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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Proscenium space
The Box Set
Anton Chekhov
Concept
Director
2. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Auditions
Avant-Garde
Concept
Melodrama
3. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Non-Profit Theatre
Anton Chekhov
Sense Memory
Subplot
4. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Theatron
Aristophanes
Plato
Playwright
5. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Sense Memory
Protagonist
Inciting Incident
Tragicomedy
6. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
Actor
Prose
Bertolt Brecht
7. Visible light source on stage
Pageants
Antagonist
Dramatic Genre
Practical
8. Performs Actions of the Play
Cycles
Auditions
Playwright
Character
9. Emotional release
Melodrama
Prose
Catharsis
Aesthetic Distance
10. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Playwright
Sturm & Drang Movement
Meander
Cycles
11. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Verisimilitude
Naturalism
Downstage
Morality Plays
12. Information needed to understand the play
Vomitories
Exposition
Concept
Thrust Space
13. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Morality Plays
Regional Theatre
Affective Memory
ostume Plot
14. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Reversal
Affective Memory
Comedy of Manners
Climax
15. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Reversal
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Comedy of Character
16. Main character
Public Domain
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Hypokrites
Protagonist
17. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Representational Acting
Rendering
Postmodernism
Front of House
18. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Henrik Ibsen
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Improv
Discovery
19. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Konstantin Stanislavski
Stage Manager
Theatron
Avant-Garde
20. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Affective Memory
Emile Zola
Community Theatre
Fourth Wall
21. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Aesthetic Distance
Amateur Theatre
Orchestra
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
22. Appearance of truth
Language
Verisimilitude
Discovery
Situation Comedy
23. High point of action
Sturm & Drang Movement
Climax
Realism and Realistic Developments
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
24. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Pageants
Catharsis
Front of House
Thespis
25. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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26. Italians
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Callbacks
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Falling Action
27. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Aesthetic Distance
Morality Plays
Callbacks
Renaissance
28. 'Storm and stress'
Thespis
Sturm & Drang Movement
Community Theatre
Conflict
29. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Climax
Community Theatre
University Wits
Non-Profit Theatre
30. Causes trouble for the main character
Renaissance
Comedy
Antagonist
The Box Set
31. Ideas within the play
University Wits
Thought
Stage Manager
Climax
32. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Pageants
Dramaturg
Wings
Theatre of Cruelty
33. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mystery Plays
Neoclassicism (def)
Comedy of Ideas
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
34. 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
Language
Hybrid Theatre
Language
Improv
35. Audience watches from 3 sides
Light Plot
Meander
Thrust Space
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
36. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Downstage
Off-Broadway
Konstantin Stanislavski
37. 'Storm and stress'
Representational Approach
Climax
Sturm & Drang Movement
Printing Press
38. Series of short stories
Prose
Anton Chekhov
Royalty
Cycles
39. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy of Manners
Regional Theatre
Postmodernism
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
40. Controls the environment in the theatre
Miracle Plays
Aristophanes
Inciting Incident
Designer
41. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Aeschylus
Protagonist
Melodrama
Light Plot
42. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Climax
Inciting Incident
Dramatic Genre
43. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Dramatic Genre
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Commercial Theatre
44. Linear events progress forward in time
Linear Plot
Euripides
Upstage
Causal Play Structure
45. 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)
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Theatron
Designer
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
46. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Language
Tragicomedy
Mystery Plays
Falling Action
47. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Comedy
Language
Theatre of Cruelty
Producer
48. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Subplot
Black Box
Prose
Realism and Realistic Developments
49. The standard tool for casting a production
Representational Approach
Auditions
Theatre of Cruelty
Dialogue
50. Visible light source on stage
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
ostume Plot
Practical
Subplot