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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. 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.
Blocking
Designer
Constantin Stanislavski
Chorus
2. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Perspective Scenery
Director
Designer's job
3. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Designer
Arena
Empathy
4. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Scenic Designer
Vomitories
Eugene Scribe
Morality Plays
5. 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
Theatron
Cycles
Proscenium
Antiquarianism
6. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Black box
Casting Director
Thespis
Antiquarianism
7. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Antiquarianism
Perspective Scenery
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Downstage
8. Greatest dramatist of all time
William Shakespeare
Realism
Neoclassic unities
sound designer
9. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Linear Plot
Stage manager
Avant-Garde
10. When line of action suddenly switches
Public Domain
Producer
Reversal
Avant-Garde
11. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Antagonist
Protagonist
Off-off-Broadway
Emile Zola
12. Planned actor movement
Eugene Scribe
Orchestra
Blocking
Public Domain
13. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Pageants
Skene
Copyright
Cycles
14. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
15. 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
Downstage
Perspective Scenery
Avant-Garde
16. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Aesthetic Distance
Musical Theatre
Ground plan
17. Scenery
Designer
Designer
Skene
Wings
18. Creates a visual home for the play
Upstage
Costume Designer
Scenic Designer
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
19. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Hypokrites
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Upstage
Antiquarianism
20. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Skene
Aeschylus
Off-off-Broadway
Neoclassic unities
21. Fee for each performance
Auditions
Romantic Theory
Royalty
Producer
22. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
University Wits
lighting designer
Components of Production
Cycles
23. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
collaborator
Representational
Aristophanes
Henrik Ibsen
24. When line of action suddenly switches
Royalty
Black box
Reversal
Rendering
25. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Morality Plays
Mystery Plays
Types of professional theater
26. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Neoclassicism
Orchestra
Aeschylus
27. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Liturgical Drama
Sense memory
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Pageants
28. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Types of professional theater
Ground plan
The Globe
Bertolt Brecht
29. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
Dionysus
Black box
Designer
30. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Director
Commedia Dell'Arte
Royalty
collaborator
31. Body - voice - mind
32. Was in favor of theater
Aristotle
Auditions
Pageants
Upstage
33. Generally rhyming
Emile Zola
Empathy
Rendering
Verse
34. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Antiquarianism
Presentational
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Stage manager
35. Secondary line of action
Plato
Subplot
Aristotle
Dramaturg
36. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
collaborator
Book musical
Alienation Effect
Concept
37. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Antiquarianism
Bertolt Brecht
Downstage
38. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Catharsis
Dialogue
Liturgical Drama
Auteur
39. Central character
Public Domain
Subplot
Protagonist
Bertolt Brecht
40. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Bertolt Brecht
Dramaturg
Theatron
Broadway
41. Director champions intention of playwright
sound designer
collaborator
Broadway
Proscenium
42. Physical commedy
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Reversal
Skene
Slapstick
43. Who or what opposes the central character
Aesthetic Distance
Arena
Aesthetic Distance
Antagonist
44. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Protagonist
Director
Upstage
Mystery Plays
45. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Verisimilitude
Proscenium
Playwright
Romanticism
46. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
47. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Verse
Conflict
Emile Zola
Actor's tools
48. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Thespis
Components of Production
Actor's tools
Aesthetic Distance
49. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Mystery Plays
Royalty
50. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Miracle Plays
Mystery Plays
Aesthetic Distance
Raked Stage