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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. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
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2. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Designer
Auteur
sound designer
Callbacks
3. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Dialogue
sound designer
Book musical
Wings
4. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Royalty
Constantin Stanislavski
Playwright
Components of Actor's job
5. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Scenic Designer
Protagonist
Playwright
6. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Dialogue
Liturgical Drama
Orchestra
Downstage
7. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Stage Manager
Off-off-Broadway
Miracle Plays
Types of professional theater
8. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Aeschylus
Emile Zola
Catharsis
Concept
9. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Catharsis
Liturgical Drama
Stage Manager
Bertolt Brecht
10. Appearance of truth
Rendering
Verisimilitude
Casting Director
Concept
11. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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12. 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
Casting Director
Presentational
The Globe
William Shakespeare
13. God of wine and fertility
Auditions
Dionysus
Variables of costume design
The Orestia
14. The area farthest away from the audience
Upstage
Thespis
Reversal
The Globe
15. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Liturgical Drama
Realism
Aeschylus
16. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Morality Plays
Orchestra
The Orestia
Concept
17. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Downstage
Public Domain
Stage Manager
Dramaturg
18. Generally rhyming
Hypokrites
Dionysus
Dialogue
Verse
19. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Musical Theatre
Auditions
Antiquarianism
Arena
20. Author of play
Playwright
Cycles
Melodrama
Musical Theatre
21. 'dancing space'
Orchestra
Components of Production
Morality Plays
Dramaturg
22. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Designer
Broadway
Representational
23. Greatest dramatist of all time
Playwright
William Shakespeare
Actor's tools
Off-Broadway
24. 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.
Broadway
Liturgical Drama
Theatron
Chorus
25. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aristophanes
Components of Production
Musical Theatre
26. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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27. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Eugene Scribe
Designer's job
Stage manager
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
28. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Rendering
Subtext
The Globe
Chorus
29. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Mystery Plays
Skene
Sense memory
The Orestia
30. Sentences/paragraph structure
Wings
Dionysus
Orchestra
Prose
31. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Verse
Bertolt Brecht
Morality Plays
32. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Alienation Effect
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Henrik Ibsen
Dialogue
33. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Emile Zola
Copyright
Ground plan
Costume plot
34. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Playwright
collaborator
Types of professional theater
Catharsis
35. Who or what opposes the central character
Antagonist
Pageants
Stage Manager
Proscenium
36. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Front of House
Slapstick
Mystery Plays
Alienation Effect
37. 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
Upstage
Empathy
lighting designer
38. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Public Domain
Linear Plot
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Actor's tools
39. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Downstage
Aesthetic Distance
Broadway
Constantin Stanislavski
40. God of wine and fertility
Off-off-Broadway
Upstage
Pageants
Dionysus
41. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Auteur
Linear Plot
Hypokrites
Henrik Ibsen
42. Seats 100-500; professional
Proscenium
Aristophanes
The Orestia
Off-Broadway
43. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Royalty
Rendering
Playwright
Neoclassicism
44. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Upstage
Public Domain
Producer
Emile Zola
45. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Producer
Vomitories
Broadway
Director
46. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Dramaturg
Verisimilitude
collaborator
Sense memory
47. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Verse
Hypokrites
Commedia Dell'Arte
48. Directors who operate with total control
Dialogue
Chorus
Costume Designer
Auteur
49. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Scenic Designer
Vomitories
50. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Director
Verse
Aristotle
Aeschylus