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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Producer
Director
Commedia Dell'Arte
Aristophanes
2. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Front of House
Dramaturg
Romanticism
Neoclassic unities
3. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Thespis
Black box
Raked Stage
Protagonist
4. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Casting Director
Variables of costume design
Costume plot
Aeschylus
5. Scenery
Components of Actor's job
Blocking
Hypokrites
Skene
6. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Off-off-Broadway
Director
Designer's job
Thespis
7. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Dramaturg
Rendering
Eugene Scribe
Costume Designer
8. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Dramaturg
Components of Production
Presentational
9. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
The Globe
Realism
Linear Plot
Copyright
10. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Types of professional theater
The Orestia
Melodrama
11. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
Romanticism
Verisimilitude
Romanticism
lighting designer
12. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
13. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Liturgical Drama
University Wits
Protagonist
14. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Neoclassic unities
Antiquarianism
Plato
Slapstick
15. 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
The Orestia
Perspective Scenery
sound designer
Reversal
16. Scenery
Liturgical Drama
Rhetorical Tradition
Subtext
Skene
17. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Melodrama
Costume plot
Conflict
Raked Stage
18. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Arena
Emile Zola
Rendering
Components of Production
19. Director champions intention of playwright
Antagonist
Subplot
collaborator
Book musical
20. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Actor's tools
Ground plan
Protagonist
Stage Manager
21. 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
Dramaturg
Aristotle
Chorus
Proscenium
22. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Vomitories
Alienation Effect
Aesthetic Distance
Catharsis
23. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
William Shakespeare
Dramaturg
Skene
Scenic Designer
24. Body - voice - mind
25. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
26. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Types of professional theater
Linear Plot
Dionysus
Stage Manager
27. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Thrust
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Neoclassic unities
Ground plan
28. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
29. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Copyright
Emile Zola
Subtext
Rhetorical Tradition
30. 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
Producer
Broadway
Ground plan
Costume Designer
31. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Black box
Director
The Orestia
Presentational
32. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Verisimilitude
Orchestra
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
33. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Off-off-Broadway
Verisimilitude
Avant-Garde
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
34. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Neoclassicism
Hypokrites
Constantin Stanislavski
Aristophanes
35. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Types of professional theater
Henrik Ibsen
Wings
Front of House
36. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
William Shakespeare
Director
Designer
Concept
37. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Rhetorical Tradition
Skene
Dionysus
Constantin Stanislavski
38. 'seeing place'
Thrust
collaborator
Blocking
Theatron
39. 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
Constantin Stanislavski
Commedia Dell'Arte
Cycles
Raked Stage
40. Physical commedy
Subplot
Hypokrites
Slapstick
collaborator
41. 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
Hypokrites
Miracle Plays
Designer's job
42. Grecian attributed to writing the first tragedies then acting in them.
Musical Theatre
Presentational
Thespis
Downstage
43. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Eugene Scribe
Actor's tools
Dialogue
Black box
44. The area farthest away from the audience
Broadway
Empathy
Upstage
Morality Plays
45. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Empathy
Pageants
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Director
46. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
lighting designer
Henrik Ibsen
Reversal
Types of professional theater
47. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Mystery Plays
Arena
Aristophanes
Concept
48. Standard tool for casting productions
Auditions
Subplot
Scenic Designer
Front of House
49. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Henrik Ibsen
Arena
Aesthetic Distance
Verisimilitude
50. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Vomitories
Reversal
Costume Designer
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude