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Theatre App. Midterm
Theatre appreciation
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| True /False: The complete impact of theatrical experiences begin from the first moment that the lights dim and an actor steps unto the stage. | False |
| True/False: Alley, or Traverse seating actually has one part of the audience directly facing another portion of audience. | True |
| True/ False: The arch that creates a picture frame surrounding the Stage is called the proscenium | True |
| True/ False: Theatre seating on all four sides of the stage is called Arena Theatre, or Theatre in the Round | True |
| A theatre that is wide open to any seating arrangement is often called a: | Black Box Theatre |
| What stage direction is as close to the audience as possible? | Downstage |
| True/ False: The imaginary plane that seperates the action of the play from the audience is called the Fourth Wall. | True |
| What type of theatre puts the audience in the position of moving through and often participating in the action of the play. | Immersive |
| True/ False: A stage that brings the audience seating well onto the stage surrounding the theatre go-er on as many as three sides by actors is called a thrust stage | False |
| A Greek Ampitheatre is a good example of a ___________ stage. | Thrust |
| True/ False: During the Golden Age in Spain, there were not only women liscensed to act in theatre, but we have many examples of plays authored by women during this period. | True |
| True/ False: commedia dell' arte was very popular during the Italian Renaissance, and can most closely be described as a somber, modern Opera presentation | False |
| True/ False: The Elizabethan theatre was notable a the first period to allow women on stage in England. | False |
| True/ False: The Elizabethan period is used particularly to describe English Theatre during the Renaissance, which was approx. the same time as the rule of Elizabeth I | True |
| Our term "intermission" comes from this Italian Theatre, which featured short depictions of mythological tales - presented between the main acts of larger works | Intermezzi |
| Neoclassical rules in drama demanded that plays happenin 24 hours or less (time), in one location (place), and that there was one main story without subplots (action). These are considered the three_______ | Unities |
| This french neoclassicist is best know for his famous and often today produced comedies The Misanthrope and Tartuffe | Moliere |
| Both religious and no religious plays flourished during the Renaissance. This term refers to production of a non-religious nature. | Secular |
| True/ False: The Neoclassical concept of veris miltude required that all drama be " true to life", though not to the the extend of our modern realism | True |
| This English playwright of the Elizabethan era was know for "The Mighty Line" referring to the power of his dramatic verse. One of his most famous works is the The History of Dr. Faustus | Christopher Marlowe |
| What are the two major catagories that we can divide the modern Theatre Era into, each a presentation style. | Realism and non- realism |
| This Norwegian playwright is considered to be the father of modern Realistic Drama | Henrick Ibsen |
| True/ False: Naturalism was like Realism on steriods, requiring everything to be REAL and drawn from real life. | True |
| FDR established many work programs during the great depression, Including what group that supported theatre venture throughout the U.S. | The Federal Theatre Project |
| This movement in theatre believed that drama should present the mystery of being and the infinite qualities of the Human spirit as opposed to realism, everyday items, and mundane normality. | Symbolism |
| True/False: Often associated with Russian theatre, Theatricalism took great care to hide the machinery of spectacle, and to make the theatrical experience as immersive and realistic as possible | False |
| This was a popular (and Stillis) method of approaching drama formed in the 1950s, Where the absolute ridiculousness and non-sensical nature of human life, lave, actions, and lack of meaning or rational for existence were to be represented on stage. | Existentialism and Theatre of the Absurd |
| True/ false: Very few American musical theatre pieces were produced between years of 1945 and 1975 | False |
| Trueffalse: American Musical Theatre flourished between the period of 1890 and 1945 | False |
| True/ False: The spread of Ideas from one geographic or culture area, to another, Including theatrical practices, Styles, genre, production, and presentation Styles (but not limited to theatre ) is called Globalization | True |
| Temporal Arts | move through time |
| Spacial Arts | occupy a space |
| Willing suspension of disbelief | accepting what is happening despite flaws |
| Audience Distance | Seperation of audience and subject |
| Elements of Theatre | Audience, performers, script/text, director, space, design |
| Choragus | back ground company that tells story - before the first actor Stepped. |
| Thespis | First actor |
| Mix Position | sounds mixing station where person running sound can hear Well |
| Dionysia | Big festival where plays written & competed - Trilogies of Tragedies |
| Aeschylus | second actor |
| who were most greek plays written by? | Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides |
| comedy | Similar to satur but more funny than sexual |
| satyr | Funny shows meant to entertain that generally occured between actual playwrights |
| Aristotle and Poetics | plot, Character, thought, language, music, spectacle |
| Spectacle | Spectacle is one of the six components of tragedy, occupying the category of the mode of Imitation - costumes, scenery, the gestures of the actors, the sound of the music and the resonance of the actors' voices. |
| Liturgical Drama | Church |
| Vernacular Drama | for da people |
| mystery Play/ cycle plays | Biblical Stories emphasize christian salvation |
| Mansions | Stage structures that represented locations like hell or heaven |
| Hellmouths | Literally mouth of hell |
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