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Theatre Appreciation 2
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1. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Aristotle
Subtext
Dramaturg
2. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Eugene Scribe
Director
sound designer
collaborator
3. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Musical Theatre
Aeschylus
The Globe
4. Spoken words
Ground plan
Antiquarianism
Dialogue
Public Domain
5. 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
Front of House
Perspective Scenery
Components of Production
Subtext
6. Creates a visual home for the play
Realism
Chorus
Proscenium
Scenic Designer
7. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Stage manager
Bertolt Brecht
Off-off-Broadway
Off-Broadway
8. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Theatron
Aeschylus
Arena
Types of professional theater
9. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Verse
Neoclassicism
Verse
10. 'dancing space'
collaborator
Stage manager
Orchestra
Reversal
11. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Proscenium
Romanticism
Melodrama
Off-off-Broadway
12. Author of play
Pageants
Playwright
Reversal
University Wits
13. God of wine and fertility
Presentational
Director
Protagonist
Dionysus
14. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Perspective Scenery
Aesthetic Distance
Antiquarianism
Subplot
15. Greatest dramatist of all time
Sense memory
Morality Plays
Actor's tools
William Shakespeare
16. 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
Henrik Ibsen
Ground plan
Types of professional theater
Hypokrites
17. Director champions intention of playwright
Concept
Skene
Perspective Scenery
collaborator
18. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Protagonist
Casting Director
University Wits
Prose
19. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Producer
Designer's job
Eugene Scribe
Morality Plays
20. 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
Realism
Public Domain
Reversal
Downstage
21. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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22. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Reversal
collaborator
Copyright
Aeschylus
23. 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
Casting Director
sound designer
Stage manager
24. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Bertolt Brecht
Blocking
Thrust
Morality Plays
25. Collection of mystery plays
Costume Designer
Cycles
Thespis
Verse
26. Was in favor of theater
Aristotle
University Wits
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Public Domain
27. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Prose
Rhetorical Tradition
Catharsis
Theatron
28. The area farthest away from the audience
Orchestra
Avant-Garde
Cycles
Upstage
29. 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
Subplot
Linear Plot
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
30. Designs costumes for the show
Casting Director
Antiquarianism
Broadway
Costume Designer
31. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Eugene Scribe
Costume plot
Romanticism
32. Planned actor movement
Bertolt Brecht
Alienation Effect
Subtext
Blocking
33. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Auditions
Black box
Callbacks
Avant-Garde
34. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Playwright
Presentational
Raked Stage
35. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Neoclassic unities
Constantin Stanislavski
Plato
36. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Rhetorical Tradition
Conflict
Book musical
Representational
37. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Stage manager
Orchestra
Liturgical Drama
Downstage
38. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Perspective Scenery
Skene
Director
39. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Dionysus
Perspective Scenery
Proscenium
Wings
40. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Rendering
Perspective Scenery
Producer
41. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
collaborator
Catharsis
Front of House
Conflict
42. Designs costumes for the show
Bertolt Brecht
Eugene Scribe
Slapstick
Costume Designer
43. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Components of Production
Black box
Playwright
Off-off-Broadway
44. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aesthetic Distance
Aristophanes
Ground plan
Front of House
45. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Eugene Scribe
collaborator
Stage Manager
Linear Plot
46. God of wine and fertility
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Dionysus
Costume Designer
Rendering
47. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Musical Theatre
Proscenium
Romantic Theory
Empathy
48. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Black box
Pageants
Variables of costume design
Catharsis
49. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
sound designer
Melodrama
Designer
Realism
50. Who or what opposes the central character
Components of Production
Antagonist
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Scenic Designer
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