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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Six elements - catharsis
Realism and Realistic Developments
Aristotle
Dramaturg
Comedy of Character
2. The standard tool for casting a production
Auditions
Broadway
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Playwright
3. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Subtext
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Tragicomedy
Dramatic Genre
4. Person who embodies a character on stage
Tragicomedy
Mystery Plays
Vomitories
Actor
5. Grammatically based
Rendering
Downstage
Slapstick
Prose
6. Events progress forward in time
Linear Plot
University Wits
Mystery Plays
Henrik Ibsen
7. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Verisimilitude
Rehearsal Process
Anton Chekhov
Educational Theatre
8. 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
Dramatic Genre
Community Theatre
Eugene Scribe
Broadway
9. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Non-Profit Theatre
Morality Plays
Comedy
Variables of Costume Design
10. Information needed to understand the play
Exposition
Postmodernism
Causal Play Structure
Educational Theatre
11. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Inciting Incident
Director
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Sense Memory
12. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Cycles
Melodrama
Language
Comedy
13. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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14. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Causal Play Structure
Theatron
Comedy of Character
Aristophanes
15. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Hybrid Theatre
Naturalism
Protagonist
Printing Press
16. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Language
Rendering
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Eugene Scribe
17. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Off-Off-Broadway
Black Box
Subplot
Catharsis
18. A group of actors - not just one star
Callbacks
Ensemble
Rendering
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
19. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Verse
Affective Memory
Ensemble
20. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Orchestra
Mystery Plays
Henrik Ibsen
Downstage
21. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Skene
Improv
22. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Comedy of Ideas
Discovery
Ensemble
Neoclassicism (def)
23. A fee for each performance
Aeschylus
Ground Plan
Wings
Royalty
24. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
Off-Off-Broadway
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Renaissance
25. Verse
Improv
Chorus
Blocking
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
26. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Chorus
Broadway
Amateur Theatre
ostume Plot
27. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Comedy of Ideas
Ground Plan
Commedia Dell'Arte
Non-Profit Theatre
28. Information needed to understand the play
Hybrid Theatre
Ensemble
Exposition
Upstage
29. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Public Domain
Meyerhold
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Producer
30. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Tragicomedy
Climax
Lazzi
31. Causes trouble for the main character
Commercial Theatre
Casting Director
Antagonist
Climax
32. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Comedy of Character
Blocking
The Globe
Emile Zola
33. Gas lights - etc.
Ensemble
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Pageants
34. Verse
Practical
Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Director
35. Planned actor movement
Eugene Scribe
Character
Pageants
Blocking
36. Was poetry for many years
Language
Concept
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
37. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Rehearsal Process
Theatre of Cruelty
Actor
38. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Casting Director
Vomitories
Sense Memory
Actor
39. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Plot
Dramaturg
Royalty
Situation Comedy
40. Play reenacting biblical stories
Postmodernism
Chorus
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Mystery Plays
41. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
The Box Set
Reversal
Aeschylus
Naturalism
42. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Miracle Plays
Pageants
Sophocles
The Globe
43. Feel more in stage acting.
Rendering
Protagonist
Slapstick
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
44. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Variables of Costume Design
Sense Memory
Representational Approach
Rehearsal Process
45. Writer and first actor
Thespis
Regional Theatre
Ground Plan
Verisimilitude
46. Proscenium space
Causal Play Structure
The Box Set
Blocking
Theatron
47. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Commercial Theatre
Konstantin Stanislavski
Downstage
Character
48. A>B>C>D
Antagonist
Public Domain
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Upstage
49. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Subtext
Situation Comedy
Conflict
Miracle Plays
50. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Community Theatre
William Shakespeare
Blocking