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Theatre Appreciation
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Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Main character
Protagonist
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Henrik Ibsen
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
2. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Components of Concept
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Callbacks
3. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Vomitories
Konstantin Stanislavski
Cycles
Aesthetic Distance
4. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Proscenium Space
ostume Plot
Language
Postmodernism
5. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Verse
Mimesis
University Wits
Causal Play Structure
6. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
Aristophanes
Theatre of Cruelty
Prose
7. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Subtext
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Antagonist
Comedy
8. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Linear Plot
Orchestra
Community Theatre
Casting Director
9. Italians
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Off-Broadway
Melodrama (def)
Regional Theatre
10. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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11. 'Father of Realism'
Blocking
Henrik Ibsen
Subplot
Copyright
12. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Morality Plays
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Plot
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
13. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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14. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Upstage
Melodrama
Meander
Tragicomedy
15. Gas lights - etc.
Catharsis
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Neoclassicism (def)
Language
16. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Inciting Incident
Melodrama
Emile Zola
Empathy
17. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Falling Action
Representational Approach
Rising Action
William Shakespeare
18. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Slapstick
Sense Memory
Hybrid Theatre
Eugene Scribe
19. Grammatically based
Commedia Dell'Arte
Printing Press
Prose
Comedy of Character
20. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
University Wits
Director
Character
Cycles
21. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Skene
Sturm & Drang Movement
Exposition
22. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Callbacks
Variables of Costume Design
Emile Zola
Comedy
23. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Copyright
24. Controls the environment in the theatre
Euripides
Callbacks
Orchestra
Designer
25. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Theatron
Skene
Improv
Ensemble
26. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
Theatre of Cruelty
Empathy
Meander
27. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Casting Director
Situation Comedy
Empathy
28. Part of What is included in the text
William Shakespeare
Dialogue
Meyerhold
Printing Press
29. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Verisimilitude
ostume Plot
Proscenium Space
Mimesis
30. Not many props or detailed scenery
Thought
Rendering
Renaissance
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
31. Linear events progress forward in time
Melodrama
Aristophanes
Causal Play Structure
Commedia Dell'Arte
32. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Morality Plays
Sense Memory
Educational Theatre
Climax
33. Works published before 1923
Callbacks
Public Domain
Falling Action
ostume Plot
34. Medea - The Bacchae
Presentational Approach
Dramaturg
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Euripides
35. Major character at odds with social expectations
Mimesis
Chorus
Comedy of Manners
Community Theatre
36. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Aristotle
Front of House
Copyright
Verse
37. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Comedy of Ideas
Educational Theatre
Language
Rising Action
38. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Director
University Wits
Components of Concept
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
39. Proscenium arch/stage
Character
Producer
Reversal
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
40. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Aristotle
Theatron
Affective Memory
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
41. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Renaissance
Educational Theatre
Pageants
42. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Comedy
Falling Action
Verisimilitude
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
43. A>B>C>D
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Copyright
Verisimilitude
Miracle Plays
44. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Fourth Wall
Concept
Henrik Ibsen
Printing Press
45. 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
Conflict
Community Theatre
Discovery
Renaissance
46. Play reenacting biblical stories
Commedia Dell'Arte
Mystery Plays
Community Theatre
Subplot
47. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Amateur Theatre
Thrust Space
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Subtext
48. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Neoclassicism (def)
Reversal
Prose
Theatron
49. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Thespis
Rising Action
Character
Rendering
50. The era we are currently in
Amateur Theatre
Lazzi
Postmodernism
Educational Theatre