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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Main character
Community Theatre
Subtext
Off-Off-Broadway
Protagonist
2. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Casting Director
Lazzi
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Inciting Incident
3. Play reenacting biblical stories
Neoclassicism (def)
Theatre of Cruelty
Playwright
Mystery Plays
4. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Comedy of Ideas
Light Plot
The Box Set
The Globe
5. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Anton Chekhov
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Sophocles
Linear Plot
6. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Community Theatre
Meander
Plot
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
7. Rhyming
Vomitories
Auditions
Verse
Theatre of Cruelty
8. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Emile Zola
Concept
Verisimilitude
Postmodernism
9. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Skene
Off-Off-Broadway
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Designer
10. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Blocking
The Globe
11. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Improv
Meyerhold
Dramatic Genre
Prose
12. Based on the lives of the saints
Miracle Plays
Thought
Stage Manager
Chorus
13. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Realism and Realistic Developments
Chorus
Morality Plays
Callbacks
14. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
Improv
Concept
Tragicomedy
15. A group of actors - not just one star
Henrik Ibsen
Ensemble
Upstage
ostume Plot
16. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Rising Action
Avant-Garde
17. Ideas within the play
Commercial Theatre
Antagonist
Thought
Protagonist
18. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Callbacks
Rendering
Concept
Subplot
19. Works published before 1923
University Wits
Presentational Approach
Public Domain
Commercial Theatre
20. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Actor
Situation Comedy
Subplot
Realism and Realistic Developments
21. The era we are currently in
Climax
Postmodernism
Regional Theatre
Sense Memory
22. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Euripides
Subtext
Royalty
Aeschylus
23. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Mystery Plays
Representational Approach
Renaissance
Rising Action
24. The first director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Discovery
Non-Profit Theatre
Proscenium Space
25. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Mystery Plays
Non-Profit Theatre
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
26. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Lazzi
Eugene Scribe
Euripides
Dramatic Genre
27. Was poetry for many years
Thespis
Rendering
Off-Off-Broadway
Language
28. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Reversal
Inciting Incident
Meander
Producer
29. Part of What is included in the text
Affective Memory
Dialogue
Callbacks
Vomitories
30. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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31. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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32. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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33. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Neoclassicism (def)
Postmodernism
Comedy of Character
Callbacks
34. Busiest person in the theatre
Callbacks
Stage Manager
Skene
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
35. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Bertolt Brecht
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Neoclassicism (def)
Off-Off-Broadway
36. Gas lights - etc.
Representational Approach
Miracle Plays
Postmodernism
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
37. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Hybrid Theatre
Commercial Theatre
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Off-Broadway
38. Writer and first actor
Mystery Plays
Representational Approach
Comedy of Manners
Thespis
39. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Mystery Plays
Protagonist
Dramatic Genre
40. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Proscenium Space
Prose
Mystery Plays
Bertolt Brecht
41. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Practical
Ground Plan
Amateur Theatre
Director
42. Proscenium space
Lazzi
The Box Set
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Konstantin Stanislavski
43. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
The Box Set
Falling Action
Linear Plot
Educational Theatre
44. Events progress forward in time
ostume Plot
Reversal
Linear Plot
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
45. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Practical
Morality Plays
Auditions
Discovery
46. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Variables of Costume Design
Melodrama
Renaissance
Antiquarianism
47. Used alienation to encourage distance
Pageants
Linear Plot
Thrust Space
Bertolt Brecht
48. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Director
Subtext
Falling Action
University Wits
49. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Meander
Callbacks
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Upstage
50. 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
Conflict
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Sturm & Drang Movement
Improv