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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Representational Approach
Copyright
Royalty
Rising Action
2. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Non-Profit Theatre
Copyright
Callbacks
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
3. Person who embodies a character on stage
Actor
Aesthetic Distance
Concept
Thespis
4. Appearance of truth
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Black Box
Aristophanes
Verisimilitude
5. High point of action
Upstage
Producer
Broadway
Climax
6. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Comedy
Eugene Scribe
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Naturalism
7. Grammatically based
Royalty
Prose
Thrust Space
Commedia Dell'Arte
8. Imitation of character and action
Aesthetic Distance
Mimesis
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Blocking
9. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Protagonist
Renaissance
Situation Comedy
Wings
10. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Casting Director
Presentational Approach
Rendering
Aristophanes
11. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Auditions
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Front of House
Chorus
12. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Regional Theatre
Ground Plan
13. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Affective Memory
Comedy of Ideas
14. A>B>C>D
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Orchestra
Aristophanes
ostume Plot
15. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Tragedy
Comedy of Ideas
Regional Theatre
Wings
16. Medea - The Bacchae
Avant-Garde
Educational Theatre
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Euripides
17. England's type of theatre
Ensemble
The Globe
Comedy of Ideas
Thought
18. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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19. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Subplot
Upstage
Antiquarianism
Renaissance
20. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Practical
Aesthetic Distance
Meander
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
21. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Protagonist
Reversal
Mimesis
Rehearsal Process
22. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Community Theatre
Comedy of Character
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Reversal
23. Used alienation to encourage distance
Chorus
Rising Action
Bertolt Brecht
Skene
24. Causes trouble for the main character
Neoclassicism (def)
Non-Profit Theatre
Antagonist
Subtext
25. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
The Globe
Dialogue
Meander
Falling Action
26. Gas lights - etc.
Wings
Melodrama
Plot
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
27. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Downstage
Regional Theatre
Subplot
Director
28. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Language
Playwright
ostume Plot
29. The era we are currently in
Aristophanes
Ensemble
Postmodernism
Anton Chekhov
30. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Affective Memory
Inciting Incident
Regional Theatre
Proscenium Space
31. Works published before 1923
Auditions
Producer
Plot
Public Domain
32. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Bertolt Brecht
Commedia Dell'Arte
Catharsis
33. A group of actors - not just one star
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Ensemble
Character
Representational Acting
34. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Front of House
Dialogue
Inciting Incident
Proscenium Space
35. Rhyming
Melodrama (def)
Verse
Emile Zola
Meyerhold
36. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Educational Theatre
Non-Profit Theatre
Actor
Commercial Theatre
37. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Variables of Costume Design
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Avant-Garde
Printing Press
38. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Hypokrites
Pageants
Catharsis
Rendering
39. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Miracle Plays
Off-Off-Broadway
Presentational Approach
William Shakespeare
40. Someone who writes plays
Representational Approach
Broadway
Playwright
Thought
41. Italians
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Renaissance
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Conflict
42. Top of stage
Presentational Approach
Cycles
Upstage
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
43. 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)
Concept
Morality Plays
Rehearsal Process
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
44. Busiest person in the theatre
Skene
Stage Manager
Melodrama (def)
Orchestra
45. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Catharsis
Proscenium Space
Royalty
46. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Ground Plan
Callbacks
Antagonist
Meander
47. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Aesthetic Distance
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Language
Conflict
48. 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
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Community Theatre
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Rehearsal Process
49. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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50. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Skene
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Verse
Avant-Garde