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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Printing Press
Comedy of Manners
Emile Zola
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
2. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Vomitories
Eugene Scribe
Practical
Variables of Costume Design
3. Used alienation to encourage distance
Cycles
Amateur Theatre
Postmodernism
Bertolt Brecht
4. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Educational Theatre
Theatron
Rehearsal Process
Off-Off-Broadway
5. 'Father of Realism'
Sophocles
Melodrama
Director
Henrik Ibsen
6. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Front of House
Thrust Space
Discovery
Dramaturg
7. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Dialogue
Playwright
Dramatic Genre
Morality Plays
8. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Commedia Dell'Arte
Slapstick
Downstage
Theatron
9. Gas lights - etc.
Broadway
Cycles
Orchestra
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
10. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Comedy of Manners
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Naturalism
Casting Director
11. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Euripides
University Wits
Eugene Scribe
Anton Chekhov
12. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
ostume Plot
Royalty
Concept
Exposition
13. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Reversal
Downstage
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Auditions
14. Based on the lives of the saints
Renaissance
Miracle Plays
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
15. The era we are currently in
Components of Concept
Rising Action
Ground Plan
Postmodernism
16. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Producer
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
17. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Euripides
Variables of Costume Design
Broadway
Vomitories
18. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Morality Plays
Hybrid Theatre
The Globe
Copyright
19. Proscenium space
The Box Set
Comedy of Character
William Shakespeare
Comedy of Manners
20. Ideas within the play
William Shakespeare
Thought
Skene
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
21. Emotional release
Dramatic Genre
Linear Plot
Sturm & Drang Movement
Catharsis
22. Was poetry for many years
Language
Designer
Off-Broadway
Aesthetic Distance
23. The standard tool for casting a production
Auditions
Euripides
Avant-Garde
Melodrama (def)
24. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Orchestra
Plato
ostume Plot
Director
25. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Commercial Theatre
Auditions
Aesthetic Distance
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
26. Works published before 1923
Representational Approach
Subtext
Public Domain
Realism and Realistic Developments
27. Not many props or detailed scenery
Front of House
Ground Plan
Presentational Approach
Renaissance
28. 'Storm and stress'
Sturm & Drang Movement
Theatre of Cruelty
Plato
Naturalism
29. Events progress forward in time
Wings
Protagonist
Linear Plot
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
30. Ideas within the play
Morality Plays
Rendering
Thought
Improv
31. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Fourth Wall
Producer
Ground Plan
32. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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33. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Eugene Scribe
Producer
Ground Plan
Thrust Space
34. Events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Linear Plot
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Inciting Incident
35. Play reenacting biblical stories
Black Box
Sturm & Drang Movement
Climax
Mystery Plays
36. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Antiquarianism
Discovery
Hybrid Theatre
Inciting Incident
37. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Concept
Casting Director
Sense Memory
Comedy of Manners
38. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
Commedia Dell'Arte
Aristotle
Producer
39. Top of stage
Auditions
Upstage
Orchestra
Lazzi
40. Planned actor movement
Avant-Garde
Melodrama (def)
Blocking
Meyerhold
41. Top of stage
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Upstage
Aristotle
Mystery Plays
42. Proscenium space
Aeschylus
The Box Set
Inciting Incident
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
43. Busiest person in the theatre
Rehearsal Process
Stage Manager
Thought
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
44. Grammatically based
Thought
Empathy
Prose
Broadway
45. Organization of action
Plot
Practical
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Front of House
46. High point of action
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Climax
Empathy
Mystery Plays
47. Humorous - objective view point
Thespis
Tragedy
Comedy
Avant-Garde
48. Gas lights - etc.
Copyright
Avant-Garde
Dramatic Genre
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
49. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Dialogue
Realism and Realistic Developments
Upstage
Vomitories
50. Italians
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Community Theatre
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Skene