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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. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Catharsis
Subtext
University Wits
Constantin Stanislavski
2. Was in favor of theater
Representational
Rendering
Aristotle
Proscenium
3. 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
Eugene Scribe
Verisimilitude
Presentational
Actor's tools
4. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Neoclassicism
Subplot
Dramaturg
Theatron
5. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Neoclassicism
Ground plan
Alienation Effect
Variables of costume design
6. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Downstage
Front of House
Eugene Scribe
Constantin Stanislavski
7. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Plato
Actor's tools
Designer
8. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Raked Stage
Variables of costume design
Auditions
Mystery Plays
9. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Representational
Prose
Rendering
Eugene Scribe
10. 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
Rendering
Commedia Dell'Arte
Raked Stage
Realism
11. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Hypokrites
Eugene Scribe
Verisimilitude
Proscenium
12. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Theatron
Thespis
Sense memory
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
13. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Neoclassic unities
Musical Theatre
Stage manager
14. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Romantic Theory
Upstage
Off-Broadway
The Globe
15. 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
Subplot
Presentational
William Shakespeare
Henrik Ibsen
16. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Components of Production
Off-off-Broadway
Scenic Designer
17. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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18. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Designer
Vomitories
Producer
Proscenium
19. Greatest dramatist of all time
The Globe
Scenic Designer
William Shakespeare
Sense memory
20. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Upstage
Plato
Cycles
Director
21. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Antiquarianism
Concept
Royalty
Commedia Dell'Arte
22. Scenery
Actor's tools
Skene
sound designer
Components of Actor's job
23. Fee for each performance
Broadway
The Orestia
Royalty
Director
24. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Chorus
The Orestia
Emile Zola
Miracle Plays
25. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Thespis
Blocking
Verisimilitude
26. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Hypokrites
Auteur
Representational
27. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Wings
Mystery Plays
Royalty
Arena
28. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Prose
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Eugene Scribe
Designer's job
29. Appearance of truth
Verse
Verisimilitude
Theatron
Callbacks
30. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Miracle Plays
Rendering
Concept
Rendering
31. Central character
Protagonist
Melodrama
Pageants
Neoclassicism
32. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Arena
Linear Plot
Romanticism
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
33. When line of action suddenly switches
Auditions
Producer
Designer
Reversal
34. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Reversal
Verisimilitude
Copyright
lighting designer
35. Generally rhyming
Costume Designer
Director
Verse
Henrik Ibsen
36. Secondary line of action
Designer
Auteur
Subplot
Front of House
37. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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38. Planned actor movement
Linear Plot
Blocking
Miracle Plays
Proscenium
39. Designs costumes for the show
Representational
Costume Designer
collaborator
Prose
40. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Verisimilitude
Royalty
Aesthetic Distance
41. Director champions intention of playwright
collaborator
Proscenium
Emile Zola
Aesthetic Distance
42. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Blocking
Plato
Auteur
43. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
The Globe
Bertolt Brecht
Proscenium
44. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Vomitories
Raked Stage
Plato
45. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Public Domain
Proscenium
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
46. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Cycles
Scenic Designer
Avant-Garde
Designer
47. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Romantic Theory
Stage Manager
Aristophanes
48. Collection of mystery plays
Aristophanes
sound designer
Henrik Ibsen
Cycles
49. Attempts to represent reality on stage
University Wits
Representational
Morality Plays
Skene
50. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Downstage
Aristotle
Front of House
Reversal