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Theatre Appreciation
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Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A fee for each performance
Royalty
Lazzi
Sturm & Drang Movement
Meander
2. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Konstantin Stanislavski
Theatron
Callbacks
Sophocles
3. Verse
Prose
Sophocles
Mystery Plays
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
4. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Upstage
Plato
Empathy
Verse
5. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Wings
Aristotle
Comedy of Character
6. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Hybrid Theatre
Slapstick
Vomitories
Euripides
7. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Avant-Garde
ostume Plot
Designer
Amateur Theatre
8. Audience watches from 3 sides
Practical
Thrust Space
Producer
Morality Plays
9. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Orchestra
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
10. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Empathy
Educational Theatre
Upstage
University Wits
11. Major character at odds with social expectations
Anton Chekhov
Discovery
Renaissance
Comedy of Manners
12. Six elements - catharsis
Educational Theatre
Variables of Costume Design
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Aristotle
13. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Cycles
Concept
14. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Dramaturg
Hybrid Theatre
Thespis
Producer
15. Person who embodies a character on stage
Auditions
Actor
Upstage
Conflict
16. Used alienation to encourage distance
Realism and Realistic Developments
Bertolt Brecht
Educational Theatre
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
17. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Dramatic Genre
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
18. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Dramaturg
Light Plot
Orchestra
Euripides
19. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Amateur Theatre
ostume Plot
Commedia Dell'Arte
Concept
20. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Protagonist
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Tragedy
Director
21. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Aristotle
Sophocles
Inciting Incident
Reversal
22. Was poetry for many years
Anton Chekhov
Language
Ensemble
Non-Profit Theatre
23. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Bertolt Brecht
Off-Off-Broadway
Educational Theatre
Representational Acting
24. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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25. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
The Box Set
Empathy
Skene
Components of Concept
26. Was poetry for many years
Comedy of Character
Variables of Costume Design
Language
Comedy of Manners
27. Information needed to understand the play
Exposition
Producer
Broadway
Community Theatre
28. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Community Theatre
Pageants
Upstage
Postmodernism
29. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Plato
Falling Action
Chorus
Rehearsal Process
30. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Mimesis
Morality Plays
Climax
Components of Concept
31. Information needed to understand the play
The Box Set
Comedy
Theatron
Exposition
32. Humorous - objective view point
Royalty
Educational Theatre
Comedy
Casting Director
33. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Mimesis
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Avant-Garde
Verisimilitude
34. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Mystery Plays
Dialogue
Rehearsal Process
Sturm & Drang Movement
35. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Black Box
University Wits
Auditions
Verse
36. Grammatically based
Pageants
Prose
Rendering
Plato
37. Play reenacting biblical stories
Affective Memory
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Protagonist
Mystery Plays
38. Busiest person in the theatre
Stage Manager
Reversal
The Box Set
Sturm & Drang Movement
39. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Conflict
Rehearsal Process
Character
Linear Plot
40. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Dialogue
Morality Plays
Thespis
41. Part of What is included in the text
Dialogue
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Amateur Theatre
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
42. 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)
Representational Approach
Wings
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Renaissance
43. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Stage Manager
Hypokrites
Regional Theatre
44. 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
Verse
Improv
Causal Play Structure
Morality Plays
45. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
University Wits
Practical
Morality Plays
Konstantin Stanislavski
46. Visible light source on stage
The Globe
Practical
Inciting Incident
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
47. The standard tool for casting a production
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Character
Fourth Wall
Auditions
48. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Reversal
Comedy of Character
Practical
Discovery
49. Busiest person in the theatre
Playwright
Dramaturg
Stage Manager
Mimesis
50. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Orchestra
Light Plot
Producer