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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. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Ensemble
Meyerhold
Aristotle
2. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Postmodernism
Affective Memory
Postmodernism
3. Was poetry for many years
Ensemble
Language
Downstage
Broadway
4. Emotional release
Catharsis
Sophocles
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Aristotle
5. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Antiquarianism
Fourth Wall
Wings
6. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Aeschylus
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Empathy
7. Based on the lives of the saints
Miracle Plays
Meyerhold
Callbacks
Antagonist
8. Ideas within the play
Thought
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Konstantin Stanislavski
Off-Broadway
9. Someone who writes plays
Skene
Conflict
Ensemble
Playwright
10. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Discovery
Off-Off-Broadway
Producer
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
11. Writer and first actor
Konstantin Stanislavski
Thespis
Sturm & Drang Movement
Empathy
12. Series of short stories
Thought
Light Plot
Anton Chekhov
Bertolt Brecht
13. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Causal Play Structure
Tragedy
Downstage
Exposition
14. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
Proscenium Space
Public Domain
Orchestra
15. Top of stage
The Box Set
Verisimilitude
Comedy of Ideas
Upstage
16. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Meander
Variables of Costume Design
Copyright
Presentational Approach
17. High point of action
Climax
Educational Theatre
Hybrid Theatre
Mystery Plays
18. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Ground Plan
Producer
Neoclassicism (def)
Melodrama
19. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Prose
Amateur Theatre
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Director
20. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Henrik Ibsen
Sturm & Drang Movement
Rehearsal Process
21. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Rehearsal Process
Light Plot
Rendering
Producer
22. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Melodrama
Naturalism
Amateur Theatre
Fourth Wall
23. A>B>C>D
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Ensemble
Anton Chekhov
Comedy of Ideas
24. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Light Plot
Miracle Plays
Comedy of Ideas
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
25. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Commedia Dell'Arte
Black Box
Inciting Incident
Chorus
26. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
Cycles
Community Theatre
Proscenium Space
27. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Lazzi
Morality Plays
Black Box
28. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Anton Chekhov
Comedy of Character
Skene
Pageants
29. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
ostume Plot
Neoclassicism (def)
30. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Non-Profit Theatre
Aeschylus
Auditions
31. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Tragicomedy
Front of House
Melodrama
Mimesis
32. Rhyming
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Components of Concept
Blocking
Verse
33. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Bertolt Brecht
Theatron
Representational Approach
Rising Action
34. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Thespis
Printing Press
Empathy
Meyerhold
35. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Blocking
Sophocles
Producer
Reversal
36. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Producer
Sense Memory
Comedy of Character
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
37. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Orchestra
University Wits
ostume Plot
Aesthetic Distance
38. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Mystery Plays
University Wits
Commercial Theatre
Callbacks
39. Top of stage
Upstage
Ensemble
Broadway
Director
40. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Discovery
Sophocles
Aeschylus
41. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Broadway
Presentational Approach
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Subplot
42. Feel more in stage acting.
Commedia Dell'Arte
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Downstage
43. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Rehearsal Process
William Shakespeare
Comedy of Ideas
Avant-Garde
44. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
The Box Set
Tragicomedy
Representational Acting
Auditions
45. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Director
Concept
Representational Approach
Variables of Costume Design
46. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
Copyright
Playwright
Naturalism
47. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Variables of Costume Design
Improv
Melodrama
Director
48. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Affective Memory
Aristophanes
University Wits
Sense Memory
49. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Climax
Tragicomedy
Aeschylus
Inciting Incident
50. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Callbacks
Wings
Concept
Comedy of Character