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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
Character
Educational Theatre
Avant-Garde
Director
2. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Subtext
Dramaturg
Language
Components of Concept
3. Feel more in stage acting.
Antagonist
Euripides
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Dramaturg
4. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Commercial Theatre
Dramaturg
Antiquarianism
Rehearsal Process
5. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Producer
Designer
Antagonist
Plato
6. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Printing Press
Dramaturg
Situation Comedy
Subtext
7. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Falling Action
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Situation Comedy
William Shakespeare
8. Causes trouble for the main character
Morality Plays
Antagonist
William Shakespeare
Postmodernism
9. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
ostume Plot
Hybrid Theatre
Avant-Garde
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
10. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Aristotle
Plato
Antiquarianism
Inciting Incident
11. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Orchestra
Aristotle
Tragedy
Postmodernism
12. Major character at odds with social expectations
Designer
Aristophanes
Comedy of Manners
Melodrama
13. 100-499 people
Rising Action
Inciting Incident
Off-Broadway
Exposition
14. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Verse
Printing Press
Aristophanes
Community Theatre
15. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Affective Memory
Commedia Dell'Arte
Prose
Off-Broadway
16. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Thought
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Sophocles
Konstantin Stanislavski
17. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Catharsis
Aeschylus
Ground Plan
Amateur Theatre
18. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Rendering
Eugene Scribe
Callbacks
Variables of Costume Design
19. Used alienation to encourage distance
Conflict
Light Plot
Bertolt Brecht
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
20. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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21. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Fourth Wall
Playwright
Morality Plays
22. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Improv
Verisimilitude
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Lazzi
23. Rhyming
University Wits
Concept
Emile Zola
Verse
24. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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25. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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26. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mystery Plays
Comedy of Ideas
Components of Concept
Commedia Dell'Arte
27. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Bertolt Brecht
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Rising Action
28. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Mimesis
Verse
Casting Director
Broadway
29. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Playwright
Chorus
Fourth Wall
30. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Konstantin Stanislavski
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Hybrid Theatre
Antagonist
31. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Plato
Morality Plays
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
32. Top of stage
Avant-Garde
Upstage
ostume Plot
Causal Play Structure
33. Person who embodies a character on stage
Rising Action
Actor
Protagonist
Affective Memory
34. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Meander
Callbacks
Aristotle
Copyright
35. 500-1800 people
Broadway
Antagonist
Rendering
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
36. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Printing Press
Renaissance
Representational Acting
Slapstick
37. 'Storm and stress'
Sturm & Drang Movement
Verse
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Anton Chekhov
38. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
ostume Plot
Reversal
Sense Memory
Mystery Plays
39. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Director
Ground Plan
Regional Theatre
Rising Action
40. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Sturm & Drang Movement
Anton Chekhov
Rehearsal Process
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
41. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Comedy of Character
Sense Memory
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Aeschylus
42. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Exposition
Rising Action
Emile Zola
Anton Chekhov
43. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Royalty
Tragedy
Conflict
Miracle Plays
44. Gas lights - etc.
Variables of Costume Design
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Educational Theatre
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
45. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Orchestra
Printing Press
Front of House
Comedy of Ideas
46. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
Miracle Plays
Aristophanes
Presentational Approach
47. Not many props or detailed scenery
Printing Press
Broadway
Renaissance
Casting Director
48. Main character
Protagonist
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Inciting Incident
Blocking
49. Imitation of character and action
Hybrid Theatre
Rendering
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Mimesis
50. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Skene
William Shakespeare
Eugene Scribe
Fourth Wall