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Theatre Appreciation
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Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
Realism and Realistic Developments
Regional Theatre
Protagonist
2. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Dramaturg
Rendering
Falling Action
Inciting Incident
3. Gas lights - etc.
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Theatron
Verisimilitude
Light Plot
4. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Verse
Pageants
Realism and Realistic Developments
Public Domain
5. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Eugene Scribe
Subplot
Sophocles
Front of House
6. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Variables of Costume Design
Exposition
Neoclassicism (def)
7. Performs Actions of the Play
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Character
Dramatic Genre
Avant-Garde
8. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Melodrama
Practical
Hybrid Theatre
Director
9. A group of actors - not just one star
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Ensemble
Cycles
Theatron
10. Italians
Components of Concept
Representational Acting
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Rendering
11. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Downstage
Concept
Wings
Verisimilitude
12. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Downstage
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Aristotle
Aesthetic Distance
13. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Aristophanes
Dramatic Genre
Comedy of Character
Emile Zola
14. Ideas within the play
Thought
Meyerhold
Subtext
Stage Manager
15. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Off-Off-Broadway
Representational Approach
Subtext
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
16. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Verisimilitude
Dialogue
Konstantin Stanislavski
17. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Mystery Plays
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Pageants
Theatron
18. Grammatically based
Avant-Garde
The Globe
Rising Action
Prose
19. Planned actor movement
Playwright
Blocking
The Box Set
Director
20. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Catharsis
Discovery
Off-Broadway
Euripides
21. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Dramaturg
Dramaturg
Components of Concept
Discovery
22. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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23. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Sophocles
Educational Theatre
University Wits
Rendering
24. Humorous - objective view point
Aeschylus
Comedy
Rising Action
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
25. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Dramatic Genre
Antagonist
Fourth Wall
Comedy of Ideas
26. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Ensemble
Representational Acting
Amateur Theatre
Pageants
27. 100-499 people
Pageants
Off-Broadway
Emile Zola
Upstage
28. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Subtext
Proscenium Space
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Situation Comedy
29. Feel more in stage acting.
Thespis
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Orchestra
Conflict
30. Audience watches from 3 sides
Public Domain
Components of Concept
Thrust Space
Comedy of Ideas
31. Person who embodies a character on stage
Aristophanes
Wings
Actor
Downstage
32. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Conflict
Emile Zola
Dialogue
33. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
Copyright
Protagonist
Cycles
34. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Components of Concept
Off-Off-Broadway
Prose
Rehearsal Process
35. Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Comedy
Tragicomedy
Mystery Plays
36. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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37. 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
Broadway
Director
Comedy of Manners
38. Was poetry for many years
Public Domain
Exposition
Language
Avant-Garde
39. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Broadway
Melodrama
Comedy of Manners
Ensemble
40. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Situation Comedy
Commercial Theatre
Catharsis
41. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Tragicomedy
Comedy of Ideas
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
42. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Prose
Naturalism
Slapstick
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
43. Performs Actions of the Play
Chorus
Character
Sturm & Drang Movement
Public Domain
44. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Melodrama (def)
Rising Action
Reversal
Tragedy
45. Information needed to understand the play
Exposition
Black Box
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
46. The first director
Anton Chekhov
Naturalism
Comedy of Character
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
47. Six elements - catharsis
Anton Chekhov
Aristotle
Printing Press
Components of Concept
48. Audience watches from 3 sides
The Globe
Black Box
Broadway
Thrust Space
49. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Proscenium Space
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Rehearsal Process
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
50. Part of What is included in the text
Aesthetic Distance
Proscenium Space
Thrust Space
Dialogue