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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Sturm & Drang Movement
Regional Theatre
Representational Approach
Downstage
2. High point of action
Climax
Comedy
Ensemble
Concept
3. The era we are currently in
Postmodernism
Melodrama
Eugene Scribe
Meander
4. 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
Catharsis
Improv
Pageants
Language
5. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Stage Manager
Black Box
Emile Zola
Subtext
6. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Neoclassicism (def)
Linear Plot
Aristotle
Comedy of Character
7. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Subplot
Producer
Sophocles
Ground Plan
8. Audience watches from 3 sides
Language
Producer
Thrust Space
Lazzi
9. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
Character
Neoclassicism (def)
Downstage
10. A>B>C>D
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Mystery Plays
Tragedy
Melodrama (def)
11. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Melodrama (def)
Affective Memory
Renaissance
Hybrid Theatre
12. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Community Theatre
Discovery
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Antiquarianism
13. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Practical
Reversal
Components of Concept
Non-Profit Theatre
14. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Reversal
Catharsis
Sense Memory
Concept
15. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Royalty
Konstantin Stanislavski
Morality Plays
Thought
16. A>B>C>D
Tragicomedy
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Regional Theatre
Pageants
17. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Proscenium Space
Chorus
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Causal Play Structure
18. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Non-Profit Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Proscenium Space
Off-Broadway
19. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Subplot
Presentational Approach
Discovery
Renaissance
20. Planned actor movement
Rising Action
Blocking
Practical
Callbacks
21. Events progress forward in time
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Slapstick
Linear Plot
Improv
22. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Avant-Garde
Protagonist
Sophocles
Discovery
23. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Miracle Plays
Konstantin Stanislavski
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Avant-Garde
24. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Hybrid Theatre
William Shakespeare
Components of Concept
Mimesis
25. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Hybrid Theatre
Printing Press
Pageants
Wings
26. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Components of Concept
Aristophanes
Aesthetic Distance
Proscenium Space
27. Part of What is included in the text
Theatre of Cruelty
Exposition
Slapstick
Dialogue
28. Controls the environment in the theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Euripides
Designer
Sense Memory
29. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Comedy of Ideas
Empathy
Character
Euripides
30. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Aeschylus
Components of Concept
Presentational Approach
Ground Plan
31. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Black Box
Aristotle
Causal Play Structure
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
32. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Causal Play Structure
Tragicomedy
Copyright
33. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Tragedy
Reversal
Empathy
Konstantin Stanislavski
34. Top of stage
Vomitories
Renaissance
Aesthetic Distance
Upstage
35. 'Storm and stress'
Representational Approach
Sturm & Drang Movement
Reversal
Aesthetic Distance
36. 100-499 people
Off-Broadway
Verisimilitude
Melodrama (def)
Stage Manager
37. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Empathy
ostume Plot
Representational Acting
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
38. Emotional release
Front of House
Representational Acting
Catharsis
Morality Plays
39. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Language
Lazzi
ostume Plot
Eugene Scribe
40. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Falling Action
Situation Comedy
41. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Antiquarianism
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Naturalism
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
42. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Aesthetic Distance
Concept
Community Theatre
Discovery
43. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Meyerhold
Commercial Theatre
ostume Plot
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
44. Person who embodies a character on stage
Actor
Empathy
Character
Dramaturg
45. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Comedy of Character
Eugene Scribe
Broadway
Exposition
46. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Concept
The Globe
Representational Acting
Non-Profit Theatre
47. High point of action
Off-Off-Broadway
Dramatic Genre
Playwright
Climax
48. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Meyerhold
Sophocles
Renaissance
Regional Theatre
49. Performs Actions of the Play
Climax
ostume Plot
Dramaturg
Character
50. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Non-Profit Theatre
Improv
Variables of Costume Design
Neoclassicism (def)