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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. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Realism and Realistic Developments
Reversal
Designer
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
2. Events progress forward in time
Aesthetic Distance
Verse
Linear Plot
Casting Director
3. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Chorus
Downstage
Meander
Emile Zola
4. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Educational Theatre
Broadway
5. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Regional Theatre
Designer
Konstantin Stanislavski
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
6. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Orchestra
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Representational Acting
Director
7. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
8. 100-499 people
ostume Plot
Off-Broadway
Slapstick
Situation Comedy
9. Italians
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Downstage
Dialogue
10. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
William Shakespeare
Non-Profit Theatre
Components of Concept
Mimesis
11. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Off-Off-Broadway
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Melodrama
Inciting Incident
12. Major character at odds with social expectations
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Comedy of Manners
Theatre of Cruelty
Tragicomedy
13. Part of What is included in the text
Playwright
Konstantin Stanislavski
Improv
Dialogue
14. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Presentational Approach
Aristophanes
Theatron
Avant-Garde
15. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Public Domain
Downstage
Presentational Approach
Representational Approach
16. Based on the lives of the saints
Avant-Garde
Naturalism
Copyright
Miracle Plays
17. Performs Actions of the Play
Thought
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Meander
Character
18. England's type of theatre
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Downstage
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
The Globe
19. Focused on thought - controversial
Empathy
Prose
Comedy of Ideas
Melodrama (def)
20. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Henrik Ibsen
Character
Vomitories
21. England's type of theatre
The Globe
Verisimilitude
Emile Zola
ostume Plot
22. A fee for each performance
Melodrama (def)
Downstage
Antagonist
Royalty
23. Person who embodies a character on stage
Actor
Director
Inciting Incident
Aristotle
24. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Presentational Approach
Upstage
Euripides
Meyerhold
25. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Callbacks
Hypokrites
Tragicomedy
Mystery Plays
26. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Climax
Copyright
Comedy
Falling Action
27. Events that set off a major conflict
Conflict
Character
Inciting Incident
Verisimilitude
28. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Cycles
Rehearsal Process
Commedia Dell'Arte
Hybrid Theatre
29. Someone who writes plays
Black Box
Henrik Ibsen
Chorus
Playwright
30. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Thought
Emile Zola
Linear Plot
31. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Hybrid Theatre
Morality Plays
Dramaturg
Prose
32. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Konstantin Stanislavski
Tragedy
Printing Press
Vomitories
33. Person who embodies a character on stage
Chorus
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Thespis
Actor
34. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Aristotle
Affective Memory
The Box Set
35. Was poetry for many years
Language
Commercial Theatre
Miracle Plays
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
36. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Exposition
Protagonist
Printing Press
Antiquarianism
37. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Konstantin Stanislavski
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
The Globe
38. Audience watches from 3 sides
Cycles
Thrust Space
Conflict
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
39. Events progress forward in time
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Linear Plot
Naturalism
Empathy
40. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Antiquarianism
Melodrama
41. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Mimesis
Reversal
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Affective Memory
42. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Prose
Lazzi
ostume Plot
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
43. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Pageants
Character
Variables of Costume Design
Amateur Theatre
44. Planned actor movement
Fourth Wall
Blocking
Comedy of Character
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
45. Grammatically based
Prose
Orchestra
Exposition
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
46. Gas lights - etc.
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Rehearsal Process
Plato
Discovery
47. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Thespis
Regional Theatre
48. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Proscenium Space
Amateur Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
Verse
49. 'Father of Realism'
Henrik Ibsen
Practical
Public Domain
Neoclassicism (def)
50. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
Variables of Costume Design
Callbacks
Aristotle