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Theatre Appreciation

Subject : performing-arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters






2. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience






3. A fee for each performance






4. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.






5. Verse






6. Feel more in stage acting.






7. Someone who writes plays






8. Proscenium arch/stage






9. Play reenacting biblical stories






10. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals






11. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)






12. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations






13. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept






14. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area






15. Humorous - objective view point






16. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre






17. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience






18. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days






19. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays






20. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space






21. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung






22. Planned actor movement






23. The standard tool for casting a production






24. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area






25. Greek - actor






26. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays






27. Organization of action






28. Rhyming






29. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor






30. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations






31. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's






32. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality






33. Rejection of neoclassicism -






34. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial






35. Gas lights - etc.






36. Imitation of character and action






37. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited






38. Rejection of neoclassicism -






39. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead






40. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate






41. Proscenium space






42. Major character at odds with social expectations






43. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events






44. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them






45. Main character






46. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging






47. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events






48. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's






49. The audience seating are 'sitting place'






50. 'Father of Realism'