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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Neoclassicism (def)
Casting Director
Thrust Space
2. The era we are currently in
Vomitories
Postmodernism
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Commercial Theatre
3. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Conflict
Actor
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Affective Memory
4. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
Dramaturg
Euripides
Downstage
5. Controls the environment in the theatre
Sophocles
Linear Plot
Renaissance
Designer
6. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Dramatic Genre
Proscenium Space
Orchestra
Comedy
7. Linear events progress forward in time
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Causal Play Structure
Cycles
The Box Set
8. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Verse
Antiquarianism
Tragedy
Producer
9. Works published before 1923
Callbacks
Public Domain
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Educational Theatre
10. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Casting Director
Designer
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
11. England's type of theatre
The Globe
Comedy of Ideas
Exposition
Designer
12. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mystery Plays
Public Domain
Copyright
Postmodernism
13. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Printing Press
University Wits
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Dialogue
14. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Commercial Theatre
Sturm & Drang Movement
Ground Plan
Sophocles
15. Proscenium arch/stage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Subtext
Non-Profit Theatre
Chorus
16. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Comedy of Character
Commercial Theatre
Callbacks
Causal Play Structure
17. High point of action
Royalty
Designer
Climax
Printing Press
18. Someone who writes plays
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Playwright
Euripides
Printing Press
19. Ideas within the play
Thought
Slapstick
Variables of Costume Design
Playwright
20. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Verisimilitude
Conflict
William Shakespeare
21. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Comedy of Ideas
Downstage
Representational Acting
Mimesis
22. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
The Box Set
Subplot
Henrik Ibsen
Thespis
23. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Public Domain
Antagonist
Rendering
24. Focused on thought - controversial
Anton Chekhov
Comedy of Ideas
Antagonist
Aristotle
25. 'Father of Realism'
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Hypokrites
Conflict
Henrik Ibsen
26. Information needed to understand the play
Eugene Scribe
Exposition
Melodrama
Aesthetic Distance
27. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
Theatre of Cruelty
Catharsis
Theatre of Cruelty
28. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Discovery
29. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Linear Plot
Discovery
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
30. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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31. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Components of Concept
Front of House
Theatron
Auditions
32. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Mystery Plays
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Pageants
33. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Causal Play Structure
Slapstick
Empathy
Emile Zola
34. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Sense Memory
Theatron
Community Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
35. Appearance of truth
Inciting Incident
Verisimilitude
Linear Plot
Character
36. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Off-Off-Broadway
Mimesis
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Inciting Incident
37. Italians
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Commedia Dell'Arte
Tragedy
Rising Action
38. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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39. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Reversal
Rehearsal Process
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Copyright
40. Proscenium arch/stage
Antiquarianism
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Representational Acting
Prose
41. Gas lights - etc.
Comedy of Ideas
Emile Zola
Melodrama
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
42. A type of performance in which dialogue and action are not planned ahead of time and written down - but are made of on the spot by the actors
Rising Action
Comedy of Manners
Improv
Callbacks
43. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Empathy
Conflict
Climax
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
44. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Non-Profit Theatre
Hypokrites
Konstantin Stanislavski
Rehearsal Process
45. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Neoclassicism (def)
Ensemble
Verisimilitude
Miracle Plays
46. Events progress forward in time
Linear Plot
Skene
Character
Auditions
47. Six elements - catharsis
Royalty
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Aristotle
Avant-Garde
48. 500-1800 people
Antagonist
Postmodernism
Sense Memory
Broadway
49. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Sophocles
Meander
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Postmodernism
50. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Casting Director
Sturm & Drang Movement
Ensemble