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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. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Ensemble
Ensemble
Inciting Incident
Casting Director
2. Planned actor movement
Melodrama (def)
Hypokrites
Improv
Blocking
3. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Front of House
Tragicomedy
Wings
Ground Plan
4. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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6. Part of What is included in the text
Slapstick
Realism and Realistic Developments
Climax
Dialogue
7. Proscenium arch/stage
Off-Broadway
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Comedy of Manners
Front of House
8. Performs Actions of the Play
Emile Zola
Postmodernism
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Character
9. Emotional release
Bertolt Brecht
Catharsis
Dialogue
Subtext
10. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Sturm & Drang Movement
Concept
Sophocles
Non-Profit Theatre
11. 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
Proscenium Space
Community Theatre
Subtext
Components of Concept
12. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Proscenium Space
Commercial Theatre
Sophocles
Discovery
13. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Hypokrites
Pageants
Educational Theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
14. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Lazzi
Actor
Meyerhold
Sophocles
15. The standard tool for casting a production
Lazzi
Plot
Commercial Theatre
Auditions
16. Ideas within the play
Discovery
Thought
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Educational Theatre
17. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Protagonist
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Euripides
Orchestra
18. 'Father of Realism'
Henrik Ibsen
Upstage
Empathy
Regional Theatre
19. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
The Box Set
Meander
Theatre of Cruelty
Light Plot
20. Planned actor movement
Inciting Incident
Blocking
Prose
Off-Off-Broadway
21. A group of actors - not just one star
Playwright
Non-Profit Theatre
Ensemble
Hypokrites
22. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Catharsis
Sturm & Drang Movement
Commedia Dell'Arte
Casting Director
23. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Public Domain
Regional Theatre
Tragicomedy
24. Grammatically based
Ground Plan
Melodrama
Callbacks
Prose
25. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Prose
Hypokrites
Cycles
26. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Theatre of Cruelty
Variables of Costume Design
Dramaturg
Pageants
27. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Vomitories
Front of House
Empathy
Meander
28. Performs Actions of the Play
Conflict
Realism and Realistic Developments
Copyright
Character
29. Play reenacting biblical stories
Rising Action
Rehearsal Process
Fourth Wall
Mystery Plays
30. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Royalty
University Wits
Designer
Variables of Costume Design
31. The standard tool for casting a production
Front of House
Auditions
Proscenium Space
Thespis
32. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Theatron
Meander
Light Plot
Comedy of Character
33. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Mystery Plays
Thought
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Director
34. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
ostume Plot
Situation Comedy
Non-Profit Theatre
Aesthetic Distance
35. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Off-Off-Broadway
Meander
Exposition
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
36. Emotional release
Catharsis
Educational Theatre
Commedia Dell'Arte
Variables of Costume Design
37. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Slapstick
Auditions
Regional Theatre
Presentational Approach
38. Works published before 1923
Hypokrites
Public Domain
Director
Meyerhold
39. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Morality Plays
Exposition
Realism and Realistic Developments
The Box Set
40. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Playwright
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Auditions
41. A group of actors - not just one star
Rising Action
Naturalism
Ensemble
Slapstick
42. Writer and first actor
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Upstage
Aesthetic Distance
Thespis
43. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Linear Plot
Public Domain
Neoclassicism (def)
44. Feel more in stage acting.
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Henrik Ibsen
Causal Play Structure
Meander
45. Person who embodies a character on stage
Actor
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Practical
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
46. Was poetry for many years
Language
Theatre of Cruelty
Representational Acting
Callbacks
47. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Designer
Improv
Public Domain
48. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Vomitories
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Affective Memory
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
49. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Ensemble
Representational Approach
Downstage
Aeschylus
50. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Comedy of Manners
William Shakespeare
Lazzi