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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Meyerhold
Cycles
Affective Memory
Lazzi
2. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Conflict
Dialogue
Black Box
Situation Comedy
3. Events that set off a major conflict
Thought
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Comedy of Character
Inciting Incident
4. Gas lights - etc.
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Amateur Theatre
5. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Catharsis
Melodrama (def)
Thespis
Language
6. Emotional release
Broadway
Catharsis
Plot
Community Theatre
7. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Black Box
Producer
Front of House
ostume Plot
8. Humorous - objective view point
Antiquarianism
Comedy
Presentational Approach
Empathy
9. Busiest person in the theatre
Melodrama
Stage Manager
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Sturm & Drang Movement
10. Planned actor movement
Renaissance
Blocking
Inciting Incident
Tragicomedy
11. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Tragicomedy
Tragedy
Aeschylus
Public Domain
12. Causes trouble for the main character
Blocking
Antagonist
Commercial Theatre
Actor
13. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Thought
Situation Comedy
Discovery
Concept
14. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Linear Plot
Downstage
Antiquarianism
Morality Plays
15. Top of stage
Morality Plays
Upstage
Rendering
Antiquarianism
16. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Variables of Costume Design
Neoclassicism (def)
Thrust Space
Dramaturg
17. Someone who writes plays
Printing Press
Climax
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Playwright
18. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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19. 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
Representational Acting
Realism and Realistic Developments
Improv
Postmodernism
20. The era we are currently in
Postmodernism
Auditions
Neoclassicism (def)
Amateur Theatre
21. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Sophocles
Prose
Non-Profit Theatre
Orchestra
22. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Affective Memory
Director
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
23. Works published before 1923
Affective Memory
Chorus
Public Domain
Dialogue
24. Medea - The Bacchae
Melodrama (def)
The Box Set
Euripides
Presentational Approach
25. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Hybrid Theatre
Theatron
Lazzi
Callbacks
26. The standard tool for casting a production
Lazzi
Auditions
Lazzi
Front of House
27. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Thespis
Broadway
Educational Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
28. Events progress forward in time
Commedia Dell'Arte
Linear Plot
Variables of Costume Design
Off-Off-Broadway
29. Rhyming
Verse
Melodrama
Conflict
University Wits
30. A>B>C>D
Amateur Theatre
Educational Theatre
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Mystery Plays
31. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Concept
Avant-Garde
Catharsis
Stage Manager
32. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Empathy
The Box Set
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Rising Action
33. Series of short stories
Representational Approach
Thrust Space
Fourth Wall
Anton Chekhov
34. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Protagonist
Melodrama (def)
Proscenium Space
Linear Plot
35. Used alienation to encourage distance
Auditions
Components of Concept
Bertolt Brecht
Catharsis
36. Works published before 1923
Public Domain
Character
Fourth Wall
Comedy of Ideas
37. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Meyerhold
Chorus
Wings
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
38. Italians
Community Theatre
Comedy of Ideas
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Director
39. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Off-Off-Broadway
Conflict
Practical
Aristophanes
40. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
Actor
Non-Profit Theatre
Falling Action
41. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Mystery Plays
Dramatic Genre
42. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Stage Manager
Tragicomedy
Chorus
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
43. Busiest person in the theatre
Playwright
Melodrama (def)
Stage Manager
Dramaturg
44. Not many props or detailed scenery
Linear Plot
Renaissance
Representational Acting
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
45. Audience watches from 3 sides
Character
Theatre of Cruelty
Thrust Space
Stage Manager
46. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Theatron
Commedia Dell'Arte
Dialogue
Comedy
47. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Presentational Approach
Actor
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Reversal
48. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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49. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Auditions
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Rising Action
Non-Profit Theatre
50. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Downstage
Educational Theatre
Lazzi
Anton Chekhov