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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
University Wits
Dramaturg
Hybrid Theatre
Language
2. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Henrik Ibsen
The Box Set
Light Plot
The Globe
3. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Subplot
Wings
Slapstick
4. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Aristotle
Plato
Designer
Reversal
5. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Off-Off-Broadway
Playwright
Language
6. 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
Community Theatre
Conflict
Proscenium Space
Situation Comedy
7. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Variables of Costume Design
Educational Theatre
Presentational Approach
Aesthetic Distance
8. Causes trouble for the main character
Anton Chekhov
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Thought
Antagonist
9. 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
Downstage
Comedy of Character
Conflict
Community Theatre
10. Italians
Hypokrites
Rising Action
Ground Plan
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
11. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Comedy of Manners
Rendering
Verse
Commercial Theatre
12. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Aeschylus
Thought
Thrust Space
Pageants
13. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Melodrama
Situation Comedy
Subtext
14. Organization of action
Plot
Ground Plan
Affective Memory
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
15. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Playwright
Skene
Commercial Theatre
Euripides
16. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Callbacks
Avant-Garde
Cycles
Rising Action
17. Gas lights - etc.
Postmodernism
Aristotle
Casting Director
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
18. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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19. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Henrik Ibsen
Off-Broadway
Concept
Comedy
20. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Konstantin Stanislavski
Meander
Director
Melodrama
21. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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22. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Ground Plan
Verisimilitude
Discovery
Empathy
23. Writer and first actor
Affective Memory
Proscenium Space
Amateur Theatre
Thespis
24. Visible light source on stage
William Shakespeare
Theatron
Light Plot
Practical
25. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Naturalism
Melodrama (def)
Causal Play Structure
Dramatic Genre
26. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Educational Theatre
Lazzi
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Causal Play Structure
27. Humorous - objective view point
Theatre of Cruelty
Neoclassicism (def)
Henrik Ibsen
Comedy
28. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Community Theatre
Theatron
Language
29. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Community Theatre
Sense Memory
Empathy
Morality Plays
30. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Black Box
Dramatic Genre
Exposition
Representational Approach
31. Visible light source on stage
Antiquarianism
Practical
Affective Memory
Sophocles
32. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Producer
Renaissance
Commedia Dell'Arte
Designer
33. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Bertolt Brecht
Rehearsal Process
ostume Plot
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
34. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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35. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Playwright
Wings
Thought
Mystery Plays
36. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Producer
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Hybrid Theatre
ostume Plot
37. Was poetry for many years
The Globe
Language
Proscenium Space
Meyerhold
38. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Renaissance
Comedy of Ideas
Eugene Scribe
Non-Profit Theatre
39. Greek - actor
Playwright
Educational Theatre
Hypokrites
Producer
40. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Melodrama (def)
Rendering
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Auditions
41. Greek - actor
Upstage
Copyright
Hypokrites
Downstage
42. Appearance of truth
Verse
Representational Acting
Verisimilitude
Royalty
43. A>B>C>D
Rehearsal Process
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Climax
Theatron
44. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Protagonist
Meander
The Box Set
Lazzi
45. Proscenium arch/stage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Downstage
Aesthetic Distance
Dramatic Genre
46. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Copyright
Pageants
Melodrama (def)
Subplot
47. Used alienation to encourage distance
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Naturalism
Improv
Bertolt Brecht
48. Events that set off a major conflict
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Regional Theatre
Inciting Incident
Designer
49. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Wings
Henrik Ibsen
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Vomitories
50. Performs Actions of the Play
Falling Action
Actor
Character
Henrik Ibsen