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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Not many props or detailed scenery
Anton Chekhov
Community Theatre
Downstage
Renaissance
2. Greek - actor
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Hypokrites
Designer
Plot
3. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Comedy of Character
William Shakespeare
Melodrama
Tragedy
4. Events that set off a major conflict
Thespis
Inciting Incident
Naturalism
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
5. Play reenacting biblical stories
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Rendering
Mystery Plays
Front of House
6. Causes trouble for the main character
Conflict
Antagonist
Pageants
Ground Plan
7. Grammatically based
Antiquarianism
Prose
Discovery
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
8. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Slapstick
Comedy of Manners
Falling Action
Producer
9. Events that set off a major conflict
Discovery
Verse
The Box Set
Inciting Incident
10. Rhyming
Plato
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Verse
Improv
11. England's type of theatre
Vomitories
Black Box
Subplot
The Globe
12. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle
Front of House
Off-Broadway
Catharsis
13. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Royalty
Neoclassicism (def)
Presentational Approach
Sophocles
14. Amateur theatre in which shows are created by residents of a particular area who come together without being part of a professional or academic institution
Slapstick
Eugene Scribe
Community Theatre
Antiquarianism
15. Someone who writes plays
Public Domain
Playwright
Aristotle
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
16. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Slapstick
Practical
Concept
Subtext
17. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Representational Approach
Emile Zola
Morality Plays
Meyerhold
18. Organization of action
Plot
Tragedy
Antiquarianism
Dramaturg
19. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Konstantin Stanislavski
Orchestra
Vomitories
Fourth Wall
20. A type of performance in which dialogue and action are not planned ahead of time and written down - but are made of on the spot by the actors
Henrik Ibsen
The Box Set
Morality Plays
Improv
21. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Proscenium Space
Exposition
Aesthetic Distance
Comedy of Ideas
22. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Rendering
Hybrid Theatre
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Dramaturg
23. Part of What is included in the text
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Dialogue
Light Plot
Thespis
24. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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25. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Comedy of Character
Thrust Space
Sophocles
Dramatic Genre
26. Humorous - objective view point
Hypokrites
Comedy
Community Theatre
Aeschylus
27. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Aristotle
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Sophocles
Dramatic Genre
28. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Representational Acting
Theatron
Mystery Plays
Concept
29. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Protagonist
Wings
Representational Approach
Situation Comedy
30. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Avant-Garde
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Amateur Theatre
Empathy
31. Part of What is included in the text
Dialogue
Hypokrites
Designer
Theatre of Cruelty
32. Works published before 1923
Cycles
Bertolt Brecht
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Public Domain
33. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Concept
Sophocles
Morality Plays
Broadway
34. Top of stage
Empathy
Actor
Upstage
Rising Action
35. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Verisimilitude
Vomitories
Black Box
36. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Blocking
Subtext
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
37. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Chorus
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Thought
38. Performs Actions of the Play
Rehearsal Process
Off-Off-Broadway
Character
Amateur Theatre
39. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
William Shakespeare
Morality Plays
Anton Chekhov
Stage Manager
40. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Community Theatre
Rendering
The Box Set
41. 500-1800 people
Melodrama
Broadway
Comedy
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
42. Imitation of character and action
Community Theatre
Mimesis
Theatron
Climax
43. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Verse
Eugene Scribe
Verisimilitude
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
44. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Avant-Garde
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Chorus
Climax
45. Planned actor movement
Neoclassicism (def)
Blocking
Off-Off-Broadway
Ensemble
46. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Lazzi
Anton Chekhov
Comedy of Manners
Amateur Theatre
47. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Neoclassicism (def)
Tragedy
Cycles
ostume Plot
48. Proscenium arch/stage
Representational Acting
Verisimilitude
Aristotle
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
49. High point of action
Climax
Subtext
Regional Theatre
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
50. Used alienation to encourage distance
Thought
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
The Box Set
Bertolt Brecht