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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. Organization of action
Educational Theatre
Plot
Tragicomedy
Sturm & Drang Movement
2. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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3. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy of Manners
Plato
Exposition
Proscenium Space
4. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Off-Broadway
Public Domain
Representational Acting
Eugene Scribe
5. Medea - The Bacchae
Mystery Plays
Euripides
Subplot
Melodrama
6. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Sturm & Drang Movement
Chorus
Aristophanes
7. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Theatre of Cruelty
Off-Off-Broadway
Rendering
Meander
8. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Presentational Approach
Slapstick
Anton Chekhov
Blocking
9. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Designer
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Casting Director
ostume Plot
10. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Rehearsal Process
Front of House
Meyerhold
Causal Play Structure
11. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Dialogue
Black Box
Thought
Ground Plan
12. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Renaissance
Blocking
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Naturalism
13. Emotional release
Commedia Dell'Arte
Catharsis
Antiquarianism
Ground Plan
14. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Regional Theatre
Lazzi
Climax
Representational Acting
15. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Chorus
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Tragedy
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
16. Based on the lives of the saints
Miracle Plays
Orchestra
Avant-Garde
Affective Memory
17. Writer and first actor
Thespis
Aeschylus
Tragicomedy
Ground Plan
18. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
Character
Cycles
Regional Theatre
19. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy of Manners
Commedia Dell'Arte
Lazzi
Henrik Ibsen
20. England's type of theatre
Bertolt Brecht
Copyright
Avant-Garde
The Globe
21. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
Commedia Dell'Arte
Commercial Theatre
Copyright
22. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Meyerhold
Empathy
23. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Concept
Wings
Causal Play Structure
Melodrama
24. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Neoclassicism (def)
Aeschylus
Theatre of Cruelty
25. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Broadway
Subtext
Postmodernism
Off-Off-Broadway
26. Main character
Ground Plan
Dramaturg
Affective Memory
Protagonist
27. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Mystery Plays
Skene
Renaissance
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
28. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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29. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Non-Profit Theatre
Improv
Tragicomedy
Copyright
30. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Postmodernism
Konstantin Stanislavski
Sense Memory
Wings
31. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Blocking
Front of House
Chorus
32. Causes trouble for the main character
Casting Director
Printing Press
Sense Memory
Antagonist
33. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Auditions
Renaissance
Dialogue
Casting Director
34. Performs Actions of the Play
Eugene Scribe
Character
Plot
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
35. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Protagonist
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
36. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Concept
Miracle Plays
Antiquarianism
37. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Presentational Approach
Rising Action
Naturalism
Blocking
38. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Protagonist
Ensemble
Comedy of Manners
Lazzi
39. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Neoclassicism (def)
Amateur Theatre
Linear Plot
40. A fee for each performance
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Royalty
Verisimilitude
Language
41. Appearance of truth
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Verisimilitude
Verse
Presentational Approach
42. 500-1800 people
The Globe
Causal Play Structure
Broadway
Tragedy
43. 'Storm and stress'
Sturm & Drang Movement
Discovery
Downstage
Bertolt Brecht
44. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Avant-Garde
Verisimilitude
Amateur Theatre
Renaissance
45. Top of stage
Royalty
Rising Action
Wings
Upstage
46. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
Tragedy
Antiquarianism
Henrik Ibsen
47. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Realism and Realistic Developments
Thespis
Casting Director
Situation Comedy
48. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Rehearsal Process
Hypokrites
Exposition
Sophocles
49. Person who embodies a character on stage
Actor
Casting Director
Realism and Realistic Developments
Thespis
50. A group of actors - not just one star
Comedy of Character
Meyerhold
Ensemble
Language