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Theatre Appreciation
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Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Top of stage
Upstage
Situation Comedy
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Thought
2. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Dialogue
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Situation Comedy
Public Domain
3. Medea - The Bacchae
Mystery Plays
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Designer
Euripides
4. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Actor
Character
Thought
Wings
5. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Comedy
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Tragedy
Linear Plot
6. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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7. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Ground Plan
Comedy of Manners
Commedia Dell'Arte
8. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Comedy
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Wings
9. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Aesthetic Distance
Euripides
Variables of Costume Design
Meander
10. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Representational Approach
Protagonist
Plato
Presentational Approach
11. England's type of theatre
The Box Set
The Globe
Morality Plays
Meander
12. Events that set off a major conflict
Commercial Theatre
Renaissance
Inciting Incident
Dialogue
13. Major character at odds with social expectations
Tragedy
Causal Play Structure
Discovery
Comedy of Manners
14. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Royalty
Neoclassicism (def)
University Wits
Amateur Theatre
15. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Tragedy
University Wits
Producer
Tragicomedy
16. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
Light Plot
Climax
Postmodernism
17. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Off-Off-Broadway
Hypokrites
Exposition
18. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Downstage
Skene
Conflict
Thought
19. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Comedy
Variables of Costume Design
Meander
20. Ideas within the play
Thought
William Shakespeare
Theatron
Ensemble
21. The standard tool for casting a production
Auditions
Melodrama (def)
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
22. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Rising Action
Components of Concept
Situation Comedy
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
23. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Aesthetic Distance
Comedy of Character
Protagonist
24. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Aristotle
Emile Zola
Henrik Ibsen
Director
25. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
ostume Plot
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Plato
26. 'Father of Realism'
Royalty
Inciting Incident
Henrik Ibsen
Rising Action
27. Not many props or detailed scenery
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Renaissance
Ground Plan
Anton Chekhov
28. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Light Plot
Situation Comedy
Inciting Incident
Dialogue
29. Rhyming
Catharsis
Verse
Subplot
Off-Broadway
30. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Comedy
Plot
Light Plot
Educational Theatre
31. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Eugene Scribe
Reversal
Postmodernism
Representational Approach
32. Writer and first actor
Thought
Thespis
Commercial Theatre
Callbacks
33. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Orchestra
Skene
Character
Dramatic Genre
34. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
University Wits
Subplot
Representational Acting
Copyright
35. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Commedia Dell'Arte
Rehearsal Process
Non-Profit Theatre
Printing Press
36. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Emile Zola
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Verse
Theatron
37. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Empathy
Light Plot
Subtext
Konstantin Stanislavski
38. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Hybrid Theatre
Plato
Representational Acting
Concept
39. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Sense Memory
Royalty
Director
Bertolt Brecht
40. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Prose
Rendering
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Light Plot
41. Was poetry for many years
Euripides
Henrik Ibsen
Copyright
Language
42. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Miracle Plays
Concept
Skene
43. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Black Box
Variables of Costume Design
Situation Comedy
Character
44. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Meander
Inciting Incident
Copyright
Chorus
45. 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)
Variables of Costume Design
Amateur Theatre
Sturm & Drang Movement
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
46. Greek - actor
Hypokrites
Improv
Subplot
Fourth Wall
47. Proscenium space
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
The Box Set
Stage Manager
Regional Theatre
48. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle
Melodrama
Dialogue
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
49. Audience watches from 3 sides
Meyerhold
Comedy
Thrust Space
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
50. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Comedy
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?