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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. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Antagonist
Cycles
Variables of Costume Design
Thought
2. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Broadway
Morality Plays
Casting Director
Pageants
3. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Auditions
Falling Action
Downstage
Vomitories
4. Based on the lives of the saints
Miracle Plays
Melodrama (def)
Meander
Emile Zola
5. Writer and first actor
Exposition
Copyright
Mimesis
Thespis
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
Eugene Scribe
Proscenium Space
Community Theatre
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
7. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Plot
Aristophanes
Representational Acting
Verse
8. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Rehearsal Process
Plato
Callbacks
9. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Upstage
Ground Plan
10. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Melodrama
Thespis
Hybrid Theatre
Aristotle
11. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Rendering
Subtext
University Wits
Theatre of Cruelty
12. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Aristophanes
Melodrama (def)
Stage Manager
Konstantin Stanislavski
13. Was poetry for many years
Comedy
Verisimilitude
Language
Exposition
14. Proscenium space
Components of Concept
Downstage
The Box Set
Chorus
15. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Melodrama
Verse
Vomitories
16. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Presentational Approach
Broadway
Representational Approach
Lazzi
17. 'Storm and stress'
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aeschylus
Sturm & Drang Movement
Commercial Theatre
18. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Tragicomedy
Prose
Non-Profit Theatre
Morality Plays
19. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Skene
Non-Profit Theatre
Concept
Auditions
20. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Sturm & Drang Movement
The Globe
Conflict
Situation Comedy
21. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Tragedy
Comedy of Manners
Henrik Ibsen
22. Top of stage
Producer
Upstage
Actor
Falling Action
23. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Comedy of Manners
Situation Comedy
ostume Plot
Avant-Garde
24. A group of actors - not just one star
Stage Manager
Practical
Upstage
Ensemble
25. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Comedy of Character
Prose
Prose
Antiquarianism
26. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Comedy
ostume Plot
Broadway
27. Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Conflict
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Director
28. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Casting Director
Empathy
Tragicomedy
Presentational Approach
29. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Melodrama (def)
Conflict
Presentational Approach
Dramaturg
30. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Orchestra
Plot
Melodrama
Commercial Theatre
31. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Designer
Prose
Sense Memory
32. The era we are currently in
Renaissance
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Situation Comedy
Postmodernism
33. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Ensemble
Ground Plan
Tragedy
Subplot
34. Planned actor movement
Wings
Ensemble
Character
Blocking
35. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Chorus
Non-Profit Theatre
Naturalism
Dramaturg
36. Organization of action
Plot
Melodrama (def)
Designer
Theatron
37. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Non-Profit Theatre
Subplot
Renaissance
Comedy of Ideas
38. Busiest person in the theatre
Stage Manager
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Proscenium Space
Hypokrites
39. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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40. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Chorus
Conflict
Aeschylus
41. Series of short stories
Causal Play Structure
Practical
University Wits
Anton Chekhov
42. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Conflict
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Protagonist
ostume Plot
43. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Lazzi
Commercial Theatre
Neoclassicism (def)
Front of House
44. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Fourth Wall
Casting Director
Pageants
Practical
45. Causes trouble for the main character
Light Plot
Antagonist
Representational Acting
Verse
46. Play reenacting biblical stories
Comedy of Ideas
Mystery Plays
Representational Approach
Slapstick
47. The standard tool for casting a production
Auditions
Variables of Costume Design
Prose
Commedia Dell'Arte
48. A>B>C>D
Euripides
Bertolt Brecht
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Melodrama (def)
49. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Neoclassicism (def)
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Concept
Avant-Garde
50. Major character at odds with social expectations
Orchestra
Comedy of Manners
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Verisimilitude