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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. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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2. Central character
Protagonist
Commedia Dell'Arte
Henrik Ibsen
Verisimilitude
3. 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.
Thespis
Chorus
Mystery Plays
Eugene Scribe
4. Was in favor of theater
Dialogue
Aristotle
Auteur
Reversal
5. Scenery
Components of Actor's job
Skene
Antiquarianism
Reversal
6. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Plato
Book musical
Slapstick
Chorus
7. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Neoclassic unities
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Rhetorical Tradition
Romanticism
8. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Royalty
Prose
lighting designer
Producer
9. 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
Ground plan
Proscenium
Verisimilitude
Cycles
10. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Proscenium
Linear Plot
Director
Stage manager
11. First director
Perspective Scenery
Conflict
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
12. 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
Empathy
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Perspective Scenery
Conflict
13. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Aristotle
Arena
Callbacks
Avant-Garde
14. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Romantic Theory
Presentational
Black box
Sense memory
15. Designs costumes for the show
Neoclassicism
Designer
Costume Designer
Empathy
16. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Catharsis
Rendering
Upstage
17. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Romanticism
Thrust
Vomitories
Variables of costume design
18. Planned actor movement
Copyright
Blocking
University Wits
Orchestra
19. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Perspective Scenery
Chorus
Neoclassic unities
20. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Musical Theatre
Variables of costume design
Subtext
Hypokrites
21. 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
collaborator
Plato
Proscenium
Stage manager
22. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Liturgical Drama
Auditions
sound designer
Variables of costume design
23. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Neoclassicism
Stage manager
Aesthetic Distance
Wings
24. Generally rhyming
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Verse
Blocking
Prose
25. Handles business aspects of show
Wings
Dionysus
Producer
Cycles
26. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Sense memory
Copyright
Auditions
27. God of wine and fertility
Dionysus
Upstage
Broadway
Actor's tools
28. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Avant-Garde
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Melodrama
sound designer
29. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Broadway
Eugene Scribe
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Romanticism
30. Spoken words
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Dialogue
Neoclassicism
Henrik Ibsen
31. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Chorus
Arena
Front of House
Aristophanes
32. Secondary line of action
Emile Zola
Subplot
Alienation Effect
Stage manager
33. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Representational
Off-Broadway
Theatron
34. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Liturgical Drama
University Wits
Blocking
Mystery Plays
35. Actor in 5th century Greece
Stage manager
Auditions
Hypokrites
Alienation Effect
36. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Wings
Designer's job
Royalty
Stage manager
37. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Hypokrites
Stage Manager
Melodrama
Perspective Scenery
38. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Dramaturg
Auteur
Variables of costume design
Musical Theatre
39. 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
Orchestra
Types of professional theater
Romantic Theory
Conflict
40. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Aeschylus
Mystery Plays
The Globe
Proscenium
41. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Conflict
Public Domain
Costume plot
Sense memory
42. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Sense memory
Skene
Casting Director
Front of House
43. Actor in 5th century Greece
Hypokrites
Melodrama
Liturgical Drama
Black box
44. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Blocking
Thrust
Broadway
Antiquarianism
45. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Wings
Playwright
Constantin Stanislavski
Arena
46. First director
Thrust
Constantin Stanislavski
Catharsis
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
47. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Copyright
Proscenium
Upstage
Presentational
48. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Variables of costume design
Designer
Subplot
Dionysus
49. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Costume plot
Copyright
Chorus
Mystery Plays
50. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Aesthetic Distance
Pageants
Aristotle
Mystery Plays