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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. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Public Domain
Neoclassicism
Subtext
Dramaturg
2. Secondary line of action
Verse
Subplot
Representational
Rhetorical Tradition
3. Who or what opposes the central character
Verse
Constantin Stanislavski
Antagonist
Reversal
4. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Liturgical Drama
Protagonist
Aeschylus
Casting Director
5. Physical commedy
sound designer
Cycles
Skene
Slapstick
6. 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
Bertolt Brecht
Presentational
collaborator
Blocking
7. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Subplot
Thrust
Designer
Vomitories
8. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Plato
Designer
Miracle Plays
Theatron
9. Was in favor of theater
Casting Director
Downstage
Aristotle
Catharsis
10. Director champions intention of playwright
collaborator
Costume Designer
Romantic Theory
Off-Broadway
11. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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12. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Downstage
Book musical
Auteur
Avant-Garde
13. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Alienation Effect
Subtext
Romantic Theory
Stage Manager
14. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Auditions
Designer
Liturgical Drama
15. Handles business aspects of show
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Liturgical Drama
Producer
Aristotle
16. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Black box
Mystery Plays
Musical Theatre
17. 'dancing space'
Vomitories
Blocking
Casting Director
Orchestra
18. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Neoclassic unities
Henrik Ibsen
Sense memory
Concept
19. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Eugene Scribe
Off-off-Broadway
Aristotle
Prose
20. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Aesthetic Distance
Ground plan
Representational
Wings
21. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Thespis
Sense memory
Proscenium
Auditions
22. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
The Orestia
Emile Zola
Costume plot
Stage Manager
23. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Royalty
Proscenium
Designer
24. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Subplot
Romanticism
Broadway
Eugene Scribe
25. 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
Raked Stage
Auditions
Linear Plot
Arena
26. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Blocking
Off-Broadway
Morality Plays
Components of Production
27. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Variables of costume design
Auteur
Director
Copyright
28. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Orchestra
Prose
Prose
29. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Linear Plot
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Off-off-Broadway
Proscenium
30. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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31. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Miracle Plays
sound designer
Royalty
32. 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
Avant-Garde
Realism
Royalty
Playwright
33. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Variables of costume design
Director
Liturgical Drama
Book musical
34. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Commedia Dell'Arte
Director
Alienation Effect
Designer's job
35. 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
Commedia Dell'Arte
Catharsis
Prose
Ground plan
36. Action - place - time
Alienation Effect
Antagonist
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Neoclassic unities
37. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Morality Plays
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Playwright
Callbacks
38. Greatest dramatist of all time
Actor's tools
William Shakespeare
Antagonist
Neoclassicism
39. Sentences/paragraph structure
Stage Manager
Broadway
Auteur
Prose
40. Collection of mystery plays
Cycles
Antiquarianism
Aesthetic Distance
Miracle Plays
41. Designs costumes for the show
Rendering
collaborator
Costume Designer
Aristophanes
42. 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
Orchestra
Ground plan
Theatron
Downstage
43. 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
Vomitories
Chorus
Proscenium
44. Sentences/paragraph structure
Prose
Antiquarianism
Director
Casting Director
45. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Cycles
Auteur
Thespis
Liturgical Drama
46. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Orchestra
Vomitories
Miracle Plays
47. Handles business aspects of show
Rendering
Conflict
Off-off-Broadway
Producer
48. Saint's plays
University Wits
Miracle Plays
Dionysus
Thespis
49. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Perspective Scenery
Miracle Plays
Variables of costume design
Reversal
50. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Auditions
Proscenium
Empathy
Dramaturg