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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Grammatically based
Prose
Royalty
Ensemble
Postmodernism
2. Time (play had to take place within a 24 hour period) - place (the whole play must take place in a single location) - and action (single plot)
Sense Memory
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Discovery
3. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Eugene Scribe
Downstage
Situation Comedy
Discovery
4. Organization of action
Plot
Affective Memory
Cycles
Downstage
5. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Character
Downstage
Representational Acting
6. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Sturm & Drang Movement
Subplot
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Black Box
7. Play reenacting biblical stories
Representational Acting
Falling Action
Casting Director
Mystery Plays
8. Proscenium space
The Box Set
Director
Theatre of Cruelty
Melodrama
9. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Antagonist
Rehearsal Process
Realism and Realistic Developments
10. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Protagonist
Sophocles
Concept
Commedia Dell'Arte
11. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Off-Off-Broadway
Plato
Sense Memory
Theatron
12. Someone who writes plays
Auditions
Non-Profit Theatre
Playwright
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
13. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
Variables of Costume Design
Morality Plays
Aristotle
14. Appearance of truth
Comedy of Manners
University Wits
Verisimilitude
Antagonist
15. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Naturalism
Subtext
Henrik Ibsen
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
16. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Light Plot
Antagonist
Representational Approach
Playwright
17. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Plot
Educational Theatre
Aristophanes
Sturm & Drang Movement
18. Ideas within the play
Sturm & Drang Movement
Comedy of Ideas
Causal Play Structure
Thought
19. Proscenium arch/stage
Subtext
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Sturm & Drang Movement
Anton Chekhov
20. Performs Actions of the Play
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Melodrama (def)
William Shakespeare
Character
21. Events that set off a major conflict
Inciting Incident
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Chorus
Dialogue
22. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Verse
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Subplot
23. The standard tool for casting a production
Miracle Plays
Auditions
Slapstick
Naturalism
24. Organization of action
Non-Profit Theatre
Catharsis
ostume Plot
Plot
25. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Discovery
Meyerhold
Dramatic Genre
Ensemble
26. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Callbacks
Verse
Pageants
Antagonist
27. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Aristophanes
Melodrama (def)
28. Top of stage
Henrik Ibsen
University Wits
Rehearsal Process
Upstage
29. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Off-Off-Broadway
Callbacks
Comedy of Character
Thespis
30. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Cycles
Printing Press
Mystery Plays
Aristotle
31. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Emile Zola
Language
University Wits
Fourth Wall
32. Was poetry for many years
Reversal
Director
Callbacks
Language
33. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Melodrama (def)
Plato
Melodrama (def)
Proscenium Space
34. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Situation Comedy
Reversal
Presentational Approach
35. High point of action
Climax
Antagonist
Causal Play Structure
Subtext
36. Play reenacting biblical stories
Aeschylus
Mystery Plays
Tragedy
Meyerhold
37. Person who embodies a character on stage
Neoclassicism (def)
Mystery Plays
Comedy of Character
Actor
38. Gas lights - etc.
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Catharsis
Stage Manager
Blocking
39. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Front of House
Melodrama
Character
Broadway
40. Major character at odds with social expectations
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Comedy of Manners
Dialogue
41. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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42. Linear events progress forward in time
Emile Zola
Euripides
Tragedy
Causal Play Structure
43. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Theatron
Comedy of Character
Causal Play Structure
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
44. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Non-Profit Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Designer
Amateur Theatre
45. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Hypokrites
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Dramatic Genre
Postmodernism
46. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Fourth Wall
Improv
Aeschylus
47. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Dramatic Genre
Naturalism
Inciting Incident
Broadway
48. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Producer
Hypokrites
Antiquarianism
49. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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50. Events progress forward in time
Representational Approach
Linear Plot
Slapstick
Educational Theatre