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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. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Subplot
lighting designer
Protagonist
Concept
2. Spoken words
Verisimilitude
Dialogue
Melodrama
Orchestra
3. Body - voice - mind
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4. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Dramaturg
Rhetorical Tradition
Neoclassicism
5. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Constantin Stanislavski
Orchestra
The Orestia
Copyright
6. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Protagonist
Producer
Director
Casting Director
7. Directors who operate with total control
Auteur
Protagonist
Hypokrites
Black box
8. Fee for each performance
Emile Zola
Sense memory
Actor's tools
Royalty
9. Physical commedy
Thespis
Chorus
Stage Manager
Slapstick
10. Scenery
The Globe
Upstage
Aristotle
Skene
11. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Linear Plot
Aristophanes
University Wits
Verisimilitude
12. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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13. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Variables of costume design
Auteur
Director
Alienation Effect
14. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Costume Designer
Aristotle
Stage Manager
Rhetorical Tradition
15. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Eugene Scribe
Producer
Costume plot
Concept
16. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Costume Designer
Reversal
Dramaturg
Rendering
17. Saint's plays
Cycles
Dialogue
Miracle Plays
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
18. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
sound designer
Copyright
The Globe
Thespis
19. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Chorus
Casting Director
Proscenium
Empathy
20. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Subplot
Prose
Realism
21. 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
Thrust
Aristotle
Realism
sound designer
22. Director champions intention of playwright
Thrust
collaborator
Miracle Plays
Costume Designer
23. First director
Commedia Dell'Arte
Blocking
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Alienation Effect
24. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Neoclassicism
Components of Actor's job
Costume plot
Musical Theatre
25. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
sound designer
Costume plot
collaborator
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
26. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Antagonist
Aeschylus
sound designer
Melodrama
27. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
The Globe
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Front of House
Ground plan
28. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Theatron
Miracle Plays
Subtext
Concept
29. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Book musical
Musical Theatre
Sense memory
Constantin Stanislavski
30. Author of play
Playwright
Front of House
Front of House
Romanticism
31. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Concept
Wings
The Orestia
32. 'dancing space'
Plato
Orchestra
Antagonist
Prose
33. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Melodrama
Proscenium
Costume plot
34. 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
Skene
Romantic Theory
Components of Actor's job
Components of Actor's job
35. Was in favor of theater
Aristotle
Neoclassicism
Realism
Perspective Scenery
36. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Copyright
Neoclassic unities
Actor's tools
Catharsis
37. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aesthetic Distance
Skene
Representational
38. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Broadway
Producer
Wings
Alienation Effect
39. 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
Thrust
Proscenium
Components of Actor's job
Plato
40. Fee for each performance
Thrust
Royalty
Slapstick
Components of Actor's job
41. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Morality Plays
Constantin Stanislavski
The Orestia
Avant-Garde
42. Greatest dramatist of all time
William Shakespeare
Pageants
Components of Actor's job
Romanticism
43. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Designer
Stage manager
Aristophanes
Thespis
44. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Neoclassic unities
Reversal
Vomitories
45. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Prose
Copyright
Designer
Auteur
46. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Proscenium
Proscenium
Mystery Plays
Dionysus
47. Set at an angle. Early proscenium theatres featured a raked stage: the stage was elevated much higher at the back of the stage (upstage) than closer to the stage (downstage). Modern designers sometimes build a raked stage for a particular production
Theatron
Broadway
Raked Stage
Empathy
48. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Subtext
Copyright
Raked Stage
49. 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
Dionysus
The Orestia
Neoclassic unities
Romantic Theory
50. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Thrust
Liturgical Drama
Cycles
Proscenium