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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Rhyming
Light Plot
Verse
Slapstick
Comedy of Character
2. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Designer
Dramaturg
Educational Theatre
3. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Falling Action
Neoclassicism (def)
Postmodernism
Slapstick
4. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Morality Plays
Sophocles
Dramatic Genre
Tragedy
5. Audience watches from 3 sides
Sturm & Drang Movement
Public Domain
Thrust Space
Dialogue
6. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Situation Comedy
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Light Plot
Chorus
7. England's type of theatre
Affective Memory
The Globe
Character
Causal Play Structure
8. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Hybrid Theatre
Comedy of Ideas
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Meyerhold
9. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Non-Profit Theatre
Tragedy
Mystery Plays
Thespis
10. The standard tool for casting a production
Exposition
Auditions
ostume Plot
Front of House
11. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Plato
Plot
Components of Concept
Comedy of Manners
12. Based on the lives of the saints
Commercial Theatre
Miracle Plays
Presentational Approach
Downstage
13. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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14. A type of performance in which dialogue and action are not planned ahead of time and written down - but are made of on the spot by the actors
Subtext
Emile Zola
Improv
Miracle Plays
15. Focused on thought - controversial
Dramaturg
Aeschylus
Comedy of Ideas
Rehearsal Process
16. The first director
Cycles
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Hybrid Theatre
Concept
17. Italians
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Copyright
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Royalty
18. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Henrik Ibsen
Euripides
Realism and Realistic Developments
Theatron
19. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle
Black Box
Commercial Theatre
Emile Zola
20. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Auditions
Theatre of Cruelty
University Wits
Mystery Plays
21. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Black Box
Concept
Orchestra
22. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Prose
Morality Plays
Orchestra
23. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Commercial Theatre
Casting Director
Protagonist
Hypokrites
24. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Catharsis
Plato
Actor
Public Domain
25. 'Father of Realism'
Orchestra
Henrik Ibsen
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Aristophanes
26. Ideas within the play
Thought
Falling Action
Sturm & Drang Movement
Language
27. A group of actors - not just one star
Ensemble
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Meyerhold
Upstage
28. Medea - The Bacchae
Prose
Cycles
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Euripides
29. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Amateur Theatre
Vomitories
Subtext
Ensemble
30. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Protagonist
Discovery
Prose
Slapstick
31. Organization of action
Avant-Garde
Plot
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Vomitories
32. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Sense Memory
Tragedy
Dialogue
Situation Comedy
33. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Auditions
Slapstick
Inciting Incident
Plot
34. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Causal Play Structure
Variables of Costume Design
Rising Action
Royalty
35. Busiest person in the theatre
Aesthetic Distance
Stage Manager
Sense Memory
The Globe
36. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Off-Off-Broadway
Chorus
Antiquarianism
Comedy of Ideas
37. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Sense Memory
Practical
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Producer
38. Feel more in stage acting.
Situation Comedy
Theatre of Cruelty
ostume Plot
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
39. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Sturm & Drang Movement
Naturalism
Realism and Realistic Developments
Director
40. Emotional release
Catharsis
Avant-Garde
Affective Memory
Public Domain
41. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Casting Director
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Regional Theatre
Eugene Scribe
42. Series of short stories
Avant-Garde
Concept
Anton Chekhov
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
43. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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44. Someone who writes plays
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Neoclassicism (def)
Playwright
Theatron
45. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Black Box
Avant-Garde
Dramaturg
46. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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47. 100-499 people
Off-Broadway
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Public Domain
Aristotle
48. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Tragicomedy
Sense Memory
Comedy of Manners
49. Gas lights - etc.
Actor
Melodrama (def)
Theatre of Cruelty
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
50. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Variables of Costume Design
Melodrama
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre