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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Postmodernism
Cycles
Verisimilitude
2. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Producer
Situation Comedy
Light Plot
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
3. Works published before 1923
William Shakespeare
Climax
Konstantin Stanislavski
Public Domain
4. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
The Globe
Components of Concept
Postmodernism
William Shakespeare
5. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Stage Manager
Dramatic Genre
Henrik Ibsen
Variables of Costume Design
6. England's type of theatre
Regional Theatre
Thespis
Wings
The Globe
7. Focused on thought - controversial
Comedy of Ideas
Non-Profit Theatre
Presentational Approach
Comedy of Character
8. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Dramaturg
Comedy of Manners
Realism and Realistic Developments
Melodrama (def)
9. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Skene
Aeschylus
Avant-Garde
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
10. 500-1800 people
Broadway
Meyerhold
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Conflict
11. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Meyerhold
Tragedy
Melodrama
Avant-Garde
12. 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
Hybrid Theatre
Printing Press
Light Plot
13. Gas lights - etc.
Fourth Wall
Protagonist
The Globe
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
14. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Language
Wings
Situation Comedy
University Wits
15. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Representational Acting
Konstantin Stanislavski
Reversal
16. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Renaissance
William Shakespeare
Royalty
Amateur Theatre
17. 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
Callbacks
Sturm & Drang Movement
Community Theatre
Neoclassicism (def)
18. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy of Manners
Emile Zola
Antiquarianism
Renaissance
19. Feel more in stage acting.
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Aristophanes
Designer
Tragicomedy
20. 500-1800 people
Upstage
Postmodernism
Broadway
Auditions
21. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Tragicomedy
Non-Profit Theatre
Director
Theatron
22. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Comedy of Manners
Practical
Thought
Neoclassicism (def)
23. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Subtext
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Fourth Wall
24. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Variables of Costume Design
Dramaturg
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Concept
25. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Slapstick
Orchestra
Ground Plan
26. Busiest person in the theatre
Upstage
Stage Manager
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Realism and Realistic Developments
27. Ideas within the play
Off-Broadway
Vomitories
Thought
Inciting Incident
28. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Lazzi
ostume Plot
Avant-Garde
Hybrid Theatre
29. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Sophocles
Plato
Antiquarianism
Regional Theatre
30. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Representational Approach
Non-Profit Theatre
Producer
Thrust Space
31. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Morality Plays
Cycles
Causal Play Structure
ostume Plot
32. Proscenium arch/stage
Situation Comedy
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Commercial Theatre
Reversal
33. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Theatron
ostume Plot
Sophocles
Postmodernism
34. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Climax
Vomitories
Melodrama
Prose
35. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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36. Person who embodies a character on stage
Concept
Actor
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
37. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Language
Vomitories
Dramatic Genre
William Shakespeare
38. A>B>C>D
Theatre of Cruelty
Plot
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Renaissance
39. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Theatron
Non-Profit Theatre
Wings
Mystery Plays
40. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Actor
Emile Zola
Miracle Plays
Falling Action
41. The era we are currently in
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Postmodernism
Sophocles
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
42. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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43. Main character
Konstantin Stanislavski
Comedy of Ideas
Protagonist
Melodrama
44. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Orchestra
Producer
Verse
Vomitories
45. Emotional release
Euripides
Anton Chekhov
Emile Zola
Catharsis
46. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Melodrama
University Wits
Representational Acting
Light Plot
47. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Konstantin Stanislavski
Components of Concept
Comedy of Character
William Shakespeare
48. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Fourth Wall
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Casting Director
Commercial Theatre
49. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Mystery Plays
Rising Action
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
50. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Konstantin Stanislavski
Educational Theatre
Aristophanes
Sturm & Drang Movement