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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Skene
Konstantin Stanislavski
Affective Memory
Plato
2. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Front of House
Renaissance
Tragicomedy
3. A fee for each performance
Rising Action
Royalty
Mimesis
Aesthetic Distance
4. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Producer
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Antagonist
William Shakespeare
5. Verse
Comedy of Manners
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Thespis
Inciting Incident
6. Feel more in stage acting.
Sophocles
Proscenium Space
Ground Plan
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
7. Someone who writes plays
Rendering
Aeschylus
Playwright
Producer
8. Proscenium arch/stage
Off-Off-Broadway
Postmodernism
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Lazzi
9. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mystery Plays
Designer
Falling Action
Comedy of Manners
10. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
The Box Set
Conflict
Affective Memory
11. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Ensemble
Public Domain
Rendering
Lazzi
12. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Upstage
Protagonist
Hybrid Theatre
Sophocles
13. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Plot
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
The Box Set
Lazzi
14. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Prose
Thespis
Comedy of Character
Vomitories
15. Humorous - objective view point
Hybrid Theatre
Comedy
Chorus
Representational Acting
16. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Front of House
Rendering
University Wits
Lazzi
17. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
Educational Theatre
Avant-Garde
Royalty
18. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Dialogue
Cycles
Concept
Pageants
19. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Dramatic Genre
William Shakespeare
Exposition
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
20. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Actor
Verisimilitude
Inciting Incident
21. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Casting Director
Non-Profit Theatre
Light Plot
ostume Plot
22. Planned actor movement
Royalty
Causal Play Structure
Comedy of Manners
Blocking
23. The standard tool for casting a production
Regional Theatre
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Auditions
Protagonist
24. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Prose
Linear Plot
Vomitories
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
25. Greek - actor
Commercial Theatre
Hypokrites
Practical
Subplot
26. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Prose
William Shakespeare
Designer
27. Organization of action
ostume Plot
Plot
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Conflict
28. Rhyming
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Verse
The Globe
Blocking
29. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Causal Play Structure
Tragedy
Sophocles
Climax
30. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Prose
Actor
Situation Comedy
Emile Zola
31. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Causal Play Structure
Callbacks
Avant-Garde
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
32. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Avant-Garde
Director
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Presentational Approach
33. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Thrust Space
Playwright
Playwright
34. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Off-Off-Broadway
Slapstick
Fourth Wall
Aesthetic Distance
35. Gas lights - etc.
Situation Comedy
Rehearsal Process
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
36. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Renaissance
ostume Plot
Concept
37. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Wings
Callbacks
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
38. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Dialogue
Concept
Orchestra
39. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Meander
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Mimesis
Ground Plan
40. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Renaissance
Director
Plot
Printing Press
41. Proscenium space
Verisimilitude
Melodrama (def)
Protagonist
The Box Set
42. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy of Manners
Presentational Approach
Emile Zola
Public Domain
43. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Sense Memory
Hypokrites
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Sturm & Drang Movement
44. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Aristotle
Rehearsal Process
Sturm & Drang Movement
45. Main character
Protagonist
Light Plot
Sturm & Drang Movement
Meander
46. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Light Plot
Black Box
Pageants
Sturm & Drang Movement
47. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Eugene Scribe
Representational Approach
Presentational Approach
Sense Memory
48. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Meander
Melodrama (def)
Avant-Garde
Language
49. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Comedy of Manners
Theatron
Regional Theatre
50. 'Father of Realism'
Non-Profit Theatre
Language
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Henrik Ibsen