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Theatre Appreciation 2
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performing-arts
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1. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Eugene Scribe
Callbacks
Front of House
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
2. Handles business aspects of show
Proscenium
Black box
Producer
Linear Plot
3. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Costume plot
Upstage
Components of Actor's job
Conflict
4. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Neoclassicism
Director
Musical Theatre
Sense memory
5. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
sound designer
Constantin Stanislavski
Conflict
Plato
6. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Wings
Perspective Scenery
Subplot
Director
7. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Designer
Concept
Stage manager
lighting designer
8. Who or what opposes the central character
Linear Plot
Antagonist
Costume plot
Perspective Scenery
9. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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10. 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
Wings
Aeschylus
Vomitories
Downstage
11. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Antiquarianism
sound designer
Designer's job
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
12. 'dancing space'
Orchestra
Musical Theatre
Slapstick
Neoclassic unities
13. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Book musical
Designer's job
Emile Zola
Aeschylus
14. Spoken words
Dialogue
Director
Subtext
Auteur
15. Attempts to represent reality on stage
Representational
Director
Morality Plays
Rhetorical Tradition
16. Historical accuracy
Subplot
Designer's job
Antiquarianism
Musical Theatre
17. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
lighting designer
Concept
Cycles
Emile Zola
18. Body - voice - mind
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19. Collection of mystery plays
Actor's tools
Linear Plot
Prose
Cycles
20. Actor in 5th century Greece
Auditions
Hypokrites
Actor's tools
Blocking
21. Fee for each performance
Royalty
Linear Plot
Sense memory
Neoclassicism
22. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Linear Plot
Off-Broadway
Avant-Garde
lighting designer
23. 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
Off-Broadway
Presentational
Verisimilitude
Constantin Stanislavski
24. Creates a visual home for the play
William Shakespeare
Romanticism
Scenic Designer
Variables of costume design
25. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Slapstick
Linear Plot
The Orestia
University Wits
26. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
University Wits
Neoclassicism
Eugene Scribe
Romantic Theory
27. Directors who operate with total control
Subplot
Off-Broadway
Orchestra
Auteur
28. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Prose
Director
Pageants
University Wits
29. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Subtext
Presentational
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
30. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Variables of costume design
Copyright
Broadway
sound designer
31. Sentences/paragraph structure
Reversal
Black box
Black box
Prose
32. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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33. 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
Proscenium
Downstage
Perspective Scenery
Designer's job
34. Greatest dramatist of all time
William Shakespeare
Designer's job
Callbacks
Catharsis
35. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
Dialogue
Off-off-Broadway
Scenic Designer
Rhetorical Tradition
36. Collection of mystery plays
Costume plot
Subtext
Actor's tools
Cycles
37. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected
Raked Stage
Public Domain
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Book musical
38. Seats 100-500; professional
Protagonist
Chorus
Proscenium
Off-Broadway
39. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Liturgical Drama
Plato
Neoclassicism
Dramaturg
40. God of wine and fertility
Actor's tools
Dionysus
Aristophanes
Types of professional theater
41. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation of a play to the audience.
Concept
Auditions
Emile Zola
Blocking
42. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
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43. A group of performers working together vocally and physically. A chorus of approximately 12-15 singer-dancers who interacted with and responded to the actors was an important element of ancient Greek theatre.
Chorus
Aesthetic Distance
Avant-Garde
Broadway
44. Secondary line of action
Musical Theatre
Liturgical Drama
Downstage
Subplot
45. Scenery
Commedia Dell'Arte
Aristotle
Constantin Stanislavski
Skene
46. 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
University Wits
lighting designer
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Proscenium
47. Scenery
Skene
Vomitories
Stage Manager
Components of Production
48. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Stage manager
Royalty
Liturgical Drama
Conflict
49. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
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50. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Book musical
Sense memory
Musical Theatre
Miracle Plays
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