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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A>B>C>D
Tragicomedy
Chorus
Verse
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
2. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Designer
Naturalism
Comedy of Character
Downstage
3. A>B>C>D
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
The Box Set
Subtext
Inciting Incident
4. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Ground Plan
William Shakespeare
Director
5. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Sophocles
William Shakespeare
Playwright
Hybrid Theatre
6. Part of What is included in the text
Actor
Dialogue
Dramatic Genre
Hypokrites
7. Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Mystery Plays
Thought
8. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Playwright
Proscenium Space
Neoclassicism (def)
Aesthetic Distance
9. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Pageants
Meyerhold
Light Plot
Rehearsal Process
10. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Concept
Pageants
Subplot
11. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Prose
Broadway
Downstage
Falling Action
12. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Eugene Scribe
Lazzi
The Globe
Sense Memory
13. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Chorus
Casting Director
Inciting Incident
Theatron
14. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Off-Off-Broadway
Discovery
Producer
Downstage
15. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Cycles
Variables of Costume Design
16. Humorous - objective view point
Broadway
Sturm & Drang Movement
Emile Zola
Comedy
17. The era we are currently in
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Bertolt Brecht
Postmodernism
18. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Stage Manager
Black Box
Emile Zola
Falling Action
19. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Components of Concept
Realism and Realistic Developments
20. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Postmodernism
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Sense Memory
Dramatic Genre
21. Proscenium space
Variables of Costume Design
The Box Set
Anton Chekhov
Realism and Realistic Developments
22. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Konstantin Stanislavski
Sophocles
Neoclassicism (def)
Designer
23. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Educational Theatre
Tragicomedy
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Components of Concept
24. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Hybrid Theatre
Dramaturg
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Front of House
25. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Hypokrites
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Emile Zola
Character
26. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Thespis
Exposition
Hybrid Theatre
Rendering
27. Appearance of truth
Playwright
Cycles
University Wits
Verisimilitude
28. 'Storm and stress'
Front of House
Emile Zola
Sturm & Drang Movement
Meander
29. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Theatron
William Shakespeare
Proscenium Space
Avant-Garde
30. The first director
Thought
Plot
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
31. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Royalty
Theatre of Cruelty
Comedy of Character
Melodrama
32. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Melodrama
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Affective Memory
33. England's type of theatre
The Globe
Off-Broadway
Thought
Reversal
34. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Avant-Garde
Concept
Representational Acting
Discovery
35. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Morality Plays
Playwright
Sense Memory
Wings
36. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Commedia Dell'Arte
Dramaturg
Chorus
Tragedy
37. Series of short stories
Orchestra
Anton Chekhov
Off-Off-Broadway
Casting Director
38. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Verse
The Box Set
Chorus
Auditions
39. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Affective Memory
Proscenium Space
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Comedy of Manners
40. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Linear Plot
Comedy
Plot
Comedy of Character
41. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Callbacks
Broadway
Theatron
Discovery
42. Rhyming
Verse
Sophocles
Linear Plot
Educational Theatre
43. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Situation Comedy
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Subtext
Konstantin Stanislavski
44. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Educational Theatre
Mystery Plays
Proscenium Space
Callbacks
45. Used alienation to encourage distance
Antagonist
Bertolt Brecht
Causal Play Structure
Melodrama (def)
46. Focused on thought - controversial
Affective Memory
Printing Press
Comedy of Ideas
Off-Broadway
47. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Lazzi
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Proscenium Space
48. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Subplot
Light Plot
Off-Off-Broadway
Postmodernism
49. Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Meyerhold
Blocking
Verisimilitude
50. Greek - actor
Rehearsal Process
Theatron
Hypokrites
Non-Profit Theatre