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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. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Broadway
Romanticism
Henrik Ibsen
Types of professional theater
2. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Perspective Scenery
Rendering
Stage manager
Hypokrites
3. Spoken words
Cycles
Dialogue
Upstage
Neoclassic unities
4. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Playwright
Thrust
Subtext
lighting designer
5. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Components of Actor's job
Pageants
Alienation Effect
Rendering
6. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
The Orestia
Director
Cycles
Bertolt Brecht
7. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Protagonist
Slapstick
Morality Plays
Proscenium
8. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
Director
Presentational
Rhetorical Tradition
9. 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
Upstage
Blocking
Playwright
10. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Romanticism
Plato
Subtext
11. Scenery
Catharsis
Front of House
Skene
Empathy
12. Director champions intention of playwright
collaborator
Off-Broadway
Morality Plays
Subtext
13. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Verse
Wings
Catharsis
Romanticism
14. Action - place - time
Scenic Designer
Neoclassic unities
Auditions
Conflict
15. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Components of Actor's job
Dramaturg
Dialogue
Casting Director
16. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Book musical
Henrik Ibsen
Stage manager
Sense memory
17. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Blocking
collaborator
Conflict
Cycles
18. Collection of mystery plays
Cycles
Stage manager
Costume Designer
Components of Production
19. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Antiquarianism
Blocking
Slapstick
Rhetorical Tradition
20. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Vomitories
Dialogue
Bertolt Brecht
21. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Subtext
Realism
sound designer
Components of Production
22. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Front of House
Catharsis
Orchestra
Upstage
23. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Ground plan
Stage Manager
Avant-Garde
Public Domain
24. 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
Representational
Verse
Off-off-Broadway
25. Creates a visual home for the play
Director
Scenic Designer
lighting designer
Representational
26. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Miracle Plays
Director
Public Domain
Miracle Plays
27. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Cycles
sound designer
Broadway
Aesthetic Distance
28. Author of play
Aeschylus
Callbacks
Playwright
Ground plan
29. 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
University Wits
Aesthetic Distance
Realism
Off-off-Broadway
30. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Off-off-Broadway
Catharsis
Dramaturg
Miracle Plays
31. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Black box
Skene
Auditions
Presentational
32. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Cycles
Commedia Dell'Arte
Emile Zola
33. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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34. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Book musical
Neoclassicism
Musical Theatre
35. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Proscenium
Neoclassicism
Concept
Components of Production
36. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Broadway
Romanticism
Prose
Raked Stage
37. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Prose
Thespis
Casting Director
Front of House
38. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Melodrama
The Orestia
Subtext
Director
39. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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40. Saint's plays
Proscenium
Miracle Plays
Neoclassicism
Copyright
41. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Arena
Pageants
Dramaturg
Constantin Stanislavski
42. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
Wings
Subplot
Hypokrites
43. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Dialogue
Linear Plot
Thrust
Auditions
44. Generally rhyming
Verse
Perspective Scenery
Linear Plot
Types of professional theater
45. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Mystery Plays
Aesthetic Distance
Arena
Aristophanes
46. When line of action suddenly switches
Components of Production
Sense memory
Reversal
Downstage
47. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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48. Handles business aspects of show
Dialogue
Producer
Protagonist
Sense memory
49. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Proscenium
Thespis
Callbacks
Verse
50. Was in favor of theater
Director
Aristotle
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
University Wits