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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. Central character
Mystery Plays
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Broadway
Protagonist
2. Action - place - time
William Shakespeare
Neoclassic unities
Upstage
Wings
3. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Aeschylus
Conflict
Avant-Garde
Scenic Designer
4. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Bertolt Brecht
Representational
Aesthetic Distance
Auditions
5. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
William Shakespeare
Book musical
Linear Plot
Subplot
6. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Dialogue
Subplot
Components of Actor's job
Plato
7. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
The Orestia
Emile Zola
Callbacks
Neoclassic unities
8. God of wine and fertility
Wings
Neoclassic unities
Dialogue
Dionysus
9. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Producer
Hypokrites
collaborator
10. 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
Black box
The Globe
Proscenium
Neoclassic unities
11. Sentences/paragraph structure
Slapstick
Prose
Neoclassic unities
Reversal
12. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Realism
Concept
Rhetorical Tradition
Off-off-Broadway
13. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Romantic Theory
Presentational
Subplot
Callbacks
14. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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15. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Front of House
Scenic Designer
Conflict
16. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Prose
Raked Stage
University Wits
Upstage
17. Body - voice - mind
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18. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Components of Actor's job
Aesthetic Distance
Linear Plot
Romantic Theory
19. When line of action suddenly switches
Linear Plot
Romantic Theory
Auditions
Reversal
20. Who or what opposes the central character
Cycles
Antagonist
Costume Designer
Realism
21. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Director
Public Domain
Hypokrites
Presentational
22. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Slapstick
Miracle Plays
Aesthetic Distance
23. Planned actor movement
Thespis
Antagonist
Upstage
Blocking
24. Central character
Casting Director
Protagonist
Empathy
Eugene Scribe
25. 'dancing space'
Dramaturg
Orchestra
Designer
Actor's tools
26. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Director
Subtext
Avant-Garde
Off-Broadway
27. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Playwright
Catharsis
Aristophanes
Pageants
28. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Stage Manager
Sense memory
collaborator
Casting Director
29. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Playwright
Director
Romantic Theory
Catharsis
30. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Royalty
University Wits
Casting Director
Downstage
31. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Callbacks
Commedia Dell'Arte
Front of House
William Shakespeare
32. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Constantin Stanislavski
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
The Orestia
Off-off-Broadway
33. First director
Presentational
Alienation Effect
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Skene
34. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Orchestra
Proscenium
Auditions
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
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
Casting Director
Aeschylus
Romantic Theory
University Wits
36. 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
Plato
Miracle Plays
Raked Stage
Auteur
37. Director champions intention of playwright
Blocking
Conflict
collaborator
The Globe
38. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Rendering
The Globe
Designer
Aesthetic Distance
39. 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
Director
Protagonist
Realism
Aesthetic Distance
40. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Hypokrites
Producer
Dramaturg
Components of Production
41. Author of play
Broadway
Front of House
Playwright
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
42. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Protagonist
Proscenium
Auteur
Arena
43. Collection of mystery plays
Cycles
Wings
Sense memory
Melodrama
44. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Arena
Orchestra
Constantin Stanislavski
Empathy
45. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Playwright
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Proscenium
Romanticism
46. Standard tool for casting productions
Components of Actor's job
Concept
Alienation Effect
Auditions
47. Historical accuracy
Representational
Dramaturg
Antiquarianism
Aristophanes
48. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Verse
Musical Theatre
Catharsis
Emile Zola
49. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Verse
Director
Raked Stage
50. 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
Sense memory
Director
Components of Actor's job
Raked Stage