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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. Greatest dramatist of all time
Concept
lighting designer
Front of House
William Shakespeare
2. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Black box
Rendering
Subtext
Empathy
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
Reversal
Actor's tools
Casting Director
Presentational
4. Generally rhyming
Avant-Garde
Actor's tools
Types of professional theater
Verse
5. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Thrust
Aesthetic Distance
Skene
Vomitories
6. Fee for each performance
Neoclassic unities
Off-Broadway
Raked Stage
Royalty
7. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Producer
Musical Theatre
Auditions
collaborator
8. 'dancing space'
Antagonist
Orchestra
Copyright
Aesthetic Distance
9. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Subplot
lighting designer
Auteur
Avant-Garde
10. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Liturgical Drama
Producer
Presentational
Romanticism
11. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Romanticism
Representational
Casting Director
Proscenium
12. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Royalty
Casting Director
Designer
Off-off-Broadway
13. 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.
Components of Production
Designer's job
Aesthetic Distance
Chorus
14. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Playwright
Subtext
Raked Stage
15. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Dramaturg
Front of House
Plato
Arena
16. Standard tool for casting productions
Dionysus
Director
Auditions
Off-Broadway
17. 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.
Chorus
Book musical
Subtext
Neoclassic unities
18. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Musical Theatre
Perspective Scenery
Components of Production
Copyright
19. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Cycles
Dramaturg
Scenic Designer
Avant-Garde
20. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Actor's tools
Off-Broadway
Components of Production
Off-Broadway
21. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Raked Stage
Thrust
Conflict
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
22. 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
Realism
Skene
Verse
Aesthetic Distance
23. 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
Romantic Theory
Broadway
Proscenium
Reversal
24. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Variables of costume design
Plato
collaborator
Reversal
25. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Empathy
Costume Designer
Cycles
Variables of costume design
26. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aristophanes
Catharsis
Aesthetic Distance
Melodrama
27. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Designer's job
Liturgical Drama
Copyright
Hypokrites
28. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Morality Plays
Commedia Dell'Arte
Dialogue
29. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
lighting designer
Rendering
Avant-Garde
Henrik Ibsen
30. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Broadway
Raked Stage
Thespis
Stage Manager
31. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Auditions
Designer
Components of Production
Copyright
32. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Henrik Ibsen
Alienation Effect
Dramaturg
Representational
33. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Off-Broadway
Verisimilitude
Types of professional theater
Raked Stage
34. 'dancing space'
Orchestra
Eugene Scribe
Representational
Upstage
35. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Henrik Ibsen
Mystery Plays
Costume plot
William Shakespeare
36. Saint's plays
Miracle Plays
Thespis
Copyright
Rhetorical Tradition
37. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Book musical
Broadway
Aristophanes
Playwright
38. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Black box
Realism
Raked Stage
Scenic Designer
39. Seats 100-500; professional
Front of House
University Wits
Off-Broadway
The Orestia
40. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Romanticism
Director
lighting designer
Aristotle
41. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Protagonist
Romanticism
collaborator
Front of House
42. Director champions intention of playwright
Thrust
Aristotle
collaborator
Henrik Ibsen
43. Actor in 5th century Greece
Broadway
Verse
Hypokrites
Neoclassicism
44. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Miracle Plays
Neoclassic unities
Alienation Effect
45. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Casting Director
Mystery Plays
Eugene Scribe
46. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Thespis
Antiquarianism
Stage manager
47. Who or what opposes the central character
Antagonist
Catharsis
Rendering
Melodrama
48. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Black box
Thespis
Types of professional theater
Callbacks
49. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Empathy
Concept
Stage manager
Callbacks
50. Was in favor of theater
Romanticism
Downstage
Dramaturg
Aristotle