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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
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Affective Memory
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Commedia Dell'Arte
2. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Educational Theatre
Vomitories
Orchestra
Rising Action
3. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Comedy of Character
Improv
Subplot
Practical
4. High point of action
Concept
Subplot
Situation Comedy
Climax
5. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Director
Aristotle
Representational Acting
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
6. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
ostume Plot
Theatre of Cruelty
Character
Affective Memory
7. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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8. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Aesthetic Distance
Fourth Wall
Variables of Costume Design
9. Ideas within the play
Thought
Antiquarianism
Sophocles
Variables of Costume Design
10. Linear events progress forward in time
Eugene Scribe
Causal Play Structure
Rehearsal Process
Off-Broadway
11. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Anton Chekhov
Producer
Discovery
Designer
12. The era we are currently in
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Verse
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Postmodernism
13. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Melodrama
Eugene Scribe
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
14. Top of stage
Vomitories
Upstage
Auditions
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
15. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Lazzi
Fourth Wall
Non-Profit Theatre
Protagonist
16. The first director
Dialogue
Theatron
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Pageants
17. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Upstage
Affective Memory
Commercial Theatre
University Wits
18. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Theatron
Director
Neoclassicism (def)
Designer
19. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Naturalism
Producer
Verisimilitude
Conflict
20. 500-1800 people
Euripides
Skene
Miracle Plays
Broadway
21. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Off-Off-Broadway
Rehearsal Process
Theatron
Community Theatre
22. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Aesthetic Distance
Euripides
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Auditions
23. Proscenium arch/stage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Falling Action
Designer
Orchestra
24. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Representational Acting
Public Domain
Theatron
25. Person who embodies a character on stage
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Actor
Improv
Comedy of Character
26. 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
Regional Theatre
Realism and Realistic Developments
Community Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
27. Visible light source on stage
Exposition
Verisimilitude
Practical
Plato
28. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Rising Action
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Pageants
29. Main character
Protagonist
Improv
Morality Plays
Ground Plan
30. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Royalty
Antagonist
Downstage
Dialogue
31. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
William Shakespeare
Presentational Approach
Playwright
Casting Director
32. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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33. Imitation of character and action
Amateur Theatre
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Chorus
Mimesis
34. England's type of theatre
Stage Manager
Royalty
Educational Theatre
The Globe
35. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Lazzi
Aristophanes
Slapstick
Regional Theatre
36. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Dramaturg
Playwright
Dramatic Genre
Off-Off-Broadway
37. 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
Components of Concept
Subplot
Improv
Off-Off-Broadway
38. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Conflict
Realism and Realistic Developments
Callbacks
Rendering
39. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Non-Profit Theatre
University Wits
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Language
40. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Downstage
Empathy
Melodrama (def)
Plot
41. Part of What is included in the text
Light Plot
Practical
Dialogue
Aeschylus
42. 500-1800 people
Linear Plot
Broadway
Community Theatre
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
43. Verse
Off-Broadway
Amateur Theatre
Broadway
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
44. Information needed to understand the play
Exposition
Copyright
Comedy
Affective Memory
45. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Chorus
Public Domain
Discovery
46. Not many props or detailed scenery
Rendering
Renaissance
Commedia Dell'Arte
Orchestra
47. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Character
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Aristophanes
Falling Action
48. Events that set off a major conflict
Inciting Incident
Renaissance
Catharsis
Producer
49. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Blocking
Commercial Theatre
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Verisimilitude
50. 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
Community Theatre
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Slapstick
Melodrama (def)