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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Appearance of truth
Thespis
Playwright
Verisimilitude
Verse
2. 100-499 people
Upstage
Copyright
Off-Broadway
Public Domain
3. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Rendering
Upstage
Pageants
The Box Set
4. Proscenium space
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
The Box Set
Practical
Rehearsal Process
5. Medea - The Bacchae
Components of Concept
Discovery
Euripides
Melodrama
6. The era we are currently in
Meyerhold
Postmodernism
Language
Community Theatre
7. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
William Shakespeare
Royalty
Aesthetic Distance
Concept
8. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Dramatic Genre
Tragicomedy
Broadway
Orchestra
9. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Commedia Dell'Arte
Emile Zola
Variables of Costume Design
Rising Action
10. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Non-Profit Theatre
Rehearsal Process
Auditions
Antiquarianism
11. Imitation of character and action
Designer
Tragedy
Mimesis
Plato
12. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Falling Action
Postmodernism
Amateur Theatre
Neoclassicism (def)
13. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Affective Memory
Eugene Scribe
Dramatic Genre
Naturalism
14. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Naturalism
Antiquarianism
Aesthetic Distance
Cycles
15. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Hybrid Theatre
Representational Approach
Printing Press
Amateur Theatre
16. Linear events progress forward in time
Printing Press
Causal Play Structure
Dramatic Genre
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
17. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Orchestra
Tragedy
Comedy of Character
Off-Off-Broadway
18. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Orchestra
Printing Press
Cycles
Slapstick
19. Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Postmodernism
Bertolt Brecht
Aesthetic Distance
20. Top of stage
Copyright
Upstage
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Ground Plan
21. Feel more in stage acting.
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Tragicomedy
Anton Chekhov
22. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Public Domain
Regional Theatre
Morality Plays
Theatron
23. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Discovery
Amateur Theatre
Lazzi
Tragicomedy
24. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Inciting Incident
Exposition
Chorus
Causal Play Structure
25. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Konstantin Stanislavski
Meander
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Stage Manager
26. Works published before 1923
Climax
ostume Plot
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Public Domain
27. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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28. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Situation Comedy
Aeschylus
ostume Plot
University Wits
29. Causes trouble for the main character
Verisimilitude
Lazzi
Antagonist
Naturalism
30. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Designer
Rendering
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Ensemble
31. Person who embodies a character on stage
Thespis
Actor
Rendering
Morality Plays
32. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Aristotle
Plot
Wings
Melodrama
33. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Educational Theatre
Falling Action
University Wits
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
34. Part of What is included in the text
The Globe
Dialogue
Light Plot
Rehearsal Process
35. A fee for each performance
Playwright
Prose
Royalty
Representational Approach
36. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Non-Profit Theatre
Playwright
Light Plot
Producer
37. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Sense Memory
Sturm & Drang Movement
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Prose
38. Series of short stories
Actor
Plot
Comedy
Anton Chekhov
39. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Thought
Auditions
Tragedy
40. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Renaissance
Commedia Dell'Arte
Protagonist
Wings
41. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Avant-Garde
Bertolt Brecht
Comedy of Character
Skene
42. Grammatically based
Prose
Causal Play Structure
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Rehearsal Process
43. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Pageants
Comedy of Character
Theatre of Cruelty
Plot
44. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Henrik Ibsen
Public Domain
Subplot
Inciting Incident
45. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Off-Broadway
Copyright
46. 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)
Comedy
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Naturalism
47. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Front of House
ostume Plot
Commedia Dell'Arte
Dramatic Genre
48. Emotional release
Catharsis
Sense Memory
Realism and Realistic Developments
Royalty
49. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
Exposition
Commedia Dell'Arte
Off-Broadway
50. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Melodrama
Actor
Director