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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Italians
Henrik Ibsen
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Auditions
Bertolt Brecht
2. 100-499 people
Broadway
Thespis
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Off-Broadway
3. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Antagonist
Character
Aeschylus
Falling Action
4. Major character at odds with social expectations
Sense Memory
Verisimilitude
Comedy of Manners
Amateur Theatre
5. 'Father of Realism'
Emile Zola
Exposition
Henrik Ibsen
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
6. Six elements - catharsis
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Components of Concept
Aristotle
Subtext
7. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Regional Theatre
ostume Plot
Situation Comedy
Representational Approach
8. Events progress forward in time
Linear Plot
Conflict
Chorus
Rehearsal Process
9. Imitation of character and action
Affective Memory
Bertolt Brecht
Mimesis
Aristotle
10. The era we are currently in
Broadway
Casting Director
Postmodernism
Commedia Dell'Arte
11. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Morality Plays
Copyright
Orchestra
Broadway
12. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Casting Director
Educational Theatre
Hybrid Theatre
Light Plot
13. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Hypokrites
Prose
Black Box
Presentational Approach
14. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Thought
Rendering
Rising Action
Character
15. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Causal Play Structure
Aristotle
Antiquarianism
Causal Play Structure
16. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Hypokrites
Melodrama (def)
Affective Memory
Practical
17. 100-499 people
Dramaturg
Off-Broadway
Meyerhold
Proscenium Space
18. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Emile Zola
The Box Set
Amateur Theatre
Casting Director
19. Information needed to understand the play
Affective Memory
Neoclassicism (def)
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Exposition
20. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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21. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Henrik Ibsen
Konstantin Stanislavski
Rehearsal Process
22. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Comedy
Orchestra
Causal Play Structure
Dramaturg
23. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
Chorus
Royalty
Ground Plan
24. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Rising Action
Hybrid Theatre
Front of House
Sophocles
25. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Mimesis
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Meander
26. The first director
Thespis
Representational Approach
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Eugene Scribe
27. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Situation Comedy
Meyerhold
Melodrama
28. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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29. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Neoclassicism (def)
Stage Manager
Falling Action
Rehearsal Process
30. A group of actors - not just one star
Amateur Theatre
Ensemble
Fourth Wall
Practical
31. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Commercial Theatre
Vomitories
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Protagonist
32. Gas lights - etc.
Hypokrites
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Emile Zola
Climax
33. Part of What is included in the text
Mimesis
Fourth Wall
Comedy
Dialogue
34. England's type of theatre
The Globe
Director
Theatre of Cruelty
Community Theatre
35. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
Reversal
Designer
Comedy of Manners
36. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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37. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Prose
Aristophanes
The Globe
38. Emotional release
Verisimilitude
Catharsis
Sophocles
Educational Theatre
39. Organization of action
Sophocles
Concept
Thrust Space
Plot
40. Organization of action
Plot
Broadway
Anton Chekhov
Climax
41. Not many props or detailed scenery
Exposition
Renaissance
Linear Plot
Chorus
42. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Affective Memory
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Henrik Ibsen
Presentational Approach
43. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
The Globe
Presentational Approach
Educational Theatre
Antagonist
44. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Printing Press
Falling Action
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
45. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Discovery
Melodrama
Hybrid Theatre
46. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Neoclassicism (def)
Meander
Amateur Theatre
Emile Zola
47. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Sophocles
Neoclassicism (def)
Front of House
Lazzi
48. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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49. Causes trouble for the main character
Aeschylus
Antagonist
Comedy
Neoclassicism (def)
50. Planned actor movement
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Dramatic Genre
Blocking
Affective Memory