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Theatre Appreciation 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Sense memory
Producer
Sense memory
2. 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
Presentational
Plato
Vomitories
Copyright
3. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Romanticism
Henrik Ibsen
Scenic Designer
Royalty
4. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Designer's job
Romantic Theory
Costume plot
Playwright
5. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Black box
Thrust
Rhetorical Tradition
6. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Aristophanes
Dramaturg
Copyright
7. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Pageants
Concept
Royalty
Designer
8. Saint's plays
Sense memory
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Miracle Plays
Liturgical Drama
9. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Prose
Costume plot
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Cycles
10. 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
Presentational
Types of professional theater
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Plato
11. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Types of professional theater
Representational
Concept
12. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Musical Theatre
Director
Conflict
Orchestra
13. 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
Public Domain
Raked Stage
Reversal
Commedia Dell'Arte
14. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Dionysus
Reversal
Public Domain
Blocking
15. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
Chorus
Commedia Dell'Arte
Sense memory
16. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Avant-Garde
Stage manager
Auteur
17. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Skene
Black box
Realism
Thespis
18. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Director
Producer
Musical Theatre
Designer's job
19. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Mystery Plays
collaborator
Vomitories
20. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Thespis
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Avant-Garde
Dialogue
21. Creates a visual home for the play
Scenic Designer
Cycles
Aeschylus
Verse
22. The area farthest away from the audience
Commedia Dell'Arte
Henrik Ibsen
Scenic Designer
Upstage
23. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Morality Plays
Broadway
Director
Variables of costume design
24. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Pageants
Morality Plays
Thespis
Dialogue
25. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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26. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aristophanes
sound designer
Antagonist
Designer
27. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Antiquarianism
Romanticism
Subtext
Pageants
28. Author of play
William Shakespeare
Presentational
Playwright
Henrik Ibsen
29. Creates a visual home for the play
Alienation Effect
Melodrama
Callbacks
Scenic Designer
30. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Wings
Director
Stage manager
William Shakespeare
31. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Broadway
Copyright
Melodrama
Alienation Effect
32. Designs costumes for the show
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Slapstick
Costume Designer
Theatron
33. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Antagonist
Empathy
William Shakespeare
Liturgical Drama
34. Director champions intention of playwright
Commedia Dell'Arte
collaborator
Black box
Constantin Stanislavski
35. Collection of mystery plays
Callbacks
Copyright
Aristophanes
Cycles
36. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Catharsis
Realism
sound designer
Theatron
37. Actor in 5th century Greece
Downstage
Thrust
Hypokrites
Copyright
38. God of wine and fertility
Scenic Designer
Producer
Dionysus
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
39. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Musical Theatre
Arena
Vomitories
Subtext
40. Secondary line of action
Cycles
Subplot
Verisimilitude
Empathy
41. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Off-Broadway
Representational
Avant-Garde
Pageants
42. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Playwright
Book musical
Rendering
Prose
43. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Proscenium
Linear Plot
Proscenium
Broadway
44. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Constantin Stanislavski
Callbacks
Realism
Copyright
45. Greatest dramatist of all time
Presentational
Hypokrites
Costume plot
William Shakespeare
46. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Verse
Thrust
Mystery Plays
Arena
47. Action - place - time
Antiquarianism
Neoclassic unities
Emile Zola
Royalty
48. A group of performers working together vocally and physically. A chorus of approximately 12-15 singer-dancers who interacted with and responded to the actors was an important element of ancient Greek theatre.
Verse
Chorus
Pageants
Stage Manager
49. Fee for each performance
Orchestra
Royalty
Vomitories
Constantin Stanislavski
50. Was in favor of theater
Aesthetic Distance
Aristotle
Downstage
Duke of Saxe Meiningen