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Theatre Appreciation
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Community Theatre
Dramaturg
Non-Profit Theatre
Downstage
2. 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
Causal Play Structure
Comedy
Community Theatre
Ensemble
3. Feel more in stage acting.
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Downstage
Realism and Realistic Developments
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
4. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Regional Theatre
Amateur Theatre
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Theatron
5. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Educational Theatre
Rendering
Theatre of Cruelty
Off-Off-Broadway
6. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Reversal
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Sophocles
Antagonist
7. Planned actor movement
Broadway
Blocking
Commercial Theatre
Neoclassicism (def)
8. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Sturm & Drang Movement
Morality Plays
Stage Manager
Educational Theatre
9. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Orchestra
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Amateur Theatre
Falling Action
10. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Cycles
Aristotle
Rehearsal Process
Rising Action
11. 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
Inciting Incident
Antiquarianism
Casting Director
Improv
12. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Comedy
Tragicomedy
Slapstick
Callbacks
13. High point of action
Practical
Off-Off-Broadway
Climax
Representational Acting
14. Grammatically based
Plato
Components of Concept
Prose
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
15. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Dramatic Genre
Lazzi
Printing Press
16. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Chorus
Comedy
Producer
17. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Melodrama
Hybrid Theatre
Emile Zola
Eugene Scribe
18. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Dramatic Genre
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Anton Chekhov
Discovery
19. 'Storm and stress'
Front of House
Neoclassicism (def)
Sturm & Drang Movement
Thespis
20. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
Comedy of Ideas
Royalty
Mystery Plays
21. 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)
Director
Improv
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Miracle Plays
22. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Slapstick
Skene
Konstantin Stanislavski
Postmodernism
23. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Rising Action
Aristophanes
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Theatron
24. Audience watches from 3 sides
Wings
Thrust Space
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Discovery
25. 100-499 people
Off-Broadway
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Auditions
Plot
26. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Copyright
Vomitories
Comedy of Character
Ensemble
27. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Public Domain
Realism and Realistic Developments
Commercial Theatre
Euripides
28. Events that set off a major conflict
Inciting Incident
Auditions
Lazzi
Amateur Theatre
29. Proscenium arch/stage
Representational Acting
Euripides
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Black Box
30. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Tragicomedy
Variables of Costume Design
Orchestra
31. Visible light source on stage
Pageants
Dramatic Genre
Catharsis
Practical
32. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Variables of Costume Design
Broadway
Non-Profit Theatre
Mystery Plays
33. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Reversal
Emile Zola
Royalty
Mystery Plays
34. Works published before 1923
Theatron
Commercial Theatre
Public Domain
Tragicomedy
35. Events progress forward in time
Anton Chekhov
Conflict
Linear Plot
The Globe
36. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Front of House
Emile Zola
Slapstick
Fourth Wall
37. Writer and first actor
Components of Concept
Situation Comedy
Orchestra
Thespis
38. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Inciting Incident
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Affective Memory
The Box Set
39. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Antiquarianism
Representational Acting
Protagonist
Conflict
40. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Rendering
Emile Zola
Henrik Ibsen
Subplot
41. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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42. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Naturalism
Conflict
Dramatic Genre
43. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Emile Zola
Aeschylus
Callbacks
Meander
44. Gas lights - etc.
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
University Wits
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Subtext
45. 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
Eugene Scribe
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Improv
Character
46. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Components of Concept
Avant-Garde
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Callbacks
47. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Morality Plays
Casting Director
Printing Press
Mimesis
48. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Casting Director
William Shakespeare
Stage Manager
Wings
49. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Aesthetic Distance
Non-Profit Theatre
Neoclassicism (def)
Antiquarianism
50. Emotional release
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Empathy
Wings
Catharsis