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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. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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2. The first director
Plot
Upstage
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Character
3. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Blocking
Variables of Costume Design
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Stage Manager
4. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Emile Zola
Causal Play Structure
Wings
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
5. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Subtext
Copyright
Dramatic Genre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
6. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Printing Press
Emile Zola
Theatron
7. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Producer
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Off-Off-Broadway
Aeschylus
8. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Inciting Incident
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Chorus
9. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Melodrama (def)
Wings
Representational Approach
Regional Theatre
10. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
ostume Plot
Off-Broadway
Hypokrites
Rendering
11. Information needed to understand the play
Linear Plot
Broadway
Exposition
Rising Action
12. Series of short stories
Verisimilitude
Light Plot
Anton Chekhov
Morality Plays
13. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Playwright
Empathy
Commercial Theatre
Thought
14. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Upstage
Upstage
Rehearsal Process
Comedy of Character
15. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Climax
William Shakespeare
Variables of Costume Design
Off-Off-Broadway
16. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Proscenium Space
Aeschylus
Subplot
Broadway
17. Person who embodies a character on stage
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Aeschylus
Actor
Concept
18. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Situation Comedy
Plot
Naturalism
Tragedy
19. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Representational Approach
Mimesis
Theatre of Cruelty
Sophocles
20. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
Regional Theatre
Aesthetic Distance
Subplot
21. Focused on thought - controversial
Postmodernism
William Shakespeare
Comedy of Ideas
Lazzi
22. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Thespis
Aeschylus
Thrust Space
Discovery
23. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
ostume Plot
Public Domain
Affective Memory
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
24. The standard tool for casting a production
Front of House
Ground Plan
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Auditions
25. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Eugene Scribe
Causal Play Structure
Front of House
Pageants
26. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Upstage
Fourth Wall
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Public Domain
27. 500-1800 people
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Designer
Broadway
Pageants
28. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Skene
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Konstantin Stanislavski
Empathy
29. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Chorus
Anton Chekhov
Dramatic Genre
Subplot
30. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Bertolt Brecht
Fourth Wall
Tragicomedy
31. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Eugene Scribe
Konstantin Stanislavski
Aeschylus
Ensemble
32. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Representational Approach
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Henrik Ibsen
33. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Dramatic Genre
Improv
Konstantin Stanislavski
34. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Concept
Presentational Approach
35. 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
Components of Concept
Thrust Space
Community Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
36. Gas lights - etc.
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Miracle Plays
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
37. Play reenacting biblical stories
Comedy of Manners
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Mystery Plays
Realism and Realistic Developments
38. 100-499 people
Tragicomedy
Off-Broadway
Language
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
39. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Tragicomedy
Slapstick
Protagonist
Stage Manager
40. 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)
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Black Box
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Henrik Ibsen
41. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Verisimilitude
Aesthetic Distance
Exposition
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
42. Performs Actions of the Play
Casting Director
Tragicomedy
Anton Chekhov
Character
43. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Postmodernism
University Wits
Morality Plays
44. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Causal Play Structure
Pageants
Cycles
Conflict
45. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Variables of Costume Design
Meander
Falling Action
Verse
46. Linear events progress forward in time
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Non-Profit Theatre
Causal Play Structure
47. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Morality Plays
Thrust Space
Emile Zola
Ground Plan
48. Used alienation to encourage distance
Eugene Scribe
Realism and Realistic Developments
Dramatic Genre
Bertolt Brecht
49. Busiest person in the theatre
Prose
Realism and Realistic Developments
Chorus
Stage Manager
50. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
Broadway
Community Theatre
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?