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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Someone who writes plays
Tragicomedy
Thrust Space
Playwright
Wings
2. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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3. Not many props or detailed scenery
Ground Plan
Thespis
Renaissance
Character
4. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Eugene Scribe
Fourth Wall
Melodrama (def)
5. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Melodrama
Mimesis
Realism and Realistic Developments
Dialogue
6. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Hypokrites
Renaissance
Tragedy
Proscenium Space
7. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Representational Acting
Vomitories
Antiquarianism
Aristotle
8. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Pageants
Avant-Garde
Renaissance
Subplot
9. Main character
Educational Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Protagonist
Dialogue
10. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Actor
Proscenium Space
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
11. Italians
Postmodernism
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Vomitories
Thespis
12. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
ostume Plot
Eugene Scribe
Components of Concept
Reversal
13. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Character
Konstantin Stanislavski
Producer
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
14. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Components of Concept
Meander
Producer
15. Person who embodies a character on stage
Actor
Auditions
Public Domain
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
16. Top of stage
Plato
Upstage
Melodrama (def)
Off-Broadway
17. A>B>C>D
Plot
Concept
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Dramatic Genre
18. Top of stage
Commercial Theatre
Plato
Upstage
Prose
19. Writer and first actor
Thespis
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Morality Plays
Lazzi
20. Controls the environment in the theatre
Hybrid Theatre
Light Plot
Designer
Comedy
21. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Affective Memory
Wings
Pageants
22. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Skene
Naturalism
Affective Memory
Konstantin Stanislavski
23. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Theatre of Cruelty
Situation Comedy
Presentational Approach
Comedy of Ideas
24. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Theatron
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Ground Plan
25. Events that set off a major conflict
Improv
Rendering
Inciting Incident
Situation Comedy
26. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Representational Acting
Off-Off-Broadway
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
27. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Slapstick
Aristotle
Theatre of Cruelty
28. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Downstage
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Thespis
Commercial Theatre
29. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Tragedy
Light Plot
Community Theatre
Dialogue
30. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Slapstick
Broadway
Konstantin Stanislavski
31. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Mystery Plays
Stage Manager
Rendering
Affective Memory
32. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Orchestra
Dialogue
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Situation Comedy
33. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Antagonist
Antagonist
Lazzi
Concept
34. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Melodrama (def)
Lazzi
Educational Theatre
Casting Director
35. Person who embodies a character on stage
Royalty
Actor
Rising Action
Wings
36. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Proscenium Space
Chorus
Meyerhold
Amateur Theatre
37. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Actor
Dramaturg
Sense Memory
Amateur Theatre
38. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Copyright
Protagonist
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Producer
39. Based on the lives of the saints
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Miracle Plays
Producer
Conflict
40. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Exposition
Black Box
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Callbacks
41. The standard tool for casting a production
Rising Action
Eugene Scribe
William Shakespeare
Auditions
42. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Chorus
Orchestra
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Community Theatre
43. Part of What is included in the text
Dialogue
Neoclassicism (def)
Designer
Rehearsal Process
44. Feel more in stage acting.
Meander
Mystery Plays
Naturalism
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
45. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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46. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Empathy
Producer
Front of House
47. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Morality Plays
Practical
Downstage
Sense Memory
48. Not many props or detailed scenery
Regional Theatre
Renaissance
Aeschylus
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
49. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Situation Comedy
Printing Press
Wings
Antagonist
50. The first director
Commercial Theatre
Tragicomedy
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Duke of Saxe Meiningen