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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. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Lazzi
Climax
Avant-Garde
2. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Dialogue
Front of House
Actor
Bertolt Brecht
3. High point of action
Pageants
Blocking
Climax
Community Theatre
4. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy of Manners
Inciting Incident
Conflict
Slapstick
5. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Pageants
Designer
Aesthetic Distance
Theatre of Cruelty
6. 100-499 people
Theatre of Cruelty
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Chorus
Off-Broadway
7. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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8. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Regional Theatre
Lazzi
Anton Chekhov
Proscenium Space
9. 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)
Presentational Approach
Non-Profit Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Thespis
10. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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11. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Plato
Prose
Anton Chekhov
Slapstick
12. Visible light source on stage
Representational Acting
Falling Action
Concept
Practical
13. Audience watches from 3 sides
Pageants
Thrust Space
Aesthetic Distance
Falling Action
14. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Aeschylus
Discovery
Presentational Approach
15. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Comedy of Ideas
Character
Black Box
Cycles
16. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
The Box Set
Broadway
Educational Theatre
17. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Mystery Plays
Front of House
Tragedy
Callbacks
18. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Inciting Incident
Dramaturg
Producer
Practical
19. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Discovery
Catharsis
Empathy
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
20. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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21. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Verisimilitude
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Konstantin Stanislavski
Catharsis
22. Was poetry for many years
Language
University Wits
Public Domain
Eugene Scribe
23. Gas lights - etc.
Dramatic Genre
Hybrid Theatre
Sophocles
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
24. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Amateur Theatre
Language
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Realism and Realistic Developments
25. Focused on thought - controversial
Henrik Ibsen
Black Box
Comedy of Ideas
Catharsis
26. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Fourth Wall
Off-Off-Broadway
Skene
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
27. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Mimesis
Dramatic Genre
William Shakespeare
Subplot
28. Italians
Front of House
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Climax
University Wits
29. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Affective Memory
Miracle Plays
Thought
Fourth Wall
30. The era we are currently in
Verisimilitude
Postmodernism
Cycles
Dramaturg
31. Emotional release
Realism and Realistic Developments
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Broadway
Catharsis
32. Humorous - objective view point
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Comedy
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Commercial Theatre
33. Amateur theatre in which shows are created by residents of a particular area who come together without being part of a professional or academic institution
Community Theatre
Antiquarianism
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Concept
34. 'Father of Realism'
Henrik Ibsen
Discovery
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Community Theatre
35. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Verse
Aeschylus
Catharsis
William Shakespeare
36. Proscenium arch/stage
Rehearsal Process
Conflict
Off-Broadway
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
37. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Pageants
Non-Profit Theatre
Plot
Renaissance
38. Six elements - catharsis
Downstage
Language
Emile Zola
Aristotle
39. Controls the environment in the theatre
Ensemble
Melodrama
Naturalism
Designer
40. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Neoclassicism (def)
Representational Approach
Black Box
Subplot
41. Medea - The Bacchae
Euripides
Black Box
Off-Off-Broadway
Aristophanes
42. Performs Actions of the Play
Antiquarianism
Bertolt Brecht
Character
Dialogue
43. Information needed to understand the play
The Globe
Chorus
Exposition
Causal Play Structure
44. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Downstage
Commercial Theatre
Character
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
45. Rhyming
Copyright
Designer
Verse
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
46. Grammatically based
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Prose
Auditions
Verse
47. 500-1800 people
Exposition
Broadway
Euripides
Wings
48. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Plot
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Black Box
Falling Action
49. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Verse
Actor
Casting Director
50. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Causal Play Structure
Dramaturg
Aristophanes
Euripides