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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Language
Proscenium Space
Producer
Mimesis
2. Events progress forward in time
Light Plot
Fourth Wall
Linear Plot
The Box Set
3. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Melodrama (def)
Renaissance
Ground Plan
Designer
4. Italians
Improv
Mystery Plays
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Avant-Garde
5. 'Storm and stress'
Falling Action
Sturm & Drang Movement
Avant-Garde
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
6. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Postmodernism
Climax
Printing Press
Hypokrites
7. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Aristophanes
Director
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Comedy of Ideas
8. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Subtext
Theatre of Cruelty
Meyerhold
Regional Theatre
9. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Language
Antiquarianism
Dramatic Genre
Community Theatre
10. Causes trouble for the main character
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Aristophanes
Eugene Scribe
Antagonist
11. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Melodrama
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Dramaturg
Discovery
12. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Antagonist
Conflict
Tragicomedy
Plato
13. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Regional Theatre
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Thought
Tragicomedy
14. Focused on thought - controversial
Black Box
Rising Action
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Comedy of Ideas
15. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Naturalism
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Reversal
Comedy of Ideas
16. Works published before 1923
Rehearsal Process
Konstantin Stanislavski
Skene
Public Domain
17. Person who embodies a character on stage
Aristophanes
Printing Press
Actor
Rising Action
18. Someone who writes plays
Playwright
Representational Approach
Plato
Aeschylus
19. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Off-Broadway
Language
Verse
Antiquarianism
20. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Stage Manager
Non-Profit Theatre
Commercial Theatre
21. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Rendering
Lazzi
Pageants
Orchestra
22. 'Father of Realism'
Slapstick
Commedia Dell'Arte
Henrik Ibsen
Off-Off-Broadway
23. Greek - actor
Antagonist
Catharsis
Thought
Hypokrites
24. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Proscenium Space
Commedia Dell'Arte
Stage Manager
Aeschylus
25. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Linear Plot
Subplot
Light Plot
Broadway
26. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Representational Approach
The Box Set
Skene
Stage Manager
27. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Tragicomedy
Verse
Exposition
28. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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29. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Linear Plot
Emile Zola
Auditions
Pageants
30. Was poetry for many years
Proscenium Space
Chorus
Verse
Language
31. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
ostume Plot
Educational Theatre
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Situation Comedy
32. Six elements - catharsis
Meyerhold
Front of House
Aristotle
Aristophanes
33. 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)
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Theatron
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Realism and Realistic Developments
34. Greek - actor
Hypokrites
Off-Broadway
Producer
Neoclassicism (def)
35. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Ground Plan
Sense Memory
Pageants
Skene
36. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Hybrid Theatre
University Wits
Comedy
Prose
37. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Royalty
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Aristophanes
Representational Approach
38. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Comedy of Manners
Practical
Presentational Approach
Variables of Costume Design
39. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Realism and Realistic Developments
Aeschylus
Proscenium Space
Emile Zola
40. Events that set off a major conflict
Presentational Approach
Inciting Incident
Postmodernism
Commedia Dell'Arte
41. A type of performance in which dialogue and action are not planned ahead of time and written down - but are made of on the spot by the actors
Sophocles
Improv
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Anton Chekhov
42. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Casting Director
Fourth Wall
Thrust Space
43. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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44. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Character
Subtext
Printing Press
Lazzi
45. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Commercial Theatre
Orchestra
Meyerhold
Concept
46. Events progress forward in time
Henrik Ibsen
Rendering
Emile Zola
Linear Plot
47. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Fourth Wall
Tragicomedy
Skene
Subplot
48. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Front of House
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Theatron
Hybrid Theatre
49. The standard tool for casting a production
Playwright
Auditions
Renaissance
Wings
50. Main character
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Components of Concept
Commedia Dell'Arte
Protagonist