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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Thrust
lighting designer
Director
2. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Designer's job
Liturgical Drama
Prose
The Orestia
3. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
Realism
Henrik Ibsen
Thrust
4. Handles business aspects of show
Producer
Neoclassic unities
Proscenium
Casting Director
5. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Costume Designer
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Hypokrites
Stage manager
6. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
University Wits
Avant-Garde
Ground plan
Stage Manager
7. 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
Ground plan
Pageants
lighting designer
Playwright
8. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Verisimilitude
Sense memory
Verse
Neoclassic unities
9. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Verse
Bertolt Brecht
Arena
10. Scenery
Skene
Scenic Designer
Producer
William Shakespeare
11. 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
Playwright
Proscenium
Arena
12. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Realism
The Globe
Commedia Dell'Arte
Constantin Stanislavski
13. Actor in 5th century Greece
William Shakespeare
Blocking
Hypokrites
The Globe
14. Action - place - time
Subtext
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Neoclassic unities
Upstage
15. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Aeschylus
Morality Plays
Actor's tools
Arena
16. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Bertolt Brecht
Components of Production
Arena
Broadway
17. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Costume plot
Eugene Scribe
Auditions
18. 'seeing place'
Auditions
Theatron
Components of Production
Concept
19. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Bertolt Brecht
Avant-Garde
Vomitories
Neoclassicism
20. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Alienation Effect
Costume Designer
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
21. Creates a visual home for the play
Neoclassicism
Scenic Designer
Playwright
Catharsis
22. 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
Perspective Scenery
Components of Production
Realism
The Orestia
23. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Components of Production
Eugene Scribe
Alienation Effect
Mystery Plays
24. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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25. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Prose
Mystery Plays
Designer
26. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Proscenium
Skene
Romanticism
Playwright
27. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Melodrama
Callbacks
Copyright
The Globe
28. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Dramaturg
sound designer
Proscenium
Components of Production
29. Author of play
Playwright
Constantin Stanislavski
Off-off-Broadway
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
30. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Reversal
Aeschylus
Rhetorical Tradition
Dramaturg
31. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Off-off-Broadway
Wings
Subplot
Cycles
32. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Avant-Garde
Components of Actor's job
Empathy
Costume plot
33. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Representational
Emile Zola
Subplot
Dialogue
34. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Proscenium
William Shakespeare
Bertolt Brecht
Eugene Scribe
35. Greatest dramatist of all time
Aristotle
William Shakespeare
Melodrama
Designer
36. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Presentational
Catharsis
Miracle Plays
Romanticism
37. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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38. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Designer
Casting Director
Chorus
Empathy
39. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Musical Theatre
University Wits
Arena
Perspective Scenery
40. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Dramaturg
Aristotle
Realism
41. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Types of professional theater
Aeschylus
Neoclassicism
Rendering
42. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Rendering
Actor's tools
Book musical
Theatron
43. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Protagonist
Eugene Scribe
Catharsis
Thrust
44. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Thespis
Dialogue
Variables of costume design
Henrik Ibsen
45. Secondary line of action
Verisimilitude
Subplot
sound designer
Bertolt Brecht
46. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Liturgical Drama
Auditions
Stage Manager
Orchestra
47. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Romanticism
Off-off-Broadway
Casting Director
Proscenium
48. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Arena
Miracle Plays
Components of Actor's job
Broadway
49. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Proscenium
Subplot
The Orestia
Casting Director
50. 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
Wings
Slapstick
Mystery Plays
Perspective Scenery
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