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Theatre Appreciation 2
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Linear Plot
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Downstage
Pageants
2. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Verisimilitude
Casting Director
Blocking
Verisimilitude
3. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Subtext
Bertolt Brecht
Pageants
Playwright
4. 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
Catharsis
Actor's tools
Reversal
Proscenium
5. Appearance of truth
Aristophanes
Representational
Neoclassicism
Verisimilitude
6. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
University Wits
Director
sound designer
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
7. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Front of House
Theatron
8. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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9. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Representational
Concept
Neoclassicism
Eugene Scribe
10. Spoken words
Dionysus
University Wits
Dialogue
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
11. Greatest dramatist of all time
Director
William Shakespeare
Copyright
Arena
12. The area farthest away from the audience
Front of House
Upstage
Perspective Scenery
Subtext
13. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Concept
Perspective Scenery
Types of professional theater
Arena
14. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Commedia Dell'Arte
Pageants
Arena
University Wits
15. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aristophanes
Auteur
Off-Broadway
Representational
16. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Morality Plays
Constantin Stanislavski
Costume Designer
17. 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
Dialogue
Rhetorical Tradition
Callbacks
Ground plan
18. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Theatron
Thrust
Neoclassic unities
19. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Proscenium
Off-Broadway
Variables of costume design
The Orestia
20. 'dancing space'
Avant-Garde
Orchestra
Slapstick
Linear Plot
21. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Mystery Plays
Sense memory
Aristotle
Types of professional theater
22. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Actor's tools
Royalty
Arena
Liturgical Drama
23. When line of action suddenly switches
Linear Plot
Eugene Scribe
Reversal
Dionysus
24. Central character
Types of professional theater
Empathy
Designer's job
Protagonist
25. Was in favor of theater
Sense memory
Aristotle
The Globe
Skene
26. Secondary line of action
Subplot
Ground plan
Avant-Garde
Components of Production
27. Directors who operate with total control
Romanticism
Proscenium
Auteur
sound designer
28. Who or what opposes the central character
Dialogue
Theatron
Antagonist
Constantin Stanislavski
29. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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30. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Prose
Scenic Designer
Conflict
31. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Subtext
Constantin Stanislavski
Liturgical Drama
Conflict
32. Greatest dramatist of all time
Copyright
Components of Production
William Shakespeare
Neoclassicism
33. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Director
Raked Stage
sound designer
34. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Components of Production
Romanticism
Callbacks
35. 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
Antiquarianism
Romantic Theory
Conflict
Vomitories
36. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Musical Theatre
lighting designer
Black box
Henrik Ibsen
37. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Perspective Scenery
Musical Theatre
Romantic Theory
Commedia Dell'Arte
38. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Aristophanes
Subtext
Pageants
Rendering
39. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Pageants
Morality Plays
Protagonist
Neoclassic unities
40. 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
Raked Stage
Thrust
Commedia Dell'Arte
Bertolt Brecht
41. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Vomitories
Catharsis
Verisimilitude
collaborator
42. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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43. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Raked Stage
Producer
Eugene Scribe
Callbacks
44. God of wine and fertility
lighting designer
Hypokrites
Dionysus
Concept
45. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Aristophanes
Upstage
Eugene Scribe
Morality Plays
46. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Representational
Thespis
47. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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48. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Vomitories
Arena
Realism
Ground plan
49. Directors who operate with total control
Rhetorical Tradition
Auteur
Public Domain
Aristotle
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.
Proscenium
Scenic Designer
Dramaturg
Raked Stage