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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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)
Theatron
Broadway
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Actor
2. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Aeschylus
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Tragedy
Inciting Incident
3. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Exposition
Neoclassicism (def)
Rising Action
4. Ideas within the play
Antiquarianism
Front of House
Thought
Theatre of Cruelty
5. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Meander
Empathy
Stage Manager
Dramatic Genre
6. Gas lights - etc.
Theatron
Downstage
Dialogue
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
7. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Improv
Regional Theatre
Upstage
William Shakespeare
8. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Affective Memory
Melodrama (def)
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Bertolt Brecht
9. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Rehearsal Process
Realism and Realistic Developments
Amateur Theatre
Naturalism
10. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Affective Memory
Pageants
Theatre of Cruelty
Melodrama (def)
11. Busiest person in the theatre
Vomitories
Playwright
Fourth Wall
Stage Manager
12. A fee for each performance
Amateur Theatre
Variables of Costume Design
Verisimilitude
Royalty
13. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Vomitories
Amateur Theatre
Emile Zola
Character
14. Major character at odds with social expectations
Concept
Regional Theatre
Components of Concept
Comedy of Manners
15. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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16. Proscenium arch/stage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Melodrama
Regional Theatre
Downstage
17. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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18. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Postmodernism
Melodrama
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
19. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Subplot
Subtext
Empathy
Off-Broadway
20. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Broadway
Tragedy
Presentational Approach
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
21. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Discovery
Meander
Antiquarianism
22. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Dramaturg
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Concept
Royalty
23. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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24. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Dramaturg
Proscenium Space
Postmodernism
Empathy
25. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Concept
Thought
Variables of Costume Design
Subplot
26. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Sense Memory
Antagonist
Henrik Ibsen
Theatre of Cruelty
27. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Konstantin Stanislavski
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Plato
Slapstick
28. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Royalty
Sense Memory
University Wits
Broadway
29. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Hybrid Theatre
Renaissance
Realism and Realistic Developments
Chorus
30. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Conflict
Playwright
Plato
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
31. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Commercial Theatre
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Falling Action
Subtext
32. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Dialogue
Dialogue
Sense Memory
33. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Rendering
Proscenium Space
Aesthetic Distance
Representational Approach
34. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Melodrama
Sense Memory
Black Box
35. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Discovery
Melodrama (def)
Slapstick
Casting Director
36. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Affective Memory
Sophocles
Reversal
Thrust Space
37. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Director
Anton Chekhov
Character
Postmodernism
38. Focused on thought - controversial
Ensemble
Miracle Plays
ostume Plot
Comedy of Ideas
39. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Concept
Renaissance
Falling Action
Black Box
40. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Character
Situation Comedy
Producer
Sturm & Drang Movement
41. Events that set off a major conflict
Theatre of Cruelty
Inciting Incident
Catharsis
Subplot
42. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Emile Zola
Empathy
Stage Manager
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
43. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Morality Plays
Commercial Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Stage Manager
44. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Designer
Empathy
Representational Acting
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
45. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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46. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Comedy of Character
Protagonist
Aeschylus
Causal Play Structure
47. Was poetry for many years
Language
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Slapstick
Henrik Ibsen
48. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Comedy of Character
Theatre of Cruelty
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Neoclassicism (def)
49. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Slapstick
Plot
Konstantin Stanislavski
Subplot
50. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Linear Plot
Orchestra
ostume Plot
Emile Zola