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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. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Protagonist
Bertolt Brecht
Copyright
Upstage
2. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Morality Plays
Off-Broadway
Thrust
Variables of costume design
3. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Chorus
Costume plot
lighting designer
Thrust
4. Directors who operate with total control
Components of Actor's job
Auteur
Orchestra
Vomitories
5. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Downstage
Reversal
Representational
Constantin Stanislavski
6. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Arena
Musical Theatre
Slapstick
7. Seats 100-500; professional
Costume plot
Off-Broadway
Henrik Ibsen
Verisimilitude
8. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Front of House
Skene
Thespis
The Orestia
9. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Prose
The Orestia
Verisimilitude
Wings
10. Sentences/paragraph structure
Costume Designer
Broadway
Empathy
Prose
11. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Ground plan
Prose
Sense memory
Ground plan
12. Actor in 5th century Greece
lighting designer
Perspective Scenery
Mystery Plays
Hypokrites
13. Was in favor of theater
Producer
Callbacks
Aristotle
Pageants
14. 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
Presentational
Empathy
Dionysus
Perspective Scenery
15. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
sound designer
Avant-Garde
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
16. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Proscenium
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Concept
Morality Plays
17. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Rhetorical Tradition
Constantin Stanislavski
Linear Plot
Public Domain
18. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
sound designer
Stage Manager
Liturgical Drama
Romanticism
19. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Actor's tools
Orchestra
Concept
Commedia Dell'Arte
20. Central character
Protagonist
Ground plan
Skene
Verse
21. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Representational
Mystery Plays
Blocking
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
22. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Concept
Hypokrites
Subplot
Ground plan
23. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Aristophanes
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Liturgical Drama
Reversal
24. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Book musical
Constantin Stanislavski
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Ground plan
25. Creates a visual home for the play
Scenic Designer
Upstage
Chorus
Off-Broadway
26. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Avant-Garde
Proscenium
Henrik Ibsen
Skene
27. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Representational
Director
Thrust
Concept
28. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Verse
Raked Stage
Aesthetic Distance
Vomitories
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
Cycles
Proscenium
Romantic Theory
Designer
30. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Off-Broadway
University Wits
Verse
Alienation Effect
31. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Auditions
collaborator
Casting Director
Emile Zola
32. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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33. Seats less than 100; amateur.
Pageants
Ground plan
Off-off-Broadway
Aristotle
34. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Dramaturg
Eugene Scribe
Henrik Ibsen
Director
35. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Constantin Stanislavski
Off-off-Broadway
Proscenium
Musical Theatre
36. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
collaborator
Emile Zola
Reversal
Raked Stage
37. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
Designer's job
Auteur
collaborator
38. Collection of mystery plays
Catharsis
Cycles
Book musical
lighting designer
39. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Mystery Plays
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Costume Designer
Stage Manager
40. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Producer
Playwright
Designer
Avant-Garde
41. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Royalty
sound designer
Components of Production
42. Author of play
Cycles
Linear Plot
Playwright
Aristophanes
43. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Aeschylus
Director
Antagonist
Miracle Plays
44. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Costume Designer
Plato
Realism
Pageants
45. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Theatron
Eugene Scribe
Stage Manager
46. Fee for each performance
Director
Prose
Stage Manager
Royalty
47. Historical accuracy
University Wits
Antiquarianism
Avant-Garde
Black box
48. Historical accuracy
Upstage
Aristophanes
Antiquarianism
Stage Manager
49. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Prose
Rhetorical Tradition
Public Domain
Chorus
50. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Rendering
Aristophanes
Musical Theatre
Commedia Dell'Arte