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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Someone who writes plays
Playwright
William Shakespeare
Neoclassicism (def)
Blocking
2. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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3. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
ostume Plot
Playwright
Auditions
Protagonist
4. A fee for each performance
Royalty
Practical
Realism and Realistic Developments
Climax
5. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Affective Memory
Components of Concept
Off-Off-Broadway
Sense Memory
6. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Meander
Thespis
Plato
Producer
7. Feel more in stage acting.
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Linear Plot
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Vomitories
8. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Casting Director
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Black Box
Anton Chekhov
9. Busiest person in the theatre
Playwright
Stage Manager
Konstantin Stanislavski
Royalty
10. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Printing Press
Character
Henrik Ibsen
Melodrama
11. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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12. Someone who writes plays
Educational Theatre
Morality Plays
Hybrid Theatre
Playwright
13. Ideas within the play
Tragedy
Thought
Front of House
Meyerhold
14. Causes trouble for the main character
Slapstick
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Antagonist
Off-Broadway
15. A group of actors - not just one star
Comedy of Character
Catharsis
Ensemble
Representational Approach
16. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Climax
Copyright
Orchestra
University Wits
17. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Concept
Mystery Plays
Light Plot
Antiquarianism
18. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Callbacks
Rehearsal Process
Euripides
Representational Acting
19. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Neoclassicism (def)
Presentational Approach
Slapstick
Falling Action
20. Greek - actor
Hypokrites
Practical
Pageants
Melodrama (def)
21. Gas lights - etc.
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Aristotle
University Wits
Comedy of Character
22. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
The Globe
Commercial Theatre
Meyerhold
23. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Light Plot
Neoclassicism (def)
Theatron
24. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Affective Memory
Rendering
Thespis
Fourth Wall
25. Not many props or detailed scenery
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Renaissance
Educational Theatre
Commedia Dell'Arte
26. A>B>C>D
ostume Plot
The Globe
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Neoclassicism (def)
27. A group of actors - not just one star
Mimesis
Climax
Ensemble
University Wits
28. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Pageants
Public Domain
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
29. Proscenium arch/stage
Discovery
Sturm & Drang Movement
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
30. Top of stage
Stage Manager
Upstage
Inciting Incident
Realism and Realistic Developments
31. 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
Lazzi
Naturalism
Thespis
32. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Front of House
Regional Theatre
The Box Set
William Shakespeare
33. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Mimesis
William Shakespeare
Rising Action
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
34. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Regional Theatre
Subplot
Antiquarianism
Front of House
35. Six elements - catharsis
Front of House
Broadway
William Shakespeare
Aristotle
36. The era we are currently in
Postmodernism
Skene
Empathy
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
37. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Designer
Wings
Upstage
Representational Acting
38. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Theatron
Educational Theatre
Slapstick
Callbacks
39. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Verse
Discovery
Off-Off-Broadway
40. Medea - The Bacchae
Downstage
Renaissance
Euripides
Situation Comedy
41. High point of action
Climax
Exposition
Light Plot
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
42. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Emile Zola
Aristotle
Casting Director
Climax
43. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Bertolt Brecht
Tragicomedy
Playwright
Antagonist
44. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy
Realism and Realistic Developments
Comedy of Manners
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
45. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Printing Press
Practical
Euripides
Comedy of Character
46. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Catharsis
Vomitories
Language
47. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Tragedy
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Falling Action
Off-Off-Broadway
48. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Components of Concept
Presentational Approach
Amateur Theatre
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
49. Proscenium space
The Box Set
Naturalism
Playwright
Sturm & Drang Movement
50. Audience watches from 3 sides
Naturalism
Aristotle
Thrust Space
Vomitories