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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Vomitories
Renaissance
Realism and Realistic Developments
Stage Manager
2. Italians
Protagonist
Falling Action
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Hybrid Theatre
3. Ideas within the play
Sturm & Drang Movement
Thought
Variables of Costume Design
Thrust Space
4. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Black Box
Pageants
Rehearsal Process
Theatron
5. Play reenacting biblical stories
Royalty
Subplot
Mystery Plays
Conflict
6. Gas lights - etc.
Casting Director
Meander
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Empathy
7. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Variables of Costume Design
Sophocles
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
8. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Anton Chekhov
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Actor
Tragicomedy
9. Verse
Dialogue
Sophocles
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Lazzi
10. A fee for each performance
Melodrama (def)
Sturm & Drang Movement
Royalty
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
11. Part of What is included in the text
Light Plot
Dialogue
Meander
Educational Theatre
12. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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13. Organization of action
Plot
Lazzi
Anton Chekhov
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
14. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Educational Theatre
Printing Press
Components of Concept
Antagonist
15. Rhyming
Commercial Theatre
Regional Theatre
Community Theatre
Verse
16. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Eugene Scribe
Proscenium Space
Educational Theatre
Affective Memory
17. Controls the environment in the theatre
Presentational Approach
Designer
Regional Theatre
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
18. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Aristophanes
Upstage
Empathy
Comedy of Character
19. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
Producer
Lazzi
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
20. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Aristotle
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Dramaturg
Representational Approach
21. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Mimesis
Regional Theatre
Broadway
22. England's type of theatre
The Globe
Playwright
Variables of Costume Design
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
23. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Public Domain
Blocking
University Wits
24. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Regional Theatre
Sense Memory
Konstantin Stanislavski
Dialogue
25. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Lazzi
Proscenium Space
Reversal
Slapstick
26. Events that set off a major conflict
Presentational Approach
Regional Theatre
Inciting Incident
Lazzi
27. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Konstantin Stanislavski
William Shakespeare
Light Plot
Practical
28. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Theatre of Cruelty
Variables of Costume Design
Aristotle
Comedy of Manners
29. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Community Theatre
Aristophanes
Mimesis
Casting Director
30. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Verisimilitude
Concept
Chorus
Sturm & Drang Movement
31. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Ensemble
Subplot
Components of Concept
Reversal
32. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Concept
Language
Antiquarianism
Printing Press
33. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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34. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
ostume Plot
Ensemble
Ground Plan
Antiquarianism
35. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Sturm & Drang Movement
Miracle Plays
Ensemble
36. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Climax
Rendering
Representational Acting
Community Theatre
37. Based on the lives of the saints
Plato
Naturalism
Callbacks
Miracle Plays
38. Imitation of character and action
Meander
Mimesis
Chorus
Eugene Scribe
39. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Community Theatre
Director
Meyerhold
Anton Chekhov
40. Time (play had to take place within a 24 hour period) - place (the whole play must take place in a single location) - and action (single plot)
Eugene Scribe
Variables of Costume Design
Inciting Incident
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
41. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Off-Broadway
Printing Press
Representational Acting
Comedy of Character
42. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Renaissance
Amateur Theatre
Falling Action
Auditions
43. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Bertolt Brecht
Sense Memory
Rehearsal Process
44. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Verisimilitude
Tragedy
Ground Plan
Blocking
45. Grammatically based
Black Box
Prose
Variables of Costume Design
Bertolt Brecht
46. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Discovery
Improv
Representational Acting
Anton Chekhov
47. Major character at odds with social expectations
Hybrid Theatre
Comedy of Manners
Situation Comedy
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
48. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Downstage
Hypokrites
Light Plot
Upstage
49. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Casting Director
Theatron
Konstantin Stanislavski
50. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Verse
Eugene Scribe
Avant-Garde
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character