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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. Body - voice - mind
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2. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Concept
Aesthetic Distance
Royalty
Linear Plot
3. Designs costumes for the show
Ground plan
Designer's job
Linear Plot
Costume Designer
4. 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
Henrik Ibsen
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Stage Manager
Ground plan
5. Appearance of truth
Auditions
Casting Director
Mystery Plays
Verisimilitude
6. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Liturgical Drama
Aristophanes
Upstage
Auditions
7. 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
Wings
lighting designer
The Globe
Presentational
8. Directors who operate with total control
Aeschylus
Romantic Theory
Auteur
Skene
9. 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.
Upstage
Proscenium
Bertolt Brecht
Chorus
10. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
The Globe
Dialogue
Thespis
Playwright
11. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Miracle Plays
Dialogue
Conflict
Thrust
12. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Variables of costume design
lighting designer
Prose
Commedia Dell'Arte
13. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
Wings
Auditions
Vomitories
14. Spoken words
Antiquarianism
Aeschylus
Dialogue
Callbacks
15. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
collaborator
Subtext
Ground plan
sound designer
16. Was in favor of theater
Aristotle
Catharsis
Auteur
Mystery Plays
17. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
lighting designer
Proscenium
Thespis
Dramaturg
18. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Neoclassic unities
Playwright
Auteur
Thrust
19. Designs costumes for the show
Aeschylus
Romantic Theory
Miracle Plays
Costume Designer
20. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Wings
Avant-Garde
Emile Zola
21. Physical commedy
Concept
Chorus
Slapstick
William Shakespeare
22. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Book musical
sound designer
Conflict
Pageants
23. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Alienation Effect
Aristotle
Antiquarianism
Antagonist
24. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Director
Aesthetic Distance
Liturgical Drama
Constantin Stanislavski
25. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Hypokrites
Auditions
Callbacks
Presentational
26. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Catharsis
Public Domain
Conflict
Antiquarianism
27. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Costume plot
Components of Production
Callbacks
Emile Zola
28. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Subplot
Upstage
Stage Manager
Mystery Plays
29. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Arena
Upstage
Black box
Morality Plays
30. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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31. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Costume plot
Mystery Plays
Designer's job
Thespis
32. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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33. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Aesthetic Distance
Playwright
Wings
Aristophanes
34. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Neoclassic unities
Proscenium
Vomitories
Slapstick
35. Planned actor movement
Reversal
Blocking
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Bertolt Brecht
36. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Plato
The Globe
Commedia Dell'Arte
Aristophanes
37. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Hypokrites
Rendering
Designer
38. Creates a visual home for the play
Romanticism
Scenic Designer
Designer
Upstage
39. Directors who operate with total control
collaborator
Auteur
Skene
Black box
40. Central character
Musical Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Protagonist
Romanticism
41. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Pageants
sound designer
Costume Designer
Black box
42. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Orchestra
Broadway
Costume Designer
43. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Prose
Presentational
Designer's job
Henrik Ibsen
44. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Blocking
Melodrama
Romanticism
Components of Actor's job
45. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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46. Changeable scenery for specific plays (tragedies - comedies - pastoral tragicomedies). Appeared as early as 1508 and standardized approaches to such scenery were popularized by Sebastian Serlio. Ex: Wings - flats
Perspective Scenery
Auditions
lighting designer
Antiquarianism
47. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Off-off-Broadway
Variables of costume design
Components of Production
Slapstick
48. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Vomitories
Copyright
Black box
Director
49. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Henrik Ibsen
Front of House
Director
Dialogue
50. 'seeing place'
Aristophanes
Theatron
Off-off-Broadway
Musical Theatre