Theater Appreciation Flashcards
The term Nonmediated means?
Live theatre
Permanent professional nonprofit Theaters that offer first-class production to the audience are?
Regional theatres
Semiprofessional and experienced amateur groups present plays to a specific audience that include College, Universities, and high Schools are known as?
Community theater
Musicals using previously recorded rock and pop music:
Jukebox
________ combine role-playing, costuming, and social interaction both online and in person.
Cosplayers
_____ include Theatre, dance, opera, and music.
Performing Arts
A _______ observes the production, analyzes it and then comments on it.
Critic
A ______ reports on the production and then gives a brief opinion or whether it is worth seeing.
Reviewer
The __________ is the person who discovers promising new plays and works with playwrights on developing new scripts.
Dramaturg
The __________ is the coordinator of all the elements of the production and is responsible for making the production cohesive and exciting.
Director
A ________ creates the script.
Playwright
A character who has outstanding traits of human behavior to the exclusion of all other attributes. These characters often seem like stereo types and are most often used in comedy and melodramas.
Stock
This principle or leading character in a play the one holding the drama is about.
Protagonist
The _____ is an opponent of the protagonist in a drama. This person is the foil or the counterpart to the main character.
Antagonist
In theatre the word _____ denotes the category into which a play falls it is a French word meaning type or category.
Genre
This is a serious drama where the main or primary character has a downfall.
Tragedy
This music or type of song drama has characteristics that speaks to our paranoia with Issues that are clear-cut. There is a strong delineation of right and wrong. Characters are clearly good or bad.
Melodrama
One of the great playwrights of the 17th-century from France, who wrote mostly comedy plays. One of his most loved plays was Tartuffe.
Moliere
Plays focused on the alienation of man and his plight within an illogical, unjust, ridiculous world. Although these plays are usually serious the viewpoint is generally depicted in the play with considerable humor.
Absurd
The two major playwrights in the theater of Absurdism are
Beckett and Stoppard
The major challenges of an actor when they are on stage playing a character is the ability to
Use voice/body, characters believable, use of inner/outer skills
Closely resembled what people could identify with and verify from their own experience. While on stage it presents people places and events that correspond with everyday life.
Realism
This person created and taught this famous technique for Realistic Acting.
Stanislavski
Method acting, is a range of training and rehearsal techniques, as formulated by several different theatre practitioners, that seeks to encourage sincere and expressive performances through identifying with, understanding, and experiencing a character’s inner motivation and emotions. ___ became one of the top acting teachers of the 20th century. This technique is still being widely used today on stage and in film and TV.
Strasburg
This person is responsible for the overall unity of a production and for coordinating the work of the contributing artist.
Director
This individual works on literary and historical issues with members of the artistic team mounting a theater production.
Dramaturg
“Auteur” is French for “ ”.
Author
This person is known for her work in puppetry and has won several awards for the Lion King.
Taymor
This person is responsible for the business side of the production which includes raising the necessary money for the show.
Producer
This rehearsal is the first full performance of a production before performances are shown to the public Gives everyone involved a sense of what the performance will be like
Dress Rehearsal
The _____ is a frame surrounding the stage opening in a box or pitcher stage.
Proscenium Arch
This is also known as circle theater or theater-in-the-round.
Arena
This stage has a space that pushes out into the audience space and it is surrounded on three sides by the audience.
Thrust
This theater space is open and flexible and can be adapted without fixed seating to suit the requirements the stage can be rearranged and configured for the production.
Black box
This person is responsible for the stage set.
Scene designer
The person responsible for the aural world of the play and the sound system.
Sound designer
The person responsible for the light, illumination of the stage space.
Lighting designer
The person responsible for the outfits and accessories worn by the performers.
Costume designer
The person responsible for seeing that the scenery, platforms, and other elements are built, painted, and installed onstage is called a
Technical director
Which of the following is not ordinarily used for performances?
Created/found space
Which of the following is the author of the dramatic criticism called Ars Poetica ( The Art of Poetry)?
Horace
A ________ dramatizes a series of biblical events.
Mystery play
A ________ dramatizes the lives of saints.
Mystery play
A ________ uses allegorical characters and religious themes to teach a lesson.
Morality play
The Golden Age of Greece took place in the second century C.E.
False
The god Dionysus, to whom the Greek dramatic festivals were dedicated, was the god of war, death, and chastity.
False
Which Asian theatre form features a long narrow bridge called the hashigakari leading to the stage and used for actor entrances?
Nō
Which type of Japanese theatre uses puppets operated by three performers to represent the important characters?
Bunraku
Kabuki was performed first by all-female troupes, then by boys, and finally by all-male companies.
True
Women were allowed to perform in the Sanskrit dramas in India.
True
He is often referred to as “the father of realism” and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. exposed social customs and morality, his play included Ghost, A Doll House, and Peer Gynt
Ibsen
Known as one of the fathers of modern theatre. His work falls into two major literary movements, Naturalism and Expressionism. His works include Miss Julie, The Dance of Death, and The Father.
Strindberg
A Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His plays were expression and symbolism he was a master of manipulation language and he wrote The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, and Three Sisters.
Chekhov
One of the foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama the first U.S. playwright to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Almost all of his plays contain strong elements of tragedy and mastery of words is astonishing. He was also one of the first American writers to use realism in his work. His most popular plays were, The Ice Man Cometh, Long Day’s Journey into the Night, Anna Christie, and Desire Under The Elms.
Eugene O’Neill
This famous American playwright from Columbus, MS is one of the foremost of 20th-century America. He wrote plays that closely resembled his unhappy upbringing and a lot of his plays have been made into movies. His play a Streetcar Named Desire is one of the greatest plays of the 20 century he has also written the plays Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, and The Night of the Iguana.
Tennessee Williams
This Playwright was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The drama Death of a Salesman is also on the finest American plays in the 20th century. His comedy plays had happy endings a form of drama dealing with the mundane world lower and middle classes. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons, The Crucible, and A View from the Bridge. He was married to Marilyn Monroe for 5 years.
Arthur Miller
Known for developing The Theatre of Cruelty.
Antonin Artaud
Created epic theatre.
Bertolt Breck
The “______” musical is built around an idea.
Concept
This infamous Oscar, Emmy, and Tony winning director and Emmy and Tony winning choreographer created his own signature technique that distinguished shows like Chicago, Pippin, and Damn Yankees as dance masterpieces. In doing so, he created an entirely new style of dance, a style so singular it’s still taught today. Often known as “Jazz Hands”
Bob Fosse
