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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Royalty
Arena
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
The Globe
2. First director
Liturgical Drama
Alienation Effect
Emile Zola
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
3. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Presentational
Neoclassicism
Variables of costume design
Subtext
4. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Subplot
The Orestia
University Wits
Aristophanes
5. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Antiquarianism
Proscenium
William Shakespeare
Conflict
6. Greatest dramatist of all time
Reversal
William Shakespeare
Costume Designer
Black box
7. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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8. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
Raked Stage
Components of Production
Director
9. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Aristophanes
Neoclassicism
Bertolt Brecht
Components of Actor's job
10. Spoken words
Melodrama
Dialogue
Protagonist
Avant-Garde
11. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Subtext
Vomitories
Broadway
Proscenium
12. Seats 100-500; professional
Miracle Plays
Director
Off-Broadway
Public Domain
13. 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
Avant-Garde
Ground plan
Neoclassic unities
Stage manager
14. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Prose
Copyright
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Romantic Theory
15. Physical commedy
Slapstick
Theatron
Blocking
Front of House
16. Standard tool for casting productions
Skene
Casting Director
Proscenium
Auditions
17. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Verse
Emile Zola
Off-off-Broadway
18. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Stage Manager
Black box
Empathy
Bertolt Brecht
19. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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20. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Aesthetic Distance
University Wits
Producer
Romanticism
21. Planned actor movement
Designer
Producer
Conflict
Blocking
22. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Constantin Stanislavski
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Dramaturg
Off-Broadway
23. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Subplot
Conflict
Avant-Garde
The Globe
24. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Mystery Plays
Cycles
Antiquarianism
Plato
25. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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26. 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
Off-Broadway
Costume Designer
Liturgical Drama
Ground plan
27. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Stage Manager
Callbacks
Copyright
Bertolt Brecht
28. Secondary line of action
Subplot
Black box
Designer
Callbacks
29. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Aesthetic Distance
Front of House
Auteur
Thrust
30. Generally rhyming
Playwright
Realism
University Wits
Verse
31. Body - voice - mind
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32. Seats 500-1800; professional.
sound designer
Verisimilitude
Orchestra
Broadway
33. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Subplot
Upstage
Aristotle
Arena
34. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Book musical
Empathy
Director
Melodrama
35. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Broadway
Musical Theatre
Casting Director
Eugene Scribe
36. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Mystery Plays
The Orestia
Plato
Catharsis
37. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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38. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Skene
Linear Plot
Auteur
Designer's job
39. 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
Off-off-Broadway
The Orestia
Subplot
Downstage
40. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Director
Verse
Representational
Eugene Scribe
41. The area farthest away from the audience
Cycles
Upstage
Royalty
Blocking
42. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Dramaturg
Reversal
Henrik Ibsen
43. Saint's plays
Royalty
Verse
Miracle Plays
Components of Production
44. Director champions intention of playwright
Ground plan
Verisimilitude
Front of House
collaborator
45. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aristophanes
Proscenium
Aesthetic Distance
Perspective Scenery
46. Creates a visual home for the play
Copyright
William Shakespeare
Linear Plot
Scenic Designer
47. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Linear Plot
Components of Actor's job
Eugene Scribe
Vomitories
48. 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
Dionysus
Romanticism
Neoclassicism
49. 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
Orchestra
Romantic Theory
Subtext
Perspective Scenery
50. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Cycles
Subtext
Empathy
Auditions
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