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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 completely surrounds the performance area
Arena
Theatron
Aristotle
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
2. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Casting Director
Melodrama
Auteur
Rendering
3. Greatest dramatist of all time
Mystery Plays
William Shakespeare
Aristotle
Romanticism
4. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Prose
Actor's tools
Antagonist
5. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Protagonist
Rhetorical Tradition
Realism
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
6. God of wine and fertility
Costume Designer
Dionysus
Concept
Prose
7. Handles business aspects of show
Producer
Romantic Theory
Bertolt Brecht
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
8. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
sound designer
Dramaturg
Perspective Scenery
Reversal
9. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Scenic Designer
Perspective Scenery
Conflict
10. Planned actor movement
Components of Actor's job
Aristotle
Blocking
Downstage
11. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
lighting designer
Conflict
Proscenium
Neoclassicism
12. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Theatron
Bertolt Brecht
Components of Production
Thespis
13. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Avant-Garde
Designer's job
Proscenium
14. 'dancing space'
Subplot
Aristophanes
Orchestra
Realism
15. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Rhetorical Tradition
Bertolt Brecht
The Globe
Wings
16. 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
Stage Manager
Realism
Blocking
Front of House
17. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Broadway
Dionysus
Stage Manager
Components of Production
18. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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19. Actor in 5th century Greece
Antagonist
Hypokrites
Linear Plot
Mystery Plays
20. Directors who operate with total control
Subtext
Bertolt Brecht
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Auteur
21. 'dancing space'
Alienation Effect
Downstage
Orchestra
Subtext
22. 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.
Costume Designer
Bertolt Brecht
Upstage
Chorus
23. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Emile Zola
Sense memory
Wings
Presentational
24. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Realism
Public Domain
Antiquarianism
Melodrama
25. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Subtext
Arena
sound designer
Black box
26. Secondary line of action
Subplot
Morality Plays
Antagonist
Orchestra
27. Secondary line of action
Orchestra
Subplot
Plato
University Wits
28. Saint's plays
Antagonist
Miracle Plays
Constantin Stanislavski
Skene
29. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
sound designer
Antiquarianism
Aeschylus
Romanticism
30. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Proscenium
Thrust
Bertolt Brecht
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
31. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Empathy
Vomitories
Stage manager
Blocking
32. Central character
Copyright
Downstage
Romantic Theory
Protagonist
33. Director champions intention of playwright
Callbacks
collaborator
Chorus
Actor's tools
34. Standard tool for casting productions
Designer
Auditions
Raked Stage
Dialogue
35. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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36. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Slapstick
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Vomitories
Upstage
37. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Stage Manager
Stage manager
Plato
Off-off-Broadway
38. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Orchestra
lighting designer
Skene
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
39. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Miracle Plays
Mystery Plays
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
40. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Components of Actor's job
Verse
Neoclassicism
Plato
41. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Designer's job
collaborator
Constantin Stanislavski
Liturgical Drama
42. First director
sound designer
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Producer
Prose
43. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Director
Bertolt Brecht
Theatron
44. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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45. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Director
Dialogue
Arena
Empathy
46. 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
Musical Theatre
Liturgical Drama
lighting designer
Downstage
47. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Dramaturg
Linear Plot
Conflict
Callbacks
48. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Liturgical Drama
Aristophanes
Linear Plot
Romanticism
49. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Director
lighting designer
Musical Theatre
Aeschylus
50. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Director
Presentational
Off-Broadway