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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. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Cycles
Rising Action
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Dialogue
2. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Climax
Plot
Thrust Space
Subtext
3. Main character
Commercial Theatre
Protagonist
Actor
Plot
4. Used alienation to encourage distance
Affective Memory
Bertolt Brecht
Representational Approach
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
5. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Lazzi
Vomitories
Linear Plot
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
6. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Presentational Approach
Orchestra
Representational Acting
Aristophanes
7. Busiest person in the theatre
Aristotle
Stage Manager
Language
Sturm & Drang Movement
8. Organization of action
Antagonist
Inciting Incident
Front of House
Plot
9. Was poetry for many years
Off-Broadway
Language
Copyright
Euripides
10. The era we are currently in
Regional Theatre
Postmodernism
Empathy
Practical
11. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Lazzi
Konstantin Stanislavski
Light Plot
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
12. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Antiquarianism
Hybrid Theatre
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Naturalism
13. Top of stage
Concept
Upstage
Neoclassicism (def)
Thespis
14. Audience watches from 3 sides
Copyright
Thrust Space
ostume Plot
Bertolt Brecht
15. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Hybrid Theatre
Tragedy
Mimesis
Bertolt Brecht
16. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Stage Manager
Vomitories
Non-Profit Theatre
Sense Memory
17. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Playwright
Commercial Theatre
Practical
ostume Plot
18. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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19. Series of short stories
Broadway
Wings
Non-Profit Theatre
Anton Chekhov
20. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Aesthetic Distance
Rendering
Naturalism
Verisimilitude
21. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Light Plot
Variables of Costume Design
Chorus
22. Proscenium arch/stage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Practical
Verisimilitude
Fourth Wall
23. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Plot
Broadway
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Theatron
24. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Realism and Realistic Developments
Director
Amateur Theatre
Climax
25. Used alienation to encourage distance
Causal Play Structure
Community Theatre
Amateur Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
26. England's type of theatre
The Globe
Thrust Space
Ground Plan
Linear Plot
27. Top of stage
Skene
Plato
Comedy of Character
Upstage
28. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Subtext
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Empathy
Dramatic Genre
29. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Subtext
Broadway
Casting Director
Language
30. Based on the lives of the saints
Antiquarianism
Tragicomedy
The Box Set
Miracle Plays
31. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Printing Press
Falling Action
Euripides
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
32. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Protagonist
Dramatic Genre
Aristophanes
Ground Plan
33. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Empathy
Avant-Garde
Comedy of Ideas
Variables of Costume Design
34. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Representational Approach
Meyerhold
Public Domain
Amateur Theatre
35. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Casting Director
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Realism and Realistic Developments
Producer
36. Gas lights - etc.
Exposition
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Linear Plot
Amateur Theatre
37. 'Father of Realism'
Henrik Ibsen
The Globe
University Wits
Aristotle
38. The standard tool for casting a production
Rendering
Downstage
Auditions
University Wits
39. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Dramatic Genre
Representational Approach
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Improv
40. Appearance of truth
Comedy of Manners
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Verisimilitude
Falling Action
41. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Dramaturg
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Empathy
Euripides
42. Proscenium arch/stage
Empathy
Plato
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Meander
43. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Chorus
Reversal
Concept
Representational Approach
44. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
Public Domain
Thought
Broadway
45. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Plato
Inciting Incident
Orchestra
Commercial Theatre
46. Imitation of character and action
Proscenium Space
Orchestra
Mimesis
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
47. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Presentational Approach
Prose
Callbacks
Emile Zola
48. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Thespis
Theatre of Cruelty
Affective Memory
49. Six elements - catharsis
Director
Aristotle
Renaissance
Sophocles
50. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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