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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Subtext
Orchestra
Meander
Subtext
2. Not many props or detailed scenery
Hypokrites
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Practical
Renaissance
3. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Components of Concept
Hybrid Theatre
Fourth Wall
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
4. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
William Shakespeare
Comedy of Ideas
Printing Press
5. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Plato
Konstantin Stanislavski
Plot
6. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Aeschylus
Pageants
Dialogue
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
7. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Off-Off-Broadway
Vomitories
Sophocles
Commedia Dell'Arte
8. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Representational Approach
Hybrid Theatre
Vomitories
Rehearsal Process
9. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Representational Approach
University Wits
Linear Plot
Thought
10. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Printing Press
Black Box
Sophocles
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
11. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Mystery Plays
Variables of Costume Design
Antagonist
William Shakespeare
12. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Thrust Space
Chorus
Aeschylus
13. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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14. Busiest person in the theatre
Chorus
Presentational Approach
Naturalism
Stage Manager
15. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Melodrama (def)
Downstage
Skene
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
16. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Verisimilitude
Sophocles
Rising Action
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
17. England's type of theatre
Concept
The Globe
Reversal
Melodrama
18. Feel more in stage acting.
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Miracle Plays
Pageants
Comedy
19. The standard tool for casting a production
Meyerhold
University Wits
Auditions
Non-Profit Theatre
20. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Konstantin Stanislavski
William Shakespeare
Meyerhold
Downstage
21. Proscenium space
Situation Comedy
Plot
The Box Set
Ensemble
22. Greek - actor
Language
Hypokrites
Printing Press
Exposition
23. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Producer
Wings
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Renaissance
24. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Slapstick
Exposition
25. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
William Shakespeare
Postmodernism
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Emile Zola
26. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Black Box
Hybrid Theatre
Mimesis
Dialogue
27. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Linear Plot
Designer
Casting Director
28. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Sturm & Drang Movement
Protagonist
Theatre of Cruelty
Educational Theatre
29. 500-1800 people
Broadway
Comedy of Character
Representational Approach
Regional Theatre
30. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Reversal
Non-Profit Theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
Slapstick
31. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Stage Manager
Melodrama (def)
Aesthetic Distance
Aeschylus
32. A fee for each performance
Comedy of Character
Royalty
Comedy
Sense Memory
33. Was poetry for many years
Causal Play Structure
Language
Upstage
Auditions
34. A group of actors - not just one star
Variables of Costume Design
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Ensemble
Mimesis
35. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Fourth Wall
Reversal
Fourth Wall
36. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Broadway
Pageants
Wings
Representational Approach
37. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Comedy of Character
Skene
Verisimilitude
38. Part of What is included in the text
Concept
Ensemble
Renaissance
Dialogue
39. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Morality Plays
Commercial Theatre
Chorus
Rising Action
40. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Linear Plot
Dramatic Genre
Rising Action
Improv
41. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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42. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Sophocles
Theatron
Royalty
Protagonist
43. Events progress forward in time
Konstantin Stanislavski
Linear Plot
Lazzi
Callbacks
44. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Empathy
Neoclassicism (def)
University Wits
Non-Profit Theatre
45. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
Ground Plan
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Meander
46. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Falling Action
Rendering
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Educational Theatre
47. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Producer
Fourth Wall
Meander
Affective Memory
48. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Situation Comedy
Vomitories
Light Plot
Thrust Space
49. Causes trouble for the main character
Auditions
Antagonist
Chorus
Situation Comedy
50. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
The Globe
Regional Theatre
Hypokrites