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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Linear Plot
Postmodernism
Meander
Dramatic Genre
2. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Proscenium Space
Printing Press
3. Grammatically based
Concept
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Light Plot
Prose
4. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Stage Manager
Falling Action
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Lazzi
5. Major character at odds with social expectations
Educational Theatre
Wings
Comedy of Manners
Tragedy
6. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Inciting Incident
Verisimilitude
Subtext
Melodrama
7. A fee for each performance
Renaissance
Aristotle
Educational Theatre
Royalty
8. Humorous - objective view point
Representational Approach
Comedy
Ensemble
Light Plot
9. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Theatron
Rehearsal Process
Non-Profit Theatre
Antagonist
10. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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11. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Representational Approach
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Vomitories
Amateur Theatre
12. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
The Box Set
Morality Plays
Aeschylus
Aristophanes
13. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Thrust Space
Rehearsal Process
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Designer
14. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
University Wits
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Downstage
Callbacks
15. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Eugene Scribe
Royalty
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Fourth Wall
16. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Rendering
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Educational Theatre
Off-Off-Broadway
17. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Empathy
Downstage
Improv
Producer
18. Information needed to understand the play
Exposition
Royalty
Non-Profit Theatre
Euripides
19. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Catharsis
Casting Director
Components of Concept
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
20. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Rising Action
Neoclassicism (def)
Discovery
Realism and Realistic Developments
21. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Rehearsal Process
Aristotle
Skene
22. High point of action
Printing Press
Theatre of Cruelty
Practical
Climax
23. Writer and first actor
Public Domain
Comedy
Linear Plot
Thespis
24. Top of stage
Comedy
Eugene Scribe
Upstage
Aristotle
25. Used alienation to encourage distance
Melodrama (def)
Bertolt Brecht
Commercial Theatre
Subplot
26. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Sophocles
Tragedy
Discovery
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
27. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Tragicomedy
Subtext
Educational Theatre
Slapstick
28. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Representational Approach
Light Plot
Mystery Plays
Falling Action
29. 'Storm and stress'
Sturm & Drang Movement
Non-Profit Theatre
Ground Plan
Eugene Scribe
30. Someone who writes plays
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Off-Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway
Playwright
31. Part of What is included in the text
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Discovery
Dialogue
ostume Plot
32. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Aristotle
William Shakespeare
Rehearsal Process
Dramatic Genre
33. 'Storm and stress'
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Public Domain
Sturm & Drang Movement
Realism and Realistic Developments
34. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Comedy
Fourth Wall
Educational Theatre
Melodrama
35. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Tragicomedy
Broadway
Conflict
Melodrama
36. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Antiquarianism
Plato
Lazzi
37. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Vomitories
ostume Plot
Producer
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
38. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Educational Theatre
Representational Acting
Front of House
Naturalism
39. Emotional release
Conflict
Meyerhold
Catharsis
Exposition
40. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Playwright
Aristophanes
Amateur Theatre
Plato
41. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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42. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Downstage
Situation Comedy
Theatre of Cruelty
Director
43. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
William Shakespeare
Discovery
William Shakespeare
Thought
44. A fee for each performance
Representational Acting
Catharsis
Royalty
Rendering
45. Works published before 1923
Public Domain
Director
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
46. Time (play had to take place within a 24 hour period) - place (the whole play must take place in a single location) - and action (single plot)
Antagonist
Discovery
Downstage
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
47. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Designer
Comedy of Character
Royalty
Regional Theatre
48. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Meyerhold
Meyerhold
Comedy of Manners
University Wits
49. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Morality Plays
Proscenium Space
Producer
50. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Representational Approach
Affective Memory
Broadway
Reversal