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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Busiest person in the theatre
Discovery
Emile Zola
Linear Plot
Stage Manager
2. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Antagonist
Renaissance
The Box Set
Aristophanes
3. 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
Actor
Postmodernism
Community Theatre
Konstantin Stanislavski
4. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Thrust Space
Callbacks
Pageants
Melodrama (def)
5. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Off-Off-Broadway
Henrik Ibsen
Comedy of Character
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
6. Works published before 1923
Educational Theatre
Lazzi
Antagonist
Public Domain
7. Controls the environment in the theatre
Comedy of Character
Designer
Thrust Space
Comedy
8. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Postmodernism
ostume Plot
William Shakespeare
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
9. The first director
Linear Plot
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Orchestra
Euripides
10. Humorous - objective view point
Royalty
Comedy
Commercial Theatre
Designer
11. Organization of action
Tragedy
Rising Action
Plot
Rendering
12. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Neoclassicism (def)
Melodrama
Proscenium Space
University Wits
13. Play reenacting biblical stories
Lazzi
Mystery Plays
Comedy of Ideas
Dramatic Genre
14. Part of What is included in the text
Blocking
Falling Action
Representational Acting
Dialogue
15. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Dramatic Genre
Amateur Theatre
Comedy of Character
Aristophanes
16. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Callbacks
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Chorus
17. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Hybrid Theatre
Components of Concept
Mimesis
Falling Action
18. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Public Domain
Character
Black Box
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
19. Top of stage
Upstage
Designer
Fourth Wall
Rehearsal Process
20. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Eugene Scribe
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Antagonist
Postmodernism
21. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Henrik Ibsen
Vomitories
Pageants
Fourth Wall
22. Series of short stories
Avant-Garde
Anton Chekhov
Community Theatre
Thought
23. High point of action
Variables of Costume Design
Aeschylus
Comedy of Character
Climax
24. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Slapstick
Protagonist
Printing Press
Emile Zola
25. Italians
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Hypokrites
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Renaissance
26. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Amateur Theatre
Practical
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
27. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Pageants
Aesthetic Distance
Avant-Garde
Director
28. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Sophocles
Variables of Costume Design
Practical
Broadway
29. Grammatically based
Prose
Variables of Costume Design
Auditions
Verse
30. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Skene
Antiquarianism
Catharsis
Royalty
31. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Vomitories
Aeschylus
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Variables of Costume Design
32. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Commedia Dell'Arte
Lazzi
Plato
Comedy of Manners
33. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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34. 'Storm and stress'
Naturalism
Ensemble
Comedy of Manners
Sturm & Drang Movement
35. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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36. A group of actors - not just one star
Anton Chekhov
Ensemble
Orchestra
Avant-Garde
37. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Discovery
Character
Community Theatre
Hybrid Theatre
38. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Dramatic Genre
Wings
Exposition
Plot
39. The standard tool for casting a production
Auditions
Euripides
The Box Set
Bertolt Brecht
40. Ideas within the play
Melodrama (def)
Printing Press
Thought
Konstantin Stanislavski
41. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Vomitories
Melodrama (def)
Broadway
42. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Front of House
Off-Off-Broadway
Renaissance
Konstantin Stanislavski
43. Events that set off a major conflict
Stage Manager
Bertolt Brecht
Inciting Incident
University Wits
44. Imitation of character and action
Conflict
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Representational Approach
Mimesis
45. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Casting Director
Dramatic Genre
Director
Subtext
46. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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47. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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48. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Non-Profit Theatre
Catharsis
University Wits
49. Verse
Slapstick
Casting Director
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Tragicomedy
50. 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
Antiquarianism
Community Theatre
Non-Profit Theatre
Verisimilitude