Test your basic knowledge |

Theatre Appreciation 2

Subject : performing-arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Humanity's struggle with good and evil






2. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent






3. Fee for each performance






4. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.






5. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'






6. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited






7. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.






8. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words






9. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel






10. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights






11. Attempts to represent reality on stage






12. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


13. Style of production that acknowledges theatricality and does not attempt to created the impression of 'real life' on the stage. Presentational scenery - costumes - and lighting may suggest - distort - or even abstract reality. Presentational acting m






14. A dramatic genre featuring a conflict between good and bad characters - fast paced action - a spectacular climax - and poetic justice






15. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild






16. Seats less than 100; amateur.






17. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited






18. Scenery






19. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production






20. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs






21. Secondary line of action






22. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery






23. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).






24. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.






25. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


26. Plays written before 1923 are no longer protected






27. Actor in 5th century Greece






28. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government






29. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs






30. A group of performers working together vocally and physically. A chorus of approximately 12-15 singer-dancers who interacted with and responded to the actors was an important element of ancient Greek theatre.






31. Set at an angle. Early proscenium theatres featured a raked stage: the stage was elevated much higher at the back of the stage (upstage) than closer to the stage (downstage). Modern designers sometimes build a raked stage for a particular production






32. Seats 500-1800; professional.






33. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights






34. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


35. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)






36. Action - place - time






37. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel






38. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright






39. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers






40. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space






41. Body - voice - mind

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


42. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production






43. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


44. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.






45. The area farthest away from the audience






46. A movement of the late 19th century championing the depiction of everyday life on the stage and the frank treatment of social problems in the theatre. The plays of Henrick Ibsen of the 1870s were important in establishing a dramatic style for realism






47. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


48. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'






49. Changeable scenery for specific plays (tragedies - comedies - pastoral tragicomedies). Appeared as early as 1508 and standardized approaches to such scenery were popularized by Sebastian Serlio. Ex: Wings - flats






50. When line of action suddenly switches