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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. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Antagonist
Constantin Stanislavski
Aeschylus
2. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Casting Director
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
William Shakespeare
Romanticism
3. 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
Bertolt Brecht
Dialogue
Downstage
Musical Theatre
4. 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
Aesthetic Distance
Rendering
Presentational
Royalty
5. 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
Romanticism
Realism
Stage Manager
6. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Off-Broadway
Cycles
Constantin Stanislavski
Morality Plays
7. Greatest dramatist of all time
Henrik Ibsen
William Shakespeare
Theatron
Verse
8. Director champions intention of playwright
Antagonist
Copyright
Auteur
collaborator
9. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Black box
Designer's job
Components of Production
10. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Musical Theatre
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Romanticism
Wings
11. 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
Public Domain
Perspective Scenery
Designer
Verisimilitude
12. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
The Orestia
Off-off-Broadway
Off-Broadway
13. 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
Prose
Raked Stage
Subplot
Romantic Theory
14. 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
Royalty
Realism
Dionysus
Theatron
15. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Rhetorical Tradition
Off-Broadway
Conflict
Morality Plays
16. 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
Off-off-Broadway
Raked Stage
Antagonist
Constantin Stanislavski
17. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Representational
Broadway
Henrik Ibsen
Ground plan
18. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Wings
The Globe
Downstage
Morality Plays
19. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Proscenium
Verse
Antiquarianism
20. Appearance of truth
Public Domain
Constantin Stanislavski
Proscenium
Verisimilitude
21. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Dialogue
Ground plan
Concept
22. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Protagonist
Proscenium
Reversal
Melodrama
23. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Verisimilitude
Thrust
collaborator
Raked Stage
24. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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25. 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
Costume Designer
Proscenium
Director
Plato
26. Directors who operate with total control
Aesthetic Distance
Auteur
University Wits
Off-off-Broadway
27. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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28. Central character
Blocking
Public Domain
Catharsis
Protagonist
29. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Off-off-Broadway
Theatron
Off-Broadway
Bertolt Brecht
30. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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31. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Aristophanes
Auditions
Thrust
32. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
Auditions
Stage Manager
Miracle Plays
33. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Conflict
Components of Production
Melodrama
Royalty
34. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Designer
Auditions
Constantin Stanislavski
Rendering
35. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Protagonist
Vomitories
Alienation Effect
Conflict
36. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
The Orestia
Playwright
Thespis
Rendering
37. Greatest dramatist of all time
Off-off-Broadway
Raked Stage
Off-Broadway
William Shakespeare
38. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Alienation Effect
Empathy
Thespis
Designer's job
39. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aristophanes
Aeschylus
Antiquarianism
Realism
40. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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41. Standard tool for casting productions
Morality Plays
Subplot
Auditions
Theatron
42. Author of play
Components of Actor's job
University Wits
Playwright
The Orestia
43. Body - voice - mind
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44. Appearance of truth
Arena
Emile Zola
Verisimilitude
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
45. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Blocking
The Globe
Prose
46. Actor in 5th century Greece
Hypokrites
Designer
Arena
Downstage
47. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Realism
Emile Zola
Types of professional theater
Copyright
48. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Ground plan
Miracle Plays
collaborator
The Orestia
49. Collection of mystery plays
Romantic Theory
Cycles
Designer
Constantin Stanislavski
50. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Henrik Ibsen
Eugene Scribe
Mystery Plays