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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Planned actor movement
Orchestra
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Blocking
Comedy
2. 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)
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Vomitories
Hypokrites
Aesthetic Distance
3. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Hypokrites
Concept
Copyright
Plato
4. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Subtext
Representational Acting
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Director
5. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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6. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Language
Renaissance
Skene
Practical
7. Medea - The Bacchae
Subplot
Thought
Antiquarianism
Euripides
8. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Designer
Rehearsal Process
Morality Plays
Rising Action
9. Organization of action
Konstantin Stanislavski
Rendering
Playwright
Plot
10. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Inciting Incident
Falling Action
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Tragicomedy
11. Main character
Protagonist
Mimesis
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Comedy of Character
12. The first director
ostume Plot
Verse
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Designer
13. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Auditions
Casting Director
Off-Broadway
Educational Theatre
14. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Aesthetic Distance
Discovery
ostume Plot
Character
15. Performs Actions of the Play
Rendering
Off-Off-Broadway
Character
Representational Approach
16. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Improv
Antiquarianism
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Naturalism
17. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Royalty
Rendering
Amateur Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
18. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Fourth Wall
Naturalism
Cycles
Comedy of Character
19. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Aeschylus
Eugene Scribe
Theatron
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
20. Greek - actor
Realism and Realistic Developments
Stage Manager
Hypokrites
Practical
21. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Reversal
Producer
Black Box
Subplot
22. Based on the lives of the saints
Upstage
Miracle Plays
Language
Protagonist
23. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle
Variables of Costume Design
Henrik Ibsen
Morality Plays
24. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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25. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Chorus
26. High point of action
Tragicomedy
Rising Action
Plato
Climax
27. Appearance of truth
Plato
Verisimilitude
Non-Profit Theatre
Comedy of Character
28. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Anton Chekhov
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Rising Action
Avant-Garde
29. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Sense Memory
Amateur Theatre
Mystery Plays
Linear Plot
30. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Empathy
Lazzi
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Variables of Costume Design
31. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Sense Memory
Causal Play Structure
Reversal
Orchestra
32. Italians
Exposition
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Broadway
33. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Hypokrites
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
34. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Naturalism
Educational Theatre
Playwright
35. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Representational Acting
Hybrid Theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
Neoclassicism (def)
36. Used alienation to encourage distance
Royalty
Bertolt Brecht
Non-Profit Theatre
Thought
37. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Eugene Scribe
Thought
Aeschylus
Inciting Incident
38. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Practical
Catharsis
Antiquarianism
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
39. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Affective Memory
Neoclassicism (def)
Antagonist
Ground Plan
40. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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41. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Anton Chekhov
Chorus
42. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Konstantin Stanislavski
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Hybrid Theatre
Hypokrites
43. Focused on thought - controversial
Presentational Approach
Comedy of Ideas
Blocking
Character
44. Part of What is included in the text
Aristotle
Dialogue
Sense Memory
Subplot
45. Organization of action
Causal Play Structure
Conflict
Avant-Garde
Plot
46. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
Prose
Prose
Linear Plot
47. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
Subplot
Bertolt Brecht
Representational Acting
48. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Commedia Dell'Arte
Dramaturg
49. 'Storm and stress'
Aeschylus
The Globe
Falling Action
Sturm & Drang Movement
50. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
Inciting Incident
Aeschylus
Representational Acting