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Theatre Appreciation 2

Subject : performing-arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.






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






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






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






5. Sentences/paragraph structure






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






7. 'seeing place'






8. Humanity's struggle with good and evil






9. Central character






10. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent






11. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation






12. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century






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






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






15. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights






16. Attempts to represent reality on stage






17. 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.






18. 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






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






20. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy






21. Appearance of truth






22. Body - voice - mind


23. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild






24. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production






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


26. God of wine and fertility






27. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre






28. Creates a visual home for the play






29. 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






30. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)


31. Creates a visual home for the play






32. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C






33. Humanity's struggle with good and evil






34. 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






35. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production






36. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel






37. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space






38. Generally rhyming






39. Actor in 5th century Greece






40. 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






41. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.






42. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.






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






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






45. Scenery






46. Was in favor of theater






47. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion


48. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected






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






50. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright