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Theatre Appreciation 2
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Handles business aspects of show
Alienation Effect
Producer
Proscenium
collaborator
2. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Antagonist
Neoclassic unities
lighting designer
Dionysus
3. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
collaborator
Public Domain
Bertolt Brecht
Alienation Effect
4. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Protagonist
Thrust
Director
Broadway
5. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Reversal
Theatron
sound designer
Broadway
6. Secondary line of action
Cycles
Designer
Subplot
Linear Plot
7. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Empathy
Skene
Front of House
Proscenium
8. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Prose
Linear Plot
Eugene Scribe
Stage manager
9. 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
Director
Presentational
Royalty
Types of professional theater
10. Generally rhyming
Mystery Plays
Book musical
Verse
Components of Actor's job
11. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Dialogue
Empathy
The Orestia
Off-off-Broadway
12. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Subtext
Aeschylus
Costume plot
Dialogue
13. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Presentational
Chorus
Public Domain
Copyright
14. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Mystery Plays
Concept
Antagonist
Vomitories
15. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Callbacks
Slapstick
Presentational
Rendering
16. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Designer's job
collaborator
Mystery Plays
Director
17. 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
Auteur
Romantic Theory
University Wits
Hypokrites
18. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Types of professional theater
Subtext
Arena
Morality Plays
19. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Antiquarianism
Henrik Ibsen
Alienation Effect
Costume Designer
20. Appearance of truth
Henrik Ibsen
Thrust
Verisimilitude
Components of Production
21. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Director
Ground plan
Representational
Rendering
22. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Casting Director
Reversal
Romanticism
Broadway
23. 'dancing space'
Proscenium
Orchestra
Dionysus
Designer's job
24. 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
Callbacks
Dialogue
Perspective Scenery
Pageants
25. Sentences/paragraph structure
Scenic Designer
Director
Prose
Thrust
26. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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27. Sentences/paragraph structure
Raked Stage
Prose
Vomitories
Auditions
28. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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29. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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30. Action - place - time
Chorus
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Neoclassic unities
The Orestia
31. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Musical Theatre
Public Domain
Costume plot
Casting Director
32. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Melodrama
Off-off-Broadway
Commedia Dell'Arte
Scenic Designer
33. 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
Thrust
Aristophanes
Perspective Scenery
Hypokrites
34. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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35. Author of play
Dramaturg
Perspective Scenery
Playwright
Auteur
36. Saint's plays
Miracle Plays
Proscenium
Vomitories
Playwright
37. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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38. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Upstage
Copyright
Prose
Types of professional theater
39. Author of play
Skene
Rhetorical Tradition
Playwright
Prose
40. Planned actor movement
Romantic Theory
Callbacks
Alienation Effect
Blocking
41. Scenery
Mystery Plays
Chorus
Auditions
Skene
42. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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43. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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44. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Aristophanes
Proscenium
Reversal
45. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Copyright
Melodrama
Alienation Effect
Playwright
46. Historical accuracy
Variables of costume design
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Copyright
Antiquarianism
47. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Mystery Plays
Reversal
Subtext
Eugene Scribe
48. 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
Playwright
Presentational
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Prose
49. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Costume Designer
Casting Director
Chorus
Producer
50. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Perspective Scenery
Verisimilitude
Aristophanes
Aesthetic Distance