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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. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Commedia Dell'Arte
Components of Concept
Mystery Plays
Practical
2. Busiest person in the theatre
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Anton Chekhov
Chorus
Stage Manager
3. Causes trouble for the main character
Comedy of Ideas
Mimesis
Antagonist
Vomitories
4. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Sophocles
Hypokrites
Mystery Plays
Sturm & Drang Movement
5. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Protagonist
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Skene
Chorus
6. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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7. Someone who writes plays
Slapstick
Climax
Situation Comedy
Playwright
8. The era we are currently in
Subtext
Mimesis
Postmodernism
Broadway
9. Italians
Melodrama (def)
Presentational Approach
Plot
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
10. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Callbacks
Light Plot
Vomitories
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
11. The first director
Catharsis
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
University Wits
Callbacks
12. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Subplot
Verisimilitude
Dramatic Genre
Thought
13. Emotional release
Ground Plan
Catharsis
Slapstick
Sophocles
14. Italians
Emile Zola
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Practical
Subtext
15. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Producer
Concept
Representational Approach
Light Plot
16. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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17. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Sense Memory
Prose
Language
Sophocles
18. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Linear Plot
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Language
Copyright
19. Person who embodies a character on stage
Affective Memory
Callbacks
Actor
Naturalism
20. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Prose
Tragicomedy
Components of Concept
Theatre of Cruelty
21. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Representational Approach
Situation Comedy
Melodrama
Rehearsal Process
22. Part of What is included in the text
Hypokrites
Falling Action
Renaissance
Dialogue
23. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Producer
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Ensemble
Representational Approach
24. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
Amateur Theatre
Antiquarianism
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
25. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Mimesis
Off-Broadway
Ground Plan
Subplot
26. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Downstage
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Black Box
The Globe
27. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Regional Theatre
Off-Off-Broadway
Callbacks
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
28. England's type of theatre
Non-Profit Theatre
Regional Theatre
Comedy
The Globe
29. Greek - actor
Non-Profit Theatre
Hypokrites
Conflict
Printing Press
30. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Exposition
Casting Director
Presentational Approach
Proscenium Space
31. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Melodrama (def)
Variables of Costume Design
Avant-Garde
32. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Postmodernism
Rehearsal Process
Falling Action
Protagonist
33. Greek - actor
Hypokrites
Causal Play Structure
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Royalty
34. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Naturalism
Theatre of Cruelty
Off-Off-Broadway
Auditions
35. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Fourth Wall
Henrik Ibsen
Auditions
Educational Theatre
36. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Components of Concept
Designer
Copyright
37. Organization of action
Dramaturg
Plot
Miracle Plays
Neoclassicism (def)
38. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Front of House
Skene
Comedy of Character
Actor
39. Appearance of truth
Community Theatre
Reversal
Verisimilitude
Theatron
40. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Orchestra
Avant-Garde
Theatre of Cruelty
Chorus
41. A fee for each performance
Plot
Dramaturg
Royalty
Empathy
42. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Public Domain
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Character
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
43. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Presentational Approach
Off-Off-Broadway
Dialogue
Theatron
44. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Comedy
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
University Wits
45. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Subtext
Concept
Off-Off-Broadway
William Shakespeare
46. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Konstantin Stanislavski
Plot
Chorus
47. Was poetry for many years
Language
Sturm & Drang Movement
Cycles
Affective Memory
48. Based on the lives of the saints
Discovery
ostume Plot
Miracle Plays
Avant-Garde
49. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Representational Approach
Royalty
Discovery
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
50. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Front of House
Representational Approach
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?