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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Affective Memory
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Ensemble
2. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Plot
Falling Action
Slapstick
Mimesis
3. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Educational Theatre
4. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Broadway
Realism and Realistic Developments
Climax
Vomitories
5. Rhyming
Verse
Causal Play Structure
Actor
Ensemble
6. Appearance of truth
Components of Concept
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Realism and Realistic Developments
Verisimilitude
7. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Off-Off-Broadway
Anton Chekhov
Sense Memory
Hybrid Theatre
8. 'Storm and stress'
Theatron
Situation Comedy
Causal Play Structure
Sturm & Drang Movement
9. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Henrik Ibsen
Causal Play Structure
Representational Acting
Naturalism
10. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Ground Plan
Presentational Approach
Educational Theatre
Director
11. Visible light source on stage
Falling Action
Practical
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Postmodernism
12. Verse
Presentational Approach
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
ostume Plot
Chorus
13. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Black Box
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Situation Comedy
Fourth Wall
14. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Emile Zola
William Shakespeare
Subtext
Aristophanes
15. 500-1800 people
Eugene Scribe
Morality Plays
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Broadway
16. 100-499 people
Playwright
Off-Broadway
Broadway
Morality Plays
17. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Concept
Sense Memory
Vomitories
Callbacks
18. Linear events progress forward in time
Stage Manager
Skene
Ensemble
Causal Play Structure
19. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Practical
Melodrama
Tragedy
Hypokrites
20. 'Storm and stress'
Emile Zola
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Sturm & Drang Movement
Subtext
21. Causes trouble for the main character
Discovery
Antagonist
Verisimilitude
Morality Plays
22. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Proscenium Space
Components of Concept
Royalty
Amateur Theatre
23. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Exposition
Playwright
Comedy
Pageants
24. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Community Theatre
Concept
The Globe
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
25. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Director
Dramatic Genre
Blocking
Antiquarianism
26. Part of What is included in the text
Dialogue
Off-Broadway
Ground Plan
Amateur Theatre
27. Main character
Sophocles
Protagonist
Rendering
Character
28. Grammatically based
Prose
Renaissance
Lazzi
Climax
29. Imitation of character and action
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Mimesis
Eugene Scribe
Causal Play Structure
30. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Orchestra
Thespis
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Morality Plays
31. Visible light source on stage
Miracle Plays
Subplot
Practical
Components of Concept
32. Series of short stories
Tragedy
Fourth Wall
Cycles
Anton Chekhov
33. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Sophocles
Commercial Theatre
Slapstick
Antiquarianism
34. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Thespis
Concept
Neoclassicism (def)
Subtext
35. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Plato
Broadway
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Aeschylus
36. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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37. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
ostume Plot
Prose
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Skene
38. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Subtext
Educational Theatre
Hybrid Theatre
Wings
39. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Conflict
Concept
Community Theatre
Reversal
40. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Regional Theatre
Emile Zola
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Fourth Wall
41. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Henrik Ibsen
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Sense Memory
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
42. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Black Box
William Shakespeare
Orchestra
43. Verse
Linear Plot
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Sophocles
44. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Aristotle
Commercial Theatre
ostume Plot
Representational Acting
45. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Eugene Scribe
Bertolt Brecht
Thrust Space
46. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Stage Manager
Theatron
Proscenium Space
Commercial Theatre
47. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
Vomitories
Off-Off-Broadway
Sophocles
48. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Upstage
Plato
Amateur Theatre
Causal Play Structure
49. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Bertolt Brecht
Hybrid Theatre
Causal Play Structure
50. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Improv
Educational Theatre
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Dramaturg