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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. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Thrust
Director
Conflict
Avant-Garde
2. Seats 100-500; professional
Morality Plays
Off-Broadway
Arena
Mystery Plays
3. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Presentational
Arena
Aeschylus
Dionysus
4. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Stage manager
Theatron
Upstage
5. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Vomitories
Linear Plot
Aristotle
Rendering
6. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
lighting designer
Conflict
Downstage
Eugene Scribe
7. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Mystery Plays
Public Domain
Constantin Stanislavski
8. 'seeing place'
Black box
Protagonist
Liturgical Drama
Theatron
9. Physical commedy
Vomitories
Slapstick
Neoclassicism
Presentational
10. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
William Shakespeare
Melodrama
Stage Manager
Actor's tools
11. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Conflict
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Aristotle
12. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Designer's job
Realism
Empathy
13. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Aristotle
Empathy
Components of Production
Costume Designer
14. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Vomitories
Constantin Stanislavski
Mystery Plays
Slapstick
15. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Downstage
Conflict
Subplot
Constantin Stanislavski
16. Collection of mystery plays
Cycles
Auditions
Constantin Stanislavski
Aesthetic Distance
17. 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
Off-off-Broadway
Verisimilitude
Proscenium
Wings
18. 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
Costume plot
Empathy
Aesthetic Distance
Downstage
19. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Dialogue
Rendering
Components of Actor's job
Representational
20. Actor in 5th century Greece
Pageants
Costume Designer
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Hypokrites
21. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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22. First director
Stage Manager
Wings
Bertolt Brecht
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
23. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Wings
Proscenium
sound designer
Broadway
24. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Hypokrites
Royalty
The Globe
Wings
25. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
University Wits
Neoclassicism
Avant-Garde
Downstage
26. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Representational
Mystery Plays
Stage manager
Pageants
27. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Avant-Garde
Types of professional theater
Protagonist
Rhetorical Tradition
28. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Verse
Auditions
Neoclassicism
lighting designer
29. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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30. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Plato
Orchestra
Melodrama
Components of Production
31. Was in favor of theater
Aristotle
William Shakespeare
Miracle Plays
lighting designer
32. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Aeschylus
Representational
Designer
Orchestra
33. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Eugene Scribe
Plato
Blocking
Skene
34. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Proscenium
Types of professional theater
Producer
Arena
35. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Off-off-Broadway
Chorus
Auteur
Costume plot
36. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Antiquarianism
Proscenium
Director
Neoclassicism
37. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Emile Zola
Thrust
Proscenium
Concept
38. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Vomitories
University Wits
Orchestra
Off-Broadway
39. Saint's plays
Wings
Miracle Plays
Bertolt Brecht
Orchestra
40. Physical commedy
Slapstick
Arena
Scenic Designer
Conflict
41. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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42. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Antiquarianism
Vomitories
Prose
43. Action - place - time
Black box
Neoclassic unities
Subtext
Protagonist
44. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Auteur
Verisimilitude
sound designer
Subtext
45. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Musical Theatre
Linear Plot
University Wits
Designer
46. 'seeing place'
Raked Stage
sound designer
Theatron
Playwright
47. Designs costumes for the show
Designer
Emile Zola
Costume Designer
Stage manager
48. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Alienation Effect
Auditions
Royalty
Front of House
49. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Emile Zola
Perspective Scenery
Director
Antiquarianism
50. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Sense memory
Costume plot
Musical Theatre
Skene