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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. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Rendering
Auditions
Aesthetic Distance
Thespis
2. 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
Perspective Scenery
Thrust
Theatron
Raked Stage
3. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Subtext
Public Domain
Dramaturg
4. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Vomitories
Presentational
Upstage
Constantin Stanislavski
5. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Black box
Skene
Blocking
Mystery Plays
6. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Chorus
Slapstick
Concept
Wings
7. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Director
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Sense memory
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
8. Scenery
Representational
Skene
Realism
Director
9. Seats less than 100; amateur.
The Orestia
Off-off-Broadway
Neoclassicism
Public Domain
10. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Royalty
Morality Plays
Reversal
Aesthetic Distance
11. Handles business aspects of show
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Producer
Casting Director
Antiquarianism
12. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Catharsis
Aesthetic Distance
Auditions
Copyright
13. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Wings
The Orestia
Empathy
Conflict
14. Appearance of truth
Wings
Verisimilitude
Public Domain
Designer's job
15. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Thrust
Concept
Rhetorical Tradition
Catharsis
16. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Thespis
Wings
collaborator
sound designer
17. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
Realism
Off-off-Broadway
Miracle Plays
18. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Slapstick
Henrik Ibsen
Avant-Garde
Raked Stage
19. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Musical Theatre
Dramaturg
Thrust
Stage manager
20. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
sound designer
Thrust
Designer
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
21. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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22. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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23. Author of play
Playwright
Designer
Thrust
Cycles
24. Historical accuracy
Cycles
Antiquarianism
Liturgical Drama
The Globe
25. Who or what opposes the central character
Dramaturg
Antagonist
Rhetorical Tradition
Miracle Plays
26. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Dialogue
Neoclassic unities
Aristophanes
Off-off-Broadway
27. 'dancing space'
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Antagonist
Antagonist
Orchestra
28. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Neoclassic unities
Prose
Broadway
lighting designer
29. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Proscenium
Actor's tools
Concept
Public Domain
30. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
The Globe
Catharsis
Copyright
Book musical
31. Actor in 5th century Greece
Hypokrites
Raked Stage
Off-Broadway
Orchestra
32. Planned actor movement
Bertolt Brecht
Blocking
Linear Plot
Pageants
33. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Cycles
Thespis
Components of Production
Casting Director
34. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Musical Theatre
Arena
Dramaturg
Sense memory
35. Generally rhyming
Verse
Off-Broadway
Aeschylus
Linear Plot
36. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Verse
Types of professional theater
Public Domain
Variables of costume design
37. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Copyright
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Protagonist
Sense memory
38. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Black box
Hypokrites
Romantic Theory
39. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Broadway
Casting Director
Thespis
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
40. Collection of mystery plays
Cycles
William Shakespeare
Constantin Stanislavski
Antiquarianism
41. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Liturgical Drama
Proscenium
Raked Stage
Mystery Plays
42. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Constantin Stanislavski
Casting Director
Raked Stage
43. 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
Hypokrites
Realism
Emile Zola
Verisimilitude
44. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Types of professional theater
Thrust
lighting designer
Book musical
45. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
lighting designer
Director
Book musical
Avant-Garde
46. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Constantin Stanislavski
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Henrik Ibsen
Stage manager
47. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Rhetorical Tradition
Romanticism
Neoclassic unities
48. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Plato
Pageants
The Orestia
49. Appearance of truth
Chorus
Verisimilitude
Bertolt Brecht
Thespis
50. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Aeschylus
lighting designer
Subplot
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play