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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Controls the environment in the theatre
Callbacks
Designer
Representational Acting
Antiquarianism
2. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Improv
Rehearsal Process
Copyright
Theatron
3. Not many props or detailed scenery
Comedy
Reversal
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Renaissance
4. Person who embodies a character on stage
Emile Zola
Actor
Orchestra
University Wits
5. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Off-Off-Broadway
Orchestra
Cycles
6. Organization of action
Emile Zola
Causal Play Structure
Plot
Dramatic Genre
7. Writer and first actor
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Designer
Skene
Thespis
8. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Subtext
Reversal
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Rising Action
9. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Inciting Incident
Empathy
Mystery Plays
Representational Approach
10. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Slapstick
Anton Chekhov
Catharsis
Pageants
11. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Realism and Realistic Developments
Thought
Rendering
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
12. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Comedy of Character
Aristotle
Producer
Melodrama
13. 500-1800 people
Producer
Broadway
Aristotle
Vomitories
14. A group of actors - not just one star
Presentational Approach
Rehearsal Process
Ensemble
Language
15. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Rehearsal Process
Commedia Dell'Arte
Variables of Costume Design
Ground Plan
16. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Empathy
Auditions
Printing Press
Rising Action
17. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Ensemble
Rehearsal Process
Presentational Approach
18. Emotional release
Amateur Theatre
Lazzi
Catharsis
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
19. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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20. 500-1800 people
Thought
Conflict
Euripides
Broadway
21. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatron
Theatre of Cruelty
Melodrama
Falling Action
22. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Verse
Sense Memory
Dramatic Genre
23. Italians
Falling Action
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Comedy of Ideas
Ensemble
24. Main character
Mystery Plays
Meander
Linear Plot
Protagonist
25. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Meyerhold
Casting Director
Linear Plot
Front of House
26. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Thespis
Causal Play Structure
Naturalism
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
27. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Thought
Aeschylus
Practical
Bertolt Brecht
28. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Eugene Scribe
Representational Acting
Tragicomedy
Inciting Incident
29. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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30. Proscenium space
Character
Sturm & Drang Movement
Rising Action
The Box Set
31. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Light Plot
Subplot
Front of House
Commedia Dell'Arte
32. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Chorus
Representational Approach
Auditions
Realism and Realistic Developments
33. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Casting Director
Ground Plan
Hybrid Theatre
34. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Plato
Theatre of Cruelty
Practical
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
35. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
Language
Public Domain
Henrik Ibsen
36. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Aeschylus
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Antiquarianism
Off-Off-Broadway
37. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Exposition
Commercial Theatre
Downstage
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
38. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Thought
Broadway
Slapstick
Aristophanes
39. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Rising Action
Subtext
Tragedy
40. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Royalty
Avant-Garde
Actor
Theatron
41. Series of short stories
Meyerhold
Antiquarianism
Anton Chekhov
Callbacks
42. Play reenacting biblical stories
Casting Director
Character
Mystery Plays
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
43. Part of What is included in the text
Representational Approach
Linear Plot
Thought
Dialogue
44. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Non-Profit Theatre
Character
Tragedy
Off-Broadway
45. 'Storm and stress'
Causal Play Structure
Sturm & Drang Movement
Comedy
Renaissance
46. Was poetry for many years
Conflict
Language
Naturalism
Lazzi
47. Events progress forward in time
Chorus
Dialogue
Linear Plot
Actor
48. Information needed to understand the play
Henrik Ibsen
Exposition
Tragedy
Reversal
49. A>B>C>D
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Upstage
Components of Concept
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
50. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Downstage
Presentational Approach
Comedy of Ideas
Sense Memory