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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. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Components of Production
Copyright
Subtext
2. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Callbacks
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
collaborator
Off-off-Broadway
3. Author of play
Playwright
Dramaturg
lighting designer
Proscenium
4. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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5. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Playwright
Rhetorical Tradition
Representational
Thrust
6. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
Components of Production
Melodrama
Musical Theatre
7. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Arena
Stage Manager
Skene
Aristophanes
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
Costume Designer
Ground plan
Sense memory
Catharsis
9. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Wings
Variables of costume design
Subtext
Stage Manager
10. Action - place - time
Stage Manager
Neoclassic unities
Dramaturg
Arena
11. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
The Globe
Conflict
lighting designer
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
12. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
sound designer
Proscenium
Casting Director
Avant-Garde
13. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Designer
Sense memory
Dramaturg
Callbacks
14. Greatest dramatist of all time
William Shakespeare
Romantic Theory
Raked Stage
Commedia Dell'Arte
15. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Slapstick
Wings
Raked Stage
16. 'dancing space'
Perspective Scenery
Verisimilitude
Orchestra
The Orestia
17. The area farthest away from the audience
Proscenium
Upstage
Stage Manager
Avant-Garde
18. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Musical Theatre
Designer's job
Thrust
Sense memory
19. Collection of mystery plays
Cycles
Components of Actor's job
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Perspective Scenery
20. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Realism
Mystery Plays
Off-Broadway
Proscenium
21. When line of action suddenly switches
Broadway
Reversal
Bertolt Brecht
Royalty
22. 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.
Dionysus
Director
Chorus
Commedia Dell'Arte
23. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Costume plot
Callbacks
Public Domain
lighting designer
24. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
Hypokrites
Theatron
Rendering
25. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Raked Stage
Empathy
Orchestra
Book musical
26. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Alienation Effect
Black box
Designer
Director
27. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Prose
Constantin Stanislavski
Broadway
Thespis
28. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Black box
Avant-Garde
Chorus
Royalty
29. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Slapstick
Cycles
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Casting Director
30. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Constantin Stanislavski
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Subplot
Scenic Designer
31. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Front of House
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Eugene Scribe
Costume plot
32. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Public Domain
Callbacks
Presentational
Neoclassic unities
33. 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
Producer
The Orestia
34. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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35. Creates a visual home for the play
Scenic Designer
Rendering
Orchestra
Proscenium
36. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Blocking
Arena
Bertolt Brecht
Blocking
37. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Costume plot
Plato
Costume plot
38. Generally rhyming
Prose
Morality Plays
Verse
Subplot
39. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Realism
University Wits
Presentational
sound designer
40. Saint's plays
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Miracle Plays
lighting designer
Designer's job
41. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Subplot
Rhetorical Tradition
Catharsis
42. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Subplot
Aesthetic Distance
Types of professional theater
Presentational
43. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
University Wits
Aesthetic Distance
Concept
Dionysus
44. God of wine and fertility
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Stage manager
Representational
Dionysus
45. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Public Domain
Blocking
Miracle Plays
Aesthetic Distance
46. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Wings
Director
Emile Zola
Raked Stage
47. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Slapstick
Stage manager
University Wits
Aristophanes
48. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Constantin Stanislavski
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Proscenium
Orchestra
49. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Catharsis
Romanticism
Presentational
Blocking
50. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Miracle Plays
Rhetorical Tradition
Reversal
Front of House