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Theatre Appreciation 2
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Miracle Plays
Chorus
Conflict
Royalty
2. Creates a visual home for the play
Scenic Designer
Producer
Playwright
Aristotle
3. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Melodrama
Henrik Ibsen
Stage manager
Stage Manager
4. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Eugene Scribe
Scenic Designer
Pageants
Arena
5. Generally rhyming
William Shakespeare
Bertolt Brecht
Verse
Scenic Designer
6. 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
Actor's tools
Proscenium
Scenic Designer
Concept
7. Author of play
Henrik Ibsen
Book musical
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Playwright
8. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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9. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Book musical
Romantic Theory
Dramaturg
Proscenium
10. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Vomitories
Liturgical Drama
Royalty
University Wits
11. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Off-off-Broadway
Upstage
Empathy
Callbacks
12. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Aesthetic Distance
lighting designer
Upstage
Neoclassic unities
13. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Playwright
Verse
Copyright
Wings
14. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Realism
Front of House
Perspective Scenery
Morality Plays
15. 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
Proscenium
Henrik Ibsen
Miracle Plays
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
16. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Subtext
Presentational
The Orestia
Mystery Plays
17. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Actor's tools
Mystery Plays
Romanticism
Vomitories
18. 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
Downstage
Playwright
Callbacks
Emile Zola
19. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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20. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Neoclassicism
William Shakespeare
Callbacks
Presentational
21. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Actor's tools
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Aesthetic Distance
Director
22. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
collaborator
The Globe
Empathy
23. Sentences/paragraph structure
Representational
Melodrama
Prose
Mystery Plays
24. Appearance of truth
William Shakespeare
Thespis
Verisimilitude
Emile Zola
25. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
Dramaturg
Avant-Garde
Callbacks
26. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Black box
Director
Antagonist
Neoclassicism
27. Secondary line of action
Subplot
Proscenium
Proscenium
Dionysus
28. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Eugene Scribe
Pageants
Types of professional theater
29. The area farthest away from the audience
Romanticism
Conflict
Upstage
Royalty
30. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Proscenium
Realism
Verse
31. 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
William Shakespeare
Slapstick
Components of Production
Romantic Theory
32. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Empathy
Director
Subtext
Avant-Garde
33. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Proscenium
Copyright
Director
Romanticism
34. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Broadway
Bertolt Brecht
Costume Designer
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
35. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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36. 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
Director
Proscenium
Empathy
Downstage
37. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Callbacks
Pageants
Downstage
Avant-Garde
38. Designs costumes for the show
Constantin Stanislavski
Callbacks
Prose
Costume Designer
39. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Costume Designer
lighting designer
Dionysus
Protagonist
40. Greatest dramatist of all time
Blocking
Concept
Antiquarianism
William Shakespeare
41. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Callbacks
Bertolt Brecht
Subtext
Musical Theatre
42. Director champions intention of playwright
Empathy
Designer's job
Sense memory
collaborator
43. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Catharsis
Broadway
Downstage
Romantic Theory
44. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Verse
Constantin Stanislavski
Black box
Liturgical Drama
45. Actor in 5th century Greece
Copyright
Off-off-Broadway
Reversal
Hypokrites
46. 'seeing place'
Casting Director
Rhetorical Tradition
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Theatron
47. Designs costumes for the show
Proscenium
Antiquarianism
Costume Designer
Book musical
48. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Neoclassicism
lighting designer
Alienation Effect
Aeschylus
49. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Antiquarianism
Protagonist
Plato
50. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Presentational
Prose
Mystery Plays
Playwright