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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Educational Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Character
Commedia Dell'Arte
2. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Dramaturg
Euripides
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Representational Approach
3. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
Hypokrites
Language
Aristophanes
4. Information needed to understand the play
Commedia Dell'Arte
Upstage
Educational Theatre
Exposition
5. 'Father of Realism'
Theatron
Emile Zola
Henrik Ibsen
Director
6. Audience watches from 3 sides
Upstage
Euripides
Thrust Space
Community Theatre
7. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Comedy of Manners
Components of Concept
Protagonist
Conflict
8. Focused on thought - controversial
Printing Press
Tragedy
Producer
Comedy of Ideas
9. Focused on thought - controversial
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Reversal
Concept
Comedy of Ideas
10. Emotional release
Catharsis
Royalty
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Situation Comedy
11. Grammatically based
Off-Broadway
Prose
Ensemble
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
12. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
Meyerhold
Morality Plays
Ensemble
13. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Representational Approach
Off-Off-Broadway
Copyright
14. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Chorus
Pageants
Concept
Antiquarianism
15. 500-1800 people
Comedy
Off-Off-Broadway
Climax
Broadway
16. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Naturalism
Melodrama
Thrust Space
Skene
17. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Upstage
Educational Theatre
Naturalism
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
18. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Emile Zola
Climax
Playwright
Rising Action
19. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Aesthetic Distance
Neoclassicism (def)
Downstage
ostume Plot
20. Play reenacting biblical stories
Pageants
Actor
Light Plot
Mystery Plays
21. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
22. Events progress forward in time
Comedy of Ideas
Skene
Presentational Approach
Linear Plot
23. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
Hypokrites
Falling Action
Postmodernism
24. Linear events progress forward in time
Off-Broadway
Producer
Causal Play Structure
Hybrid Theatre
25. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
Antiquarianism
Hybrid Theatre
Avant-Garde
26. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Fourth Wall
Non-Profit Theatre
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Eugene Scribe
27. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Light Plot
Commedia Dell'Arte
Realism and Realistic Developments
Broadway
28. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Pageants
Naturalism
Aesthetic Distance
Melodrama (def)
29. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Emile Zola
30. Ideas within the play
Casting Director
Thought
Rehearsal Process
Language
31. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Black Box
Thought
Exposition
Sense Memory
32. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Lazzi
Downstage
Euripides
Empathy
33. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Morality Plays
Postmodernism
Community Theatre
Affective Memory
34. The standard tool for casting a production
Falling Action
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Auditions
35. Busiest person in the theatre
Director
Non-Profit Theatre
Stage Manager
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
36. Busiest person in the theatre
Dramatic Genre
Stage Manager
Henrik Ibsen
Community Theatre
37. Emotional release
Tragicomedy
Rising Action
Catharsis
Non-Profit Theatre
38. Humorous - objective view point
Fourth Wall
Upstage
Antagonist
Comedy
39. Imitation of character and action
Sense Memory
Henrik Ibsen
Mimesis
Thought
40. 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
Thought
Hybrid Theatre
Avant-Garde
Community Theatre
41. A>B>C>D
Presentational Approach
Dramaturg
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Concept
42. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Public Domain
Downstage
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Ensemble
43. Time (play had to take place within a 24 hour period) - place (the whole play must take place in a single location) - and action (single plot)
Conflict
Antiquarianism
Off-Broadway
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
44. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Situation Comedy
Linear Plot
Thespis
Director
45. Major character at odds with social expectations
Miracle Plays
Sturm & Drang Movement
Dramaturg
Comedy of Manners
46. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Designer
Discovery
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Printing Press
47. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Printing Press
Fourth Wall
Neoclassicism (def)
Comedy
48. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Naturalism
Thrust Space
Catharsis
Regional Theatre
49. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Cycles
Eugene Scribe
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
50. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Producer
Emile Zola
The Globe
Thought