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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. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Theatron
Representational
Producer
Thrust
2. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Costume plot
Rendering
Catharsis
3. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Dialogue
Pageants
Protagonist
Designer's job
4. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aesthetic Distance
Proscenium
Aristophanes
Ground plan
5. 'dancing space'
Plato
Auteur
Variables of costume design
Orchestra
6. Handles business aspects of show
Producer
Designer's job
Ground plan
Dramaturg
7. 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
Prose
Perspective Scenery
Protagonist
University Wits
8. 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
Aeschylus
Eugene Scribe
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
9. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Aristophanes
Variables of costume design
Conflict
Alienation Effect
10. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Skene
Thespis
The Orestia
Types of professional theater
11. Scenery
University Wits
Skene
Variables of costume design
Thespis
12. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Subtext
Henrik Ibsen
The Globe
Upstage
13. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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14. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Slapstick
Reversal
Melodrama
Linear Plot
15. Historical accuracy
Callbacks
Playwright
Antiquarianism
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
16. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Dramaturg
Aeschylus
Off-off-Broadway
Conflict
17. Director champions intention of playwright
Morality Plays
sound designer
Blocking
collaborator
18. Central character
collaborator
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Protagonist
Producer
19. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Dramaturg
Verse
Director
Components of Production
20. Physical commedy
Conflict
Romanticism
Costume Designer
Slapstick
21. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Director
Rhetorical Tradition
Subtext
Public Domain
22. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Auteur
Commedia Dell'Arte
Producer
Constantin Stanislavski
23. Directors who operate with total control
Designer's job
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Conflict
Auteur
24. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Public Domain
Antagonist
Bertolt Brecht
Aristotle
25. Was in favor of theater
Chorus
Aristotle
Proscenium
collaborator
26. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Downstage
University Wits
Auditions
Stage manager
27. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Proscenium
Plato
William Shakespeare
Director
28. 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
Henrik Ibsen
Costume plot
Perspective Scenery
Upstage
29. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Variables of costume design
Proscenium
Hypokrites
30. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Royalty
Catharsis
Plato
Emile Zola
31. Directors who operate with total control
Chorus
Auteur
Copyright
Dramaturg
32. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Aristotle
Prose
Hypokrites
33. Scenery
Conflict
Concept
Concept
Skene
34. Planned actor movement
Broadway
Stage manager
Neoclassicism
Blocking
35. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Black box
Vomitories
Off-off-Broadway
Concept
36. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Copyright
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Melodrama
Raked Stage
37. Sentences/paragraph structure
Wings
Linear Plot
Prose
Morality Plays
38. When line of action suddenly switches
Reversal
Eugene Scribe
Pageants
Mystery Plays
39. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Sense memory
Book musical
Proscenium
Henrik Ibsen
40. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Morality Plays
Musical Theatre
Stage manager
41. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Ground plan
Empathy
Liturgical Drama
Dionysus
42. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Black box
Morality Plays
Director
Dionysus
43. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Actor's tools
Bertolt Brecht
Copyright
Designer
44. Author of play
Producer
Callbacks
Antiquarianism
Playwright
45. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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46. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
William Shakespeare
Realism
Verse
47. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Designer's job
Designer
Henrik Ibsen
Hypokrites
48. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Musical Theatre
Designer's job
Black box
49. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Liturgical Drama
Eugene Scribe
Orchestra
50. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Perspective Scenery
Arena
Director
Neoclassicism