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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. Handles business aspects of show
Producer
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Commedia Dell'Arte
Reversal
2. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Henrik Ibsen
Aristotle
Subtext
Director
3. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Off-off-Broadway
Mystery Plays
Romanticism
Representational
4. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Dramaturg
Rendering
Wings
Protagonist
5. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Vomitories
Alienation Effect
Perspective Scenery
6. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Pageants
Auteur
Antiquarianism
Romantic Theory
7. 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
Ground plan
Downstage
Prose
Eugene Scribe
8. First director
collaborator
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Scenic Designer
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
9. Appearance of truth
Royalty
Romanticism
Eugene Scribe
Verisimilitude
10. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Components of Actor's job
Thespis
Liturgical Drama
Mystery Plays
11. Saint's plays
Designer
Linear Plot
Conflict
Miracle Plays
12. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Aesthetic Distance
Aristophanes
Components of Production
Henrik Ibsen
13. 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
Aeschylus
Antiquarianism
collaborator
14. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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15. Actor in 5th century Greece
Aristotle
Commedia Dell'Arte
Hypokrites
Antiquarianism
16. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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17. 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
Blocking
Romantic Theory
Playwright
Vomitories
18. Scenery
Stage manager
Skene
Off-Broadway
Constantin Stanislavski
19. Directors who operate with total control
Subtext
Director
Ground plan
Auteur
20. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
William Shakespeare
Musical Theatre
Melodrama
sound designer
21. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
The Orestia
The Globe
Protagonist
Commedia Dell'Arte
22. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
sound designer
Costume plot
University Wits
Auditions
23. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Antagonist
Mystery Plays
Plato
24. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Linear Plot
Romantic Theory
Emile Zola
Raked Stage
25. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Auditions
Director
Book musical
Prose
26. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Types of professional theater
Commedia Dell'Arte
Designer's job
Neoclassicism
27. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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28. 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
Romantic Theory
Ground plan
Subplot
Morality Plays
29. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Dionysus
Verisimilitude
Callbacks
Designer
30. 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
Catharsis
Empathy
Raked Stage
Cycles
31. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Variables of costume design
Thespis
Aesthetic Distance
Downstage
32. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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33. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Callbacks
Dramaturg
Broadway
Thrust
34. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Constantin Stanislavski
Off-off-Broadway
Liturgical Drama
Variables of costume design
35. The area farthest away from the audience
Eugene Scribe
The Orestia
Upstage
Costume plot
36. Designs costumes for the show
William Shakespeare
Concept
Director
Costume Designer
37. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Dialogue
Avant-Garde
Aristophanes
Costume Designer
38. When line of action suddenly switches
Reversal
Aesthetic Distance
Perspective Scenery
Costume plot
39. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
William Shakespeare
University Wits
Stage Manager
Thespis
40. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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41. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Skene
Romanticism
Empathy
42. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
University Wits
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Rhetorical Tradition
Black box
43. Handles business aspects of show
Producer
sound designer
Vomitories
Mystery Plays
44. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Ground plan
Designer
The Globe
Arena
45. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Chorus
Antiquarianism
Rhetorical Tradition
Proscenium
46. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Actor's tools
Arena
Types of professional theater
Emile Zola
47. Seats 100-500; professional
Off-Broadway
Stage Manager
lighting designer
Dionysus
48. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
The Globe
Blocking
Book musical
Public Domain
49. 'seeing place'
Proscenium
Theatron
Realism
Neoclassicism
50. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Blocking
Neoclassic unities
Thespis