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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Medea - The Bacchae
Euripides
Language
Anton Chekhov
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
2. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Actor
Mystery Plays
Plato
Rendering
3. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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4. The first director
Hypokrites
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Off-Off-Broadway
Casting Director
5. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Naturalism
Wings
Climax
Commercial Theatre
6. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Stage Manager
Concept
Presentational Approach
Fourth Wall
7. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Plato
Royalty
Hypokrites
8. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Regional Theatre
Antiquarianism
Cycles
Presentational Approach
9. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Bertolt Brecht
William Shakespeare
Empathy
Broadway
10. 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)
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Cycles
Thrust Space
Hypokrites
11. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Euripides
Rehearsal Process
Theatron
Falling Action
12. Busiest person in the theatre
Variables of Costume Design
Off-Broadway
Improv
Stage Manager
13. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Inciting Incident
Commercial Theatre
Callbacks
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
14. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Sophocles
Cycles
Thought
Orchestra
15. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Situation Comedy
Melodrama (def)
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Components of Concept
16. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Light Plot
Lazzi
Causal Play Structure
Aesthetic Distance
17. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Plato
Components of Concept
Sophocles
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
18. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Meander
Hybrid Theatre
Realism and Realistic Developments
Wings
19. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
The Box Set
Meyerhold
Upstage
Henrik Ibsen
20. Performs Actions of the Play
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Rehearsal Process
Downstage
Character
21. 500-1800 people
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Lazzi
Aristotle
Broadway
22. The era we are currently in
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Postmodernism
Producer
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
23. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Situation Comedy
Director
Avant-Garde
Plot
24. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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25. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Subplot
Language
Front of House
Catharsis
26. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Presentational Approach
Casting Director
Henrik Ibsen
Skene
27. 100-499 people
Subplot
Director
Chorus
Off-Broadway
28. Writer and first actor
Antagonist
Thespis
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
29. Main character
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Protagonist
30. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Aristotle
The Box Set
Subtext
31. Proscenium space
Affective Memory
The Box Set
Ensemble
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
32. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Antiquarianism
Off-Off-Broadway
Thought
Regional Theatre
33. Feel more in stage acting.
Meander
Subtext
Commedia Dell'Arte
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
34. Greek - actor
Hypokrites
Theatre of Cruelty
ostume Plot
Chorus
35. England's type of theatre
Verisimilitude
Climax
The Globe
Morality Plays
36. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Morality Plays
Comedy
Variables of Costume Design
Thespis
37. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Tragicomedy
Educational Theatre
Situation Comedy
Commedia Dell'Arte
38. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy of Manners
Neoclassicism (def)
Ground Plan
Verisimilitude
39. Imitation of character and action
Tragicomedy
Casting Director
Meander
Mimesis
40. Humorous - objective view point
Miracle Plays
Comedy
Vomitories
Language
41. Visible light source on stage
Broadway
Fourth Wall
Thespis
Practical
42. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Causal Play Structure
Aristophanes
Callbacks
Meander
43. Organization of action
Thought
Plot
Aeschylus
Avant-Garde
44. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Presentational Approach
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Comedy of Character
William Shakespeare
45. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Improv
Variables of Costume Design
William Shakespeare
Plot
46. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mystery Plays
Exposition
Plato
The Globe
47. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Wings
Downstage
The Box Set
Commercial Theatre
48. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
The Globe
The Box Set
Comedy of Manners
Naturalism
49. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Wings
Director
Proscenium Space
Royalty
50. Was poetry for many years
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Designer
Rising Action
Language