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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. 100-499 people
Morality Plays
Off-Broadway
Director
Realism and Realistic Developments
2. Part of What is included in the text
Dialogue
Royalty
Thought
Aristophanes
3. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Conflict
Aesthetic Distance
Affective Memory
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
4. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
William Shakespeare
Off-Off-Broadway
Aristotle
Dialogue
5. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Dramatic Genre
Mystery Plays
Callbacks
Rendering
6. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Causal Play Structure
Thrust Space
Subtext
Copyright
7. A type of performance in which dialogue and action are not planned ahead of time and written down - but are made of on the spot by the actors
Blocking
Rehearsal Process
Sturm & Drang Movement
Improv
8. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Chorus
Sophocles
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Emile Zola
9. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Empathy
Rehearsal Process
Vomitories
Slapstick
10. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Meander
Vomitories
Thought
Blocking
11. Main character
Thespis
Protagonist
Thespis
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
12. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Comedy of Character
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Playwright
Aesthetic Distance
13. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Hypokrites
Comedy of Character
Melodrama (def)
Representational Acting
14. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Concept
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Inciting Incident
Light Plot
15. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Euripides
Tragedy
Melodrama (def)
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
16. A group of actors - not just one star
Ensemble
Dramatic Genre
Plato
Front of House
17. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Discovery
Emile Zola
William Shakespeare
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
18. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Tragedy
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Meyerhold
Neoclassicism (def)
19. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Renaissance
Emile Zola
Public Domain
20. Gas lights - etc.
Callbacks
Amateur Theatre
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
The Box Set
21. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Antagonist
Director
William Shakespeare
Light Plot
22. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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23. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Auditions
Off-Off-Broadway
Empathy
Henrik Ibsen
24. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Wings
Postmodernism
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
25. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Reversal
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Dialogue
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
26. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Meander
Commercial Theatre
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Commedia Dell'Arte
27. Six elements - catharsis
Catharsis
Plot
Aristotle
Front of House
28. Proscenium space
Producer
Henrik Ibsen
Conflict
The Box Set
29. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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30. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Dramatic Genre
Melodrama (def)
Verse
Commedia Dell'Arte
31. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Exposition
Tragedy
Empathy
32. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Vomitories
Linear Plot
Presentational Approach
Rehearsal Process
33. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Verisimilitude
Catharsis
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Discovery
34. A>B>C>D
Commercial Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Downstage
35. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Miracle Plays
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Practical
36. A>B>C>D
Meyerhold
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Thespis
Hybrid Theatre
37. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Neoclassicism (def)
ostume Plot
Renaissance
38. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
The Box Set
Director
Discovery
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
39. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Skene
Thought
Front of House
Comedy of Manners
40. Proscenium arch/stage
Proscenium Space
Comedy of Character
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Lazzi
41. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Subplot
Off-Off-Broadway
Printing Press
42. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Melodrama
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Wings
43. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle
Auditions
The Box Set
Regional Theatre
44. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Mimesis
Thrust Space
Comedy of Manners
45. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Avant-Garde
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Melodrama (def)
Renaissance
46. Rhyming
Verse
Components of Concept
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Light Plot
47. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Aristotle
Sophocles
48. Italians
Front of House
Blocking
Light Plot
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
49. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Affective Memory
Comedy of Character
Playwright
Downstage
50. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Producer
Sophocles
Thrust Space