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Theatre Appreciation 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Constantin Stanislavski
Realism
The Orestia
Henrik Ibsen
2. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Realism
Variables of costume design
Copyright
Wings
3. 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
Director
Plato
Verisimilitude
Raked Stage
4. Standard tool for casting productions
Costume plot
Auditions
Playwright
Director
5. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Avant-Garde
Costume Designer
Rhetorical Tradition
Casting Director
6. 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
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Realism
Eugene Scribe
Morality Plays
7. Author of play
Playwright
Verisimilitude
Black box
The Orestia
8. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Blocking
Emile Zola
Director
Eugene Scribe
9. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Morality Plays
Musical Theatre
Arena
Types of professional theater
10. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Chorus
University Wits
Linear Plot
Concept
11. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Antagonist
Types of professional theater
Variables of costume design
12. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Dialogue
Director
Presentational
Front of House
13. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Auditions
Representational
Perspective Scenery
Orchestra
14. Generally rhyming
Verse
Casting Director
Front of House
Costume plot
15. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Antiquarianism
Melodrama
Auditions
Emile Zola
16. 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
Auditions
Aesthetic Distance
Slapstick
Perspective Scenery
17. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Verse
Upstage
Rendering
Bertolt Brecht
18. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Aristotle
Casting Director
Costume plot
Perspective Scenery
19. Creates a visual home for the play
Scenic Designer
Ground plan
Copyright
Subtext
20. 'dancing space'
Eugene Scribe
Producer
Orchestra
Rendering
21. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Dramaturg
Components of Production
Eugene Scribe
collaborator
22. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Rendering
Front of House
Thespis
Sense memory
23. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Catharsis
Casting Director
Henrik Ibsen
Black box
24. A group of performers working together vocally and physically. A chorus of approximately 12-15 singer-dancers who interacted with and responded to the actors was an important element of ancient Greek theatre.
Broadway
Musical Theatre
sound designer
Chorus
25. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Reversal
Slapstick
Commedia Dell'Arte
26. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Royalty
Protagonist
Eugene Scribe
27. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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28. Appearance of truth
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Prose
Callbacks
Verisimilitude
29. 'dancing space'
Orchestra
Book musical
Presentational
Costume Designer
30. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Morality Plays
Designer
Realism
Concept
31. Handles business aspects of show
Empathy
University Wits
Producer
Neoclassicism
32. Body - voice - mind
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33. Collection of mystery plays
Cycles
Auditions
Upstage
Representational
34. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Skene
Romanticism
Plato
Subtext
35. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Sense memory
Proscenium
Avant-Garde
Cycles
36. First director
Conflict
Raked Stage
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
37. Generally rhyming
Off-off-Broadway
Prose
Verse
Antiquarianism
38. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
Dialogue
Designer
Copyright
39. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Neoclassicism
Slapstick
Henrik Ibsen
collaborator
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
Cycles
Stage Manager
Proscenium
Aristotle
41. Body - voice - mind
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42. 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
Broadway
Slapstick
Stage manager
Presentational
43. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Emile Zola
Protagonist
Copyright
Neoclassicism
44. Designs costumes for the show
Stage manager
Proscenium
Costume Designer
Upstage
45. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
collaborator
Chorus
The Orestia
Orchestra
46. 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
Off-off-Broadway
Romantic Theory
Aristotle
Ground plan
47. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Broadway
Aesthetic Distance
Actor's tools
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
48. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Broadway
Mystery Plays
Designer's job
The Orestia
49. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Off-off-Broadway
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Bertolt Brecht
Subplot
50. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Emile Zola
Conflict
Scenic Designer
Types of professional theater