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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Casting Director
Comedy of Character
Auditions
Printing Press
2. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Discovery
Commercial Theatre
Hypokrites
Sophocles
3. Audience watches from 3 sides
William Shakespeare
Konstantin Stanislavski
Thrust Space
Melodrama
4. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Eugene Scribe
Comedy
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Protagonist
5. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Practical
Subplot
Regional Theatre
6. Imitation of character and action
Morality Plays
Orchestra
Thought
Mimesis
7. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Auditions
Practical
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Cycles
8. Performs Actions of the Play
Orchestra
Rehearsal Process
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Character
9. Used alienation to encourage distance
Anton Chekhov
Aristophanes
Thrust Space
Bertolt Brecht
10. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Printing Press
Plato
Conflict
Subtext
11. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Blocking
Reversal
Aristotle
Royalty
12. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
13. Planned actor movement
Renaissance
Affective Memory
Inciting Incident
Blocking
14. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Eugene Scribe
Orchestra
Non-Profit Theatre
Hybrid Theatre
15. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Character
Comedy of Character
Miracle Plays
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
16. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Lazzi
Tragicomedy
Blocking
Dramaturg
17. Italians
Tragedy
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Situation Comedy
Neoclassicism (def)
18. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
ostume Plot
Causal Play Structure
Aeschylus
Eugene Scribe
19. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Casting Director
Orchestra
Conflict
20. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Ground Plan
Off-Off-Broadway
Regional Theatre
Representational Acting
21. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Orchestra
Tragedy
Regional Theatre
Printing Press
22. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
University Wits
William Shakespeare
Printing Press
Director
23. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Proscenium Space
Representational Approach
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Aristotle
24. A group of actors - not just one star
Broadway
Ensemble
Off-Off-Broadway
Downstage
25. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Subtext
Sophocles
Thought
26. Humorous - objective view point
Exposition
Amateur Theatre
Comedy
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
27. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Off-Off-Broadway
Variables of Costume Design
Eugene Scribe
Commedia Dell'Arte
28. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Rising Action
Comedy of Character
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Catharsis
29. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Postmodernism
Copyright
Pageants
Empathy
30. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Causal Play Structure
Character
Tragedy
31. Audience watches from 3 sides
Regional Theatre
Melodrama
Slapstick
Thrust Space
32. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Concept
Improv
Morality Plays
Avant-Garde
33. Feel more in stage acting.
Emile Zola
Discovery
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Cycles
34. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Concept
Ensemble
Regional Theatre
Casting Director
35. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Representational Approach
Climax
Thrust Space
36. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Comedy
Protagonist
Subplot
37. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Subtext
Sophocles
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Mimesis
38. Events that set off a major conflict
Konstantin Stanislavski
Thrust Space
Situation Comedy
Inciting Incident
39. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Discovery
Front of House
Dramaturg
Comedy of Ideas
40. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Rising Action
Climax
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
41. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Dialogue
Variables of Costume Design
The Box Set
42. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Neoclassicism (def)
Front of House
Naturalism
Downstage
43. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Proscenium Space
Educational Theatre
Ensemble
Director
44. Works published before 1923
Public Domain
Konstantin Stanislavski
Components of Concept
Sturm & Drang Movement
45. Events progress forward in time
Mystery Plays
Linear Plot
Inciting Incident
Skene
46. Based on the lives of the saints
Dialogue
Theatron
Miracle Plays
Variables of Costume Design
47. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Educational Theatre
Sophocles
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Actor
48. 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
Mystery Plays
Improv
Rising Action
Cycles
49. Events that set off a major conflict
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
The Box Set
Playwright
Inciting Incident
50. Was poetry for many years
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Slapstick
Euripides
Language