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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The era we are currently in
Slapstick
Postmodernism
Pageants
Thespis
2. Play reenacting biblical stories
The Box Set
Practical
Mystery Plays
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
3. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Subtext
Auditions
Skene
Broadway
4. Works published before 1923
Falling Action
Anton Chekhov
Public Domain
Off-Broadway
5. Italians
Plato
Sturm & Drang Movement
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Callbacks
6. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Meander
Copyright
Regional Theatre
Variables of Costume Design
7. The standard tool for casting a production
Dramaturg
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Broadway
Auditions
8. Visible light source on stage
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Meyerhold
Off-Off-Broadway
Practical
9. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Situation Comedy
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Community Theatre
Vomitories
10. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Casting Director
Amateur Theatre
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
11. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Lazzi
Discovery
Antagonist
Printing Press
12. Organization of action
Callbacks
Fourth Wall
Amateur Theatre
Plot
13. Gas lights - etc.
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Copyright
Causal Play Structure
William Shakespeare
14. Busiest person in the theatre
Hypokrites
Blocking
Stage Manager
Subtext
15. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Rendering
Eugene Scribe
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Auditions
16. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Subplot
Sense Memory
The Box Set
Emile Zola
17. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Community Theatre
Ground Plan
Off-Off-Broadway
Euripides
18. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Dramatic Genre
Improv
Aesthetic Distance
Comedy of Ideas
19. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Ground Plan
Discovery
Neoclassicism (def)
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
20. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Euripides
Naturalism
Neoclassicism (def)
21. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Actor
Variables of Costume Design
Off-Off-Broadway
22. Proscenium space
Hypokrites
The Box Set
Aeschylus
Emile Zola
23. Used alienation to encourage distance
Plot
Vomitories
Bertolt Brecht
Orchestra
24. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Causal Play Structure
Callbacks
Meyerhold
Mystery Plays
25. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Affective Memory
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Representational Approach
Discovery
26. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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27. 100-499 people
Off-Broadway
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Representational Approach
Orchestra
28. The first director
Commedia Dell'Arte
Skene
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
29. 500-1800 people
Community Theatre
Downstage
Broadway
The Globe
30. England's type of theatre
The Globe
Meander
Thespis
Konstantin Stanislavski
31. Greek - actor
Amateur Theatre
Hypokrites
Subplot
Ground Plan
32. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Emile Zola
Rendering
Exposition
Wings
33. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Reversal
Commercial Theatre
Cycles
Tragedy
34. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Climax
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Regional Theatre
Naturalism
35. 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
Discovery
Postmodernism
Improv
Linear Plot
36. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Non-Profit Theatre
Prose
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Upstage
37. Medea - The Bacchae
Avant-Garde
Meyerhold
Causal Play Structure
Euripides
38. Was poetry for many years
Off-Broadway
Language
Sense Memory
Mimesis
39. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Catharsis
Neoclassicism (def)
Skene
Front of House
40. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Slapstick
Printing Press
41. The standard tool for casting a production
Inciting Incident
Auditions
Sturm & Drang Movement
Linear Plot
42. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Printing Press
Naturalism
Components of Concept
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
43. Rhyming
Verse
Tragedy
Playwright
Director
44. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Anton Chekhov
Empathy
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Avant-Garde
45. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Dialogue
Realism and Realistic Developments
Director
University Wits
46. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Regional Theatre
Sturm & Drang Movement
The Globe
Antiquarianism
47. Was poetry for many years
ostume Plot
Language
Naturalism
Slapstick
48. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Antagonist
Antagonist
The Box Set
Aesthetic Distance
49. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Sense Memory
Chorus
Thought
Vomitories
50. Works published before 1923
Stage Manager
Director
Public Domain
Actor