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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Mystery Plays
Causal Play Structure
Subplot
Fourth Wall
2. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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3. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Rendering
Pageants
Presentational Approach
Broadway
4. Performs Actions of the Play
Emile Zola
Upstage
Theatron
Character
5. Humorous - objective view point
Off-Off-Broadway
Comedy
Mystery Plays
Postmodernism
6. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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7. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Non-Profit Theatre
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Cycles
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
8. 500-1800 people
Antagonist
Sturm & Drang Movement
Broadway
Plot
9. A fee for each performance
Royalty
Auditions
The Globe
University Wits
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
Community Theatre
Thought
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Pageants
11. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Regional Theatre
Dramatic Genre
Character
Aesthetic Distance
12. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Thought
Variables of Costume Design
Rising Action
Antiquarianism
13. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Aesthetic Distance
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Reversal
Language
14. 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)
William Shakespeare
Antiquarianism
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Educational Theatre
15. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Variables of Costume Design
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Comedy of Character
16. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Blocking
Community Theatre
Fourth Wall
Ground Plan
17. Busiest person in the theatre
Stage Manager
Representational Acting
Rising Action
Sophocles
18. Person who embodies a character on stage
William Shakespeare
ostume Plot
Comedy of Character
Actor
19. Causes trouble for the main character
Henrik Ibsen
Anton Chekhov
Educational Theatre
Antagonist
20. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Components of Concept
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Chorus
Playwright
21. 100-499 people
Aristotle
Postmodernism
Meyerhold
Off-Broadway
22. Based on the lives of the saints
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Empathy
Miracle Plays
Proscenium Space
23. Italians
Proscenium Space
Practical
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Representational Acting
24. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Presentational Approach
Meyerhold
Lazzi
Skene
25. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
Inciting Incident
Renaissance
Off-Broadway
26. 'Storm and stress'
Representational Acting
Sturm & Drang Movement
Inciting Incident
Components of Concept
27. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Rising Action
Protagonist
Situation Comedy
Falling Action
28. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Sense Memory
Meander
Tragedy
29. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Inciting Incident
Ensemble
Orchestra
Bertolt Brecht
30. A group of actors - not just one star
Casting Director
Meander
Situation Comedy
Ensemble
31. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Practical
Pageants
Black Box
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
32. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Plato
Vomitories
Light Plot
Director
33. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Plot
34. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Vomitories
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Protagonist
Chorus
35. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Reversal
Theatron
Subplot
Situation Comedy
36. Verse
Affective Memory
Presentational Approach
Rehearsal Process
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
37. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Mimesis
Causal Play Structure
Mystery Plays
Ground Plan
38. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Catharsis
Subtext
Conflict
39. Visible light source on stage
Orchestra
Exposition
Bertolt Brecht
Practical
40. Gas lights - etc.
Conflict
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Dialogue
Melodrama (def)
41. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Actor
Auditions
Discovery
Copyright
42. 'Storm and stress'
Sturm & Drang Movement
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Postmodernism
Antagonist
43. Focused on thought - controversial
Comedy of Ideas
Improv
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Morality Plays
44. Planned actor movement
Auditions
Blocking
Stage Manager
Antiquarianism
45. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Copyright
Proscenium Space
Representational Acting
Wings
46. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Meander
The Globe
Henrik Ibsen
Climax
47. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Antiquarianism
Dialogue
Chorus
48. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy of Manners
Producer
Callbacks
Downstage
49. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Light Plot
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Cycles
Front of House
50. A fee for each performance
Affective Memory
Protagonist
Commedia Dell'Arte
Royalty