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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Concept
Verse
Blocking
Rehearsal Process
2. Ideas within the play
Public Domain
Reversal
Thought
Front of House
3. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
Cycles
ostume Plot
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
4. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Euripides
Verse
Slapstick
Cycles
5. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Aeschylus
Improv
Slapstick
Upstage
6. Performs Actions of the Play
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Practical
Character
Bertolt Brecht
7. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Morality Plays
Conflict
Henrik Ibsen
Neoclassicism (def)
8. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Aesthetic Distance
Causal Play Structure
Copyright
Konstantin Stanislavski
9. Was poetry for many years
Postmodernism
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Language
Sophocles
10. Appearance of truth
Thespis
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Representational Acting
Verisimilitude
11. Focused on thought - controversial
Miracle Plays
Playwright
Affective Memory
Comedy of Ideas
12. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Cycles
Commercial Theatre
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
13. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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14. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Tragicomedy
Wings
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
ostume Plot
15. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Comedy
Front of House
Presentational Approach
Black Box
16. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Ground Plan
Vomitories
Commercial Theatre
Verse
17. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Front of House
Dramatic Genre
Callbacks
Improv
18. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Non-Profit Theatre
Thrust Space
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Meyerhold
19. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
Commedia Dell'Arte
Vomitories
Printing Press
20. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Light Plot
Rehearsal Process
Stage Manager
21. Part of What is included in the text
Rehearsal Process
Mimesis
Dialogue
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
22. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Tragedy
Concept
Aeschylus
Meyerhold
23. Events that set off a major conflict
The Globe
Neoclassicism (def)
Inciting Incident
Climax
24. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Commedia Dell'Arte
Meyerhold
25. Used alienation to encourage distance
Naturalism
Playwright
Director
Bertolt Brecht
26. Greek - actor
Dramatic Genre
Hypokrites
Downstage
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
27. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Dramaturg
ostume Plot
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Reversal
28. Grammatically based
Realism and Realistic Developments
Practical
Prose
Copyright
29. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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30. The standard tool for casting a production
Aristophanes
Thought
Proscenium Space
Auditions
31. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Character
Situation Comedy
The Box Set
Thespis
32. England's type of theatre
Renaissance
Dramatic Genre
The Globe
Tragedy
33. Six elements - catharsis
Thrust Space
Aristotle
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
34. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Royalty
Climax
The Box Set
Commercial Theatre
35. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Thought
Comedy of Character
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Dramatic Genre
36. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Euripides
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Sophocles
Concept
37. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Proscenium Space
Mimesis
Representational Approach
Hypokrites
38. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Off-Broadway
Representational Acting
Meander
Vomitories
39. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
University Wits
Lazzi
Naturalism
40. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Orchestra
Slapstick
Plot
Casting Director
41. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Euripides
Non-Profit Theatre
Aristophanes
Variables of Costume Design
42. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
Producer
Mystery Plays
Upstage
43. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Printing Press
Royalty
Skene
44. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Ensemble
Emile Zola
Non-Profit Theatre
45. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Commercial Theatre
Amateur Theatre
Regional Theatre
Sense Memory
46. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Auditions
Downstage
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Rehearsal Process
47. Was poetry for many years
Language
Thrust Space
Sturm & Drang Movement
Slapstick
48. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aeschylus
Rehearsal Process
Avant-Garde
Broadway
49. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Slapstick
Sense Memory
Realism and Realistic Developments
Rising Action
50. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
Falling Action
Morality Plays
Callbacks