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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. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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2. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Blocking
Hybrid Theatre
Concept
Dialogue
3. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Director
Educational Theatre
Tragedy
4. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Verse
Actor
Antiquarianism
Concept
5. Verse
Public Domain
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Pageants
Rendering
6. Ideas within the play
William Shakespeare
Morality Plays
Falling Action
Thought
7. Writer and first actor
Thespis
Avant-Garde
Upstage
The Globe
8. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Linear Plot
Proscenium Space
Light Plot
Copyright
9. 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
Mystery Plays
Rising Action
Euripides
Improv
10. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Hypokrites
Black Box
Empathy
Aristophanes
11. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Vomitories
Character
Rising Action
Thrust Space
12. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Theatron
Melodrama
Plot
Skene
13. Major character at odds with social expectations
Language
Comedy of Character
Copyright
Comedy of Manners
14. Feel more in stage acting.
Community Theatre
Director
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Bertolt Brecht
15. Busiest person in the theatre
Regional Theatre
Mystery Plays
Tragedy
Stage Manager
16. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Meander
Hybrid Theatre
Hypokrites
17. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Hypokrites
Presentational Approach
Reversal
Educational Theatre
18. England's type of theatre
Sophocles
Director
The Globe
Educational Theatre
19. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Pageants
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Proscenium Space
Components of Concept
20. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Designer
Avant-Garde
Climax
Light Plot
21. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
Ensemble
Causal Play Structure
Mystery Plays
22. A group of actors - not just one star
Regional Theatre
Subplot
Comedy
Ensemble
23. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Commedia Dell'Arte
Stage Manager
Plato
Orchestra
24. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
Verisimilitude
Thought
Antiquarianism
25. Works published before 1923
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Public Domain
Hypokrites
Meyerhold
26. Organization of action
Renaissance
Lazzi
Plot
Cycles
27. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Neoclassicism (def)
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Improv
28. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Meyerhold
Proscenium Space
Subtext
Wings
29. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Subplot
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Black Box
Downstage
30. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Theatre of Cruelty
Realism and Realistic Developments
Morality Plays
Eugene Scribe
31. Focused on thought - controversial
Rendering
Improv
Pageants
Comedy of Ideas
32. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Subplot
Sense Memory
Linear Plot
The Globe
33. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Anton Chekhov
Naturalism
University Wits
Comedy of Manners
34. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Orchestra
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Non-Profit Theatre
Auditions
35. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Inciting Incident
Verse
Vomitories
Callbacks
36. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Melodrama (def)
Euripides
Hybrid Theatre
Fourth Wall
37. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Comedy
Morality Plays
William Shakespeare
Inciting Incident
38. A fee for each performance
Aesthetic Distance
Royalty
Skene
Subtext
39. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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40. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Conflict
Vomitories
Subtext
41. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Chorus
Practical
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
42. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Comedy of Manners
Fourth Wall
Educational Theatre
Reversal
43. Emotional release
Catharsis
Upstage
Concept
Improv
44. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Henrik Ibsen
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Miracle Plays
45. Causes trouble for the main character
Hypokrites
Lazzi
Antagonist
Non-Profit Theatre
46. The era we are currently in
Postmodernism
Improv
Presentational Approach
Sophocles
47. Emotional release
Catharsis
Inciting Incident
Meyerhold
Practical
48. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Community Theatre
Variables of Costume Design
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Aristophanes
49. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Catharsis
Emile Zola
Meander
Henrik Ibsen
50. Part of What is included in the text
Dialogue
Community Theatre
ostume Plot
Light Plot