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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Comedy of Ideas
Morality Plays
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Proscenium Space
2. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Variables of Costume Design
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Components of Concept
Rising Action
3. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Tragicomedy
Comedy of Character
Pageants
4. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Henrik Ibsen
Neoclassicism (def)
Proscenium Space
Aristophanes
5. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Aristophanes
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Wings
University Wits
6. Events progress forward in time
Neoclassicism (def)
Slapstick
Linear Plot
Verse
7. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Community Theatre
Thespis
Actor
Melodrama (def)
8. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Rising Action
Black Box
Amateur Theatre
Representational Acting
9. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
Prose
Neoclassicism (def)
Inciting Incident
10. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Aeschylus
Emile Zola
Orchestra
Concept
11. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Thought
Concept
Light Plot
12. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Printing Press
Upstage
Naturalism
Front of House
13. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Conflict
Tragedy
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Catharsis
14. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Slapstick
Neoclassicism (def)
Chorus
Discovery
15. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Black Box
Dialogue
Aristophanes
Rehearsal Process
16. Information needed to understand the play
Presentational Approach
Melodrama (def)
Commedia Dell'Arte
Exposition
17. The standard tool for casting a production
Stage Manager
Empathy
Neoclassicism (def)
Auditions
18. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Fourth Wall
Konstantin Stanislavski
19. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Comedy of Character
Amateur Theatre
Mystery Plays
Hybrid Theatre
20. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Wings
Off-Off-Broadway
Sturm & Drang Movement
Copyright
21. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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22. Feel more in stage acting.
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Situation Comedy
Antiquarianism
Dialogue
23. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Bertolt Brecht
Components of Concept
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
24. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Catharsis
Printing Press
Exposition
25. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Exposition
Lazzi
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Light Plot
26. Rhyming
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Theatre of Cruelty
Verse
Neoclassicism (def)
27. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Discovery
Dramaturg
Upstage
Printing Press
28. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Variables of Costume Design
Vomitories
Playwright
Realism and Realistic Developments
29. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Subplot
William Shakespeare
Sophocles
Vomitories
30. Ideas within the play
Playwright
Aristotle
Thought
Representational Approach
31. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Wings
Conflict
Mimesis
32. England's type of theatre
Blocking
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Cycles
The Globe
33. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aristophanes
Black Box
Aeschylus
Broadway
34. The standard tool for casting a production
Ensemble
Slapstick
Auditions
Blocking
35. Focused on thought - controversial
Comedy of Ideas
Broadway
Anton Chekhov
Conflict
36. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Realism and Realistic Developments
Discovery
Sense Memory
Community Theatre
37. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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38. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Rehearsal Process
Mystery Plays
Neoclassicism (def)
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
39. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Aesthetic Distance
Public Domain
Comedy of Character
40. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Verse
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Realism and Realistic Developments
Upstage
41. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
William Shakespeare
Dramatic Genre
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
42. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Tragedy
Meyerhold
Royalty
Blocking
43. Grammatically based
Linear Plot
Renaissance
Prose
Components of Concept
44. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
Black Box
Melodrama
Tragicomedy
45. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Rendering
Callbacks
Empathy
Character
46. Busiest person in the theatre
The Globe
Discovery
Stage Manager
Hypokrites
47. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Hybrid Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
48. Proscenium space
Tragedy
Aristophanes
The Box Set
Producer
49. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Components of Concept
Situation Comedy
Off-Off-Broadway
Melodrama (def)
50. 100-499 people
ostume Plot
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Off-Broadway
Subtext