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Theatre Appreciation 2
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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 only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Proscenium
William Shakespeare
Types of professional theater
Perspective Scenery
2. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Romantic Theory
Plato
Conflict
Morality Plays
3. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Slapstick
Sense memory
Arena
Callbacks
4. Generally rhyming
Black box
Verse
Royalty
Components of Production
5. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Off-off-Broadway
Henrik Ibsen
Thespis
Components of Actor's job
6. Standard tool for casting productions
Off-off-Broadway
Auditions
Musical Theatre
Cycles
7. Standard tool for casting productions
Henrik Ibsen
Auditions
Neoclassic unities
Catharsis
8. Director champions intention of playwright
collaborator
Reversal
The Globe
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
9. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Skene
Conflict
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Downstage
10. Spoken words
Dialogue
Antiquarianism
Stage Manager
Dionysus
11. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Perspective Scenery
Aeschylus
Realism
Variables of costume design
12. Handles business aspects of show
Producer
Off-Broadway
Wings
Slapstick
13. Body - voice - mind
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14. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Neoclassicism
Auteur
Costume Designer
15. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Antagonist
Emile Zola
William Shakespeare
Concept
16. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Aristotle
Types of professional theater
Constantin Stanislavski
Concept
17. God of wine and fertility
Aeschylus
Hypokrites
Dionysus
Costume Designer
18. Appearance of truth
Liturgical Drama
Costume plot
Costume Designer
Verisimilitude
19. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Thespis
Dramaturg
Neoclassic unities
Wings
20. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Prose
Henrik Ibsen
Off-off-Broadway
Scenic Designer
21. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Designer
sound designer
Verisimilitude
Liturgical Drama
22. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Wings
Plato
Copyright
Sense memory
23. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Plato
Melodrama
Empathy
Musical Theatre
24. Physical commedy
Playwright
Slapstick
Protagonist
sound designer
25. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Aesthetic Distance
Antiquarianism
William Shakespeare
Director
26. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Commedia Dell'Arte
Chorus
Cycles
27. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Actor's tools
Subtext
Romantic Theory
Reversal
28. 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
Costume plot
Realism
Plato
Producer
29. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Musical Theatre
Morality Plays
Subplot
Catharsis
30. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Thespis
Henrik Ibsen
collaborator
Representational
31. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Actor's tools
Components of Production
Orchestra
Morality Plays
32. Handles business aspects of show
Sense memory
Musical Theatre
Copyright
Producer
33. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Off-off-Broadway
University Wits
Thrust
Morality Plays
34. When line of action suddenly switches
Director
Prose
Stage Manager
Reversal
35. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Romanticism
Theatron
Representational
36. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Presentational
Avant-Garde
Public Domain
Vomitories
37. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Melodrama
Avant-Garde
Neoclassic unities
Director
38. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Thrust
Wings
Front of House
Liturgical Drama
39. Designs costumes for the show
Antagonist
Types of professional theater
Slapstick
Costume Designer
40. 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
Proscenium
University Wits
Alienation Effect
Sense memory
41. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Pageants
Rhetorical Tradition
Antagonist
Public Domain
42. Designs costumes for the show
Aristophanes
Costume Designer
Public Domain
Variables of costume design
43. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Orchestra
Casting Director
Scenic Designer
Reversal
44. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
University Wits
Eugene Scribe
Director
Casting Director
45. Author of play
Playwright
collaborator
Aesthetic Distance
Thespis
46. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Proscenium
Rhetorical Tradition
Stage manager
Aeschylus
47. Who or what opposes the central character
Empathy
Antagonist
Pageants
Thrust
48. Scenery
Skene
Neoclassicism
Designer's job
Costume Designer
49. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Public Domain
Callbacks
Miracle Plays
50. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Broadway
Front of House