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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Representational Approach
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
2. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Fourth Wall
Aesthetic Distance
Non-Profit Theatre
Sophocles
3. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Royalty
Theatre of Cruelty
Avant-Garde
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
4. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Meyerhold
Educational Theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
5. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Light Plot
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Fourth Wall
Mystery Plays
6. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Practical
Sophocles
Chorus
7. 'Storm and stress'
Sturm & Drang Movement
Avant-Garde
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Concept
8. Play reenacting biblical stories
Community Theatre
Language
Mystery Plays
Comedy of Manners
9. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Variables of Costume Design
Tragicomedy
Theatre of Cruelty
Playwright
10. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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11. Works published before 1923
Aristotle
Playwright
Public Domain
Conflict
12. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Melodrama (def)
Aristophanes
Improv
13. A>B>C>D
University Wits
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Catharsis
Chorus
14. Controls the environment in the theatre
Director
Vomitories
Concept
Designer
15. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Broadway
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Presentational Approach
Wings
16. A group of actors - not just one star
Renaissance
Empathy
Ensemble
Theatre of Cruelty
17. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Representational Acting
Climax
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
ostume Plot
18. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
University Wits
Protagonist
Subplot
Lazzi
19. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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20. Planned actor movement
Representational Approach
Blocking
Educational Theatre
Hypokrites
21. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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22. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Empathy
Practical
Black Box
Bertolt Brecht
23. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Representational Acting
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Proscenium Space
Educational Theatre
24. 500-1800 people
Henrik Ibsen
Rehearsal Process
Broadway
Ensemble
25. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Black Box
Plato
Rehearsal Process
Regional Theatre
26. Busiest person in the theatre
Stage Manager
Black Box
Proscenium Space
Upstage
27. Proscenium space
Miracle Plays
The Box Set
Presentational Approach
Stage Manager
28. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Presentational Approach
Melodrama
Royalty
Mystery Plays
29. The standard tool for casting a production
Verse
Aristotle
Educational Theatre
Auditions
30. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Comedy of Ideas
Thought
Commercial Theatre
The Globe
31. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Empathy
Protagonist
The Globe
ostume Plot
32. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
The Globe
Copyright
Regional Theatre
Actor
33. Was poetry for many years
Fourth Wall
Language
Realism and Realistic Developments
The Box Set
34. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Wings
University Wits
Downstage
Antiquarianism
35. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Cycles
Bertolt Brecht
Theatron
Theatre of Cruelty
36. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Orchestra
Skene
Rehearsal Process
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
37. Ideas within the play
Front of House
Meander
Naturalism
Thought
38. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Tragedy
Exposition
Dramaturg
Variables of Costume Design
39. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Naturalism
Downstage
Melodrama (def)
Presentational Approach
40. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Light Plot
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Realism and Realistic Developments
ostume Plot
41. Someone who writes plays
Designer
Playwright
Verse
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
42. Writer and first actor
Lazzi
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Thespis
Linear Plot
43. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Casting Director
Non-Profit Theatre
Antiquarianism
Chorus
44. Emotional release
Catharsis
Slapstick
Wings
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
45. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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46. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Improv
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Neoclassicism (def)
Variables of Costume Design
47. Causes trouble for the main character
Hypokrites
Subplot
Slapstick
Antagonist
48. High point of action
Lazzi
Climax
Falling Action
Meyerhold
49. Play reenacting biblical stories
Naturalism
Royalty
Mystery Plays
Rehearsal Process
50. Events progress forward in time
Dramaturg
Konstantin Stanislavski
Sense Memory
Linear Plot