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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. England's type of theatre
Community Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
The Globe
Aesthetic Distance
2. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Cycles
Melodrama (def)
Casting Director
Blocking
3. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Orchestra
Variables of Costume Design
4. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Educational Theatre
Thrust Space
5. High point of action
Director
Climax
Sophocles
Verse
6. Based on the lives of the saints
Playwright
Miracle Plays
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
7. Events progress forward in time
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Rehearsal Process
Linear Plot
Thought
8. Planned actor movement
Comedy of Manners
Dialogue
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Blocking
9. Focused on thought - controversial
Black Box
Melodrama
Comedy of Ideas
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
10. Amateur theatre in which shows are created by residents of a particular area who come together without being part of a professional or academic institution
Representational Approach
Theatre of Cruelty
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Community Theatre
11. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Director
Conflict
Aristophanes
Rehearsal Process
12. 500-1800 people
Broadway
Hypokrites
Protagonist
Character
13. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Royalty
Actor
Subtext
Naturalism
14. Organization of action
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Plot
Character
Affective Memory
15. Main character
Casting Director
Protagonist
Discovery
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
16. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Morality Plays
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Rendering
Pageants
17. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Morality Plays
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Aesthetic Distance
Theatre of Cruelty
18. Focused on thought - controversial
Concept
Comedy of Ideas
Affective Memory
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
19. Used alienation to encourage distance
Orchestra
Bertolt Brecht
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Printing Press
20. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Eugene Scribe
Commedia Dell'Arte
Hybrid Theatre
21. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Anton Chekhov
Blocking
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Postmodernism
22. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Konstantin Stanislavski
Stage Manager
Emile Zola
Subtext
23. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
Dramatic Genre
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Realism and Realistic Developments
24. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Stage Manager
Light Plot
Callbacks
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
25. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Eugene Scribe
Sturm & Drang Movement
Prose
Melodrama (def)
26. Amateur theatre in which shows are created by residents of a particular area who come together without being part of a professional or academic institution
Community Theatre
Falling Action
Ground Plan
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
27. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Affective Memory
Empathy
Emile Zola
Realism and Realistic Developments
28. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Theatron
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Variables of Costume Design
Sense Memory
29. Causes trouble for the main character
Blocking
Concept
Antagonist
Chorus
30. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Affective Memory
Aristophanes
Rendering
31. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Neoclassicism (def)
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Dramatic Genre
Proscenium Space
32. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aeschylus
Protagonist
Concept
Catharsis
33. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Antagonist
Protagonist
The Box Set
34. The standard tool for casting a production
Community Theatre
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Auditions
Printing Press
35. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Anton Chekhov
Subtext
Emile Zola
Callbacks
36. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Thrust Space
Henrik Ibsen
Sturm & Drang Movement
Aeschylus
37. Works published before 1923
Pageants
Public Domain
Meyerhold
Actor
38. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Plot
Callbacks
Henrik Ibsen
39. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
Pageants
The Globe
Designer
40. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Aristotle
Comedy
Mystery Plays
Aesthetic Distance
41. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Chorus
Character
Neoclassicism (def)
Postmodernism
42. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
Antagonist
Commercial Theatre
Rehearsal Process
43. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Front of House
Causal Play Structure
Non-Profit Theatre
Auditions
44. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Pageants
Inciting Incident
Sophocles
Presentational Approach
45. Medea - The Bacchae
Euripides
Practical
Verisimilitude
Sturm & Drang Movement
46. Events progress forward in time
Theatron
Linear Plot
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
47. A>B>C>D
Situation Comedy
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Playwright
Dramatic Genre
48. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Sense Memory
Antagonist
Variables of Costume Design
Conflict
49. Grammatically based
Dialogue
Prose
Thespis
Sophocles
50. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Situation Comedy
Realism and Realistic Developments
Exposition
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character