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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Controls the environment in the theatre
Theatron
Linear Plot
Off-Off-Broadway
Designer
2. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Non-Profit Theatre
Chorus
Proscenium Space
Commedia Dell'Arte
3. Italians
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Callbacks
Verse
4. Was poetry for many years
The Globe
Language
Thought
Melodrama (def)
5. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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6. Six elements - catharsis
Subtext
Aristotle
Royalty
Tragicomedy
7. Top of stage
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Playwright
Rendering
Upstage
8. Humorous - objective view point
Community Theatre
Director
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Comedy
9. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Morality Plays
Melodrama (def)
Aesthetic Distance
Representational Approach
10. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Postmodernism
Theatron
Slapstick
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
11. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
The Globe
Thrust Space
Off-Off-Broadway
12. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
The Box Set
Director
Meander
Antiquarianism
13. Medea - The Bacchae
Vomitories
Euripides
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Discovery
14. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Postmodernism
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Commercial Theatre
Amateur Theatre
15. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Auditions
Realism and Realistic Developments
Verse
16. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Comedy of Manners
Vomitories
Mimesis
17. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Concept
Antagonist
Callbacks
Subtext
18. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Lazzi
Discovery
Meander
Blocking
19. Ideas within the play
Subtext
Designer
Cycles
Thought
20. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
University Wits
Anton Chekhov
Aristotle
21. Causes trouble for the main character
Skene
Director
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Antagonist
22. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Discovery
Antiquarianism
Rising Action
Wings
23. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
ostume Plot
Hypokrites
Morality Plays
Theatron
24. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Plato
Variables of Costume Design
ostume Plot
25. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Dramatic Genre
Non-Profit Theatre
Discovery
Subtext
26. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Playwright
Meander
Comedy of Character
27. Audience watches from 3 sides
Dramatic Genre
Thrust Space
Tragedy
Fourth Wall
28. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Community Theatre
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Downstage
Plato
29. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Director
Theatre of Cruelty
Prose
Improv
30. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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31. Major character at odds with social expectations
Commedia Dell'Arte
Plot
Comedy of Manners
Empathy
32. 500-1800 people
Prose
Broadway
Climax
Actor
33. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Situation Comedy
Hybrid Theatre
Comedy of Manners
Callbacks
34. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Comedy of Ideas
Educational Theatre
Copyright
Auditions
35. Play reenacting biblical stories
Sense Memory
Henrik Ibsen
Mystery Plays
Presentational Approach
36. 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
Sophocles
Presentational Approach
Community Theatre
Naturalism
37. Focused on thought - controversial
Comedy
Sophocles
Comedy of Ideas
Verisimilitude
38. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Subtext
Amateur Theatre
Sophocles
Slapstick
39. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Designer
Representational Acting
Dramaturg
Black Box
40. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Director
Public Domain
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
41. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Anton Chekhov
Proscenium Space
Antagonist
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
42. Not many props or detailed scenery
Mimesis
Emile Zola
Renaissance
Playwright
43. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
University Wits
Designer
Off-Off-Broadway
Subplot
44. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Black Box
Commercial Theatre
Conflict
Morality Plays
45. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Regional Theatre
Ground Plan
The Box Set
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
46. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Renaissance
Protagonist
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Designer
47. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
University Wits
Empathy
Commedia Dell'Arte
48. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Melodrama
Plato
Discovery
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
49. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Educational Theatre
Comedy of Manners
Regional Theatre
Presentational Approach
50. Someone who writes plays
Playwright
Verse
University Wits
Empathy