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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Comedy of Character
Director
Amateur Theatre
Improv
2. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Fourth Wall
Emile Zola
Antiquarianism
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
3. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Casting Director
Subtext
Reversal
Sophocles
4. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Fourth Wall
Reversal
Neoclassicism (def)
Theatron
5. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Realism and Realistic Developments
Exposition
Konstantin Stanislavski
6. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Light Plot
Exposition
Comedy of Character
Dramatic Genre
7. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Amateur Theatre
Affective Memory
Cycles
Language
8. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Meander
Downstage
Situation Comedy
Thrust Space
9. A>B>C>D
Regional Theatre
Anton Chekhov
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Dialogue
10. 500-1800 people
Broadway
Off-Off-Broadway
Sturm & Drang Movement
Causal Play Structure
11. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Components of Concept
Konstantin Stanislavski
Character
ostume Plot
12. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Meyerhold
Thrust Space
Plot
Dramatic Genre
13. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Chorus
Empathy
The Box Set
Aristotle
14. England's type of theatre
Morality Plays
Cycles
The Globe
Konstantin Stanislavski
15. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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16. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Character
Off-Broadway
Thespis
Theatre of Cruelty
17. Planned actor movement
Blocking
The Globe
Aeschylus
Conflict
18. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Community Theatre
Off-Off-Broadway
19. Rhyming
Commercial Theatre
Situation Comedy
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Verse
20. Six elements - catharsis
Antagonist
Discovery
Public Domain
Aristotle
21. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Regional Theatre
Eugene Scribe
Amateur Theatre
Representational Acting
22. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Aeschylus
Falling Action
Sense Memory
Melodrama (def)
23. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
ostume Plot
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Callbacks
Tragicomedy
24. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Actor
Orchestra
25. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Theatre of Cruelty
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Copyright
26. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
University Wits
Playwright
Director
Antiquarianism
27. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
The Globe
Dramaturg
Falling Action
Bertolt Brecht
28. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Falling Action
Renaissance
Situation Comedy
Theatron
29. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Verse
Empathy
Antagonist
Printing Press
30. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Public Domain
Reversal
Sturm & Drang Movement
Tragedy
31. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Morality Plays
Conflict
Protagonist
ostume Plot
32. Events progress forward in time
Designer
Black Box
University Wits
Linear Plot
33. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Eugene Scribe
Affective Memory
Linear Plot
Printing Press
34. Events progress forward in time
Neoclassicism (def)
Linear Plot
Playwright
Pageants
35. A group of actors - not just one star
Non-Profit Theatre
Ensemble
Renaissance
Copyright
36. Linear events progress forward in time
Stage Manager
Comedy
Causal Play Structure
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
37. Series of short stories
Sophocles
Reversal
Representational Approach
Anton Chekhov
38. The standard tool for casting a production
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Antagonist
Chorus
Auditions
39. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Morality Plays
Front of House
Hybrid Theatre
Renaissance
40. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Plato
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Theatron
41. Humorous - objective view point
Prose
Comedy
Hypokrites
Royalty
42. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Copyright
Eugene Scribe
Regional Theatre
43. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
Playwright
Mystery Plays
Aristotle
44. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Actor
Comedy of Manners
Reversal
Copyright
45. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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46. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Miracle Plays
Postmodernism
Character
Amateur Theatre
47. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Commercial Theatre
Producer
Fourth Wall
Callbacks
48. Performs Actions of the Play
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Light Plot
Character
Dramatic Genre
49. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Skene
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Black Box
Rendering
50. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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