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Theatre Appreciation
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Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Feel more in stage acting.
Discovery
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Black Box
Casting Director
2. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Causal Play Structure
Rehearsal Process
Tragicomedy
Causal Play Structure
3. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Hybrid Theatre
Ground Plan
Anton Chekhov
Downstage
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
Hypokrites
Empathy
Improv
Linear Plot
5. Emotional release
Catharsis
Black Box
Reversal
Comedy
6. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Rehearsal Process
Sophocles
Lazzi
Verse
7. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Wings
Postmodernism
Slapstick
Black Box
8. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Callbacks
Antiquarianism
Naturalism
Cycles
9. Planned actor movement
Amateur Theatre
Blocking
Playwright
Variables of Costume Design
10. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Upstage
Improv
Front of House
Postmodernism
11. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Orchestra
Reversal
Rendering
ostume Plot
12. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Reversal
Callbacks
Non-Profit Theatre
13. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Climax
Actor
Presentational Approach
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
14. Top of stage
Upstage
Improv
Chorus
Naturalism
15. Units of action that build emotional intensity
University Wits
Producer
Rising Action
Thespis
16. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
ostume Plot
Fourth Wall
Comedy of Character
Callbacks
17. Ideas within the play
Henrik Ibsen
Thought
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Miracle Plays
18. Organization of action
Ensemble
Plot
Components of Concept
Inciting Incident
19. Planned actor movement
Aeschylus
Comedy of Ideas
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Blocking
20. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Eugene Scribe
Rendering
Subtext
Comedy
21. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Comedy
Conflict
Comedy of Ideas
Orchestra
22. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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23. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Dramatic Genre
Stage Manager
Aristophanes
Commercial Theatre
24. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Inciting Incident
Meander
Thought
Front of House
25. Main character
Copyright
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Protagonist
Meander
26. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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27. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Sturm & Drang Movement
Director
Non-Profit Theatre
Causal Play Structure
28. The first director
Theatron
Comedy of Ideas
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aristotle
29. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Character
Regional Theatre
Representational Acting
30. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Subtext
Thespis
Aristophanes
Pageants
31. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
Comedy of Character
Comedy
Ensemble
32. Verse
Rendering
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Presentational Approach
33. The standard tool for casting a production
Commedia Dell'Arte
Components of Concept
Melodrama (def)
Auditions
34. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Light Plot
Rising Action
Director
Exposition
35. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
ostume Plot
Prose
Components of Concept
Aeschylus
36. Writer and first actor
Representational Acting
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Variables of Costume Design
Thespis
37. Used alienation to encourage distance
Euripides
Bertolt Brecht
The Box Set
The Globe
38. Proscenium arch/stage
Dramaturg
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Empathy
39. Major character at odds with social expectations
Proscenium Space
Proscenium Space
Comedy of Manners
Avant-Garde
40. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Public Domain
Tragicomedy
Tragicomedy
Components of Concept
41. Works published before 1923
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Public Domain
Plot
42. Was poetry for many years
Language
Dramatic Genre
Avant-Garde
Miracle Plays
43. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Vomitories
Proscenium Space
Konstantin Stanislavski
Community Theatre
44. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Plato
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Aeschylus
Pageants
45. Not many props or detailed scenery
Reversal
Rising Action
Renaissance
Subtext
46. High point of action
Aristotle
Verse
Climax
University Wits
47. A group of actors - not just one star
Off-Broadway
Sturm & Drang Movement
Ensemble
Reversal
48. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Dramaturg
Exposition
Realism and Realistic Developments
Avant-Garde
49. Audience watches from 3 sides
Ground Plan
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Sturm & Drang Movement
Thrust Space
50. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Miracle Plays
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Realism and Realistic Developments