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Theatre Appreciation 2

Subject : performing-arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre






2. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other






3. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle

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4. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation






5. 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






6. Spoken words






7. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging






8. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government






9. Sentences/paragraph structure






10. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.






11. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism






12. Scenery






13. Body - voice - mind

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14. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other






15. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.






16. Humanity's struggle with good and evil






17. 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






18. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.






19. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area






20. 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






21. Author of play






22. Seats 100-500; professional






23. A drafting of the plan of the set as seen from overhead. A ground plan shows where any scenic pieces or set props (such as furniture) are to be placed






24. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.






25. Creates a visual home for the play






26. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs






27. Secondary line of action






28. Saint's plays






29. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets






30. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.






31. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy






32. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily






33. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers






34. Standard tool for casting productions






35. Generally rhyming






36. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'






37. When line of action suddenly switches






38. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)






39. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.






40. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited






41. Appearance of truth






42. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging






43. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism






44. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).






45. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers






46. Secondary line of action






47. Physical commedy






48. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'






49. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery






50. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy