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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Discovery
Empathy
Morality Plays
The Globe
2. 100-499 people
Emile Zola
Aristophanes
Off-Broadway
Regional Theatre
3. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Rendering
Theatre of Cruelty
Slapstick
Situation Comedy
4. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Light Plot
Plot
Pageants
Off-Off-Broadway
5. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Representational Acting
Blocking
Affective Memory
Community Theatre
6. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Empathy
Morality Plays
Aesthetic Distance
Rehearsal Process
7. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
The Box Set
Meyerhold
William Shakespeare
Front of House
8. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Eugene Scribe
Fourth Wall
Commedia Dell'Arte
Conflict
9. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Theatron
Exposition
Designer
Educational Theatre
10. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Practical
Tragicomedy
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Hybrid Theatre
11. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Catharsis
Chorus
Representational Approach
Commedia Dell'Arte
12. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Verse
Fourth Wall
Anton Chekhov
13. Causes trouble for the main character
Copyright
Meander
Antagonist
Konstantin Stanislavski
14. Organization of action
Lazzi
Plot
Thrust Space
Commercial Theatre
15. Main character
University Wits
Pageants
Theatre of Cruelty
Protagonist
16. A fee for each performance
Catharsis
Protagonist
Royalty
Variables of Costume Design
17. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Avant-Garde
The Box Set
Community Theatre
18. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Situation Comedy
Theatron
Off-Off-Broadway
Exposition
19. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Vomitories
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Aesthetic Distance
Conflict
20. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Plato
Konstantin Stanislavski
Light Plot
Dialogue
21. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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22. 'Father of Realism'
Plot
Henrik Ibsen
Black Box
Chorus
23. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Empathy
Chorus
Royalty
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
24. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Proscenium Space
Copyright
Community Theatre
Discovery
25. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Black Box
Renaissance
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Euripides
26. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Aeschylus
Tragicomedy
Subplot
Verisimilitude
27. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Amateur Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Components of Concept
Blocking
28. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Discovery
Postmodernism
Sophocles
Wings
29. 100-499 people
Off-Broadway
Aristophanes
Aristophanes
Conflict
30. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
Callbacks
Morality Plays
Climax
31. 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)
The Globe
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Aesthetic Distance
Anton Chekhov
32. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
University Wits
Meyerhold
Mystery Plays
33. Events that set off a major conflict
Inciting Incident
Chorus
Morality Plays
Euripides
34. 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)
Actor
Thought
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Eugene Scribe
35. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Catharsis
Meander
Melodrama (def)
Antiquarianism
36. Humorous - objective view point
Director
Comedy
Meyerhold
Non-Profit Theatre
37. Audience watches from 3 sides
Educational Theatre
Thrust Space
Thought
Chorus
38. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Meander
Orchestra
Thespis
Rendering
39. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Melodrama (def)
Neoclassicism (def)
Printing Press
Pageants
40. 500-1800 people
Sense Memory
Slapstick
Producer
Broadway
41. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Black Box
Mimesis
Skene
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
42. The standard tool for casting a production
Auditions
University Wits
Dialogue
Comedy of Character
43. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Representational Approach
Fourth Wall
Light Plot
Callbacks
44. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Antagonist
Thought
Wings
Neoclassicism (def)
45. Part of What is included in the text
The Globe
Front of House
Mystery Plays
Dialogue
46. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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47. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Practical
ostume Plot
Hybrid Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
48. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Chorus
Mystery Plays
William Shakespeare
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
49. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Front of House
Printing Press
Dramaturg
Cycles
50. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Empathy
Situation Comedy
Avant-Garde
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?