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Theatre Appreciation
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Study First
Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Causal Play Structure
Improv
Postmodernism
Chorus
2. Medea - The Bacchae
Amateur Theatre
Hybrid Theatre
Euripides
Renaissance
3. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Ground Plan
Skene
Avant-Garde
Dramatic Genre
4. 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
Off-Broadway
Ensemble
Empathy
Improv
5. Used alienation to encourage distance
Rendering
Bertolt Brecht
Comedy of Ideas
Melodrama (def)
6. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Broadway
Director
Exposition
Situation Comedy
7. Main character
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Protagonist
Empathy
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
8. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Royalty
Stage Manager
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Components of Concept
9. The era we are currently in
Postmodernism
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Language
10. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Cycles
Conflict
Thespis
Verse
11. Events progress forward in time
Meander
Empathy
Commercial Theatre
Linear Plot
12. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Pageants
Falling Action
Miracle Plays
Dramatic Genre
13. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Front of House
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Wings
Community Theatre
14. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Commercial Theatre
Fourth Wall
Naturalism
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
15. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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16. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Aesthetic Distance
Improv
Dialogue
Tragedy
17. Rhyming
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Thrust Space
Rendering
Verse
18. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Proscenium Space
Morality Plays
Aristophanes
Neoclassicism (def)
19. 500-1800 people
Light Plot
Realism and Realistic Developments
Community Theatre
Broadway
20. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Melodrama (def)
Sense Memory
Representational Acting
Meyerhold
21. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Aeschylus
Mimesis
Comedy
Director
22. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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23. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Aesthetic Distance
The Globe
Vomitories
Reversal
24. England's type of theatre
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Avant-Garde
The Globe
25. Organization of action
William Shakespeare
Representational Acting
Sophocles
Plot
26. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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27. Events that set off a major conflict
Inciting Incident
Realism and Realistic Developments
Subtext
Rising Action
28. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Tragicomedy
Theatre of Cruelty
Reversal
Antiquarianism
29. Person who embodies a character on stage
Downstage
Sophocles
Actor
The Globe
30. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Regional Theatre
Presentational Approach
Konstantin Stanislavski
Causal Play Structure
31. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Pageants
Verse
Eugene Scribe
Fourth Wall
32. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Thespis
Character
Neoclassicism (def)
33. Busiest person in the theatre
Language
Causal Play Structure
Director
Stage Manager
34. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
University Wits
Catharsis
Presentational Approach
Dramaturg
35. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Bertolt Brecht
Empathy
Auditions
Language
36. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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37. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Royalty
Printing Press
Dramaturg
Tragicomedy
38. Proscenium arch/stage
Anton Chekhov
Callbacks
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Euripides
39. Greek - actor
Hypokrites
Cycles
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Situation Comedy
40. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
The Box Set
Comedy of Character
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Conflict
41. The standard tool for casting a production
Antagonist
Plato
Proscenium Space
Auditions
42. 'Father of Realism'
Henrik Ibsen
Conflict
Realism and Realistic Developments
Cycles
43. Planned actor movement
William Shakespeare
Producer
Hybrid Theatre
Blocking
44. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Rendering
Affective Memory
Language
Dramaturg
45. Grammatically based
Exposition
Prose
Eugene Scribe
Climax
46. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Off-Broadway
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Rehearsal Process
Representational Acting
47. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Front of House
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Cycles
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
48. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Educational Theatre
Representational Acting
Vomitories
Ground Plan
49. The first director
Amateur Theatre
Inciting Incident
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Producer
50. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Rising Action
Upstage
Plato
Discovery