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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Linear events progress forward in time
Comedy of Manners
Causal Play Structure
Exposition
Inciting Incident
2. Events that set off a major conflict
Aristotle
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Inciting Incident
Variables of Costume Design
3. Events progress forward in time
ostume Plot
Dramatic Genre
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Linear Plot
4. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Designer
Orchestra
Off-Off-Broadway
Thrust Space
5. Medea - The Bacchae
Euripides
Casting Director
Thought
Verse
6. High point of action
Henrik Ibsen
Comedy of Manners
Theatre of Cruelty
Climax
7. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Hypokrites
Vomitories
Tragicomedy
Exposition
8. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Front of House
Hybrid Theatre
Avant-Garde
Dramatic Genre
9. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Mimesis
Regional Theatre
Comedy of Manners
Upstage
10. Play reenacting biblical stories
Public Domain
Mystery Plays
Linear Plot
Hypokrites
11. Six elements - catharsis
The Box Set
Aristotle
Morality Plays
Improv
12. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Protagonist
Actor
Mimesis
Dramaturg
13. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Non-Profit Theatre
Dramaturg
Rising Action
Producer
14. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Eugene Scribe
Thespis
Non-Profit Theatre
15. Gas lights - etc.
Reversal
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Theatre of Cruelty
Producer
16. Greek - actor
Improv
Situation Comedy
Hypokrites
Empathy
17. Amateur theatre in which shows are created by residents of a particular area who come together without being part of a professional or academic institution
Black Box
Community Theatre
Wings
Renaissance
18. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Printing Press
Mystery Plays
Educational Theatre
Aristophanes
19. Busiest person in the theatre
Conflict
Hypokrites
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Stage Manager
20. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
University Wits
Vomitories
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Fourth Wall
21. 'Father of Realism'
Henrik Ibsen
Catharsis
Protagonist
Emile Zola
22. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Falling Action
Actor
Plato
Morality Plays
23. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Sense Memory
Regional Theatre
Hybrid Theatre
Representational Approach
24. Used alienation to encourage distance
Commercial Theatre
Konstantin Stanislavski
Bertolt Brecht
Casting Director
25. Proscenium space
Meander
The Box Set
Meander
Downstage
26. Top of stage
Meander
William Shakespeare
Proscenium Space
Upstage
27. Causes trouble for the main character
Comedy of Manners
Thought
Morality Plays
Antagonist
28. Writer and first actor
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Protagonist
Thespis
Reversal
29. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Emile Zola
Affective Memory
William Shakespeare
Neoclassicism (def)
30. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Ensemble
Amateur Theatre
Pageants
Rising Action
31. Gas lights - etc.
Royalty
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Representational Approach
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
32. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Konstantin Stanislavski
Sophocles
Eugene Scribe
Pageants
33. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Prose
Postmodernism
Avant-Garde
Representational Approach
34. Audience watches from 3 sides
Dramatic Genre
Postmodernism
Thrust Space
Dialogue
35. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Affective Memory
Euripides
Skene
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
36. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
Stage Manager
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Non-Profit Theatre
37. Rhyming
Affective Memory
Verse
Aeschylus
Aristophanes
38. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Director
Antagonist
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Euripides
39. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Naturalism
Hypokrites
Downstage
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
40. Events progress forward in time
Linear Plot
William Shakespeare
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Melodrama
41. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Plot
Dramatic Genre
Theatre of Cruelty
Front of House
42. Series of short stories
Dramaturg
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Anton Chekhov
Rising Action
43. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Meander
Actor
Language
Light Plot
44. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Bertolt Brecht
Rehearsal Process
Amateur Theatre
Inciting Incident
45. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Thought
Mystery Plays
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
46. Information needed to understand the play
Exposition
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Ground Plan
Sense Memory
47. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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48. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Sophocles
Regional Theatre
Rendering
Blocking
49. Based on the lives of the saints
Sense Memory
Miracle Plays
Linear Plot
Tragicomedy
50. Focused on thought - controversial
Comedy of Ideas
Postmodernism
Language
Amateur Theatre