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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. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Theatre of Cruelty
Aeschylus
Bertolt Brecht
2. Busiest person in the theatre
Stage Manager
Aeschylus
Meander
Upstage
3. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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4. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Rehearsal Process
Verse
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
5. Linear events progress forward in time
Renaissance
Causal Play Structure
Antagonist
Postmodernism
6. 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
Antagonist
Community Theatre
Prose
Henrik Ibsen
7. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Avant-Garde
Plato
Neoclassicism (def)
Front of House
8. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Aeschylus
Vomitories
Pageants
Comedy of Manners
9. Six elements - catharsis
Renaissance
Playwright
Rising Action
Aristotle
10. Humorous - objective view point
Sturm & Drang Movement
Antagonist
Bertolt Brecht
Comedy
11. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Character
Neoclassicism (def)
Fourth Wall
Conflict
12. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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13. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Public Domain
ostume Plot
Plato
Dramatic Genre
14. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Sophocles
Components of Concept
Playwright
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
15. Focused on thought - controversial
Comedy of Ideas
Representational Acting
Aristotle
Henrik Ibsen
16. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Aeschylus
Skene
Antagonist
Director
17. England's type of theatre
Practical
Comedy of Ideas
Dramaturg
The Globe
18. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Sense Memory
Discovery
Non-Profit Theatre
Climax
19. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Tragicomedy
Sophocles
University Wits
Neoclassicism (def)
20. 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
Plato
Community Theatre
Off-Off-Broadway
Orchestra
21. Six elements - catharsis
Casting Director
Dramatic Genre
Designer
Aristotle
22. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Rising Action
Off-Off-Broadway
Ground Plan
Situation Comedy
23. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Ensemble
University Wits
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Ground Plan
24. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Practical
Black Box
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Front of House
25. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Commedia Dell'Arte
Character
Theatron
26. Information needed to understand the play
Rehearsal Process
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Broadway
Exposition
27. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Tragedy
Antagonist
Aristotle
Linear Plot
28. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Comedy
Miracle Plays
Prose
Hybrid Theatre
29. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
The Globe
Dramatic Genre
Thrust Space
Components of Concept
30. Greek - actor
Hypokrites
Off-Broadway
Fourth Wall
Concept
31. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Cycles
Director
ostume Plot
Tragicomedy
32. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mystery Plays
Hypokrites
Dialogue
Concept
33. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Practical
Comedy of Ideas
The Box Set
34. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
Rendering
Discovery
Henrik Ibsen
35. Italians
Playwright
Character
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Hybrid Theatre
36. Imitation of character and action
Verisimilitude
Sense Memory
Designer
Mimesis
37. Rhyming
Character
Verse
Eugene Scribe
Auditions
38. Based on the lives of the saints
Prose
Dramatic Genre
Casting Director
Miracle Plays
39. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Realism and Realistic Developments
Slapstick
Slapstick
Aristotle
40. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Tragicomedy
Dramatic Genre
Aeschylus
ostume Plot
41. Writer and first actor
Thought
Thespis
Public Domain
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
42. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Language
Aristophanes
Commercial Theatre
Black Box
43. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Hybrid Theatre
William Shakespeare
Non-Profit Theatre
Chorus
44. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Playwright
Downstage
Tragedy
Konstantin Stanislavski
45. England's type of theatre
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Commedia Dell'Arte
Presentational Approach
The Globe
46. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Comedy of Manners
Orchestra
Verse
Comedy of Ideas
47. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Stage Manager
Commercial Theatre
Royalty
Director
48. Verse
Concept
Meyerhold
Front of House
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
49. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Chorus
Rising Action
Slapstick
Catharsis
50. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Aristotle
Melodrama
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Subplot