeschylus
Director
Romanticism
9. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
lighting designer
Front of House
Rhetorical Tradition
Components of Production
10. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Black box
Rhetorical Tradition
Auteur
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
11. Fee for each performance
Ground plan
Royalty
Aristophanes
Romantic Theory
12. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
sound designer
Scenic Designer
Thespis
13. Secondary line of action
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Subplot
Morality Plays
Designer
14. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Subtext
Cycles
Stage manager
Components of Production
15. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
Theatron
Off-off-Broadway
Proscenium
16. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Alienation Effect
Director
Sense memory
Aeschylus
17. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Mystery Plays
collaborator
Antagonist
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
18. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
Dramaturg
Scenic Designer
Commedia Dell'Arte
19. Historical accuracy
Morality Plays
sound designer
Antiquarianism
Actor's tools
20. 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
Variables of costume design
Black box
Theatron
Presentational
21. 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
Components of Actor's job
Off-Broadway
Presentational
Copyright
22. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Ground plan
Empathy
Auditions
Subplot
23. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Morality Plays
Playwright
Subtext
Front of House
24. Physical commedy
Slapstick
Chorus
Perspective Scenery
Black box
25. First director
Upstage
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Liturgical Drama
Empathy
26. Scenery
Skene
Rendering
Royalty
Dialogue
27. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
28. Who or what opposes the central character
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
William Shakespeare
Wings
Antagonist
29. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Linear Plot
Conflict
sound designer
Pageants
30. Spoken words
Theatron
Dialogue
Upstage
Copyright
31. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Melodrama
Alienation Effect
Broadway
sound designer
32. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Pageants
Designer
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Playwright
33. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Components of Actor's job
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Cycles
Proscenium
34. The area farthest away from the audience
Slapstick
Liturgical Drama
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Upstage
35. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Variables of costume design
Perspective Scenery
Proscenium
The Globe
36. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Presentational
Wings
Front of House
37. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Catharsis
Costume plot
Blocking
Romanticism
38. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Costume Designer
Morality Plays
Upstage
Director
39. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Prose
Actor's tools
The Orestia
Designer's job
40. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Aeschylus
Avant-Garde
Chorus
Eugene Scribe
41. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Stage Manager
Skene
Book musical
Liturgical Drama
42. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Costume Designer
Off-off-Broadway
Wings
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
43. Author of play
Playwright
Aristophanes
Verse
Slapstick
44. Planned actor movement
Director
Blocking
Musical Theatre
Playwright
45. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Musical Theatre
Director
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Wings
46. When line of action suddenly switches
Skene
Reversal
The Globe
Theatron
47. Body - voice - mind
48. Seats 500-1800; professional.
William Shakespeare
Broadway
Pageants
Romantic Theory
49. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Plato
Upstage
Constantin Stanislavski
Royalty
50. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Henrik Ibsen
Callbacks
Designer
Sense memory