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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A fee for each performance
Royalty
Actor
Linear Plot
Aristotle
2. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Dramaturg
Melodrama
Protagonist
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
3. Visible light source on stage
Practical
The Box Set
Realism and Realistic Developments
Hypokrites
4. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Discovery
Regional Theatre
Aristophanes
5. Audience watches from 3 sides
Theatron
Thrust Space
Aristotle
Commedia Dell'Arte
6. A group of actors - not just one star
Printing Press
Sturm & Drang Movement
Ensemble
Aristophanes
7. Planned actor movement
The Box Set
Mystery Plays
Konstantin Stanislavski
Blocking
8. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Rehearsal Process
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Affective Memory
Commercial Theatre
9. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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10. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Morality Plays
Affective Memory
Aristophanes
Slapstick
11. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Front of House
Upstage
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
12. Rejection of neoclassicism -
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Antiquarianism
Wings
13. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Comedy of Character
Antagonist
Conflict
Commedia Dell'Arte
14. Proscenium arch/stage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Off-Off-Broadway
Tragedy
Educational Theatre
15. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Light Plot
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Sturm & Drang Movement
Downstage
16. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Casting Director
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Miracle Plays
Meander
17. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Theatre of Cruelty
Plato
Empathy
Rehearsal Process
18. Proscenium space
Theatre of Cruelty
Empathy
The Box Set
Tragicomedy
19. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Light Plot
Community Theatre
Thespis
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
20. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Callbacks
Aristophanes
Sophocles
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
21. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Printing Press
Falling Action
Playwright
Public Domain
22. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Conflict
Regional Theatre
Theatron
Concept
23. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Mystery Plays
Aeschylus
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
ostume Plot
24. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Rendering
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Antiquarianism
Ground Plan
25. Greek - actor
Copyright
Hypokrites
Plato
Practical
26. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Thrust Space
Skene
Off-Off-Broadway
Practical
27. Top of stage
Theatron
Upstage
Protagonist
Euripides
28. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
Variables of Costume Design
Mimesis
Skene
29. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
ostume Plot
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Reversal
Black Box
30. Used alienation to encourage distance
Falling Action
Bertolt Brecht
Hypokrites
Dramaturg
31. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Ground Plan
Aeschylus
Affective Memory
Sense Memory
32. Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Comedy of Character
Tragedy
Casting Director
33. Medea - The Bacchae
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Euripides
Public Domain
Designer
34. 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
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Amateur Theatre
Vomitories
Community Theatre
35. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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36. Six elements - catharsis
Realism and Realistic Developments
Aeschylus
Antiquarianism
Aristotle
37. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Dramatic Genre
Comedy of Ideas
38. Planned actor movement
Euripides
Sense Memory
Commercial Theatre
Blocking
39. Part of What is included in the text
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Dialogue
Rising Action
Upstage
40. Imitation of character and action
Regional Theatre
Prose
Mimesis
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
41. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Linear Plot
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Dramatic Genre
Linear Plot
42. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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43. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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44. Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Antiquarianism
Subtext
Tragicomedy
45. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Eugene Scribe
Regional Theatre
Components of Concept
Affective Memory
46. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Emile Zola
Commedia Dell'Arte
Dramaturg
Avant-Garde
47. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
The Globe
Inciting Incident
Director
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
48. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Skene
Conflict
Eugene Scribe
49. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Designer
Copyright
Producer
50. Linear events progress forward in time
ostume Plot
Causal Play Structure
Linear Plot
Off-Broadway