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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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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. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Miracle Plays
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Comedy of Ideas
Components of Concept
2. Based on the lives of the saints
Henrik Ibsen
Mimesis
Subplot
Miracle Plays
3. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Discovery
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Light Plot
Tragicomedy
4. Linear events progress forward in time
Aristotle
Causal Play Structure
Vomitories
Comedy of Manners
5. Top of stage
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Upstage
Designer
6. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Subplot
Front of House
Non-Profit Theatre
Comedy of Character
7. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Copyright
Konstantin Stanislavski
Actor
Meyerhold
8. Works published before 1923
Realism and Realistic Developments
Regional Theatre
Public Domain
Dialogue
9. The standard tool for casting a production
Playwright
Front of House
Auditions
Sophocles
10. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Director
Amateur Theatre
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Wings
11. Writer and first actor
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Thespis
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Situation Comedy
12. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Fourth Wall
William Shakespeare
Dramaturg
Off-Broadway
13. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Character
Sense Memory
Fourth Wall
Antagonist
14. Emotional release
Climax
Thought
Catharsis
Linear Plot
15. 500-1800 people
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Theatron
Thought
Broadway
16. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Affective Memory
Off-Off-Broadway
Aristophanes
Meander
17. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Royalty
Broadway
Actor
18. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Designer
Proscenium Space
Emile Zola
Improv
19. Causes trouble for the main character
Melodrama
Antagonist
ostume Plot
Protagonist
20. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Black Box
Melodrama
Ensemble
21. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Dramatic Genre
Avant-Garde
Director
22. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Broadway
Variables of Costume Design
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Eugene Scribe
23. Linear events progress forward in time
Subtext
Producer
Causal Play Structure
Realism and Realistic Developments
24. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Broadway
Presentational Approach
25. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Miracle Plays
Subtext
Broadway
Naturalism
26. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Dramaturg
Meander
Producer
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
27. Proscenium space
Sturm & Drang Movement
Improv
The Box Set
Meander
28. Rhyming
Verse
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Slapstick
Copyright
29. Was poetry for many years
Catharsis
Thrust Space
Exposition
Language
30. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Variables of Costume Design
Renaissance
Sophocles
Orchestra
31. Top of stage
Director
Cycles
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Upstage
32. Proscenium space
Lazzi
Improv
The Box Set
Discovery
33. 100-499 people
Off-Broadway
Euripides
Emile Zola
Avant-Garde
34. 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)
Mystery Plays
Renaissance
Henrik Ibsen
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
35. Used alienation to encourage distance
Tragedy
Vomitories
Rehearsal Process
Bertolt Brecht
36. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Tragedy
Stage Manager
Verse
Black Box
37. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Black Box
Lazzi
Improv
Vomitories
38. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Catharsis
Stage Manager
39. 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
Improv
Language
Lazzi
Regional Theatre
40. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Sense Memory
Improv
Antiquarianism
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
41. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
The Globe
Climax
Euripides
42. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
William Shakespeare
Fourth Wall
Cycles
Meander
43. Main character
Vomitories
Regional Theatre
Protagonist
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
44. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Hybrid Theatre
Director
Plato
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
45. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Dramaturg
Verisimilitude
Theatre of Cruelty
Off-Broadway
46. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Rising Action
Ensemble
Director
Melodrama (def)
47. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Upstage
Casting Director
Mimesis
48. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aeschylus
Comedy of Manners
Dramatic Genre
Auditions
49. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Konstantin Stanislavski
Mimesis
Anton Chekhov
Verse
50. Busiest person in the theatre
Stage Manager
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Postmodernism
Meander