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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. Creates a visual home for the play
Designer
Scenic Designer
Director
Actor's tools
2. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Subplot
Catharsis
Commedia Dell'Arte
Dramaturg
3. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Playwright
Conflict
Stage manager
Black box
4. Author of play
Antagonist
University Wits
Variables of costume design
Playwright
5. Standard tool for casting productions
Chorus
Auditions
Components of Production
Chorus
6. Generally rhyming
Verse
Front of House
Bertolt Brecht
Book musical
7. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Prose
Director
Copyright
lighting designer
8. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Protagonist
Realism
Scenic Designer
Callbacks
9. 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
Aeschylus
Ground plan
Presentational
Hypokrites
10. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Off-off-Broadway
Aristophanes
Henrik Ibsen
Front of House
11. Collection of mystery plays
Cycles
Director
Constantin Stanislavski
Representational
12. Physical commedy
Slapstick
Callbacks
Romanticism
Liturgical Drama
13. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Plato
Director
Avant-Garde
Dialogue
14. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Melodrama
William Shakespeare
Upstage
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
15. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Types of professional theater
Empathy
Representational
Linear Plot
16. Seats 100-500; professional
Antagonist
Constantin Stanislavski
Concept
Off-Broadway
17. 'dancing space'
Liturgical Drama
Director
Commedia Dell'Arte
Orchestra
18. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Romanticism
William Shakespeare
Public Domain
Theatron
19. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Bertolt Brecht
Components of Production
Romantic Theory
Empathy
20. Appearance of truth
Director
Designer
Verisimilitude
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
21. Was in favor of theater
Types of professional theater
Dionysus
Presentational
Aristotle
22. Historical accuracy
Aristophanes
Antiquarianism
Playwright
Rhetorical Tradition
23. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Slapstick
Director
Concept
Public Domain
24. 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
Upstage
Perspective Scenery
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Casting Director
25. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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26. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Cycles
Actor's tools
Off-off-Broadway
27. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Black box
William Shakespeare
Protagonist
28. Greatest dramatist of all time
William Shakespeare
Realism
Casting Director
Linear Plot
29. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Casting Director
Reversal
Black box
Conflict
30. Director champions intention of playwright
Director
Broadway
Aristophanes
collaborator
31. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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32. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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33. Designs costumes for the show
Director
William Shakespeare
Costume Designer
Blocking
34. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Liturgical Drama
Pageants
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Royalty
35. Oversees artistic aspects of show
William Shakespeare
Concept
Vomitories
Director
36. Seats 100-500; professional
Upstage
Off-Broadway
Eugene Scribe
Antiquarianism
37. First director
Antagonist
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Hypokrites
Plato
38. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Mystery Plays
Auteur
Thrust
39. Fee for each performance
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Ground plan
Royalty
Public Domain
40. Generally rhyming
Actor's tools
Musical Theatre
Emile Zola
Verse
41. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Proscenium
University Wits
Catharsis
42. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Verse
Components of Production
Pageants
Slapstick
43. 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
Presentational
Stage manager
Director
44. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Alienation Effect
Romanticism
Subtext
Playwright
45. The area farthest away from the audience
Components of Actor's job
The Orestia
Downstage
Upstage
46. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Liturgical Drama
William Shakespeare
Raked Stage
Variables of costume design
47. 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
Neoclassic unities
Proscenium
Royalty
Subtext
48. 'dancing space'
The Orestia
Orchestra
Aristophanes
Casting Director
49. The area farthest away from the audience
Upstage
Dialogue
Hypokrites
Prose
50. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Royalty
Designer
Sense memory
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
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