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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. Body - voice - mind
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2. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Plato
Casting Director
Designer
Downstage
3. Historical accuracy
Upstage
Avant-Garde
Vomitories
Antiquarianism
4. 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
lighting designer
Pageants
Thespis
Perspective Scenery
5. When line of action suddenly switches
Prose
Costume plot
Off-off-Broadway
Reversal
6. 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
Proscenium
Perspective Scenery
The Globe
Prose
7. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Presentational
Callbacks
Costume plot
Theatron
8. Was in favor of theater
Broadway
University Wits
Prose
Aristotle
9. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Prose
Pageants
Orchestra
Variables of costume design
10. 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
Proscenium
Orchestra
Antagonist
Downstage
11. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Stage Manager
Hypokrites
Proscenium
Antagonist
12. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Empathy
Emile Zola
Dionysus
13. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Proscenium
lighting designer
Book musical
Proscenium
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
Commedia Dell'Arte
University Wits
Realism
Neoclassic unities
15. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Vomitories
Rhetorical Tradition
Miracle Plays
Skene
16. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Costume Designer
Verse
Mystery Plays
Broadway
17. Greatest dramatist of all time
Emile Zola
Cycles
sound designer
William Shakespeare
18. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Melodrama
Chorus
The Globe
Cycles
19. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Stage manager
Variables of costume design
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Neoclassicism
20. First director
University Wits
Producer
Sense memory
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
21. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Aristotle
Liturgical Drama
Verse
Costume Designer
22. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Mystery Plays
Pageants
Cycles
Black box
23. 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
Theatron
The Globe
Romantic Theory
Off-off-Broadway
24. 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.
Musical Theatre
Dramaturg
Chorus
Off-off-Broadway
25. 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
Aristotle
Raked Stage
Ground plan
Dialogue
26. Historical accuracy
Sense memory
Broadway
Antiquarianism
The Orestia
27. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
The Orestia
Components of Production
Dramaturg
Presentational
28. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Copyright
Orchestra
Morality Plays
Front of House
29. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Producer
Stage manager
Mystery Plays
Wings
30. Scenery
Verisimilitude
Vomitories
Theatron
Skene
31. Handles business aspects of show
The Orestia
Producer
Proscenium
Perspective Scenery
32. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Director
Verse
Slapstick
33. Central character
Wings
Director
Protagonist
Proscenium
34. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Public Domain
Verisimilitude
Skene
Arena
35. Action - place - time
Subplot
Dramaturg
Callbacks
Neoclassic unities
36. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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37. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Henrik Ibsen
Antagonist
Constantin Stanislavski
Components of Production
38. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Liturgical Drama
Public Domain
Costume plot
39. Seats 100-500; professional
Romanticism
Off-Broadway
Dialogue
Director
40. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Costume plot
The Orestia
Copyright
Royalty
41. Generally rhyming
Aristophanes
Verse
Musical Theatre
Romanticism
42. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Vomitories
Rhetorical Tradition
Representational
Casting Director
43. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Variables of costume design
Plato
The Globe
Black box
44. Actor in 5th century Greece
Downstage
Hypokrites
Neoclassicism
Thrust
45. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Mystery Plays
Mystery Plays
Broadway
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
46. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Ground plan
Director
Thrust
Actor's tools
47. 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.
Empathy
Sense memory
Chorus
Romantic Theory
48. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Empathy
Variables of costume design
Henrik Ibsen
Bertolt Brecht
49. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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50. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Public Domain
Constantin Stanislavski
Costume plot
Blocking