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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. 'Father of Realism'
Henrik Ibsen
Ensemble
Cycles
Sense Memory
2. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Sophocles
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Callbacks
Cycles
3. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Comedy of Manners
Hybrid Theatre
University Wits
Dramaturg
4. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Dialogue
Fourth Wall
Pageants
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
5. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Ground Plan
Realism and Realistic Developments
Dramatic Genre
Theatre of Cruelty
6. A fee for each performance
Bertolt Brecht
Royalty
Antagonist
Prose
7. Rhyming
Realism and Realistic Developments
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Verse
Representational Acting
8. 500-1800 people
Broadway
Commedia Dell'Arte
Bertolt Brecht
Theatre of Cruelty
9. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Realism and Realistic Developments
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Aristotle
Aristophanes
10. A>B>C>D
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Anton Chekhov
Representational Acting
Plot
11. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Educational Theatre
Off-Off-Broadway
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
12. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Aeschylus
Variables of Costume Design
Miracle Plays
Producer
13. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Melodrama (def)
Bertolt Brecht
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Antiquarianism
14. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Subtext
Comedy of Ideas
Black Box
15. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Eugene Scribe
Light Plot
Meander
Verse
16. Part of What is included in the text
Emile Zola
Dialogue
Stage Manager
Inciting Incident
17. Feel more in stage acting.
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Dialogue
Discovery
Verisimilitude
18. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Printing Press
Off-Off-Broadway
Representational Approach
Morality Plays
19. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Konstantin Stanislavski
Postmodernism
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Improv
20. Linear events progress forward in time
Light Plot
Emile Zola
Plato
Causal Play Structure
21. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Theatron
Meyerhold
Hypokrites
Concept
22. England's type of theatre
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
ostume Plot
The Globe
Plato
23. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Practical
Wings
Situation Comedy
24. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Realism and Realistic Developments
Components of Concept
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
The Globe
25. Play reenacting biblical stories
Catharsis
Mystery Plays
Prose
Casting Director
26. Organization of action
Plot
Plato
Rising Action
Plato
27. Controls the environment in the theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Lazzi
Designer
Variables of Costume Design
28. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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29. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Copyright
Downstage
Sense Memory
Front of House
30. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Representational Acting
Amateur Theatre
31. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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32. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Fourth Wall
Representational Approach
Dialogue
Aristophanes
33. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Producer
Mimesis
Comedy
34. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Euripides
Rising Action
Melodrama
Comedy of Manners
35. Ideas within the play
Royalty
Thought
Exposition
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
36. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
The Globe
Representational Acting
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Rehearsal Process
37. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Neoclassicism (def)
Practical
Callbacks
38. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
The Box Set
Comedy of Ideas
Wings
Vomitories
39. Performs Actions of the Play
Konstantin Stanislavski
Producer
The Globe
Character
40. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Tragicomedy
Aesthetic Distance
Postmodernism
Orchestra
41. Major character at odds with social expectations
Fourth Wall
Variables of Costume Design
Comedy of Manners
Empathy
42. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Black Box
Callbacks
Printing Press
Reversal
43. Verse
Character
Renaissance
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
44. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Bertolt Brecht
Morality Plays
Plato
45. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Hybrid Theatre
Avant-Garde
The Box Set
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
46. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Thought
Melodrama
Morality Plays
Designer
47. Events that set off a major conflict
Antagonist
Improv
Inciting Incident
Dramaturg
48. Play reenacting biblical stories
Components of Concept
Mystery Plays
Affective Memory
Copyright
49. Someone who writes plays
Causal Play Structure
Playwright
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Melodrama (def)
50. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
The Globe
Designer
ostume Plot
Fourth Wall