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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. 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
Casting Director
Improv
Cycles
Thought
2. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Subplot
Hybrid Theatre
Dramaturg
Situation Comedy
3. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
The Box Set
Director
Protagonist
Theatron
4. A fee for each performance
Proscenium Space
Subplot
Plato
Royalty
5. England's type of theatre
The Globe
Emile Zola
Sense Memory
Postmodernism
6. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Empathy
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Tragicomedy
7. Part of What is included in the text
Community Theatre
Representational Approach
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Dialogue
8. Proscenium space
Inciting Incident
The Box Set
Front of House
Dramatic Genre
9. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Eugene Scribe
Verisimilitude
Morality Plays
Comedy of Character
10. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Playwright
Reversal
Rehearsal Process
Orchestra
11. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Commercial Theatre
Comedy of Character
Practical
Copyright
12. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Morality Plays
Tragedy
Skene
Sense Memory
13. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Light Plot
Rendering
Components of Concept
14. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Morality Plays
Orchestra
Presentational Approach
Off-Off-Broadway
15. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Off-Broadway
Off-Off-Broadway
16. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Prose
Character
Konstantin Stanislavski
17. 'Storm and stress'
Plato
William Shakespeare
Sturm & Drang Movement
Dramaturg
18. Humorous - objective view point
Vomitories
Melodrama
Verse
Comedy
19. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Dialogue
Melodrama
Euripides
Antiquarianism
20. Rhyming
Verse
Dialogue
Renaissance
Antiquarianism
21. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Blocking
Sense Memory
Reversal
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
22. 500-1800 people
Anton Chekhov
Broadway
Language
Morality Plays
23. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Printing Press
Inciting Incident
Downstage
University Wits
24. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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25. The first director
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Verisimilitude
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
26. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Callbacks
Situation Comedy
Comedy of Ideas
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
27. High point of action
Anton Chekhov
Regional Theatre
Climax
Mimesis
28. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
ostume Plot
Mystery Plays
Light Plot
William Shakespeare
29. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Tragedy
Representational Acting
Aeschylus
Wings
30. Rhyming
Verse
Meyerhold
Ensemble
Aeschylus
31. Proscenium space
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
The Box Set
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
32. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
Henrik Ibsen
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Konstantin Stanislavski
33. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Casting Director
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Naturalism
Commedia Dell'Arte
34. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Cycles
Printing Press
Subtext
35. Play reenacting biblical stories
Tragedy
Conflict
Mystery Plays
Rehearsal Process
36. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Mimesis
William Shakespeare
Cycles
Morality Plays
37. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Practical
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Mimesis
Dramaturg
38. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
University Wits
Causal Play Structure
Vomitories
Comedy of Ideas
39. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
ostume Plot
Plato
Morality Plays
Mystery Plays
40. Someone who writes plays
Slapstick
Tragicomedy
Playwright
Variables of Costume Design
41. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Chorus
William Shakespeare
ostume Plot
Blocking
42. Controls the environment in the theatre
Comedy of Manners
Plato
Designer
Skene
43. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Concept
Non-Profit Theatre
Avant-Garde
Tragicomedy
44. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Naturalism
Director
45. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
The Globe
Director
Slapstick
46. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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47. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Pageants
Theatron
Thrust Space
Mystery Plays
48. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
Comedy of Ideas
Educational Theatre
Linear Plot
49. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Falling Action
ostume Plot
Orchestra
Thespis
50. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
William Shakespeare
Fourth Wall
Sense Memory
Representational Acting