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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Front of House
Eugene Scribe
Inciting Incident
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
2. Writer and first actor
Thespis
William Shakespeare
Discovery
ostume Plot
3. The era we are currently in
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Thespis
Postmodernism
Euripides
4. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Affective Memory
Community Theatre
ostume Plot
5. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Proscenium Space
Character
Commercial Theatre
Miracle Plays
6. Works published before 1923
Components of Concept
Representational Acting
Protagonist
Public Domain
7. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Empathy
Thespis
Casting Director
Non-Profit Theatre
8. Used alienation to encourage distance
Casting Director
Callbacks
Dialogue
Bertolt Brecht
9. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Conflict
Aristophanes
Stage Manager
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
10. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Orchestra
Euripides
Commedia Dell'Arte
11. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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12. Play reenacting biblical stories
Discovery
Mystery Plays
Mimesis
Auditions
13. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Vomitories
Representational Approach
Off-Off-Broadway
Melodrama (def)
14. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Avant-Garde
Aristophanes
Copyright
15. Series of short stories
Theatre of Cruelty
Anton Chekhov
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Aesthetic Distance
16. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Inciting Incident
Aesthetic Distance
Bertolt Brecht
Euripides
17. Part of What is included in the text
Plot
Improv
Off-Broadway
Dialogue
18. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Anton Chekhov
Subplot
Causal Play Structure
Casting Director
19. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Euripides
Cycles
Climax
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
20. Feel more in stage acting.
Protagonist
Subplot
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Representational Acting
21. Events that set off a major conflict
Cycles
Inciting Incident
Presentational Approach
Educational Theatre
22. Major character at odds with social expectations
Chorus
Comedy of Manners
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Renaissance
23. Events progress forward in time
Linear Plot
Melodrama
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Thrust Space
24. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Dramaturg
Plato
Downstage
Antagonist
25. Information needed to understand the play
Exposition
The Globe
Thespis
Thought
26. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Ground Plan
Presentational Approach
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Euripides
27. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Postmodernism
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Rising Action
28. 'Father of Realism'
Neoclassicism (def)
Pageants
ostume Plot
Henrik Ibsen
29. Proscenium arch/stage
Light Plot
Causal Play Structure
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Eugene Scribe
30. Events that set off a major conflict
Commedia Dell'Arte
Inciting Incident
Off-Off-Broadway
Meander
31. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Aristotle
Linear Plot
Aeschylus
Producer
32. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Renaissance
Off-Off-Broadway
Commedia Dell'Arte
Discovery
33. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Dramatic Genre
Regional Theatre
Postmodernism
Subtext
34. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Thespis
Sophocles
Verisimilitude
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
35. The first director
Empathy
Callbacks
Off-Off-Broadway
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
36. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Catharsis
Fourth Wall
Dramaturg
Verisimilitude
37. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Verse
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Presentational Approach
Ground Plan
38. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Representational Acting
Sense Memory
Postmodernism
Melodrama (def)
39. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Thought
Rising Action
Eugene Scribe
Empathy
40. Someone who writes plays
Meyerhold
Playwright
Cycles
Climax
41. Visible light source on stage
Realism and Realistic Developments
Practical
Sturm & Drang Movement
Henrik Ibsen
42. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Rising Action
Antagonist
Vomitories
Henrik Ibsen
43. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Orchestra
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Chorus
Protagonist
44. Audience watches from 3 sides
Downstage
Thrust Space
William Shakespeare
Henrik Ibsen
45. Planned actor movement
Amateur Theatre
Blocking
Empathy
Avant-Garde
46. Was poetry for many years
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Language
Exposition
Aeschylus
47. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Ground Plan
Character
Downstage
48. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Commedia Dell'Arte
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Representational Acting
Thespis
49. Amateur theatre in which shows are created by residents of a particular area who come together without being part of a professional or academic institution
Vomitories
Community Theatre
Educational Theatre
Aristophanes
50. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Upstage
Orchestra
Proscenium Space