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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. Collection of mystery plays
Aesthetic Distance
Cycles
Protagonist
Aristotle
2. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Rhetorical Tradition
Callbacks
Arena
Commedia Dell'Arte
3. Author of play
Playwright
Types of professional theater
Aristotle
University Wits
4. First director
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Proscenium
Auditions
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
5. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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6. 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
Antiquarianism
Ground plan
Copyright
Romanticism
7. Spoken words
Perspective Scenery
Dialogue
Empathy
Wings
8. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Components of Actor's job
Black box
Ground plan
9. Actor in 5th century Greece
Vomitories
Hypokrites
The Orestia
Skene
10. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aesthetic Distance
Realism
Dionysus
11. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Neoclassic unities
Commedia Dell'Arte
The Orestia
Chorus
12. Creates a visual home for the play
Neoclassic unities
Scenic Designer
Rhetorical Tradition
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
13. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
sound designer
Presentational
Conflict
Aristophanes
14. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Concept
Blocking
Bertolt Brecht
Thrust
15. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Front of House
Reversal
Neoclassicism
Scenic Designer
16. Scenery
Components of Actor's job
Antagonist
Representational
Skene
17. Greatest dramatist of all time
William Shakespeare
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Stage Manager
Off-off-Broadway
18. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Royalty
Presentational
Neoclassicism
Perspective Scenery
19. Physical commedy
collaborator
Slapstick
Components of Production
Protagonist
20. 'dancing space'
Costume plot
Protagonist
Orchestra
Dialogue
21. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Musical Theatre
Melodrama
Presentational
Stage Manager
22. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Costume Designer
Rhetorical Tradition
Emile Zola
Proscenium
23. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Cycles
Eugene Scribe
William Shakespeare
Representational
24. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Aeschylus
Neoclassicism
Proscenium
Henrik Ibsen
25. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Types of professional theater
Conflict
Romantic Theory
26. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
The Globe
Vomitories
Prose
Designer
27. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Liturgical Drama
Conflict
Royalty
Playwright
28. The stage area closest to the audience; on the raked stage of the Renaissance theatres - the stage literally sloped downward as it got closer to the audience
Neoclassicism
Downstage
Antiquarianism
Representational
29. Standard tool for casting productions
Ground plan
Blocking
Mystery Plays
Auditions
30. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Commedia Dell'Arte
Copyright
Subplot
Dionysus
31. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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32. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Verisimilitude
University Wits
Antagonist
33. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Alienation Effect
Catharsis
Chorus
Henrik Ibsen
34. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Concept
Ground plan
Conflict
35. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Prose
Skene
Pageants
Blocking
36. Appearance of truth
Dramaturg
Neoclassicism
Musical Theatre
Verisimilitude
37. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Bertolt Brecht
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Costume Designer
Aesthetic Distance
38. Who or what opposes the central character
Plato
Hypokrites
Antagonist
Avant-Garde
39. 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
Dialogue
Perspective Scenery
Front of House
40. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Commedia Dell'Arte
Public Domain
Antagonist
41. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Wings
Prose
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
The Globe
42. 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
Designer
Presentational
Musical Theatre
Public Domain
43. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Orchestra
Director
Aristotle
Ground plan
44. 'seeing place'
Morality Plays
Pageants
Plato
Theatron
45. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Stage Manager
Dramaturg
Scenic Designer
46. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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47. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Callbacks
Miracle Plays
University Wits
48. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Black box
Designer
Book musical
49. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Alienation Effect
Variables of costume design
The Globe
Callbacks
50. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Designer's job
Melodrama
Romanticism