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Theatre Appreciation 2

Subject : performing-arts
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1. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel






2. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy






3. Spoken words






4. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)






5. 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






6. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions






7. Generally rhyming






8. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light






9. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers






10. Greatest dramatist of all time






11. Standard tool for casting productions






12. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.






13. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation






14. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.






15. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area






16. 'dancing space'






17. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'






18. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright






19. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions






20. Art that pushes recognized boundaries






21. Sentences/paragraph structure






22. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre






23. The stage area closest to the audience; on the raked stage of the Renaissance theatres - the stage literally sloped downward as it got closer to the audience






24. Seats 500-1800; professional.






25. 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






26. Director champions intention of playwright






27. First director






28. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited






29. Body - voice - mind

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30. 'seeing place'






31. 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






32. Directors who operate with total control






33. Who or what opposes the central character






34. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets






35. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government






36. Physical commedy






37. Oversees artistic aspects of show






38. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery






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






40. When line of action suddenly switches






41. Author of play






42. 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






43. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation






44. Humanity's struggle with good and evil






45. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.






46. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent






47. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.






48. Collection of mystery plays






49. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild






50. Central character







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