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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Visible light source on stage
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Playwright
Practical
2. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Theatron
Rising Action
Anton Chekhov
Vomitories
3. 100-499 people
Prose
Dialogue
Representational Approach
Off-Broadway
4. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Copyright
Black Box
Mimesis
Hybrid Theatre
5. High point of action
Mystery Plays
Climax
Mystery Plays
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
6. Someone who writes plays
Antiquarianism
Sturm & Drang Movement
Verisimilitude
Playwright
7. Performs Actions of the Play
Downstage
Character
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Falling Action
8. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Antagonist
Proscenium Space
Commercial Theatre
9. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Naturalism
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Eugene Scribe
Subtext
10. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Vomitories
Actor
Konstantin Stanislavski
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
11. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Dramatic Genre
Empathy
Light Plot
Meyerhold
12. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Variables of Costume Design
Linear Plot
Casting Director
Thought
13. 500-1800 people
Vomitories
Mystery Plays
Auditions
Broadway
14. High point of action
Royalty
Climax
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
University Wits
15. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Aesthetic Distance
Emile Zola
Avant-Garde
16. Audience watches from 3 sides
Thrust Space
Emile Zola
Dramatic Genre
Designer
17. Six elements - catharsis
Subtext
Amateur Theatre
Slapstick
Aristotle
18. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Regional Theatre
Rising Action
Reversal
Representational Acting
19. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Mimesis
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Callbacks
Thespis
20. A fee for each performance
Antagonist
Falling Action
Front of House
Royalty
21. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Concept
Tragedy
Konstantin Stanislavski
Language
22. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Stage Manager
Chorus
The Globe
Konstantin Stanislavski
23. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Euripides
Comedy of Ideas
Amateur Theatre
Representational Approach
24. Based on the lives of the saints
Miracle Plays
Callbacks
Linear Plot
Variables of Costume Design
25. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Thought
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
The Box Set
Mystery Plays
26. Organization of action
University Wits
Printing Press
Emile Zola
Plot
27. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Producer
Renaissance
Comedy of Ideas
Thespis
28. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Skene
Hypokrites
Neoclassicism (def)
Stage Manager
29. A>B>C>D
Representational Acting
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Bertolt Brecht
Vomitories
30. Major character at odds with social expectations
Slapstick
Variables of Costume Design
Comedy of Manners
Improv
31. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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32. Rhyming
Skene
Pageants
Theatre of Cruelty
Verse
33. Visible light source on stage
Proscenium Space
Henrik Ibsen
Practical
Off-Broadway
34. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Falling Action
Character
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Subplot
35. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Tragedy
Rendering
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Broadway
36. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Aristophanes
Sturm & Drang Movement
Actor
Meander
37. Information needed to understand the play
Postmodernism
Auditions
Exposition
Tragicomedy
38. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Rehearsal Process
University Wits
Commedia Dell'Arte
Climax
39. Main character
Antagonist
Theatron
Off-Broadway
Protagonist
40. Greek - actor
Ground Plan
Verisimilitude
Hypokrites
Auditions
41. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Theatre of Cruelty
Educational Theatre
Fourth Wall
42. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
ostume Plot
Meyerhold
Henrik Ibsen
Affective Memory
43. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Cycles
Cycles
Euripides
44. Was poetry for many years
Auditions
Language
Components of Concept
Designer
45. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Skene
Auditions
Avant-Garde
46. Imitation of character and action
Mystery Plays
Mimesis
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Broadway
47. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Subtext
Miracle Plays
Practical
48. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Sturm & Drang Movement
Vomitories
Dialogue
Callbacks
49. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Skene
Euripides
Vomitories
Off-Off-Broadway
50. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Lazzi
Affective Memory
Improv
Variables of Costume Design