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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Busiest person in the theatre
Variables of Costume Design
Language
Stage Manager
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
2. Gas lights - etc.
Henrik Ibsen
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Plato
Naturalism
3. Rhyming
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Wings
Verse
4. High point of action
Rising Action
Climax
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Rehearsal Process
5. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Inciting Incident
Concept
Rehearsal Process
ostume Plot
6. Writer and first actor
Character
Character
Thespis
Pageants
7. Audience watches from 3 sides
Sturm & Drang Movement
Verse
Inciting Incident
Thrust Space
8. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mimesis
Light Plot
Meyerhold
Mystery Plays
9. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Plot
Morality Plays
Upstage
Plato
10. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Euripides
Henrik Ibsen
Comedy of Character
Tragedy
11. A fee for each performance
Reversal
Royalty
Thespis
Realism and Realistic Developments
12. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Neoclassicism (def)
Sense Memory
Off-Broadway
Components of Concept
13. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Comedy of Character
Light Plot
Linear Plot
Chorus
14. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Fourth Wall
Aristophanes
Off-Broadway
15. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Anton Chekhov
Reversal
Causal Play Structure
Black Box
16. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Presentational Approach
Verse
Front of House
Melodrama
17. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
Verisimilitude
Hybrid Theatre
Variables of Costume Design
18. Appearance of truth
Light Plot
Verisimilitude
Exposition
Reversal
19. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Broadway
Sophocles
The Box Set
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
20. Proscenium arch/stage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Morality Plays
Melodrama
Antiquarianism
21. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Chorus
Callbacks
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Producer
22. Linear events progress forward in time
Affective Memory
Lazzi
Causal Play Structure
Antagonist
23. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Sophocles
Mimesis
Non-Profit Theatre
Designer
24. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Morality Plays
Blocking
Bertolt Brecht
25. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Theatron
Public Domain
Discovery
Mimesis
26. Grammatically based
Thrust Space
Director
Naturalism
Prose
27. Not many props or detailed scenery
Copyright
Renaissance
Rendering
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
28. Main character
Protagonist
Emile Zola
Henrik Ibsen
Prose
29. Feel more in stage acting.
Henrik Ibsen
Black Box
Meyerhold
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
30. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Commercial Theatre
Stage Manager
Dramatic Genre
Meander
31. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Aesthetic Distance
Fourth Wall
Aesthetic Distance
Avant-Garde
32. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Subplot
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Off-Broadway
33. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Naturalism
Proscenium Space
34. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Reversal
Aeschylus
Ensemble
Skene
35. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Proscenium Space
Antagonist
Anton Chekhov
Printing Press
36. Controls the environment in the theatre
Character
Rising Action
Linear Plot
Designer
37. The first director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Euripides
The Box Set
38. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Theatron
Theatre of Cruelty
Commercial Theatre
Off-Broadway
39. Controls the environment in the theatre
Naturalism
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Designer
Emile Zola
40. Top of stage
Upstage
Empathy
Aesthetic Distance
Sophocles
41. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Conflict
Language
Improv
Morality Plays
42. A fee for each performance
Royalty
Henrik Ibsen
Ensemble
Auditions
43. 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
Comedy of Manners
Public Domain
Sturm & Drang Movement
Improv
44. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Vomitories
Postmodernism
Printing Press
Catharsis
45. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Skene
Character
Theatron
Reversal
46. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Dramaturg
Cycles
Front of House
Plot
47. 'Storm and stress'
Sturm & Drang Movement
Ground Plan
Community Theatre
Casting Director
48. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Thespis
Emile Zola
Stage Manager
Morality Plays
49. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Director
William Shakespeare
Emile Zola
50. Based on the lives of the saints
Black Box
Light Plot
Miracle Plays
Thought