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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Someone who writes plays
Representational Acting
Playwright
Designer
Pageants
2. England's type of theatre
The Globe
Konstantin Stanislavski
Henrik Ibsen
Causal Play Structure
3. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Comedy of Character
Representational Acting
Director
Stage Manager
4. 100-499 people
Off-Broadway
Callbacks
Dramatic Genre
Subtext
5. Performs Actions of the Play
William Shakespeare
Character
Hypokrites
Light Plot
6. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Off-Off-Broadway
Tragedy
7. Play reenacting biblical stories
Printing Press
Rising Action
Mystery Plays
Playwright
8. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Playwright
Plato
Eugene Scribe
Meander
9. Emotional release
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Designer
Catharsis
Ground Plan
10. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Catharsis
Sophocles
Comedy of Ideas
Amateur Theatre
11. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Aesthetic Distance
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Producer
Theatron
12. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
13. Part of What is included in the text
Euripides
Bertolt Brecht
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Dialogue
14. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Bertolt Brecht
Off-Off-Broadway
ostume Plot
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
15. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Situation Comedy
Melodrama (def)
Avant-Garde
Rising Action
16. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Subplot
Empathy
Off-Off-Broadway
17. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Stage Manager
Comedy of Character
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Tragedy
18. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Antagonist
Subplot
Situation Comedy
Bertolt Brecht
19. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Empathy
Ground Plan
Blocking
Callbacks
20. Gas lights - etc.
Realism and Realistic Developments
Proscenium Space
Situation Comedy
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
21. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Melodrama (def)
Community Theatre
Royalty
Dramaturg
22. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Sturm & Drang Movement
Royalty
Antiquarianism
Avant-Garde
23. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Discovery
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Components of Concept
Comedy
24. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Situation Comedy
Skene
Concept
Ground Plan
25. Busiest person in the theatre
University Wits
Discovery
Postmodernism
Stage Manager
26. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Aeschylus
Improv
Concept
Sense Memory
27. The standard tool for casting a production
Orchestra
Melodrama (def)
Theatre of Cruelty
Auditions
28. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Conflict
Representational Acting
Exposition
Eugene Scribe
29. Six elements - catharsis
Representational Approach
Aristotle
Realism and Realistic Developments
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
30. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Theatre of Cruelty
Designer
Ground Plan
31. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Tragicomedy
University Wits
Bertolt Brecht
Subtext
32. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Mystery Plays
Melodrama
Morality Plays
Antagonist
33. 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
Presentational Approach
Printing Press
Ensemble
34. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Thespis
Linear Plot
Rising Action
35. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Aesthetic Distance
Character
Practical
Orchestra
36. Linear events progress forward in time
Stage Manager
Skene
Royalty
Causal Play Structure
37. 100-499 people
Realism and Realistic Developments
Off-Broadway
Cycles
Protagonist
38. Rhyming
Community Theatre
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Verse
William Shakespeare
39. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Subtext
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Postmodernism
Plato
40. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Morality Plays
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Antagonist
Rendering
41. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Front of House
Avant-Garde
42. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Variables of Costume Design
Aristotle
Meyerhold
43. 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)
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Avant-Garde
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Downstage
44. Audience watches from 3 sides
Thrust Space
Auditions
Designer
Aristophanes
45. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Meyerhold
Aesthetic Distance
Tragicomedy
Lazzi
46. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Theatron
Upstage
Skene
47. Proscenium arch/stage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Black Box
Causal Play Structure
48. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Off-Broadway
Components of Concept
University Wits
Thespis
49. Not many props or detailed scenery
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Non-Profit Theatre
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Renaissance
50. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Printing Press
University Wits
Neoclassicism (def)