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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The standard tool for casting a production
Renaissance
Auditions
Comedy of Ideas
Language
2. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Subtext
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Falling Action
Neoclassicism (def)
3. High point of action
Copyright
Climax
Theatre of Cruelty
Linear Plot
4. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Callbacks
Concept
Actor
Meander
5. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Reversal
Black Box
Sense Memory
6. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Regional Theatre
Concept
Black Box
Practical
7. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
8. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Meyerhold
Dramatic Genre
Causal Play Structure
9. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Bertolt Brecht
Postmodernism
Conflict
Tragicomedy
10. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Comedy of Manners
Printing Press
Sophocles
Off-Broadway
11. Rhyming
Verse
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Chorus
Playwright
12. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Components of Concept
Light Plot
Eugene Scribe
Wings
13. Busiest person in the theatre
Stage Manager
Climax
Prose
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
14. Was poetry for many years
Language
The Box Set
Downstage
Melodrama (def)
15. Appearance of truth
Sense Memory
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Verisimilitude
Postmodernism
16. The era we are currently in
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Exposition
Postmodernism
Improv
17. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Falling Action
Vomitories
18. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Situation Comedy
Representational Approach
Rendering
Meander
19. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
20. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
21. The first director
Cycles
Falling Action
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Producer
22. High point of action
Aristophanes
Mystery Plays
Prose
Climax
23. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Inciting Incident
Proscenium Space
Konstantin Stanislavski
Concept
24. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Henrik Ibsen
Melodrama
Mystery Plays
Naturalism
25. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Improv
Euripides
Downstage
Aristophanes
26. Causes trouble for the main character
Subplot
Inciting Incident
Renaissance
Antagonist
27. Proscenium arch/stage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Aeschylus
Blocking
Sophocles
28. Someone who writes plays
Meander
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Playwright
Causal Play Structure
29. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Linear Plot
Commercial Theatre
Proscenium Space
Affective Memory
30. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Light Plot
Cycles
Sturm & Drang Movement
Morality Plays
31. Imitation of character and action
Tragedy
Mimesis
Naturalism
Miracle Plays
32. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Fourth Wall
Amateur Theatre
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Antiquarianism
33. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Tragicomedy
Off-Off-Broadway
Practical
34. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Morality Plays
Thespis
Upstage
Slapstick
35. Major character at odds with social expectations
Aristophanes
Emile Zola
Comedy of Manners
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
36. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Avant-Garde
Proscenium Space
Ensemble
Tragicomedy
37. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Light Plot
Wings
Commedia Dell'Arte
38. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Catharsis
Amateur Theatre
Discovery
Commercial Theatre
39. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Konstantin Stanislavski
Variables of Costume Design
Actor
Fourth Wall
40. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Comedy
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Components of Concept
Aristophanes
41. Works published before 1923
Renaissance
Comedy
Emile Zola
Public Domain
42. Emotional release
Catharsis
Comedy
Character
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
43. Controls the environment in the theatre
Subplot
Aeschylus
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Designer
44. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Director
Actor
Skene
Educational Theatre
45. Proscenium space
Blocking
Royalty
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
The Box Set
46. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Falling Action
Eugene Scribe
Subplot
Plot
47. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Conflict
Proscenium Space
Casting Director
Black Box
48. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
Improv
Neoclassicism (def)
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
49. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Situation Comedy
Thought
Presentational Approach
Meander
50. Based on the lives of the saints
Miracle Plays
Stage Manager
Educational Theatre
Printing Press