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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Main character
Fourth Wall
Henrik Ibsen
Euripides
Protagonist
2. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Naturalism
Front of House
Linear Plot
Linear Plot
3. Audience watches from 3 sides
Thrust Space
Inciting Incident
Antiquarianism
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
4. Linear events progress forward in time
Melodrama
Causal Play Structure
Sophocles
Mystery Plays
5. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Hypokrites
Lazzi
Concept
University Wits
6. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
Thought
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Sophocles
7. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Plot
Lazzi
Miracle Plays
8. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Comedy of Ideas
Non-Profit Theatre
Realism and Realistic Developments
Stage Manager
9. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Blocking
Aeschylus
Sense Memory
Exposition
10. 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
Variables of Costume Design
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Community Theatre
Director
11. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Ground Plan
Wings
Producer
Callbacks
12. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Language
Educational Theatre
Subplot
Rendering
13. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Director
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Hybrid Theatre
Non-Profit Theatre
14. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Affective Memory
Front of House
William Shakespeare
Producer
15. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Renaissance
Lazzi
Reversal
16. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Thespis
Components of Concept
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
17. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Ensemble
Sturm & Drang Movement
Skene
18. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Exposition
Sense Memory
William Shakespeare
Representational Approach
19. Emotional release
Rehearsal Process
Catharsis
Melodrama
Comedy of Ideas
20. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Representational Acting
Director
Designer
Vomitories
21. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
Cycles
Downstage
Theatre of Cruelty
22. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Euripides
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Public Domain
Commercial Theatre
23. Audience watches from 3 sides
Exposition
Thrust Space
Front of House
Plot
24. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Designer
Avant-Garde
Anton Chekhov
Conflict
25. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Concept
Meander
Bertolt Brecht
26. Emotional release
Protagonist
Mimesis
Front of House
Catharsis
27. Proscenium space
Konstantin Stanislavski
Designer
Comedy
The Box Set
28. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Comedy
Black Box
Designer
Eugene Scribe
29. Planned actor movement
Upstage
Blocking
Antiquarianism
Auditions
30. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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31. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Ground Plan
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Community Theatre
Orchestra
32. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Chorus
Vomitories
Plot
33. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Wings
Light Plot
Tragedy
34. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Regional Theatre
Blocking
Discovery
Black Box
35. Feel more in stage acting.
Neoclassicism (def)
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Antagonist
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
36. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Dialogue
Bertolt Brecht
Representational Approach
37. Writer and first actor
Comedy of Character
Orchestra
Thespis
Theatre of Cruelty
38. Used alienation to encourage distance
Subtext
Dialogue
Bertolt Brecht
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
39. Six elements - catharsis
Non-Profit Theatre
Aristotle
Falling Action
Affective Memory
40. 500-1800 people
Melodrama
Ensemble
Verse
Broadway
41. Information needed to understand the play
Exposition
Hypokrites
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Light Plot
42. 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
Naturalism
Situation Comedy
Front of House
Improv
43. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Presentational Approach
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Euripides
44. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Aesthetic Distance
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Rendering
45. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Antiquarianism
Community Theatre
Orchestra
Upstage
46. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Ground Plan
Subplot
Upstage
Cycles
47. Person who embodies a character on stage
Proscenium Space
Lazzi
Ground Plan
Actor
48. Focused on thought - controversial
Light Plot
Falling Action
Comedy of Ideas
Meyerhold
49. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Sophocles
Neoclassicism (def)
Tragedy
50. Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Avant-Garde
Mystery Plays
Mimesis