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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. Used alienation to encourage distance
The Box Set
Theatre of Cruelty
Miracle Plays
Bertolt Brecht
2. Planned actor movement
Language
Blocking
Orchestra
Wings
3. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Lazzi
Discovery
Verse
Naturalism
4. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Euripides
Producer
Thought
Melodrama (def)
5. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Tragicomedy
Konstantin Stanislavski
Designer
6. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Naturalism
Rising Action
Catharsis
Improv
7. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Bertolt Brecht
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Falling Action
8. Top of stage
The Globe
Upstage
Thrust Space
Callbacks
9. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Antiquarianism
Pageants
Discovery
Representational Acting
10. Based on the lives of the saints
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Broadway
Miracle Plays
Casting Director
11. Controls the environment in the theatre
Henrik Ibsen
William Shakespeare
Designer
Subplot
12. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle
The Box Set
Plot
Hybrid Theatre
13. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
ostume Plot
Front of House
Subplot
Affective Memory
14. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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15. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Cycles
Community Theatre
Representational Approach
Slapstick
16. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Neoclassicism (def)
Affective Memory
Bertolt Brecht
17. Emotional release
Catharsis
Situation Comedy
Bertolt Brecht
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
18. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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19. Not many props or detailed scenery
Educational Theatre
Renaissance
Components of Concept
Postmodernism
20. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Aesthetic Distance
Sophocles
Theatron
Rendering
21. Events progress forward in time
Plato
Linear Plot
Naturalism
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
22. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Causal Play Structure
Rising Action
Comedy of Manners
Subtext
23. 500-1800 people
Callbacks
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Comedy of Ideas
Broadway
24. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Proscenium Space
Miracle Plays
Aesthetic Distance
Broadway
25. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Climax
Cycles
Ground Plan
Plato
26. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Miracle Plays
Thespis
Sturm & Drang Movement
27. Rhyming
Educational Theatre
Auditions
Verse
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
28. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Mimesis
Director
Hybrid Theatre
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
29. Six elements - catharsis
Theatre of Cruelty
Aristotle
Wings
ostume Plot
30. Feel more in stage acting.
Comedy
Subplot
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
31. Imitation of character and action
Cycles
Naturalism
Causal Play Structure
Mimesis
32. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Avant-Garde
Rehearsal Process
Proscenium Space
Henrik Ibsen
33. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Causal Play Structure
Konstantin Stanislavski
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Components of Concept
34. Greek - actor
Hypokrites
Comedy
Proscenium Space
Renaissance
35. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Commercial Theatre
Plot
Cycles
Representational Approach
36. 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
Improv
Bertolt Brecht
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Thrust Space
37. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Subplot
Realism and Realistic Developments
Henrik Ibsen
Thrust Space
38. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Non-Profit Theatre
Improv
Vomitories
Printing Press
39. England's type of theatre
Thought
Naturalism
Linear Plot
The Globe
40. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Tragicomedy
Copyright
Thespis
Proscenium Space
41. A fee for each performance
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Copyright
Royalty
Renaissance
42. Events progress forward in time
William Shakespeare
Slapstick
Linear Plot
Plato
43. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Black Box
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Meander
44. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Plato
Director
Dialogue
Amateur Theatre
45. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Reversal
Concept
Rehearsal Process
Variables of Costume Design
46. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
William Shakespeare
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Hypokrites
Practical
47. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
Aristotle
Comedy of Character
Black Box
48. Linear events progress forward in time
Antiquarianism
Eugene Scribe
Educational Theatre
Causal Play Structure
49. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Lazzi
Blocking
Commedia Dell'Arte
Aristotle
50. Was poetry for many years
Language
Eugene Scribe
Practical
Cycles