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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Controls the environment in the theatre
Pageants
Designer
Copyright
Printing Press
2. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Cycles
Linear Plot
The Globe
Concept
3. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Light Plot
Dramaturg
Presentational Approach
Orchestra
4. 500-1800 people
Practical
Aeschylus
Bertolt Brecht
Broadway
5. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
The Box Set
Sense Memory
Callbacks
Prose
6. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Protagonist
Cycles
Copyright
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
7. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Antagonist
Tragicomedy
Printing Press
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
8. Planned actor movement
Inciting Incident
Blocking
Playwright
Non-Profit Theatre
9. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Subplot
Producer
Prose
Affective Memory
10. Audience watches from 3 sides
Naturalism
Public Domain
Thrust Space
Dramatic Genre
11. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Realism and Realistic Developments
Inciting Incident
Ensemble
Components of Concept
12. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Downstage
Rehearsal Process
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
13. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Rendering
Situation Comedy
Aristotle
14. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Practical
Stage Manager
Concept
Amateur Theatre
15. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Copyright
Skene
Falling Action
16. Someone who writes plays
Improv
University Wits
Aeschylus
Playwright
17. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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18. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Light Plot
Thought
Representational Approach
Melodrama
19. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Commedia Dell'Arte
Pageants
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Situation Comedy
20. High point of action
Climax
Avant-Garde
Variables of Costume Design
Hypokrites
21. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Proscenium Space
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Naturalism
Tragicomedy
22. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Empathy
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Front of House
Ground Plan
23. Feel more in stage acting.
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Thought
Comedy
Neoclassicism (def)
24. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Avant-Garde
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
William Shakespeare
Subplot
25. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
The Globe
Exposition
Catharsis
26. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Fourth Wall
ostume Plot
The Globe
Language
27. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Verse
Climax
William Shakespeare
Black Box
28. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Realism and Realistic Developments
Comedy of Ideas
Amateur Theatre
Sturm & Drang Movement
29. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Language
Protagonist
Ensemble
30. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Causal Play Structure
Copyright
Downstage
Representational Approach
31. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Hybrid Theatre
Plot
Thespis
Regional Theatre
32. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Rendering
Wings
Hybrid Theatre
Conflict
33. The era we are currently in
Protagonist
Postmodernism
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
34. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Euripides
Plot
Lazzi
Off-Off-Broadway
35. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Community Theatre
Dramaturg
Reversal
Lazzi
36. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
University Wits
Meander
Tragicomedy
Black Box
37. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Thrust Space
Language
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
38. High point of action
Comedy
Climax
Designer
Neoclassicism (def)
39. Top of stage
Presentational Approach
Sophocles
Upstage
Catharsis
40. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Aeschylus
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Representational Acting
41. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Producer
Pageants
Miracle Plays
Plot
42. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Non-Profit Theatre
Morality Plays
Language
Theatron
43. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Reversal
Hybrid Theatre
Rising Action
Konstantin Stanislavski
44. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Variables of Costume Design
Realism and Realistic Developments
Climax
Verisimilitude
45. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
The Globe
Light Plot
46. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Aesthetic Distance
Printing Press
Variables of Costume Design
Actor
47. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Orchestra
Subtext
Concept
48. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Aesthetic Distance
Avant-Garde
Concept
Sense Memory
49. Busiest person in the theatre
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Variables of Costume Design
Casting Director
Stage Manager
50. Organization of action
Plot
Public Domain
Chorus
Linear Plot