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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. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Neoclassicism (def)
Sophocles
University Wits
Sense Memory
2. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Public Domain
Protagonist
Mimesis
Regional Theatre
3. The era we are currently in
Protagonist
Slapstick
Rising Action
Postmodernism
4. Based on the lives of the saints
Vomitories
Emile Zola
Realism and Realistic Developments
Miracle Plays
5. A>B>C>D
William Shakespeare
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Dialogue
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
6. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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7. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Presentational Approach
Vomitories
8. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
Representational Acting
Vomitories
Melodrama (def)
9. Busiest person in the theatre
The Globe
Neoclassicism (def)
Director
Stage Manager
10. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
The Globe
Blocking
Meyerhold
Lazzi
11. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Regional Theatre
Skene
Aristotle
Plato
12. Major character at odds with social expectations
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Thespis
Sophocles
Comedy of Manners
13. Italians
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Postmodernism
Sophocles
Casting Director
14. 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
Postmodernism
Community Theatre
The Box Set
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
15. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Miracle Plays
Improv
Causal Play Structure
Conflict
16. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Exposition
Anton Chekhov
Eugene Scribe
Pageants
17. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Causal Play Structure
Melodrama (def)
Comedy of Manners
Naturalism
18. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Variables of Costume Design
Plato
Tragicomedy
Chorus
19. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Director
Aesthetic Distance
Henrik Ibsen
Light Plot
20. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
The Globe
Rehearsal Process
Antiquarianism
21. The standard tool for casting a production
Auditions
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Community Theatre
22. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mystery Plays
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Tragicomedy
Melodrama
23. Proscenium arch/stage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Mimesis
Emile Zola
Tragicomedy
24. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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25. Humorous - objective view point
Thought
Comedy
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Comedy of Character
26. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Falling Action
Wings
Representational Acting
Royalty
27. 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)
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Rehearsal Process
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
28. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Printing Press
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Regional Theatre
Euripides
29. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Amateur Theatre
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Callbacks
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
30. Not many props or detailed scenery
Empathy
Melodrama (def)
Discovery
Renaissance
31. 500-1800 people
Broadway
Commedia Dell'Arte
Anton Chekhov
Components of Concept
32. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Antiquarianism
Proscenium Space
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Vomitories
33. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Off-Off-Broadway
Royalty
Regional Theatre
Vomitories
34. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
William Shakespeare
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Melodrama
35. A fee for each performance
Royalty
Community Theatre
Neoclassicism (def)
Exposition
36. Greek - actor
Naturalism
Hypokrites
Off-Off-Broadway
Representational Acting
37. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Educational Theatre
Emile Zola
Antiquarianism
Director
38. Proscenium arch/stage
Comedy
Linear Plot
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Auditions
39. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Melodrama (def)
Sturm & Drang Movement
40. A group of actors - not just one star
Vomitories
Inciting Incident
Hybrid Theatre
Ensemble
41. 'Father of Realism'
Downstage
Henrik Ibsen
Plato
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
42. Six elements - catharsis
Meyerhold
Sturm & Drang Movement
Aristotle
Hypokrites
43. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Ground Plan
Sophocles
Chorus
Reversal
44. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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45. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Henrik Ibsen
Inciting Incident
Verse
Ground Plan
46. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Orchestra
Director
47. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Thrust Space
Broadway
Theatre of Cruelty
Dramatic Genre
48. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Downstage
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Director
49. Series of short stories
Concept
Anton Chekhov
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Front of House
50. Causes trouble for the main character
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Upstage
Antagonist