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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. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Subplot
Broadway
Proscenium
Avant-Garde
2. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Vomitories
Stage manager
Musical Theatre
Components of Production
3. Actor in 5th century Greece
Auditions
Sense memory
Dionysus
Hypokrites
4. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Musical Theatre
Perspective Scenery
Aristophanes
Conflict
5. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Constantin Stanislavski
Stage manager
Romanticism
Copyright
6. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
collaborator
Director
Empathy
Aesthetic Distance
7. Creates a visual home for the play
Scenic Designer
Director
Stage manager
Skene
8. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Arena
Front of House
Mystery Plays
Ground plan
9. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Auditions
Copyright
collaborator
Concept
10. The area farthest away from the audience
Skene
Wings
Upstage
Auditions
11. 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
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
William Shakespeare
Emile Zola
Ground plan
12. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Black box
Designer
Henrik Ibsen
Pageants
13. 'dancing space'
Book musical
Orchestra
Empathy
Types of professional theater
14. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Rendering
Theatron
Representational
Liturgical Drama
15. Greatest dramatist of all time
Sense memory
William Shakespeare
Dialogue
Plato
16. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
17. created by Augest von Schegel - the replacement of neoclassical structure: form should be directed by subject matter - not classical precedent. Romantics were fascinated with natural forces - the unexplainable - gothic - and mystical. Romantics drama
Ground plan
Dialogue
Mystery Plays
Romantic Theory
18. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Off-off-Broadway
Variables of costume design
Orchestra
Costume Designer
19. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Linear Plot
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Components of Production
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
20. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Romantic Theory
Arena
Subtext
Alienation Effect
21. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Casting Director
Wings
Constantin Stanislavski
Empathy
22. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Proscenium
Casting Director
The Orestia
23. Secondary line of action
Upstage
Subplot
Realism
Stage manager
24. Body - voice - mind
25. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Ground plan
Miracle Plays
Mystery Plays
Verse
26. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Black box
Bertolt Brecht
Thrust
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
27. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Thrust
Off-Broadway
Pageants
Rhetorical Tradition
28. Physical commedy
Raked Stage
Slapstick
Playwright
Subtext
29. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
The Orestia
Eugene Scribe
Theatron
Scenic Designer
30. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Components of Production
Dramaturg
Alienation Effect
Neoclassicism
31. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Neoclassicism
Broadway
Alienation Effect
Plato
32. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Eugene Scribe
The Orestia
Presentational
Playwright
33. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Auditions
Constantin Stanislavski
Conflict
Blocking
34. Physical commedy
Slapstick
Orchestra
Director
Dramaturg
35. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Conflict
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Dialogue
Representational
36. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Antiquarianism
Proscenium
Public Domain
Presentational
37. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Director
Constantin Stanislavski
Avant-Garde
Hypokrites
38. First director
Dialogue
Liturgical Drama
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aristotle
39. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Designer's job
Variables of costume design
Realism
Liturgical Drama
40. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
41. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Subplot
Linear Plot
Henrik Ibsen
Arena
42. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Off-off-Broadway
Empathy
Representational
Producer
43. The area farthest away from the audience
Prose
Theatron
Empathy
Upstage
44. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Callbacks
Designer
Antiquarianism
Costume plot
45. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
Dramaturg
Melodrama
Proscenium
Dialogue
46. Directors who operate with total control
Dialogue
Antagonist
Auteur
Slapstick
47. 'dancing space'
Sense memory
Bertolt Brecht
Subtext
Orchestra
48. Seats 100-500; professional
Wings
Off-Broadway
Stage Manager
The Globe
49. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Theatron
Thrust
Types of professional theater
Components of Production
50. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)