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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. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Off-off-Broadway
Designer
Antiquarianism
Off-Broadway
2. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Linear Plot
sound designer
Stage manager
Verse
3. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Aristophanes
Director
Linear Plot
Blocking
4. Seats 100-500; professional
Producer
The Globe
Aesthetic Distance
Off-Broadway
5. God of wine and fertility
Concept
Slapstick
Thrust
Dionysus
6. Saint's plays
Auteur
Constantin Stanislavski
Representational
Miracle Plays
7. 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
Ground plan
Costume Designer
The Globe
Realism
8. Historical accuracy
Theatron
Antiquarianism
Romanticism
Presentational
9. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Bertolt Brecht
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Orchestra
10. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Types of professional theater
Emile Zola
Arena
11. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
William Shakespeare
Types of professional theater
Casting Director
Bertolt Brecht
12. Handles business aspects of show
Public Domain
The Orestia
Producer
Director
13. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Types of professional theater
Aristophanes
Representational
Alienation Effect
14. Directors who operate with total control
Plato
Auteur
Stage manager
Musical Theatre
15. Who or what opposes the central character
Vomitories
Antagonist
Playwright
Hypokrites
16. 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
Thrust
Thrust
Proscenium
Empathy
17. Standard tool for casting productions
Auditions
Aeschylus
Cycles
Morality Plays
18. 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
Variables of costume design
Aristophanes
Miracle Plays
Proscenium
19. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
Dramaturg
Aristotle
Reversal
20. 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
Subplot
Romanticism
Realism
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
21. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Concept
Stage Manager
Stage Manager
Casting Director
22. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Romantic Theory
Rendering
Arena
Royalty
23. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Stage manager
Auditions
Conflict
Constantin Stanislavski
24. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
25. The area farthest away from the audience
Playwright
Henrik Ibsen
Pageants
Upstage
26. Secondary line of action
Proscenium
Royalty
Subplot
Auteur
27. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Catharsis
Mystery Plays
Stage manager
Representational
28. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Dionysus
Representational
Thespis
Subtext
29. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Pageants
Designer
Chorus
Front of House
30. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
31. 'dancing space'
Miracle Plays
Orchestra
Aesthetic Distance
Rendering
32. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Prose
Bertolt Brecht
Vomitories
Dramaturg
33. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Off-Broadway
Auteur
Dramaturg
Broadway
34. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Neoclassic unities
Public Domain
Liturgical Drama
Plato
35. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Presentational
Aristotle
Liturgical Drama
The Globe
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
Auditions
Raked Stage
Aristotle
Producer
37. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Arena
Vomitories
Constantin Stanislavski
Melodrama
38. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Ground plan
Representational
Aristotle
Callbacks
39. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Alienation Effect
Royalty
Casting Director
Auteur
40. 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
Auditions
Romanticism
Prose
Perspective Scenery
41. 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.
Sense memory
Raked Stage
Chorus
Verse
42. 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
The Globe
Playwright
Public Domain
43. Physical commedy
Aesthetic Distance
Proscenium
Linear Plot
Slapstick
44. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Aesthetic Distance
Off-off-Broadway
Arena
Proscenium
45. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Realism
The Orestia
Morality Plays
46. 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
Downstage
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Aristophanes
Casting Director
47. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Eugene Scribe
Designer's job
Components of Actor's job
Liturgical Drama
48. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Blocking
Components of Production
Proscenium
49. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Broadway
sound designer
Playwright
Front of House
50. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Components of Actor's job
Conflict
Costume plot
Copyright