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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Appearance of truth
Comedy of Character
Theatron
Verisimilitude
Blocking
2. The first director
Improv
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Exposition
Lazzi
3. The standard tool for casting a production
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Playwright
Sophocles
Auditions
4. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Morality Plays
Protagonist
Pageants
5. Verse
Non-Profit Theatre
Theatron
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Dramaturg
6. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Playwright
Mimesis
Upstage
7. Imitation of character and action
Comedy
Mimesis
Morality Plays
Commedia Dell'Arte
8. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Lazzi
Ground Plan
The Box Set
Mystery Plays
9. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Concept
Vomitories
Thespis
Bertolt Brecht
10. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Proscenium Space
Presentational Approach
Character
Royalty
11. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aeschylus
Wings
Causal Play Structure
Proscenium Space
12. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Morality Plays
Presentational Approach
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
13. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Causal Play Structure
Public Domain
Inciting Incident
Discovery
14. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Commedia Dell'Arte
Neoclassicism (def)
Off-Broadway
Tragedy
15. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Comedy of Character
Orchestra
Proscenium Space
Morality Plays
16. Major character at odds with social expectations
Printing Press
Auditions
Playwright
Comedy of Manners
17. 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)
Sturm & Drang Movement
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Eugene Scribe
Hybrid Theatre
18. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Slapstick
Rehearsal Process
Casting Director
19. Events progress forward in time
Copyright
Variables of Costume Design
Proscenium Space
Linear Plot
20. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
ostume Plot
Subtext
Mystery Plays
Director
21. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Stage Manager
Aristophanes
Educational Theatre
Neoclassicism (def)
22. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Meyerhold
Lazzi
Meyerhold
23. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Aristotle
Hypokrites
Sophocles
Black Box
24. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle
Broadway
Catharsis
Subplot
25. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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26. A>B>C>D
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Comedy
Front of House
Cycles
27. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Commedia Dell'Arte
Chorus
Cycles
28. Series of short stories
Downstage
Subtext
Chorus
Anton Chekhov
29. Visible light source on stage
ostume Plot
Practical
Commercial Theatre
Ensemble
30. Main character
Dialogue
Meyerhold
Protagonist
Rehearsal Process
31. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Discovery
William Shakespeare
Reversal
Realism and Realistic Developments
32. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Presentational Approach
Light Plot
Discovery
Tragicomedy
33. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Morality Plays
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aesthetic Distance
Chorus
34. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Slapstick
ostume Plot
Comedy
Non-Profit Theatre
35. Causes trouble for the main character
Representational Acting
Stage Manager
Antagonist
Anton Chekhov
36. Someone who writes plays
Hybrid Theatre
Protagonist
The Box Set
Playwright
37. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Aesthetic Distance
Miracle Plays
Subtext
38. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Falling Action
Melodrama
The Box Set
Naturalism
39. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Dramaturg
Antagonist
Tragedy
40. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Henrik Ibsen
Proscenium Space
Situation Comedy
Rising Action
41. Someone who writes plays
Ensemble
Playwright
Situation Comedy
Reversal
42. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Skene
Anton Chekhov
Aesthetic Distance
Meander
43. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Director
Slapstick
Causal Play Structure
Character
44. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Subplot
University Wits
Dramaturg
Aesthetic Distance
45. Used alienation to encourage distance
Copyright
Bertolt Brecht
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Miracle Plays
46. Rhyming
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Verse
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Broadway
47. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Hybrid Theatre
Plato
Ensemble
Proscenium Space
48. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Cycles
Copyright
Plato
Causal Play Structure
49. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Commercial Theatre
Aeschylus
Representational Approach
Renaissance
50. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Callbacks
Off-Off-Broadway
Naturalism