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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. High point of action
Climax
Playwright
Commedia Dell'Arte
Comedy of Manners
2. Busiest person in the theatre
Hybrid Theatre
Stage Manager
Subtext
Representational Acting
3. The standard tool for casting a production
Dialogue
Prose
Auditions
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
4. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Commercial Theatre
The Box Set
Aristotle
Aeschylus
5. 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
Broadway
Tragedy
Improv
Non-Profit Theatre
6. Emotional release
Presentational Approach
Fourth Wall
Miracle Plays
Catharsis
7. 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
Aristophanes
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Conflict
8. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Commedia Dell'Arte
Lazzi
Cycles
Subplot
9. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
Components of Concept
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Antagonist
10. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Subtext
Thought
Realism and Realistic Developments
11. 500-1800 people
Wings
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Broadway
Postmodernism
12. Linear events progress forward in time
Comedy of Ideas
Linear Plot
Causal Play Structure
Concept
13. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Subtext
Meyerhold
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Subplot
14. Medea - The Bacchae
Tragedy
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Euripides
Exposition
15. Italians
Skene
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Playwright
Linear Plot
16. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Front of House
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Meander
17. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Melodrama (def)
Konstantin Stanislavski
Public Domain
18. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
William Shakespeare
Avant-Garde
Naturalism
Antiquarianism
19. Events progress forward in time
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Downstage
Subplot
Linear Plot
20. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Concept
Antiquarianism
Aesthetic Distance
Wings
21. Humorous - objective view point
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Lazzi
Comedy
Thrust Space
22. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
Dialogue
Discovery
Conflict
23. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
University Wits
Theatron
Tragicomedy
Components of Concept
24. High point of action
Empathy
Variables of Costume Design
Climax
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
25. The era we are currently in
Blocking
Postmodernism
Meyerhold
Subtext
26. Italians
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Language
Antiquarianism
Hybrid Theatre
27. Person who embodies a character on stage
Meander
Ground Plan
Actor
Linear Plot
28. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Verisimilitude
Upstage
Morality Plays
Designer
29. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Playwright
Cycles
30. A group of actors - not just one star
Anton Chekhov
Reversal
Euripides
Ensemble
31. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Upstage
Vomitories
Mimesis
Dialogue
32. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Conflict
Melodrama
William Shakespeare
Plato
33. Focused on thought - controversial
Orchestra
Comedy of Ideas
Reversal
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
34. Major character at odds with social expectations
Upstage
Antiquarianism
Representational Acting
Comedy of Manners
35. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Meyerhold
Eugene Scribe
Falling Action
Theatron
36. Was poetry for many years
Verse
Language
Copyright
Postmodernism
37. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Representational Acting
Concept
Euripides
38. A fee for each performance
Avant-Garde
Royalty
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Aesthetic Distance
39. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Conflict
Euripides
Tragedy
Amateur Theatre
40. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Subplot
Neoclassicism (def)
Antiquarianism
Variables of Costume Design
41. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
Slapstick
Thrust Space
Actor
42. Writer and first actor
Fourth Wall
Thespis
Aesthetic Distance
Melodrama (def)
43. Feel more in stage acting.
Realism and Realistic Developments
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Rendering
Character
44. Feel more in stage acting.
Dramaturg
Thespis
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Community Theatre
45. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Wings
Hybrid Theatre
Comedy of Ideas
46. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
Stage Manager
Proscenium Space
Henrik Ibsen
47. Linear events progress forward in time
ostume Plot
Meyerhold
Rising Action
Causal Play Structure
48. Focused on thought - controversial
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Anton Chekhov
Comedy of Ideas
Light Plot
49. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Rendering
Variables of Costume Design
Theatron
Aristophanes
50. Performs Actions of the Play
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Skene
Hybrid Theatre
Character