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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
Naturalism
Thespis
Eugene Scribe
2. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Thought
Emile Zola
Mimesis
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
3. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Producer
Rehearsal Process
Proscenium Space
Amateur Theatre
4. The era we are currently in
Melodrama (def)
Character
Components of Concept
Postmodernism
5. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Producer
Downstage
Royalty
Printing Press
6. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Situation Comedy
Slapstick
Antiquarianism
Miracle Plays
7. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Affective Memory
Meander
William Shakespeare
Royalty
8. Series of short stories
Representational Acting
Regional Theatre
Konstantin Stanislavski
Anton Chekhov
9. Focused on thought - controversial
Comedy of Ideas
Protagonist
Hybrid Theatre
Tragedy
10. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Producer
Off-Broadway
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
11. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Realism and Realistic Developments
Verisimilitude
Off-Off-Broadway
Components of Concept
12. Top of stage
The Globe
Upstage
Antagonist
Representational Acting
13. Based on the lives of the saints
Melodrama
Commedia Dell'Arte
Light Plot
Miracle Plays
14. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Sense Memory
Hypokrites
Variables of Costume Design
Theatre of Cruelty
15. Writer and first actor
Aesthetic Distance
Thespis
Tragicomedy
Dramatic Genre
16. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Reversal
Comedy of Manners
Representational Acting
Subtext
17. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Copyright
Presentational Approach
Downstage
Director
18. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Stage Manager
Black Box
Plato
Dramaturg
19. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Playwright
Concept
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Variables of Costume Design
20. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Comedy
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Director
21. Time (play had to take place within a 24 hour period) - place (the whole play must take place in a single location) - and action (single plot)
Linear Plot
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Representational Approach
Thought
22. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Vomitories
Dramaturg
Morality Plays
Exposition
23. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Amateur Theatre
Representational Acting
Henrik Ibsen
Climax
24. Proscenium arch/stage
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Verisimilitude
Mystery Plays
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
25. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Stage Manager
Plot
Dramatic Genre
Non-Profit Theatre
26. 500-1800 people
Catharsis
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Broadway
Renaissance
27. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Downstage
Theatron
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Off-Broadway
28. Humorous - objective view point
Inciting Incident
Character
Comedy
Aristotle
29. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Concept
Director
Public Domain
Character
30. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Meander
Empathy
Representational Approach
ostume Plot
31. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Dramaturg
Causal Play Structure
Aristophanes
William Shakespeare
32. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Aristophanes
Protagonist
Dramatic Genre
Tragedy
33. Based on the lives of the saints
Miracle Plays
Proscenium Space
Front of House
Aeschylus
34. Grammatically based
Morality Plays
Prose
Thespis
Blocking
35. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Presentational Approach
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Playwright
Educational Theatre
36. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Variables of Costume Design
Subtext
Copyright
Thought
37. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Melodrama
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Dialogue
38. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Hybrid Theatre
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Neoclassicism (def)
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
39. Medea - The Bacchae
Eugene Scribe
Affective Memory
Bertolt Brecht
Euripides
40. Time (play had to take place within a 24 hour period) - place (the whole play must take place in a single location) - and action (single plot)
Orchestra
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Comedy
Renaissance
41. A group of actors - not just one star
Situation Comedy
Verisimilitude
Ensemble
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
42. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Sense Memory
University Wits
Aristophanes
Aesthetic Distance
43. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Sturm & Drang Movement
Rehearsal Process
Naturalism
Director
44. Proscenium space
Meyerhold
Konstantin Stanislavski
Public Domain
The Box Set
45. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Antiquarianism
Verse
Regional Theatre
Director
46. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Subtext
Antiquarianism
ostume Plot
Euripides
47. Works published before 1923
Public Domain
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Broadway
Conflict
48. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Hybrid Theatre
Chorus
Casting Director
Presentational Approach
49. Greek - actor
Comedy of Ideas
Hypokrites
Subplot
Representational Approach
50. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Plot
Empathy
Black Box
Discovery