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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Actor
Ensemble
Variables of Costume Design
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
2. High point of action
Antiquarianism
Thrust Space
Climax
Regional Theatre
3. Based on the lives of the saints
Antiquarianism
Prose
Miracle Plays
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
4. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Director
Character
Climax
Comedy
5. Feel more in stage acting.
Reversal
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Neoclassicism (def)
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
6. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Exposition
Regional Theatre
Vomitories
Slapstick
7. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Dialogue
Tragicomedy
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Comedy
8. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Community Theatre
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Realism and Realistic Developments
Off-Off-Broadway
9. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Meyerhold
Empathy
Aristophanes
Proscenium Space
10. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Theatron
William Shakespeare
Mimesis
Wings
11. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Sturm & Drang Movement
Educational Theatre
Casting Director
Downstage
12. Greek - actor
Downstage
Concept
Catharsis
Hypokrites
13. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Empathy
Theatre of Cruelty
Discovery
Konstantin Stanislavski
14. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Producer
Printing Press
Casting Director
Commercial Theatre
15. Was poetry for many years
Language
Improv
Postmodernism
Light Plot
16. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Neoclassicism (def)
Mimesis
Dramatic Genre
The Box Set
17. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Inciting Incident
Casting Director
Representational Acting
Hybrid Theatre
18. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Variables of Costume Design
Subtext
The Box Set
Hypokrites
19. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Conflict
Morality Plays
Dialogue
Aristotle
20. Not many props or detailed scenery
Fourth Wall
Situation Comedy
Subplot
Renaissance
21. Information needed to understand the play
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Exposition
University Wits
Neoclassicism (def)
22. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Improv
Realism and Realistic Developments
ostume Plot
Theatron
23. Visible light source on stage
Wings
Practical
Affective Memory
Linear Plot
24. Proscenium space
The Box Set
Skene
The Globe
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
25. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Sturm & Drang Movement
Playwright
University Wits
Amateur Theatre
26. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Bertolt Brecht
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Naturalism
Educational Theatre
27. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Rising Action
Thrust Space
William Shakespeare
Director
28. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Mystery Plays
Eugene Scribe
Melodrama (def)
29. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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30. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Designer
Rising Action
Representational Acting
31. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Conflict
Avant-Garde
Henrik Ibsen
Improv
32. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Reversal
Downstage
Ground Plan
Amateur Theatre
33. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Concept
Royalty
Subplot
Components of Concept
34. 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
Realism and Realistic Developments
Improv
Concept
Upstage
35. Causes trouble for the main character
Ground Plan
Antagonist
Plato
Practical
36. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Downstage
Hybrid Theatre
Thought
37. Imitation of character and action
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Sturm & Drang Movement
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Mimesis
38. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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39. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Stage Manager
Skene
Emile Zola
Avant-Garde
40. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Empathy
Rendering
Catharsis
Ground Plan
41. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Language
Representational Acting
Non-Profit Theatre
Rendering
42. Italians
Plot
Climax
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Bertolt Brecht
43. 100-499 people
Commercial Theatre
Educational Theatre
Euripides
Off-Broadway
44. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Thrust Space
Comedy of Manners
Renaissance
ostume Plot
45. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Chorus
Off-Broadway
Discovery
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
46. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Sense Memory
Rising Action
Meander
Euripides
47. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Ensemble
Melodrama (def)
Comedy
Wings
48. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Orchestra
Subplot
Climax
49. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Off-Off-Broadway
Discovery
Printing Press
Lazzi
50. 500-1800 people
Comedy of Manners
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Callbacks
Broadway