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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Postmodernism
Casting Director
Meander
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
2. Someone who writes plays
Melodrama
Presentational Approach
Renaissance
Playwright
3. England's type of theatre
Non-Profit Theatre
Character
Black Box
The Globe
4. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Pageants
Proscenium Space
Regional Theatre
5. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Avant-Garde
University Wits
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
6. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Cycles
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Producer
Representational Acting
7. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Reversal
Subplot
Public Domain
Hybrid Theatre
8. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Plato
Representational Acting
Representational Approach
Thought
9. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Naturalism
Printing Press
Slapstick
Emile Zola
10. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Dramaturg
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Designer
Playwright
11. Busiest person in the theatre
Stage Manager
Subplot
Antiquarianism
Producer
12. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Thespis
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Falling Action
Plot
13. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Subtext
Climax
Educational Theatre
Black Box
14. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Off-Off-Broadway
Tragedy
Orchestra
Prose
15. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Inciting Incident
Proscenium Space
Reversal
16. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Emile Zola
Representational Acting
Community Theatre
Printing Press
17. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Climax
Thrust Space
Educational Theatre
Emile Zola
18. A fee for each performance
Royalty
Renaissance
Comedy
Language
19. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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20. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Prose
Rising Action
Dramatic Genre
Situation Comedy
21. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Comedy of Manners
Comedy of Ideas
Falling Action
Tragicomedy
22. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Producer
Inciting Incident
Discovery
Aesthetic Distance
23. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Amateur Theatre
Downstage
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Realism and Realistic Developments
24. Planned actor movement
Verse
Concept
Blocking
Tragicomedy
25. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Concept
Lazzi
Rendering
Representational Acting
26. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Miracle Plays
Empathy
Avant-Garde
Morality Plays
27. 'Father of Realism'
Catharsis
Hypokrites
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Henrik Ibsen
28. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Realism and Realistic Developments
Dialogue
Dramatic Genre
Practical
29. A group of actors - not just one star
Concept
Verisimilitude
Ensemble
Konstantin Stanislavski
30. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Off-Off-Broadway
Upstage
Commedia Dell'Arte
Printing Press
31. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Exposition
Thespis
32. Emotional release
Thought
Public Domain
Chorus
Catharsis
33. Ideas within the play
Comedy of Ideas
Wings
Thought
Aristotle
34. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Neoclassicism (def)
Bertolt Brecht
Tragedy
35. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Comedy of Ideas
Aeschylus
Postmodernism
Aesthetic Distance
36. England's type of theatre
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Comedy of Character
The Globe
Thrust Space
37. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Discovery
Inciting Incident
Comedy of Ideas
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
38. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Printing Press
Language
Downstage
Royalty
39. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Front of House
Slapstick
Wings
Situation Comedy
40. Planned actor movement
Antagonist
Postmodernism
Sturm & Drang Movement
Blocking
41. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Commedia Dell'Arte
Eugene Scribe
Thespis
Amateur Theatre
42. Busiest person in the theatre
Plot
Producer
Representational Acting
Stage Manager
43. High point of action
Climax
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Comedy
Rehearsal Process
44. Imitation of character and action
Casting Director
Hypokrites
Linear Plot
Mimesis
45. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Sturm & Drang Movement
Conflict
Tragicomedy
Meyerhold
46. Proscenium arch/stage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Thrust Space
Affective Memory
Actor
47. Proscenium space
William Shakespeare
The Box Set
Comedy of Character
Ensemble
48. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Situation Comedy
Sturm & Drang Movement
Copyright
Melodrama
49. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Designer
Neoclassicism (def)
Comedy of Character
Inciting Incident
50. Causes trouble for the main character
Black Box
Representational Acting
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Antagonist