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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Mimesis
Meyerhold
Comedy of Character
Tragedy
2. Six elements - catharsis
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Naturalism
Comedy of Manners
Aristotle
3. Used alienation to encourage distance
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Sophocles
Casting Director
Bertolt Brecht
4. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Plato
Subtext
Auditions
5. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Causal Play Structure
Meyerhold
Representational Approach
Commercial Theatre
6. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Plato
Amateur Theatre
Stage Manager
Dramatic Genre
7. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Realism and Realistic Developments
Plot
Miracle Plays
Renaissance
8. Visible light source on stage
Verisimilitude
William Shakespeare
Practical
Cycles
9. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aeschylus
Eugene Scribe
Realism and Realistic Developments
Meyerhold
10. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Upstage
Theatron
Downstage
Regional Theatre
11. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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12. Not many props or detailed scenery
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Empathy
Euripides
Renaissance
13. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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14. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Comedy of Character
Upstage
Pageants
Producer
15. 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
Aristotle
Prose
Downstage
Community Theatre
16. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Exposition
Meander
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Comedy of Character
17. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Euripides
Light Plot
The Globe
Lazzi
18. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Theatre of Cruelty
Theatron
Vomitories
Components of Concept
19. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Comedy of Character
Causal Play Structure
Casting Director
Mimesis
20. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Climax
Thought
Vomitories
Copyright
21. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Variables of Costume Design
Comedy of Ideas
Sturm & Drang Movement
Concept
22. 100-499 people
Off-Broadway
Eugene Scribe
Neoclassicism (def)
Public Domain
23. The first director
ostume Plot
Regional Theatre
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Rehearsal Process
24. Writer and first actor
Thespis
Konstantin Stanislavski
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Front of House
25. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Mystery Plays
Rehearsal Process
Miracle Plays
Tragedy
26. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
Thought
Director
Dialogue
27. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
University Wits
Chorus
Conflict
Language
28. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Thespis
Hypokrites
Off-Broadway
29. The first director
Situation Comedy
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Language
Melodrama
30. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Lazzi
Aristotle
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Theatron
31. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Cycles
Hypokrites
Naturalism
Producer
32. Performs Actions of the Play
Verisimilitude
Aristophanes
Character
Variables of Costume Design
33. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Thrust Space
Slapstick
Printing Press
Neoclassicism (def)
34. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Casting Director
Antiquarianism
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Public Domain
35. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Dialogue
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Sophocles
Theatre of Cruelty
36. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Neoclassicism (def)
Konstantin Stanislavski
Anton Chekhov
37. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Black Box
Rendering
Stage Manager
Proscenium Space
38. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Proscenium Space
Conflict
Plato
Konstantin Stanislavski
39. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Affective Memory
Front of House
Dramaturg
Meander
40. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Comedy of Character
Royalty
Morality Plays
Bertolt Brecht
41. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Variables of Costume Design
Thespis
Presentational Approach
Comedy of Character
42. Information needed to understand the play
Meyerhold
Exposition
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
43. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Regional Theatre
Dialogue
Dramatic Genre
Casting Director
44. Visible light source on stage
Callbacks
William Shakespeare
Practical
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
45. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Henrik Ibsen
Orchestra
Upstage
Rehearsal Process
46. Major character at odds with social expectations
Dramaturg
Chorus
Emile Zola
Comedy of Manners
47. A group of actors - not just one star
Fourth Wall
Ensemble
Orchestra
Concept
48. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Chorus
Rehearsal Process
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
49. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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50. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Hybrid Theatre
Proscenium Space
Plato
Rehearsal Process