AoT Midterm – Flashcards
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The most significant difference b/t film & theater
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Relationship b/t the performer & audience
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Essential aspect of the performing arts?
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Need for an interpreter
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Patterns that emerged as theater globalized?
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Interaction, adaption, collaboration
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Degree of separation b/t object/event, which an artist creates & audience observes
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Aesthetic distance
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Putting aside all literal & practical considerations in order to enter world of drama
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Willing suspension of disbelief
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Pt of view of the ___ generally dominates an auteur production
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Director
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Full account of an event or series of events, usually in chronological order
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Story
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Selection and arrangement of scenes that actually happen on stage
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Plot
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Essential aspects of dramatic structure
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Plot, reasonable balance, conflict
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Final & most significant crisis
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Climax
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Shakespeare's plays typically included subplots which are
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Secondary plots that reinforce or runs parallel to the major plot
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Open ended, serial structure that is often associated with female playwrights
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Cyclical
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Characters that embody the quintessential characteristics of a group
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Representative
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Techniques developed by Stanislavski
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Through line, concentration & observation, magic if
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In order to throw the voice into the audience, to penetrates utmost reaches of the theater the actor must
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Project
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Devised a system to teach performers how to achieve the necessary believability
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Stanislavski
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Stanislavski's early research into realistic acting techniques was conducted while he was directing many plays by
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Chekhov
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Stanislavski's later approach to actor training
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Purposeful action as the most direct route to the emotions
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Encouraged students to use the text as an instrument of action
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Cohen
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Associated with the "front of the house"
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Printing programs, securing ushers, selling tickets
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Arrangement & movements of performers relative to each other and to the stage space
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Blocking
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Activity of a performer on stage
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Business
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Who blocks or stages the play?
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Director
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Maintains quality control of all production elements after opening
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Stage manager
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Oversees budget
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Producer
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A "fourth wall theater" describes
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Arena stage
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Type of performance space associated with street theater
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Created, or found, space
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Originally built into hillsides in Greece
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Thrust stage
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Most Broadway performance spaces were built with the ___configuration
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Proscenium stage
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Performers make their entrances & exits along aisles that run through the audience
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Arena stage
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Canvas stretched on wood with the side facing the audience & painted to look like a solid wall is called
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Flat
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Gauze or cloth screen that, when painted & lit from the front, appears solid, but when lit from behind becomes transparent
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Scrim
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A small scale, three-dimensional version of the set
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Model
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Responsible for seeing that the scenery, platforms & other elements are built, painted & installed onstage
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Technical Director
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When costumes are taking from inventory or rented from a costume house
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Pulling
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When a costume is created in the costume shop
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Building
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Circle set into the floor that can turn mechanically to bring one set into view another disappears
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Turntable
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Low platform on wheels upon which set pieces are brought onstage
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Wagon
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Person who rehearses the performers and coordinates their actions
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Director
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Characters who embody an entire group
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Representative
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Characters who are not completely three-dimensional but exemplify one particular characteristic
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Stock characters
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Contemporary theater tends to maintain the uniform & traditional styles of the country of production
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False
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Saturday Night Live uses a format established from earlier times
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True
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In a traditional tragedy, the hero is caught in circumstances from which there is no escape & lead to fatal end
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True
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The age of Enlightenment & the Century of progress were conducted to the creation of a tragic drama
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False
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Traditional tragedy assumes a basically optimistic view of the universe
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False
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Many of the plays by Shaw can be placed under the special heading of "comedy of ideas"
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False
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The realistic portrayal of characters in life like fashion has been characteristic of theater throughout history
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False
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The point of view of an auteur production is that of the director not the playwright
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True
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The ending of the musical version of the Spitfire Grill is the same as the ending of the film version
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False
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Lead character in spit fire grill
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Percy
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Percy was in prison for
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Killing her stepdad
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What is the name of the mysterious visitor in Spitfire Grill
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Eli
