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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Plot
Orchestra
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
2. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Inciting Incident
Copyright
Reversal
Antiquarianism
3. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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4. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Pageants
Catharsis
Front of House
Aristophanes
5. The era we are currently in
Verse
Mystery Plays
Postmodernism
Aristophanes
6. Proscenium arch/stage
Off-Broadway
The Box Set
Avant-Garde
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
7. Linear events progress forward in time
Subplot
Presentational Approach
Causal Play Structure
The Box Set
8. Main character
Neoclassicism (def)
Lazzi
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Protagonist
9. The first director
Bertolt Brecht
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Orchestra
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
10. Verse
Variables of Costume Design
Antagonist
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Playwright
11. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Empathy
University Wits
Exposition
Reversal
12. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Reversal
Affective Memory
Miracle Plays
Inciting Incident
13. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Representational Acting
Educational Theatre
Reversal
Aristotle
14. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Tragedy
Neoclassicism (def)
Educational Theatre
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
15. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Sophocles
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Anton Chekhov
16. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Representational Approach
Avant-Garde
Broadway
Character
17. Rhyming
Verse
The Globe
Theatre of Cruelty
Hybrid Theatre
18. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Slapstick
University Wits
Sense Memory
Mimesis
19. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Dialogue
Off-Off-Broadway
Sophocles
Playwright
20. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Dramaturg
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Components of Concept
Neoclassicism (def)
21. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Royalty
Chorus
Situation Comedy
Subtext
22. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Light Plot
Representational Acting
Royalty
23. 'Storm and stress'
Thought
Sturm & Drang Movement
Aristophanes
Emile Zola
24. Causes trouble for the main character
Public Domain
Antagonist
The Globe
Bertolt Brecht
25. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Tragicomedy
Konstantin Stanislavski
Realism and Realistic Developments
Practical
26. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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27. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Mystery Plays
Slapstick
Non-Profit Theatre
Morality Plays
28. 100-499 people
Off-Broadway
Morality Plays
Anton Chekhov
Meander
29. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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30. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Rendering
Plot
Antagonist
Meyerhold
31. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Plato
Off-Off-Broadway
Comedy of Ideas
Theatre of Cruelty
32. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Copyright
Anton Chekhov
Presentational Approach
Exposition
33. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Mystery Plays
Ground Plan
Prose
34. Focused on thought - controversial
Climax
Neoclassicism (def)
Comedy of Ideas
Rendering
35. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Light Plot
Comedy of Ideas
Meyerhold
Sense Memory
36. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Stage Manager
Discovery
Dramaturg
Tragedy
37. Feel more in stage acting.
Konstantin Stanislavski
Regional Theatre
Naturalism
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
38. Planned actor movement
Stage Manager
Callbacks
Aesthetic Distance
Blocking
39. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Educational Theatre
Neoclassicism (def)
Meyerhold
Henrik Ibsen
40. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
Comedy of Ideas
University Wits
Dialogue
41. Part of What is included in the text
Thrust Space
Dialogue
Empathy
Falling Action
42. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Pageants
Front of House
Downstage
Verse
43. Greek - actor
Hypokrites
Inciting Incident
Sophocles
Postmodernism
44. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Meyerhold
Situation Comedy
Educational Theatre
Aesthetic Distance
45. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Naturalism
Discovery
Aeschylus
William Shakespeare
46. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Aesthetic Distance
Dialogue
Theatron
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
47. Part of What is included in the text
Exposition
Blocking
Postmodernism
Dialogue
48. A>B>C>D
Comedy
Meander
Amateur Theatre
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
49. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Thespis
Light Plot
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Variables of Costume Design
50. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Situation Comedy
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities