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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Italians
Copyright
Meander
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Renaissance
2. Performs Actions of the Play
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Character
Subtext
Miracle Plays
3. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
William Shakespeare
Affective Memory
Verse
4. 100-499 people
Plot
Off-Broadway
Euripides
Chorus
5. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Comedy of Ideas
Variables of Costume Design
Rehearsal Process
6. Grammatically based
Rendering
Prose
Subplot
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
7. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Aristotle
Postmodernism
Broadway
8. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Off-Broadway
Character
Front of House
9. Medea - The Bacchae
Euripides
Bertolt Brecht
Comedy
Lazzi
10. Units of action that build emotional intensity
The Globe
Subtext
Rising Action
Non-Profit Theatre
11. The era we are currently in
Representational Acting
Postmodernism
Producer
Copyright
12. Appearance of truth
Presentational Approach
Verisimilitude
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Public Domain
13. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Community Theatre
Hybrid Theatre
Sophocles
Meyerhold
14. Used alienation to encourage distance
Tragicomedy
Callbacks
Melodrama
Bertolt Brecht
15. Not many props or detailed scenery
Conflict
Mimesis
Inciting Incident
Renaissance
16. Busiest person in the theatre
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Stage Manager
Dramatic Genre
Language
17. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Verse
Reversal
Regional Theatre
Subplot
18. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Antagonist
Mystery Plays
Naturalism
Character
19. Series of short stories
Inciting Incident
Cycles
Comedy
Anton Chekhov
20. The first director
Cycles
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Representational Approach
Dramatic Genre
21. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Realism and Realistic Developments
Pageants
Off-Broadway
Broadway
22. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Aristophanes
Sturm & Drang Movement
Aeschylus
23. Verse
Falling Action
William Shakespeare
University Wits
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
24. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Designer
Printing Press
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
25. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Prose
Morality Plays
Non-Profit Theatre
Antagonist
26. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
Presentational Approach
Public Domain
Printing Press
27. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Realism and Realistic Developments
University Wits
Sophocles
28. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Conflict
Concept
Melodrama
Aesthetic Distance
29. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Callbacks
Plato
Vomitories
Dramatic Genre
30. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Rendering
Aesthetic Distance
Comedy of Character
Empathy
31. Focused on thought - controversial
Language
Antiquarianism
Educational Theatre
Comedy of Ideas
32. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Affective Memory
Skene
Plato
Callbacks
33. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Lazzi
Discovery
Language
34. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Inciting Incident
Amateur Theatre
Avant-Garde
Thrust Space
35. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Black Box
Stage Manager
Melodrama (def)
Cycles
36. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Morality Plays
Concept
Realism and Realistic Developments
Director
37. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Miracle Plays
Variables of Costume Design
Realism and Realistic Developments
Casting Director
38. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Representational Approach
Theatron
Fourth Wall
Fourth Wall
39. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Producer
Eugene Scribe
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Designer
40. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
Regional Theatre
Off-Broadway
Representational Acting
41. Controls the environment in the theatre
Postmodernism
Tragicomedy
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Designer
42. Humorous - objective view point
Playwright
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Henrik Ibsen
Comedy
43. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
44. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Empathy
Ground Plan
Downstage
Light Plot
45. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Euripides
Aristotle
Conflict
Presentational Approach
46. 'Storm and stress'
Comedy of Manners
Sturm & Drang Movement
Neoclassicism (def)
Subplot
47. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Concept
Subtext
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Tragicomedy
48. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Presentational Approach
Vomitories
Aristophanes
Hybrid Theatre
49. Organization of action
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Plot
Proscenium Space
Morality Plays
50. The first director
Wings
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Pageants
Amateur Theatre