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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Lazzi
Practical
Thought
Aristophanes
2. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Dramatic Genre
Conflict
Realism and Realistic Developments
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
3. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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4. Imitation of character and action
Catharsis
Mimesis
Tragedy
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
5. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Non-Profit Theatre
Meyerhold
Konstantin Stanislavski
Regional Theatre
6. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Theatron
Empathy
Mystery Plays
Linear Plot
7. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Theatron
Front of House
The Globe
Comedy of Ideas
8. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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9. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Public Domain
Thespis
Chorus
Aeschylus
10. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Sturm & Drang Movement
Tragicomedy
Subplot
Royalty
11. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Empathy
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Plato
Theatron
12. Part of What is included in the text
Dialogue
Mimesis
Aeschylus
Regional Theatre
13. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Affective Memory
Representational Approach
Representational Acting
Linear Plot
14. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mystery Plays
Stage Manager
Thespis
Designer
15. The standard tool for casting a production
Black Box
Actor
Auditions
Presentational Approach
16. 'Storm and stress'
Sturm & Drang Movement
Thought
Vomitories
Aristotle
17. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Blocking
Discovery
Falling Action
Comedy of Character
18. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Ground Plan
Miracle Plays
Regional Theatre
Producer
19. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Mimesis
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Lazzi
Amateur Theatre
20. A group of actors - not just one star
Ensemble
Comedy of Manners
Dramaturg
Anton Chekhov
21. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Tragicomedy
Dialogue
Representational Approach
22. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
Morality Plays
Off-Off-Broadway
Plot
23. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Tragicomedy
Lazzi
Director
William Shakespeare
24. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Practical
Plato
Rising Action
Theatron
25. Ideas within the play
Thought
Practical
Rehearsal Process
Theatron
26. Greek - actor
Ensemble
Hypokrites
Copyright
Anton Chekhov
27. Grammatically based
Actor
Chorus
Prose
Mimesis
28. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Morality Plays
Meyerhold
Concept
Naturalism
29. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Morality Plays
Miracle Plays
Subplot
30. Top of stage
Reversal
Components of Concept
Variables of Costume Design
Upstage
31. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Exposition
Naturalism
Aesthetic Distance
ostume Plot
32. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Sense Memory
Rehearsal Process
Skene
Postmodernism
33. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Chorus
Sophocles
Verisimilitude
34. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Downstage
Rendering
Comedy of Ideas
Bertolt Brecht
35. A>B>C>D
Orchestra
Language
Renaissance
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
36. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Theatre of Cruelty
Meander
Melodrama
Rehearsal Process
37. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Ground Plan
Light Plot
Rendering
Black Box
38. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Conflict
Rising Action
Concept
Dramatic Genre
39. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Concept
Empathy
University Wits
Tragedy
40. Planned actor movement
Aristotle
Rehearsal Process
Blocking
Hybrid Theatre
41. Series of short stories
Lazzi
Director
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Anton Chekhov
42. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Proscenium Space
Pageants
The Box Set
Chorus
43. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Verse
Skene
Melodrama
Emile Zola
44. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Causal Play Structure
Stage Manager
Melodrama (def)
Theatre of Cruelty
45. Events that set off a major conflict
Stage Manager
Inciting Incident
Playwright
Dramaturg
46. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Reversal
Community Theatre
Commedia Dell'Arte
Fourth Wall
47. England's type of theatre
Linear Plot
The Globe
Concept
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
48. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Verse
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Meyerhold
Cycles
49. Organization of action
Tragicomedy
Broadway
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Plot
50. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Melodrama
Avant-Garde
Comedy
Front of House