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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Wings
Lazzi
Commedia Dell'Arte
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
2. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Comedy
Plot
Falling Action
Avant-Garde
3. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
William Shakespeare
Playwright
4. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Aeschylus
Naturalism
Black Box
Light Plot
5. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Situation Comedy
Causal Play Structure
Presentational Approach
Aristophanes
6. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Subplot
Emile Zola
ostume Plot
Components of Concept
7. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Comedy of Ideas
ostume Plot
Aeschylus
8. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Aesthetic Distance
Slapstick
Non-Profit Theatre
Tragedy
9. Was poetry for many years
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Miracle Plays
Language
Regional Theatre
10. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Language
Hybrid Theatre
Theatron
Orchestra
11. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Theatron
ostume Plot
Downstage
Regional Theatre
12. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Concept
Linear Plot
Situation Comedy
William Shakespeare
13. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Skene
The Box Set
Melodrama
Off-Broadway
14. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Regional Theatre
Hybrid Theatre
Verse
Melodrama
15. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Catharsis
Ensemble
Light Plot
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
16. Feel more in stage acting.
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Practical
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Exposition
17. Visible light source on stage
Wings
Practical
Verse
Eugene Scribe
18. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Melodrama (def)
Inciting Incident
Fourth Wall
Amateur Theatre
19. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Ground Plan
Causal Play Structure
Euripides
Melodrama
20. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Ground Plan
Sturm & Drang Movement
Subtext
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
21. Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Sense Memory
22. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Comedy of Manners
Sense Memory
Sophocles
Theatre of Cruelty
23. Linear events progress forward in time
Commedia Dell'Arte
Aeschylus
Mystery Plays
Causal Play Structure
24. Events that set off a major conflict
Off-Broadway
Conflict
Fourth Wall
Inciting Incident
25. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Light Plot
ostume Plot
Off-Broadway
26. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Regional Theatre
Theatron
Protagonist
Situation Comedy
27. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Off-Off-Broadway
Sophocles
Representational Approach
Exposition
28. Works published before 1923
Off-Broadway
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Blocking
Public Domain
29. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Chorus
Stage Manager
Conflict
Pageants
30. Audience watches from 3 sides
Copyright
Public Domain
Theatron
Thrust Space
31. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Producer
Educational Theatre
Chorus
Subplot
32. Major character at odds with social expectations
Royalty
Educational Theatre
Concept
Comedy of Manners
33. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Morality Plays
Rendering
Conflict
Protagonist
34. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Public Domain
Linear Plot
Eugene Scribe
Casting Director
35. Rhyming
Front of House
Verse
Rehearsal Process
Postmodernism
36. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
The Box Set
Representational Acting
Chorus
Exposition
37. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Callbacks
Catharsis
Representational Acting
William Shakespeare
38. A fee for each performance
Cycles
Practical
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Royalty
39. Feel more in stage acting.
Casting Director
Subplot
Avant-Garde
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
40. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Sophocles
Off-Broadway
Royalty
Sense Memory
41. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Educational Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Comedy
Miracle Plays
42. Emotional release
Mystery Plays
Linear Plot
Downstage
Catharsis
43. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Prose
Rendering
Antiquarianism
University Wits
44. The first director
Causal Play Structure
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Rendering
45. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Aristophanes
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Theatre of Cruelty
46. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Front of House
Emile Zola
Stage Manager
47. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Emile Zola
Language
Variables of Costume Design
48. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Inciting Incident
Tragicomedy
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Proscenium Space
49. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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50. Events progress forward in time
Linear Plot
Front of House
Director
Pageants