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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Commercial Theatre
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Naturalism
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
2. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aeschylus
Comedy
Melodrama
Amateur Theatre
3. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Language
Dramatic Genre
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
4. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Meyerhold
Rendering
Commercial Theatre
Thrust Space
5. 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)
Aesthetic Distance
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Anton Chekhov
Aesthetic Distance
6. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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7. England's type of theatre
Black Box
The Globe
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
8. Top of stage
Practical
Thought
Upstage
Theatre of Cruelty
9. Six elements - catharsis
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Light Plot
Ensemble
Aristotle
10. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Emile Zola
Renaissance
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Melodrama
11. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Off-Broadway
Conflict
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Catharsis
12. Rhyming
Representational Acting
Off-Broadway
Verse
Broadway
13. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Realism and Realistic Developments
Regional Theatre
14. Performs Actions of the Play
Neoclassicism (def)
Avant-Garde
Character
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
15. Used alienation to encourage distance
Amateur Theatre
Prose
Bertolt Brecht
Commercial Theatre
16. Not many props or detailed scenery
Thought
Pageants
Renaissance
Presentational Approach
17. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Thespis
Dramatic Genre
Light Plot
18. Top of stage
Downstage
Upstage
Falling Action
Wings
19. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Public Domain
Ground Plan
Comedy of Character
20. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Exposition
Black Box
Renaissance
Orchestra
21. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Sturm & Drang Movement
Plot
University Wits
Climax
22. A>B>C>D
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Exposition
Public Domain
Royalty
23. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Orchestra
Cycles
Naturalism
24. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Producer
Reversal
Emile Zola
Comedy
25. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Linear Plot
Antiquarianism
William Shakespeare
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
26. The standard tool for casting a production
Comedy of Manners
Meyerhold
Auditions
Aristotle
27. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Antiquarianism
Language
Subtext
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
28. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Proscenium Space
Off-Off-Broadway
Regional Theatre
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
29. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Amateur Theatre
Slapstick
Aristophanes
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
30. Planned actor movement
Mimesis
Affective Memory
Sophocles
Blocking
31. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Representational Approach
Postmodernism
Tragedy
Proscenium Space
32. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Community Theatre
Dramaturg
Playwright
Auditions
33. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Reversal
Aeschylus
Casting Director
Royalty
34. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Melodrama
Avant-Garde
Components of Concept
Auditions
35. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Downstage
Anton Chekhov
Subtext
Verisimilitude
36. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Director
Pageants
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Designer
37. Writer and first actor
Avant-Garde
The Box Set
Thespis
Rehearsal Process
38. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
ostume Plot
Downstage
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
39. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Conflict
Public Domain
Plot
Producer
40. 'Storm and stress'
Commedia Dell'Arte
Empathy
Concept
Sturm & Drang Movement
41. Someone who writes plays
Rehearsal Process
Ground Plan
Thespis
Playwright
42. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Konstantin Stanislavski
ostume Plot
43. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Emile Zola
Linear Plot
Discovery
Comedy of Manners
44. Events progress forward in time
Situation Comedy
Rising Action
Linear Plot
Improv
45. Was poetry for many years
Broadway
Subplot
Language
Director
46. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Situation Comedy
Slapstick
Sense Memory
Aesthetic Distance
47. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Sturm & Drang Movement
Morality Plays
Proscenium Space
Educational Theatre
48. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Broadway
Thought
Melodrama
Rehearsal Process
49. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Verisimilitude
Meander
Stage Manager
Callbacks
50. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Auditions
Catharsis
Printing Press
Variables of Costume Design