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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. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Director
Vomitories
Catharsis
Perspective Scenery
2. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Callbacks
Melodrama
Ground plan
Prose
3. The area farthest away from the audience
Aeschylus
Upstage
Dionysus
Skene
4. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Callbacks
Royalty
Sense memory
5. 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
Realism
Designer's job
Rhetorical Tradition
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
6. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Components of Production
Pageants
Miracle Plays
sound designer
7. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Playwright
Representational
Aeschylus
Rendering
8. 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
Realism
Ground plan
Arena
Concept
9. Standard tool for casting productions
Auditions
Verse
Proscenium
Dialogue
10. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
The Orestia
Components of Production
Book musical
Avant-Garde
11. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Arena
Commedia Dell'Arte
Designer
Off-off-Broadway
12. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Sense memory
Ground plan
Neoclassic unities
Variables of costume design
13. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Constantin Stanislavski
Aeschylus
Costume Designer
Sense memory
14. Standard tool for casting productions
Off-Broadway
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Linear Plot
Auditions
15. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Musical Theatre
sound designer
Rendering
Ground plan
16. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Director
Costume plot
Verse
Director
17. 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
Costume Designer
Raked Stage
Miracle Plays
Theatron
18. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Henrik Ibsen
Aesthetic Distance
Subtext
Miracle Plays
19. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Auteur
Ground plan
Off-off-Broadway
Proscenium
20. Historical accuracy
Costume plot
Auteur
Antiquarianism
Sense memory
21. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Auditions
Conflict
Neoclassic unities
William Shakespeare
22. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Scenic Designer
The Globe
Melodrama
23. 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
Thrust
Verisimilitude
Concept
Ground plan
24. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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25. Body - voice - mind
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26. First director
Proscenium
Romantic Theory
Aristophanes
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
27. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Bertolt Brecht
Neoclassic unities
Director
Protagonist
28. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Director
Book musical
Dramaturg
Liturgical Drama
29. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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30. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Designer's job
Auteur
Linear Plot
31. Planned actor movement
Broadway
Protagonist
collaborator
Blocking
32. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Sense memory
Rendering
Morality Plays
Proscenium
33. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Variables of costume design
Types of professional theater
Casting Director
Stage Manager
34. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Off-off-Broadway
University Wits
Concept
35. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Callbacks
Scenic Designer
Casting Director
Components of Actor's job
36. Body - voice - mind
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37. Author of play
Chorus
University Wits
Aristophanes
Playwright
38. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Verisimilitude
Aesthetic Distance
Representational
Arena
39. 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
Thrust
Upstage
Auditions
40. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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41. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Eugene Scribe
Pageants
Prose
42. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Aristophanes
Romanticism
Off-Broadway
Producer
43. God of wine and fertility
Dionysus
Commedia Dell'Arte
Raked Stage
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
44. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Aristophanes
Chorus
Liturgical Drama
Upstage
45. Planned actor movement
Presentational
Off-Broadway
Blocking
Components of Actor's job
46. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
The Orestia
Dialogue
Bertolt Brecht
Realism
47. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Liturgical Drama
Hypokrites
Musical Theatre
Blocking
48. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Constantin Stanislavski
Henrik Ibsen
Aristophanes
49. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Verisimilitude
Skene
Alienation Effect
Aeschylus
50. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Chorus
Commedia Dell'Arte
Vomitories