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Theatre Appreciation 2
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Director
The Globe
Verse
Aesthetic Distance
2. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
collaborator
Variables of costume design
Rhetorical Tradition
Thespis
3. Historical accuracy
Realism
Types of professional theater
Antiquarianism
Skene
4. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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5. Collection of mystery plays
Copyright
Proscenium
sound designer
Cycles
6. Sentences/paragraph structure
Proscenium
Prose
Emile Zola
Representational
7. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
Book musical
Plato
Off-Broadway
8. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Callbacks
Wings
Broadway
Scenic Designer
9. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Neoclassic unities
Liturgical Drama
Off-off-Broadway
Director
10. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Thespis
Emile Zola
Conflict
Dionysus
11. Saint's plays
Antagonist
Types of professional theater
Wings
Miracle Plays
12. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Casting Director
Commedia Dell'Arte
Sense memory
sound designer
13. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Costume plot
Musical Theatre
Dialogue
sound designer
14. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Book musical
Henrik Ibsen
Constantin Stanislavski
Aristophanes
15. Action - place - time
Book musical
Henrik Ibsen
Neoclassic unities
Designer
16. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Scenic Designer
Black box
Components of Production
Catharsis
17. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Black box
Representational
Rendering
Arena
18. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Melodrama
Costume Designer
Thrust
Variables of costume design
19. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Subtext
collaborator
Representational
Protagonist
20. Planned actor movement
Plato
Blocking
Concept
Book musical
21. 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
Costume plot
Wings
Presentational
22. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Cycles
Linear Plot
Thrust
23. 'dancing space'
Arena
Designer
Orchestra
Hypokrites
24. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Designer
Melodrama
Sense memory
Prose
25. Was in favor of theater
Aristotle
Eugene Scribe
Conflict
Arena
26. 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
Thespis
Presentational
Dialogue
Copyright
27. The area farthest away from the audience
Reversal
Casting Director
Morality Plays
Upstage
28. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Skene
Liturgical Drama
Sense memory
Auteur
29. Scenery
Constantin Stanislavski
Skene
Casting Director
Orchestra
30. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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31. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Chorus
Casting Director
Public Domain
Representational
32. Greatest dramatist of all time
Off-off-Broadway
William Shakespeare
Melodrama
Neoclassic unities
33. Appearance of truth
Neoclassic unities
Costume Designer
Royalty
Verisimilitude
34. First director
Representational
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Reversal
Royalty
35. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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36. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Miracle Plays
The Orestia
Realism
Ground plan
37. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Vomitories
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Antiquarianism
38. Who or what opposes the central character
Henrik Ibsen
Stage manager
Stage manager
Antagonist
39. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Rendering
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
The Orestia
Thespis
40. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Blocking
Empathy
William Shakespeare
41. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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42. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Protagonist
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Realism
Sense memory
43. When line of action suddenly switches
Off-Broadway
Protagonist
Reversal
The Orestia
44. First director
Scenic Designer
Conflict
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Designer's job
45. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
sound designer
Constantin Stanislavski
Realism
Off-Broadway
46. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Dialogue
Subplot
Catharsis
Thespis
47. Planned actor movement
Director
Theatron
Blocking
Stage Manager
48. Director champions intention of playwright
William Shakespeare
Rendering
collaborator
Components of Actor's job
49. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Aesthetic Distance
Subtext
Arena
50. The area farthest away from the audience
Upstage
Conflict
Designer
Romanticism