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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
2. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Comedy of Character
Sense Memory
Designer
3. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Character
Prose
Amateur Theatre
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
4. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Non-Profit Theatre
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Fourth Wall
Realism and Realistic Developments
5. Organization of action
Plot
Chorus
Downstage
Lazzi
6. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mystery Plays
Slapstick
Linear Plot
Theatron
7. Someone who writes plays
Variables of Costume Design
Playwright
Community Theatre
Konstantin Stanislavski
8. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Comedy
Situation Comedy
Casting Director
Improv
9. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Casting Director
Cycles
Components of Concept
The Globe
10. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
The Globe
Conflict
Off-Off-Broadway
Variables of Costume Design
11. Information needed to understand the play
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Exposition
Chorus
Producer
12. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Dialogue
Subplot
Tragicomedy
Dialogue
13. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Concept
Meyerhold
Educational Theatre
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
14. The standard tool for casting a production
Public Domain
Auditions
Callbacks
Rehearsal Process
15. Visible light source on stage
Off-Off-Broadway
Naturalism
Inciting Incident
Practical
16. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Casting Director
Conflict
Comedy
Comedy of Ideas
17. Focused on thought - controversial
Callbacks
Components of Concept
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Comedy of Ideas
18. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Presentational Approach
Renaissance
Anton Chekhov
Orchestra
19. Person who embodies a character on stage
Producer
The Globe
Actor
University Wits
20. High point of action
Conflict
Thought
Climax
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
21. Six elements - catharsis
Orchestra
Protagonist
Plato
Aristotle
22. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Sturm & Drang Movement
Dramatic Genre
Off-Off-Broadway
23. A fee for each performance
Konstantin Stanislavski
Royalty
Producer
Sturm & Drang Movement
24. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
25. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Upstage
Theatre of Cruelty
Aristotle
Vomitories
26. Imitation of character and action
Prose
Mimesis
Public Domain
Off-Off-Broadway
27. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Representational Acting
Antiquarianism
Rising Action
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
28. A group of actors - not just one star
Plot
Slapstick
Ensemble
Educational Theatre
29. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Inciting Incident
Vomitories
Catharsis
Falling Action
30. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Off-Broadway
Cycles
Orchestra
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
31. Gas lights - etc.
Front of House
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Prose
32. Ideas within the play
Community Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Thought
Aristotle
33. 100-499 people
Copyright
Representational Approach
Off-Broadway
Comedy
34. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
35. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Euripides
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Commedia Dell'Arte
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
36. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Morality Plays
Neoclassicism (def)
Catharsis
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
37. 'Father of Realism'
Henrik Ibsen
Meyerhold
Regional Theatre
Blocking
38. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Linear Plot
Melodrama (def)
Discovery
Konstantin Stanislavski
39. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Thought
Subplot
40. Focused on thought - controversial
Amateur Theatre
Public Domain
Comedy of Ideas
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
41. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Front of House
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Euripides
Renaissance
42. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Black Box
Aeschylus
Mimesis
Meander
43. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Eugene Scribe
Rendering
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Aristophanes
44. 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's Six Elements of a Play
Community Theatre
Antagonist
Dramaturg
45. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Black Box
Rehearsal Process
Realism and Realistic Developments
Orchestra
46. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Proscenium Space
Aristotle
Producer
Prose
47. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Downstage
Hybrid Theatre
Konstantin Stanislavski
Orchestra
48. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Regional Theatre
Character
Cycles
Commercial Theatre
49. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Plato
Off-Off-Broadway
Variables of Costume Design
Konstantin Stanislavski
50. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Affective Memory
Melodrama
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Light Plot