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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Proscenium space
Aeschylus
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Hybrid Theatre
The Box Set
2. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Light Plot
Regional Theatre
Casting Director
Presentational Approach
3. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Morality Plays
Inciting Incident
Reversal
Realism and Realistic Developments
4. Appearance of truth
Orchestra
Broadway
Rendering
Verisimilitude
5. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Stage Manager
Copyright
Eugene Scribe
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
6. Busiest person in the theatre
Comedy
Postmodernism
Playwright
Stage Manager
7. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Comedy of Manners
Tragedy
Theatron
Antiquarianism
8. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Ground Plan
Plot
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
9. 100-499 people
Off-Broadway
Dramatic Genre
Plot
Miracle Plays
10. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Melodrama
Emile Zola
Dramatic Genre
Causal Play Structure
11. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Anton Chekhov
Royalty
Light Plot
Melodrama
12. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Regional Theatre
Antiquarianism
The Box Set
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
13. 'Father of Realism'
William Shakespeare
Henrik Ibsen
The Box Set
Theatron
14. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Theatre of Cruelty
Comedy
ostume Plot
Empathy
15. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Realism and Realistic Developments
Melodrama
Dramatic Genre
Components of Concept
16. Based on the lives of the saints
Mimesis
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Miracle Plays
Comedy of Manners
17. The era we are currently in
Postmodernism
Black Box
Euripides
Inciting Incident
18. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Falling Action
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Inciting Incident
19. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Hypokrites
Plot
Sense Memory
Neoclassicism (def)
20. 'Storm and stress'
Rehearsal Process
Sturm & Drang Movement
Plot
Verse
21. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Antiquarianism
Skene
Off-Off-Broadway
22. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Commercial Theatre
Miracle Plays
Melodrama (def)
Realism and Realistic Developments
23. Humorous - objective view point
Linear Plot
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Comedy
Lazzi
24. Person who embodies a character on stage
Slapstick
Vomitories
Community Theatre
Actor
25. Rhyming
Front of House
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Verse
Cycles
26. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Ensemble
Off-Broadway
Wings
Rehearsal Process
27. Was poetry for many years
Rendering
Blocking
Language
Sturm & Drang Movement
28. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Reversal
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
University Wits
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
29. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Presentational Approach
Sophocles
Designer
30. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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31. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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32. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Prose
Rising Action
Neoclassicism (def)
Reversal
33. A group of actors - not just one star
Ensemble
William Shakespeare
Naturalism
Plato
34. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Plato
Variables of Costume Design
Euripides
Rising Action
35. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Melodrama
Public Domain
Practical
Improv
36. Not many props or detailed scenery
Commedia Dell'Arte
ostume Plot
Falling Action
Renaissance
37. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Skene
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Regional Theatre
Cycles
38. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Commercial Theatre
Non-Profit Theatre
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Situation Comedy
39. The standard tool for casting a production
Falling Action
Postmodernism
Auditions
Wings
40. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Hypokrites
Plot
Printing Press
Non-Profit Theatre
41. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Tragicomedy
The Box Set
Meander
Hybrid Theatre
42. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Cycles
Subplot
Black Box
Copyright
43. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Mimesis
Comedy of Manners
William Shakespeare
Producer
44. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Discovery
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Avant-Garde
Fourth Wall
45. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Broadway
Stage Manager
Aristophanes
Inciting Incident
46. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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47. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Konstantin Stanislavski
Educational Theatre
Tragedy
Stage Manager
48. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Orchestra
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Dramaturg
Causal Play Structure
49. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Falling Action
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Producer
50. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Aeschylus
Royalty
William Shakespeare
Variables of Costume Design