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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. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
Antagonist
Avant-Garde
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Proscenium
2. Central character
Proscenium
Protagonist
Morality Plays
Black box
3. Physical commedy
Slapstick
Callbacks
Designer
Conflict
4. 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
Auteur
Romantic Theory
Auditions
Producer
5. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
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6. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Melodrama
Eugene Scribe
Linear Plot
Neoclassicism
7. Central character
Skene
Scenic Designer
Protagonist
Subtext
8. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Auditions
Ground plan
Aeschylus
Copyright
9. Physical commedy
Costume plot
Slapstick
Aesthetic Distance
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
10. Appearance of truth
Romantic Theory
Protagonist
Verisimilitude
Arena
11. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Copyright
Director
Aesthetic Distance
Neoclassic unities
12. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Presentational
Constantin Stanislavski
Eugene Scribe
Components of Production
13. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
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14. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience completely surrounds the performance area
Sense memory
Arena
Mystery Plays
Scenic Designer
15. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
lighting designer
Rendering
Mystery Plays
Broadway
16. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Bertolt Brecht
Raked Stage
Alienation Effect
Rendering
17. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Plato
Designer's job
Director
18. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Public Domain
Pageants
Eugene Scribe
Designer
19. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Alienation Effect
Perspective Scenery
Costume Designer
Stage Manager
20. Director champions intention of playwright
Chorus
William Shakespeare
collaborator
Dionysus
21. 'dancing space'
Director
Orchestra
Melodrama
Book musical
22. 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
Concept
Chorus
lighting designer
Perspective Scenery
23. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Aristophanes
Skene
Black box
Director
24. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Dionysus
Director
Aeschylus
25. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Bertolt Brecht
Aristophanes
Mystery Plays
Front of House
26. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Subtext
Reversal
Rendering
27. God of wine and fertility
Catharsis
Dionysus
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Morality Plays
28. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Subplot
29. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Linear Plot
Stage Manager
Catharsis
Callbacks
30. Handles business aspects of show
Producer
Thespis
Designer
Wings
31. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
University Wits
Perspective Scenery
lighting designer
Slapstick
32. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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33. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice
The Orestia
Melodrama
Thrust
Liturgical Drama
34. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
The Globe
collaborator
Mystery Plays
35. Standard tool for casting productions
Auditions
Components of Actor's job
Romantic Theory
Variables of costume design
36. Greatest dramatist of all time
Alienation Effect
Subplot
Costume plot
William Shakespeare
37. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Copyright
Eugene Scribe
Designer's job
38. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
Designer
Henrik Ibsen
Bertolt Brecht
collaborator
39. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in processional staging
Commedia Dell'Arte
Rendering
Pageants
Conflict
40. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Presentational
lighting designer
University Wits
Director
41. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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42. When line of action suddenly switches
Antiquarianism
Reversal
Chorus
Constantin Stanislavski
43. 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
Downstage
Avant-Garde
lighting designer
Book musical
44. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Ground plan
Arena
Stage Manager
Auditions
45. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Pageants
Conflict
Chorus
Broadway
46. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Romanticism
Reversal
Vomitories
Realism
47. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Emile Zola
Romantic Theory
Alienation Effect
Liturgical Drama
48. 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
Public Domain
Emile Zola
Raked Stage
Auteur
49. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
Neoclassicism
Theatron
The Globe
50. Saint's plays
Subplot
Miracle Plays
sound designer
Stage manager