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Theatre Appreciation
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Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Chorus
Light Plot
Climax
Causal Play Structure
2. High point of action
Climax
Naturalism
Meyerhold
Protagonist
3. Play reenacting biblical stories
Components of Concept
Euripides
Plot
Mystery Plays
4. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Vomitories
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Empathy
5. 500-1800 people
Aeschylus
Broadway
Prose
Hybrid Theatre
6. Based on the lives of the saints
Producer
Miracle Plays
Chorus
Avant-Garde
7. The standard tool for casting a production
Aristophanes
Auditions
Prose
Sense Memory
8. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
Empathy
Casting Director
Royalty
9. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Commercial Theatre
Character
Plot
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
10. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Antagonist
Reversal
Playwright
Verse
11. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Tragicomedy
Antagonist
Conflict
Representational Acting
12. The era we are currently in
Postmodernism
Front of House
Tragedy
Character
13. Ideas within the play
Comedy of Ideas
Thought
Dramaturg
Language
14. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Downstage
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Tragedy
15. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Auditions
Meyerhold
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
16. Someone who writes plays
Representational Approach
Melodrama (def)
Subplot
Playwright
17. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Rehearsal Process
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Aeschylus
18. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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19. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Rendering
Plato
Ground Plan
20. Events progress forward in time
Front of House
Linear Plot
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Orchestra
21. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Commercial Theatre
Chorus
Downstage
Callbacks
22. 'Storm and stress'
Non-Profit Theatre
Character
Konstantin Stanislavski
Sturm & Drang Movement
23. 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
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Henrik Ibsen
24. Planned actor movement
Protagonist
Reversal
Blocking
Royalty
25. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Dramaturg
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Causal Play Structure
Dialogue
26. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Actor
Dialogue
27. Busiest person in the theatre
Practical
Stage Manager
The Globe
Euripides
28. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Rehearsal Process
Empathy
Miracle Plays
Blocking
29. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Comedy of Character
Rehearsal Process
Educational Theatre
Melodrama (def)
30. Italians
Downstage
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Broadway
31. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Konstantin Stanislavski
Amateur Theatre
Aesthetic Distance
Rising Action
32. Greek - actor
Rising Action
Representational Approach
Casting Director
Hypokrites
33. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Educational Theatre
Representational Approach
Stage Manager
Lazzi
34. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Commedia Dell'Arte
Pageants
Climax
Slapstick
35. Busiest person in the theatre
Stage Manager
Ground Plan
Mimesis
Proscenium Space
36. Audience watches from 3 sides
Educational Theatre
Actor
Thrust Space
Bertolt Brecht
37. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Henrik Ibsen
Regional Theatre
Inciting Incident
Concept
38. Main character
Upstage
Protagonist
Aeschylus
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
39. Verse
Aeschylus
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Commercial Theatre
40. The first director
Copyright
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aristophanes
Bertolt Brecht
41. High point of action
Climax
Mystery Plays
Blocking
Causal Play Structure
42. Events progress forward in time
Hypokrites
Rising Action
Reversal
Linear Plot
43. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Educational Theatre
Comedy of Character
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
44. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Director
Antagonist
Ground Plan
Tragedy
45. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Plato
Educational Theatre
Rehearsal Process
Neoclassicism (def)
46. Focused on thought - controversial
Comedy of Ideas
Rising Action
Playwright
Plato
47. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Rising Action
Regional Theatre
Callbacks
Representational Acting
48. Events that set off a major conflict
The Globe
Dialogue
Pageants
Inciting Incident
49. 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
Causal Play Structure
Thrust Space
Ground Plan
Improv
50. 'Storm and stress'
Copyright
Konstantin Stanislavski
Broadway
Sturm & Drang Movement