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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Major character at odds with social expectations
Mystery Plays
Comedy of Manners
Euripides
University Wits
2. Visible light source on stage
Avant-Garde
Practical
Downstage
William Shakespeare
3. A>B>C>D
Regional Theatre
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Actor
Causal Play Structure
4. Ideas within the play
Plato
Thought
Stage Manager
Dialogue
5. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Realism and Realistic Developments
Components of Concept
Non-Profit Theatre
Causal Play Structure
6. Amateur theatre in which shows are created by residents of a particular area who come together without being part of a professional or academic institution
Community Theatre
Auditions
Comedy of Ideas
Aristophanes
7. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Producer
Neoclassicism (def)
Renaissance
Mimesis
8. 'Father of Realism'
Henrik Ibsen
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Anton Chekhov
The Box Set
9. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Meander
Wings
Educational Theatre
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
10. Events progress forward in time
Eugene Scribe
Ground Plan
Orchestra
Linear Plot
11. Verse
Sturm & Drang Movement
Producer
Thespis
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
12. Planned actor movement
Stage Manager
Theatron
Blocking
Broadway
13. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Neoclassicism (def)
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Subplot
Situation Comedy
14. High point of action
Climax
Proscenium Space
Antiquarianism
Representational Approach
15. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Subplot
Comedy of Manners
Sophocles
Proscenium Space
16. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Verse
Emile Zola
Anton Chekhov
Stage Manager
17. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Actor
Chorus
Tragedy
Downstage
18. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
19. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Representational Acting
Dramatic Genre
Linear Plot
William Shakespeare
20. Appearance of truth
Off-Off-Broadway
Chorus
Verisimilitude
Light Plot
21. Works published before 1923
Comedy of Manners
Public Domain
The Box Set
Stage Manager
22. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Antagonist
Meander
Off-Broadway
Empathy
23. Not many props or detailed scenery
Meyerhold
Public Domain
Renaissance
Chorus
24. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Comedy of Character
William Shakespeare
Language
Educational Theatre
25. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Off-Off-Broadway
Downstage
Meander
Comedy
26. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Commedia Dell'Arte
Dramaturg
Amateur Theatre
27. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
William Shakespeare
Plot
Producer
Renaissance
28. Medea - The Bacchae
Representational Acting
Euripides
Off-Broadway
Casting Director
29. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Comedy of Manners
Royalty
Blocking
30. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Empathy
The Globe
Components of Concept
Auditions
31. Writer and first actor
William Shakespeare
Linear Plot
Emile Zola
Thespis
32. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Climax
Sense Memory
33. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mystery Plays
Designer
Producer
Front of House
34. Gas lights - etc.
Tragedy
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Printing Press
Comedy
35. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Auditions
Lazzi
Thought
Subplot
36. 500-1800 people
Ground Plan
Broadway
Skene
Downstage
37. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
Casting Director
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Euripides
38. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Conflict
Tragedy
Comedy
39. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
Auditions
Dramatic Genre
Realism and Realistic Developments
40. Events that set off a major conflict
Avant-Garde
Inciting Incident
Thrust Space
Climax
41. Grammatically based
Skene
Aristophanes
Dialogue
Prose
42. Greek - actor
Hypokrites
Comedy of Character
Fourth Wall
Inciting Incident
43. Someone who writes plays
Rising Action
Director
Producer
Playwright
44. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Dramaturg
Anton Chekhov
Tragedy
Ensemble
45. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Exposition
Copyright
Antiquarianism
Language
46. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Ground Plan
Commercial Theatre
Verse
Casting Director
47. 'Father of Realism'
Falling Action
Henrik Ibsen
Situation Comedy
Casting Director
48. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Public Domain
Pageants
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Theatre of Cruelty
49. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Improv
Light Plot
Blocking
50. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Theatron
Copyright
Situation Comedy
Falling Action