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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Meyerhold
Black Box
Plato
Protagonist
2. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Ensemble
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Tragedy
3. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Morality Plays
Representational Approach
Konstantin Stanislavski
Royalty
4. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Subtext
Character
Catharsis
Subplot
5. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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6. Top of stage
Eugene Scribe
Upstage
Language
Rendering
7. Person who embodies a character on stage
Copyright
Catharsis
Actor
Neoclassicism (def)
8. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Rising Action
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Eugene Scribe
Reversal
9. Information needed to understand the play
Meander
Exposition
Theatre of Cruelty
Postmodernism
10. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Meander
Slapstick
Miracle Plays
Aristophanes
11. Rhyming
Aesthetic Distance
Discovery
Ensemble
Verse
12. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Causal Play Structure
Comedy
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Tragedy
13. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Commedia Dell'Arte
Meander
Naturalism
Producer
14. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Practical
Meander
Dialogue
Language
15. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Royalty
Exposition
Prose
Fourth Wall
16. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Practical
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Aesthetic Distance
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
17. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Melodrama (def)
Copyright
Meyerhold
Emile Zola
18. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Dramaturg
Tragicomedy
Cycles
Renaissance
19. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Vomitories
Sturm & Drang Movement
Climax
Chorus
20. Focused on thought - controversial
ostume Plot
Comedy
Antagonist
Comedy of Ideas
21. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Linear Plot
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Naturalism
22. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Regional Theatre
Comedy of Character
Falling Action
23. Performs Actions of the Play
Comedy of Character
Blocking
Character
Realism and Realistic Developments
24. Not many props or detailed scenery
Comedy of Manners
Causal Play Structure
Renaissance
Variables of Costume Design
25. Emotional release
Variables of Costume Design
Rehearsal Process
Comedy of Ideas
Catharsis
26. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Comedy of Character
Broadway
Mystery Plays
Fourth Wall
27. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Antagonist
Comedy of Character
Lazzi
Emile Zola
28. 100-499 people
The Box Set
Proscenium Space
ostume Plot
Off-Broadway
29. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Character
Aristophanes
Producer
Amateur Theatre
30. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Copyright
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Emile Zola
Naturalism
31. Controls the environment in the theatre
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Verisimilitude
Designer
Off-Broadway
32. 'Storm and stress'
Auditions
Sturm & Drang Movement
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Antiquarianism
33. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Discovery
Ground Plan
Henrik Ibsen
Vomitories
34. The era we are currently in
Verse
Postmodernism
Realism and Realistic Developments
Prose
35. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
Thespis
Light Plot
Theatron
36. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Non-Profit Theatre
Avant-Garde
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Tragedy
37. Not many props or detailed scenery
Plato
Tragedy
Renaissance
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
38. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
ostume Plot
Prose
Plato
Melodrama
39. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Sense Memory
Mimesis
Conflict
40. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Amateur Theatre
Verisimilitude
Theatron
Sturm & Drang Movement
41. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aeschylus
Theatron
Off-Broadway
Concept
42. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Rendering
Discovery
Director
Morality Plays
43. Gas lights - etc.
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Theatron
Subtext
Subtext
44. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Reversal
Catharsis
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Slapstick
45. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Mimesis
Black Box
Upstage
Educational Theatre
46. Top of stage
Commedia Dell'Arte
Hypokrites
Upstage
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
47. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Off-Broadway
Presentational Approach
Plato
Lazzi
48. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
The Globe
Dramaturg
Morality Plays
Climax
49. Rejection of neoclassicism -
William Shakespeare
Tragedy
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Konstantin Stanislavski
50. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Non-Profit Theatre
Plot
Tragedy
Actor