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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Causal Play Structure
Community Theatre
Presentational Approach
Director
2. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Proscenium Space
Subplot
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Wings
3. Organization of action
The Globe
Variables of Costume Design
Avant-Garde
Plot
4. Top of stage
Upstage
Skene
Community Theatre
Variables of Costume Design
5. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Off-Off-Broadway
Designer
Empathy
Chorus
6. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Rehearsal Process
Aesthetic Distance
Chorus
Climax
7. Grammatically based
Meyerhold
Sophocles
Euripides
Prose
8. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Affective Memory
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Casting Director
Mystery Plays
9. Emotional release
Catharsis
Conflict
Dramaturg
Orchestra
10. Performs Actions of the Play
Language
Copyright
Representational Approach
Character
11. The era we are currently in
Variables of Costume Design
Rendering
Postmodernism
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
12. Visible light source on stage
Antagonist
Neoclassicism (def)
Improv
Practical
13. The first director
Bertolt Brecht
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Comedy of Character
14. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Comedy of Character
Wings
Theatre of Cruelty
Subplot
15. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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16. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
Exposition
Designer
Thrust Space
17. Someone who writes plays
Playwright
Presentational Approach
Aesthetic Distance
Melodrama (def)
18. Was poetry for many years
Variables of Costume Design
Producer
Auditions
Language
19. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Playwright
Educational Theatre
Concept
20. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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21. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Theatron
Light Plot
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Plato
22. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Printing Press
Aesthetic Distance
Language
Tragicomedy
23. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Commedia Dell'Arte
Dramaturg
Melodrama
24. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
ostume Plot
Printing Press
Rising Action
Morality Plays
25. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Casting Director
Verisimilitude
Discovery
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
26. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Sophocles
Eugene Scribe
Blocking
Rising Action
27. 500-1800 people
Broadway
Casting Director
Sturm & Drang Movement
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
28. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Rising Action
Aristotle
The Globe
Representational Approach
29. Works published before 1923
Variables of Costume Design
Public Domain
Aristophanes
Amateur Theatre
30. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
William Shakespeare
Conflict
Hybrid Theatre
Meyerhold
31. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Front of House
Tragicomedy
Aeschylus
Thought
32. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Situation Comedy
Rehearsal Process
Mystery Plays
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
33. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Community Theatre
Copyright
Non-Profit Theatre
34. 'Storm and stress'
Vomitories
Realism and Realistic Developments
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Sturm & Drang Movement
35. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
Light Plot
Discovery
Off-Broadway
36. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
University Wits
Skene
Hypokrites
Community Theatre
37. The standard tool for casting a production
Thrust Space
Subplot
Auditions
Falling Action
38. A type of performance in which dialogue and action are not planned ahead of time and written down - but are made of on the spot by the actors
Improv
Amateur Theatre
Auditions
Concept
39. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Plato
Empathy
Affective Memory
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
40. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Community Theatre
ostume Plot
Meyerhold
Light Plot
41. Controls the environment in the theatre
Conflict
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Designer
Antiquarianism
42. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Meyerhold
Melodrama
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
43. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Plot
Language
Discovery
Theatron
44. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Anton Chekhov
Aristophanes
Language
45. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Cycles
Naturalism
Rising Action
William Shakespeare
46. Six elements - catharsis
Practical
Aristotle
Upstage
Sophocles
47. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Off-Off-Broadway
Tragedy
Mimesis
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
48. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Discovery
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Plot
Blocking
49. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Comedy
Theatron
Comedy of Character
Dramatic Genre
50. Italians
University Wits
Copyright
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Rehearsal Process