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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. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Off-Off-Broadway
University Wits
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Neoclassicism (def)
2. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Proscenium Space
ostume Plot
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Concept
3. Proscenium space
ostume Plot
The Box Set
Representational Approach
Protagonist
4. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Broadway
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Sturm & Drang Movement
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
5. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
ostume Plot
Theatron
Variables of Costume Design
Front of House
6. The first director
Theatre of Cruelty
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Representational Acting
Verse
7. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Aristophanes
Light Plot
Hybrid Theatre
Falling Action
8. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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9. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Conflict
Playwright
Regional Theatre
10. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Fourth Wall
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Postmodernism
Light Plot
11. Works published before 1923
Eugene Scribe
Public Domain
Character
Thought
12. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Mystery Plays
Black Box
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Emile Zola
13. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Playwright
Antiquarianism
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Theatron
14. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Sophocles
Aristophanes
Sturm & Drang Movement
Improv
15. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Skene
Morality Plays
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Actor
16. Humorous - objective view point
Falling Action
Comedy
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Verse
17. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Konstantin Stanislavski
Black Box
Exposition
Commedia Dell'Arte
18. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Off-Off-Broadway
Representational Acting
Empathy
Conflict
19. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Tragedy
William Shakespeare
Rendering
Hybrid Theatre
20. Main character
Protagonist
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Lazzi
Off-Broadway
21. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Regional Theatre
Situation Comedy
Emile Zola
Dramaturg
22. Grammatically based
Verse
Prose
Tragedy
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
23. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
ostume Plot
Practical
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Commercial Theatre
24. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Dialogue
Front of House
Practical
Ground Plan
25. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Stage Manager
Protagonist
Producer
Catharsis
26. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Language
Subplot
Fourth Wall
Rehearsal Process
27. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Situation Comedy
Ground Plan
William Shakespeare
Climax
28. Planned actor movement
Realism and Realistic Developments
Blocking
Melodrama (def)
Broadway
29. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Situation Comedy
Avant-Garde
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Climax
30. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Antiquarianism
Falling Action
Affective Memory
Empathy
31. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Miracle Plays
Mimesis
Orchestra
Morality Plays
32. Grammatically based
Designer
Light Plot
Prose
Avant-Garde
33. The standard tool for casting a production
Light Plot
Avant-Garde
Causal Play Structure
Auditions
34. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Realism and Realistic Developments
Representational Acting
Melodrama
Pageants
35. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Hybrid Theatre
Aeschylus
Aesthetic Distance
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
36. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Conflict
Aristotle
Designer
Antiquarianism
37. Medea - The Bacchae
Off-Broadway
Euripides
Lazzi
Mimesis
38. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
University Wits
ostume Plot
Chorus
Callbacks
39. Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Comedy
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Inciting Incident
40. Series of short stories
Thrust Space
Affective Memory
Director
Anton Chekhov
41. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Commercial Theatre
Hypokrites
Plato
Naturalism
42. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Actor
Conflict
Discovery
Exposition
43. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Cycles
Fourth Wall
Miracle Plays
Exposition
44. 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
Euripides
Broadway
Eugene Scribe
45. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Subplot
Comedy of Character
Melodrama (def)
Fourth Wall
46. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Eugene Scribe
Black Box
Antiquarianism
47. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Exposition
Ensemble
Thrust Space
Educational Theatre
48. Used alienation to encourage distance
Improv
Bertolt Brecht
Public Domain
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
49. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Blocking
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Off-Broadway
50. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Vomitories
Community Theatre
Presentational Approach
Konstantin Stanislavski