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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Proscenium space
Plato
Climax
The Box Set
Mystery Plays
2. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Commercial Theatre
Light Plot
Hypokrites
Thought
3. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Sense Memory
Tragicomedy
Falling Action
Anton Chekhov
4. The era we are currently in
Postmodernism
Naturalism
Dramatic Genre
Comedy
5. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Presentational Approach
Light Plot
Language
Director
6. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Sophocles
Plot
Climax
Antiquarianism
7. Based on the lives of the saints
Royalty
Miracle Plays
Practical
Actor
8. Based on the lives of the saints
Miracle Plays
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Melodrama
Falling Action
9. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
Downstage
Concept
Fourth Wall
10. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
Representational Approach
Subtext
Chorus
11. A group of actors - not just one star
Rehearsal Process
Language
Ensemble
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
12. A>B>C>D
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Plot
Downstage
Producer
13. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Aesthetic Distance
Fourth Wall
Morality Plays
Wings
14. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Fourth Wall
William Shakespeare
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Ground Plan
15. Greek - actor
Hypokrites
Off-Off-Broadway
Light Plot
ostume Plot
16. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Mystery Plays
Verse
Components of Concept
Improv
17. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Thought
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Upstage
Conflict
18. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Director
Copyright
Cycles
Printing Press
19. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Plot
Off-Off-Broadway
Subplot
Casting Director
20. Person who embodies a character on stage
Aeschylus
The Box Set
Actor
Inciting Incident
21. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Dramaturg
Practical
Comedy of Character
22. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Antiquarianism
Educational Theatre
Printing Press
Reversal
23. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Cycles
Commedia Dell'Arte
Postmodernism
Aeschylus
24. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
25. Medea - The Bacchae
Aeschylus
Ground Plan
Comedy of Ideas
Euripides
26. Busiest person in the theatre
Mimesis
Verse
Rehearsal Process
Stage Manager
27. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
University Wits
Cycles
Realism and Realistic Developments
28. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
29. A group of actors - not just one star
Inciting Incident
Wings
Ensemble
Thought
30. The standard tool for casting a production
Plot
Auditions
Mimesis
Exposition
31. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Falling Action
Aeschylus
Upstage
Dramatic Genre
32. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Off-Off-Broadway
Concept
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Euripides
33. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Empathy
William Shakespeare
Melodrama
Tragedy
34. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Neoclassicism (def)
Subtext
Verse
Educational Theatre
35. A>B>C>D
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Character
Plot
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
36. Grammatically based
Subtext
Slapstick
Prose
Eugene Scribe
37. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Sense Memory
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Antiquarianism
38. Controls the environment in the theatre
Broadway
Royalty
Designer
Hybrid Theatre
39. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Theatron
Inciting Incident
Sense Memory
Subtext
40. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Realism and Realistic Developments
Callbacks
Melodrama
Subtext
41. Humorous - objective view point
Tragedy
Comedy of Manners
Comedy
Ensemble
42. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
43. Verse
Skene
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Concept
44. Emotional release
Catharsis
Aristophanes
Protagonist
Empathy
45. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Non-Profit Theatre
Aesthetic Distance
Hybrid Theatre
Climax
46. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Comedy of Manners
Character
Situation Comedy
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
47. 100-499 people
Off-Broadway
Antagonist
Comedy of Character
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
48. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Protagonist
Rehearsal Process
Producer
Exposition
49. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
50. Feel more in stage acting.
Pageants
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Exposition
Chorus