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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. 'seeing place'
Thespis
Pageants
Theatron
Hypokrites
2. Handles business aspects of show
Book musical
Producer
Vomitories
Components of Actor's job
3. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Theatron
lighting designer
Director
4. Scenery
Skene
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Constantin Stanislavski
5. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Antiquarianism
Costume plot
Prose
Costume Designer
6. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Costume Designer
Vomitories
Skene
Director
7. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Musical Theatre
Stage Manager
Broadway
Producer
8. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Linear Plot
Orchestra
Types of professional theater
9. Style of production that acknowledges theatricality and does not attempt to created the impression of 'real life' on the stage. Presentational scenery - costumes - and lighting may suggest - distort - or even abstract reality. Presentational acting m
Presentational
Miracle Plays
Aristophanes
lighting designer
10. Designs costumes for the show
Dialogue
Costume Designer
Prose
Realism
11. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Subtext
Empathy
Chorus
Costume Designer
12. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
sound designer
Prose
Sense memory
Rendering
13. Greatest dramatist of all time
Casting Director
William Shakespeare
Pageants
Pageants
14. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Avant-Garde
Thespis
Aristophanes
Auditions
15. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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16. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Antiquarianism
Conflict
Callbacks
Components of Actor's job
17. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Neoclassic unities
Aesthetic Distance
Protagonist
Costume Designer
18. Physical commedy
William Shakespeare
Slapstick
University Wits
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
19. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Proscenium
Thrust
Dionysus
Costume Designer
20. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Proscenium
Dramaturg
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Rendering
21. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Dialogue
The Orestia
Constantin Stanislavski
Costume plot
22. 'dancing space'
sound designer
Orchestra
Proscenium
Callbacks
23. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Pageants
Henrik Ibsen
Morality Plays
Scenic Designer
24. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Casting Director
Conflict
Thrust
Rhetorical Tradition
25. Directors who operate with total control
Black box
Protagonist
The Globe
Auteur
26. Standard tool for casting productions
William Shakespeare
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Dionysus
Auditions
27. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Black box
Theatron
Musical Theatre
Eugene Scribe
28. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Protagonist
Designer
Dionysus
Bertolt Brecht
29. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
William Shakespeare
Conflict
Aesthetic Distance
Subtext
30. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
sound designer
Book musical
Verse
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
31. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Stage manager
Variables of costume design
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Antagonist
32. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Reversal
Neoclassicism
Subplot
Designer
33. When line of action suddenly switches
Ground plan
collaborator
Dramaturg
Reversal
34. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Cycles
lighting designer
Constantin Stanislavski
Copyright
35. Standard tool for casting productions
Auditions
Proscenium
collaborator
collaborator
36. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Cycles
Neoclassicism
Vomitories
Bertolt Brecht
37. Planned actor movement
Designer
Blocking
Mystery Plays
Variables of costume design
38. Collection of mystery plays
Sense memory
Cycles
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
39. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
sound designer
collaborator
Director
40. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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41. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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42. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Antagonist
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
University Wits
Downstage
43. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Neoclassic unities
Costume plot
Melodrama
44. Was in favor of theater
Casting Director
Aristotle
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Plato
45. Saint's plays
Black box
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Dramaturg
Miracle Plays
46. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Catharsis
Dionysus
Mystery Plays
Linear Plot
47. Director champions intention of playwright
Antiquarianism
collaborator
Designer's job
Henrik Ibsen
48. Directors who operate with total control
Auteur
Designer
Miracle Plays
Verisimilitude
49. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Copyright
Director
Raked Stage
50. Secondary line of action
Subplot
Musical Theatre
Romantic Theory
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