Theatre and Performing Arts

What is a dramatic convention?

You have been asked to perform a piece in staccato. How do you perform it?

What is non-linear drama?

What is this an example of:

What type of ballet shoe is this?

"Toi Toi Toi" is an expression used in the performing arts to wish an artist what?

What is the term for when the tension builds to its highest point in the drama?

A plié is a bending movement of the...

What's meant by a scene's content?

The Bolshoi Ballet School is 199 years old

What's the purpose of a cliffhanger?

Which of these techniques might be used to demonstrate 'contrast' effectively?

What does 'tendu' mean?

At the end of a performance the audience claps and everyone stands and claps this is called a

When the audience are placed all around the outside of the performers' playing space. This is called end-on staging.

What style of dance is this?

What are male ballet dancers called? (French terms) 

In 1600, Shakespeare’s favourite clown, William Kempe, danced from London to Norwich.

What does 'degage' mean in dance?

If someone was described as being 'too Animato' what would they be?

The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. What is the name of the first cursed girl?

Which famous slapstic comedian lived 16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977?

“ Wicked” is a prequel to which film?

 Wishing someone "good luck" is in fact bad luck.

What is this called when a dancer turns their foot in from the ankle, therefore breaking the straight line of the leg?

What is a narrative?

Which of the following statements implies: "I did something else with them" The emphasis word is in bold.

 Performance anxiety spikes during the applause after the performance.

Which of these is not a Rondalla instrument?

Ront de jambe is a upwards movement of the leg

A bandurria is a ______-string lute with a flat back.

The distance between performers on stage that shows the relationship between characters, is known as what?

What's the meaning of action onstage?

A raising of the body on pointes or demi-pointes is called a...

It’s considered bad luck to say ______ in a theatre.

What is a subplot?

Kinky Boots had it's first UK broadway tour in the UK 6 Years after it started in 2012

Jean-Gaspard Deburau is widely celebrated as the first what?

What is the second longest-running play in the history of the West End, after The Mousetrap.

Barbadian slave, Tituba, is featured heavily in Act One of which of these plays:

It takes two hours to apply the Phantom of the Opera's make-up before each show and 30 mins to remove.

Which of these is not apart of the stage area in a proscenium stage?

What is an ellipsis?

 Broadway refers to what?

The Phantom of the Opera is the longest running musical in the West End of all time

The West End’s Dominion Theatre is built on the site of the Great Beer Flood which in 1814, killed eight people.

During the Second World War, a total of ____ bombs were dropped on the West End.

Andrea Amati invented the first what?