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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Used alienation to encourage distance
Renaissance
Auditions
Bertolt Brecht
Linear Plot
2. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Downstage
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
3. Play reenacting biblical stories
Thespis
Rendering
Mystery Plays
Casting Director
4. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Protagonist
Aristophanes
Situation Comedy
Commedia Dell'Arte
5. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Cycles
Situation Comedy
Conflict
Public Domain
6. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Rehearsal Process
Orchestra
Aristophanes
Falling Action
7. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Plato
Skene
Prose
8. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Concept
Affective Memory
Thespis
Comedy of Ideas
9. Verse
Broadway
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Miracle Plays
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
10. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Language
Melodrama
William Shakespeare
Hypokrites
11. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Thrust Space
Amateur Theatre
Falling Action
ostume Plot
12. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Printing Press
Realism and Realistic Developments
Front of House
13. Series of short stories
Melodrama
Amateur Theatre
Printing Press
Anton Chekhov
14. Play reenacting biblical stories
Vomitories
Representational Approach
Plato
Mystery Plays
15. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Plato
Slapstick
Variables of Costume Design
Wings
16. England's type of theatre
The Globe
Printing Press
Dramaturg
Concept
17. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Amateur Theatre
Plot
Skene
Lazzi
18. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Climax
Causal Play Structure
Antiquarianism
19. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Casting Director
Director
Front of House
Protagonist
20. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Conflict
Callbacks
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
21. Proscenium space
Hypokrites
Plato
The Box Set
Sturm & Drang Movement
22. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Comedy of Manners
Falling Action
Bertolt Brecht
Discovery
23. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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24. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Chorus
Affective Memory
Slapstick
25. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Miracle Plays
Antiquarianism
Light Plot
Sophocles
26. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Comedy of Character
Amateur Theatre
Eugene Scribe
Emile Zola
27. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Light Plot
Neoclassicism (def)
Affective Memory
Rendering
28. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Dramaturg
Off-Broadway
Rendering
Sense Memory
29. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Eugene Scribe
Emile Zola
Melodrama (def)
Dramaturg
30. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Light Plot
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Orchestra
Aeschylus
31. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Ensemble
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Pageants
Discovery
32. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Public Domain
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
33. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Miracle Plays
Wings
Morality Plays
Pageants
34. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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35. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Public Domain
Blocking
Melodrama
Black Box
36. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Mimesis
Realism and Realistic Developments
Verse
Downstage
37. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Empathy
Theatre of Cruelty
Off-Broadway
Royalty
38. A group of actors - not just one star
Ensemble
Stage Manager
Amateur Theatre
Off-Off-Broadway
39. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Realism and Realistic Developments
Dramatic Genre
Printing Press
University Wits
40. Information needed to understand the play
Components of Concept
Blocking
Exposition
Aristophanes
41. Person who embodies a character on stage
Empathy
Regional Theatre
Broadway
Actor
42. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
Henrik Ibsen
Tragedy
Character
43. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Blocking
Antiquarianism
Practical
Off-Off-Broadway
44. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Slapstick
Falling Action
Regional Theatre
45. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Cycles
Comedy of Manners
Representational Approach
Variables of Costume Design
46. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Catharsis
Producer
Realism and Realistic Developments
Lazzi
47. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Konstantin Stanislavski
Plot
Inciting Incident
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
48. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Chorus
Black Box
Melodrama
Comedy
49. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Neoclassicism (def)
Proscenium Space
William Shakespeare
Casting Director
50. The standard tool for casting a production
Reversal
Commedia Dell'Arte
Blocking
Auditions