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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. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Eugene Scribe
Front of House
Raked Stage
2. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Types of professional theater
Dramaturg
Prose
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
3. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Types of professional theater
Romanticism
Broadway
Hypokrites
4. 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.
Hypokrites
Arena
Plato
Chorus
5. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Off-off-Broadway
Morality Plays
Plato
Hypokrites
6. Collection of mystery plays
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Alienation Effect
Auteur
Cycles
7. When line of action suddenly switches
Reversal
Alienation Effect
Thespis
Proscenium
8. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
9. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Subtext
Scenic Designer
Liturgical Drama
Concept
10. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Linear Plot
Pageants
Black box
Proscenium
11. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
collaborator
Variables of costume design
Costume plot
12. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Costume plot
Aeschylus
Alienation Effect
Cycles
13. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
The Orestia
Subtext
Black box
Orchestra
14. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Stage Manager
Romantic Theory
Antiquarianism
Broadway
15. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Antiquarianism
Callbacks
Mystery Plays
Raked Stage
16. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Ground plan
Proscenium
Director
Rhetorical Tradition
17. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Verse
Subplot
18. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Subplot
Costume Designer
Eugene Scribe
sound designer
19. Secondary line of action
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Subplot
Aeschylus
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
20. 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
Perspective Scenery
Presentational
Variables of costume design
lighting designer
21. 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
Henrik Ibsen
Casting Director
Realism
Auditions
22. 'dancing space'
Representational
Orchestra
William Shakespeare
Empathy
23. Creates a visual home for the play
Blocking
Catharsis
Scenic Designer
Broadway
24. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Costume Designer
Conflict
Aristophanes
Scenic Designer
25. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Aristotle
Pageants
Components of Actor's job
26. Collection of mystery plays
Romanticism
Director
Cycles
Blocking
27. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Plato
Sense memory
Orchestra
Proscenium
28. Greatest dramatist of all time
Vomitories
William Shakespeare
Romantic Theory
Upstage
29. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Morality Plays
Theatron
Raked Stage
Bertolt Brecht
30. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Rendering
Dialogue
Variables of costume design
Morality Plays
31. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Aeschylus
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Arena
32. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Dionysus
Alienation Effect
Costume Designer
33. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Royalty
Antagonist
William Shakespeare
Stage manager
34. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Wings
Director
lighting designer
35. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Catharsis
Protagonist
Skene
Types of professional theater
36. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Catharsis
Rendering
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Royalty
37. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Off-off-Broadway
Stage manager
Chorus
38. Was in favor of theater
Antiquarianism
Pageants
Aristotle
Concept
39. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Thespis
Types of professional theater
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Melodrama
40. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Designer
Callbacks
Pageants
41. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Verse
Callbacks
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
42. Physical commedy
Off-off-Broadway
Slapstick
Alienation Effect
Variables of costume design
43. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Bertolt Brecht
Emile Zola
Proscenium
Broadway
44. Handles business aspects of show
Director
Producer
Actor's tools
Slapstick
45. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Romantic Theory
Conflict
Constantin Stanislavski
Romanticism
46. Standard tool for casting productions
Costume plot
William Shakespeare
Auditions
Black box
47. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Alienation Effect
Subplot
Thrust
Costume Designer
48. Attempts to represent reality on stage
The Globe
Representational
Emile Zola
Cycles
49. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Empathy
Romantic Theory
Components of Production
Book musical
50. Generally rhyming
Verse
Proscenium
Downstage
Aeschylus