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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. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Theatron
Producer
The Globe
2. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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3. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Concept
Designer
Types of professional theater
Romantic Theory
4. 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
Liturgical Drama
Henrik Ibsen
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
5. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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6. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Mystery Plays
Black box
Chorus
Emile Zola
7. Collection of mystery plays
Conflict
Variables of costume design
Empathy
Cycles
8. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Designer's job
Henrik Ibsen
Scenic Designer
Director
9. 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
Black box
The Orestia
Perspective Scenery
Henrik Ibsen
10. 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
Verse
Morality Plays
Book musical
11. Physical commedy
Slapstick
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Bertolt Brecht
Off-Broadway
12. 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
Presentational
Arena
Bertolt Brecht
Scenic Designer
13. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Theatron
Miracle Plays
Blocking
Romanticism
14. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Subtext
Thrust
Hypokrites
lighting designer
15. Was in favor of theater
Avant-Garde
William Shakespeare
Plato
Aristotle
16. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Proscenium
Catharsis
Actor's tools
Skene
17. Historical accuracy
Plato
Antiquarianism
Designer's job
Auditions
18. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Representational
Melodrama
Off-off-Broadway
Public Domain
19. Scenery
Proscenium
Callbacks
The Globe
Skene
20. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Eugene Scribe
Mystery Plays
Conflict
Sense memory
21. When line of action suddenly switches
The Orestia
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Components of Production
Reversal
22. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
The Globe
Director
Rhetorical Tradition
Callbacks
23. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Emile Zola
Conflict
Dramaturg
lighting designer
24. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Blocking
Morality Plays
Bertolt Brecht
Stage manager
25. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Dramaturg
Henrik Ibsen
Aesthetic Distance
Aesthetic Distance
26. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Rhetorical Tradition
Alienation Effect
Off-off-Broadway
Liturgical Drama
27. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Public Domain
collaborator
Components of Production
Emile Zola
28. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Thrust
Chorus
Copyright
Royalty
29. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
University Wits
Proscenium
Skene
30. The area farthest away from the audience
Antagonist
Upstage
Book musical
Director
31. First director
Concept
Costume plot
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Hypokrites
32. Seats 100-500; professional
Verisimilitude
Reversal
Off-Broadway
Components of Production
33. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Perspective Scenery
Presentational
Subtext
Auteur
34. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Off-off-Broadway
Thrust
Auditions
Catharsis
35. Actor in 5th century Greece
Hypokrites
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Liturgical Drama
Arena
36. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Aristotle
Sense memory
Royalty
37. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Off-off-Broadway
Variables of costume design
The Globe
Orchestra
38. 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
Proscenium
Melodrama
Black box
Verse
39. Author of play
Scenic Designer
Perspective Scenery
lighting designer
Playwright
40. Fee for each performance
Emile Zola
Avant-Garde
Royalty
Rendering
41. Actor in 5th century Greece
Dionysus
Bertolt Brecht
Hypokrites
Rhetorical Tradition
42. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Wings
Scenic Designer
Theatron
Director
43. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Mystery Plays
Public Domain
Proscenium
Thespis
44. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Constantin Stanislavski
Representational
Representational
Avant-Garde
45. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
The Globe
William Shakespeare
Sense memory
Verisimilitude
46. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Catharsis
Cycles
Off-off-Broadway
Vomitories
47. Planned actor movement
Royalty
Verisimilitude
The Globe
Blocking
48. God of wine and fertility
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Dionysus
University Wits
William Shakespeare
49. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Wings
Scenic Designer
Chorus
Rendering
50. Designs costumes for the show
Subplot
Front of House
Costume Designer
Director