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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. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Hybrid Theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
Upstage
Variables of Costume Design
2. A>B>C>D
Exposition
Avant-Garde
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Vomitories
3. Major character at odds with social expectations
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Comedy of Manners
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Sturm & Drang Movement
4. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
The Globe
Tragedy
Aeschylus
Plato
5. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Mystery Plays
Pageants
Falling Action
6. Imitation of character and action
The Box Set
Mimesis
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Realism and Realistic Developments
7. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Sturm & Drang Movement
Regional Theatre
Practical
ostume Plot
8. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Light Plot
Realism and Realistic Developments
Aesthetic Distance
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
9. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Plato
Copyright
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Upstage
10. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Presentational Approach
Rising Action
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
11. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Pageants
Fourth Wall
Bertolt Brecht
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
12. Audience watches from 3 sides
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Thrust Space
Prose
Sophocles
13. A type of performance in which dialogue and action are not planned ahead of time and written down - but are made of on the spot by the actors
Improv
Causal Play Structure
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Director
14. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Regional Theatre
Front of House
Off-Off-Broadway
Director
15. Rhyming
Verse
Comedy of Ideas
Climax
Wings
16. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Callbacks
Conflict
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
17. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Aesthetic Distance
Melodrama
Emile Zola
Educational Theatre
18. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Verisimilitude
Regional Theatre
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Comedy of Ideas
19. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Director
Fourth Wall
Meander
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
20. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Producer
Emile Zola
Components of Concept
Rendering
21. Was poetry for many years
Representational Approach
Miracle Plays
Casting Director
Language
22. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Tragedy
Rising Action
Printing Press
Plot
23. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Postmodernism
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Actor
Affective Memory
24. Causes trouble for the main character
Sense Memory
Thrust Space
Causal Play Structure
Antagonist
25. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Anton Chekhov
Pageants
Blocking
Character
26. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Non-Profit Theatre
Aristophanes
Anton Chekhov
27. Grammatically based
Antiquarianism
Prose
Renaissance
Rehearsal Process
28. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Practical
Avant-Garde
Wings
Printing Press
29. Gas lights - etc.
Stage Manager
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Actor
Blocking
30. Italians
Black Box
Off-Broadway
Bertolt Brecht
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
31. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Mimesis
Catharsis
Konstantin Stanislavski
Subtext
32. Visible light source on stage
Anton Chekhov
Practical
Representational Approach
Linear Plot
33. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Callbacks
Subplot
Producer
Off-Off-Broadway
34. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Light Plot
Skene
Aristotle
Representational Approach
35. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Affective Memory
Non-Profit Theatre
Melodrama
Callbacks
36. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Slapstick
William Shakespeare
Fourth Wall
Antagonist
37. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Anton Chekhov
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Sophocles
38. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Auditions
Wings
Chorus
Concept
39. Used alienation to encourage distance
Verisimilitude
Plato
Bertolt Brecht
Climax
40. England's type of theatre
Melodrama (def)
The Globe
University Wits
Concept
41. Top of stage
Mimesis
Aristophanes
Upstage
Black Box
42. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
The Box Set
Slapstick
Ground Plan
Representational Approach
43. Play reenacting biblical stories
Designer
Affective Memory
Mystery Plays
Realism and Realistic Developments
44. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Commercial Theatre
Situation Comedy
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
45. Works published before 1923
Public Domain
Vomitories
Meander
Comedy of Ideas
46. Someone who writes plays
Playwright
Commedia Dell'Arte
Subtext
Blocking
47. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Dialogue
Hybrid Theatre
Aristophanes
Amateur Theatre
48. Medea - The Bacchae
Linear Plot
Euripides
Renaissance
Downstage
49. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
University Wits
Climax
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Melodrama
50. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Dramaturg
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Orchestra
Playwright