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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Used alienation to encourage distance
Sense Memory
Bertolt Brecht
Language
Playwright
2. Time (play had to take place within a 24 hour period) - place (the whole play must take place in a single location) - and action (single plot)
Orchestra
Aeschylus
The Globe
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
3. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Comedy
Tragicomedy
Slapstick
Rendering
4. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
The Globe
Discovery
Rendering
Improv
5. Proscenium arch/stage
Amateur Theatre
Playwright
Aesthetic Distance
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
6. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Producer
Meyerhold
Plato
Meander
7. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Renaissance
Euripides
Playwright
Emile Zola
8. Italians
Affective Memory
Blocking
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Black Box
9. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Empathy
Vomitories
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Tragedy
10. Visible light source on stage
Pageants
Non-Profit Theatre
Practical
Wings
11. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Printing Press
Dramatic Genre
Slapstick
Designer
12. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Reversal
Aristophanes
Affective Memory
Meander
13. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Prose
Light Plot
Stage Manager
Skene
14. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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15. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Producer
Callbacks
Theatre of Cruelty
Rising Action
16. Organization of action
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Plot
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
17. Part of What is included in the text
Theatron
Upstage
Dialogue
Prose
18. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Comedy of Manners
Discovery
Aristophanes
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
19. Humorous - objective view point
Improv
Meyerhold
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Comedy
20. Rhyming
Commedia Dell'Arte
Thought
Upstage
Verse
21. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy of Manners
Protagonist
Meander
Tragedy
22. A group of actors - not just one star
Casting Director
Ensemble
Subtext
Falling Action
23. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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24. The first director
Plato
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Proscenium Space
25. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Mystery Plays
Dramatic Genre
Hypokrites
26. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Orchestra
Practical
Subplot
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
27. Someone who writes plays
Playwright
Proscenium Space
Linear Plot
Affective Memory
28. Performs Actions of the Play
Catharsis
Konstantin Stanislavski
Character
Meyerhold
29. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Broadway
Antiquarianism
Non-Profit Theatre
Vomitories
30. The first director
Off-Off-Broadway
Konstantin Stanislavski
Rendering
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
31. Top of stage
Falling Action
Upstage
Black Box
Aeschylus
32. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Antiquarianism
Sturm & Drang Movement
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
33. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Callbacks
Pageants
Hypokrites
34. Events that set off a major conflict
Inciting Incident
Avant-Garde
Commedia Dell'Arte
Director
35. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Prose
Dramaturg
Language
Off-Broadway
36. Emotional release
Antagonist
Catharsis
Theatre of Cruelty
Protagonist
37. Main character
Protagonist
Hypokrites
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Sense Memory
38. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Comedy of Character
Conflict
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Commedia Dell'Arte
39. Based on the lives of the saints
Miracle Plays
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Slapstick
Dramatic Genre
40. Proscenium space
Rising Action
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Orchestra
The Box Set
41. Medea - The Bacchae
Exposition
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Euripides
Meander
42. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Tragicomedy
Avant-Garde
Auditions
University Wits
43. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Printing Press
Thought
Front of House
Components of Concept
44. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Catharsis
Eugene Scribe
Tragedy
Representational Acting
45. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Sophocles
Comedy of Manners
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
46. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Callbacks
Situation Comedy
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
47. Organization of action
Miracle Plays
Off-Off-Broadway
Plot
Meyerhold
48. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Auditions
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Conflict
49. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Comedy
William Shakespeare
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
50. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Community Theatre
Antiquarianism
Rising Action