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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Chorus
Director
Representational Approach
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
2. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
Cycles
Regional Theatre
Naturalism
3. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Aristotle
Fourth Wall
Naturalism
Regional Theatre
4. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Concept
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Representational Approach
5. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Naturalism
Representational Acting
Copyright
Postmodernism
6. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Off-Off-Broadway
Designer
Naturalism
University Wits
7. 500-1800 people
Public Domain
Broadway
Public Domain
Comedy of Ideas
8. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Comedy of Character
Slapstick
Melodrama (def)
Sense Memory
9. Medea - The Bacchae
Comedy of Character
Euripides
Thought
Cycles
10. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Language
Meander
Producer
Playwright
11. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Presentational Approach
Wings
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Protagonist
12. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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13. The first director
Components of Concept
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Empathy
Verse
14. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Plato
Off-Off-Broadway
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
15. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Casting Director
Naturalism
Sense Memory
Aristotle
16. 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
Euripides
Thought
Improv
Realism and Realistic Developments
17. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Eugene Scribe
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Meander
Rendering
18. Writer and first actor
Rendering
Situation Comedy
Thespis
Verisimilitude
19. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Theatre of Cruelty
Subplot
Slapstick
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
20. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Bertolt Brecht
Character
Wings
Educational Theatre
21. The era we are currently in
Postmodernism
Comedy of Manners
Ensemble
Light Plot
22. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Proscenium Space
Empathy
Hybrid Theatre
Fourth Wall
23. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Concept
Emile Zola
Empathy
Light Plot
24. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Falling Action
Upstage
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
University Wits
25. Information needed to understand the play
Black Box
Falling Action
Exposition
Inciting Incident
26. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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27. Based on the lives of the saints
Concept
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Miracle Plays
Konstantin Stanislavski
28. Grammatically based
The Globe
Prose
Commedia Dell'Arte
Casting Director
29. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Situation Comedy
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Melodrama
The Globe
30. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Rehearsal Process
Slapstick
Representational Approach
Thespis
31. Focused on thought - controversial
Aeschylus
Playwright
Causal Play Structure
Comedy of Ideas
32. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Printing Press
Comedy of Character
Front of House
Neoclassicism (def)
33. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Pageants
Vomitories
Exposition
Public Domain
34. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Neoclassicism (def)
Melodrama (def)
Callbacks
Rehearsal Process
35. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
William Shakespeare
Improv
Community Theatre
36. Emotional release
Plato
Inciting Incident
Black Box
Catharsis
37. Information needed to understand the play
Theatre of Cruelty
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Plato
Exposition
38. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
Meander
Off-Off-Broadway
Rising Action
39. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Components of Concept
Black Box
Fourth Wall
Copyright
40. Performs Actions of the Play
Cycles
Character
Regional Theatre
Thought
41. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Representational Approach
Linear Plot
Aristophanes
Dramaturg
42. Events that set off a major conflict
Inciting Incident
Presentational Approach
Realism and Realistic Developments
Affective Memory
43. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Tragedy
Comedy of Manners
Theatre of Cruelty
The Globe
44. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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45. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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46. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Presentational Approach
Hybrid Theatre
Comedy of Ideas
Downstage
47. The first director
Dramaturg
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Royalty
Aristophanes
48. Proscenium arch/stage
Character
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Public Domain
Conflict
49. Linear events progress forward in time
Meander
Reversal
Chorus
Causal Play Structure
50. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Non-Profit Theatre
Presentational Approach
Printing Press
Comedy