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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Hybrid Theatre
Empathy
Antiquarianism
Variables of Costume Design
2. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Blocking
Konstantin Stanislavski
Royalty
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
3. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
ostume Plot
Playwright
Components of Concept
Off-Off-Broadway
4. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Realism and Realistic Developments
Dramaturg
Components of Concept
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
5. Medea - The Bacchae
Sturm & Drang Movement
Naturalism
Hypokrites
Euripides
6. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Tragicomedy
Royalty
Fourth Wall
Affective Memory
7. Top of stage
ostume Plot
Upstage
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Euripides
8. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Anton Chekhov
Rendering
9. 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
Rendering
Regional Theatre
Antiquarianism
10. England's type of theatre
Off-Off-Broadway
Fourth Wall
The Globe
Bertolt Brecht
11. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Auditions
Anton Chekhov
Light Plot
12. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Proscenium Space
Catharsis
Slapstick
Off-Off-Broadway
13. The standard tool for casting a production
Aristophanes
Printing Press
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Auditions
14. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Reversal
Emile Zola
Upstage
15. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Thrust Space
Representational Approach
Fourth Wall
Discovery
16. Play reenacting biblical stories
Proscenium Space
Neoclassicism (def)
Anton Chekhov
Mystery Plays
17. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Theatron
Avant-Garde
Lazzi
Pageants
18. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Actor
University Wits
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Public Domain
19. Gas lights - etc.
Ensemble
Lazzi
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Plato
20. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Realism and Realistic Developments
Affective Memory
Aristophanes
Climax
21. Linear events progress forward in time
Commedia Dell'Arte
Plot
Avant-Garde
Causal Play Structure
22. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Representational Approach
Representational Approach
Reversal
Inciting Incident
23. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Presentational Approach
Commedia Dell'Arte
Printing Press
Fourth Wall
24. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Auditions
Morality Plays
Callbacks
25. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Mimesis
Proscenium Space
Melodrama (def)
Designer
26. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Amateur Theatre
Naturalism
Emile Zola
Meander
27. Emotional release
Catharsis
Thespis
Skene
Protagonist
28. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Falling Action
Amateur Theatre
Producer
Causal Play Structure
29. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Discovery
Character
Amateur Theatre
Downstage
30. Writer and first actor
Konstantin Stanislavski
Light Plot
Sturm & Drang Movement
Thespis
31. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Downstage
ostume Plot
Hypokrites
Variables of Costume Design
32. Audience watches from 3 sides
Thrust Space
Neoclassicism (def)
Verse
Situation Comedy
33. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Affective Memory
Meyerhold
Aristophanes
Non-Profit Theatre
34. Was poetry for many years
Comedy of Manners
Affective Memory
Falling Action
Language
35. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
Chorus
Neoclassicism (def)
Representational Acting
36. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Representational Acting
Verisimilitude
Falling Action
Improv
37. 100-499 people
Representational Approach
Morality Plays
Hybrid Theatre
Off-Broadway
38. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Printing Press
Skene
Royalty
Stage Manager
39. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Stage Manager
Climax
Antiquarianism
Ensemble
40. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Melodrama (def)
Mystery Plays
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Hybrid Theatre
41. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Falling Action
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Stage Manager
Non-Profit Theatre
42. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Skene
Conflict
Verse
Plato
43. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Educational Theatre
Director
Sense Memory
Konstantin Stanislavski
44. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Commercial Theatre
Slapstick
Proscenium Space
Upstage
45. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Sense Memory
Upstage
Ensemble
Designer
46. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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47. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Orchestra
Morality Plays
Euripides
Avant-Garde
48. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Comedy of Ideas
Improv
Copyright
Aeschylus
49. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
ostume Plot
Character
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
50. Controls the environment in the theatre
Blocking
Auditions
Vomitories
Designer