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Theatre Appreciation
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1. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Antiquarianism
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
2. Rhyming
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Konstantin Stanislavski
Verse
Comedy
3. 100-499 people
Off-Broadway
Comedy of Manners
Theatre of Cruelty
Black Box
4. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Rendering
Blocking
Regional Theatre
5. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Improv
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Postmodernism
Thrust Space
6. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Climax
Commercial Theatre
Blocking
Affective Memory
7. Events progress forward in time
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Thespis
Comedy of Character
Linear Plot
8. Appearance of truth
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Character
Aristophanes
Verisimilitude
9. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Producer
Protagonist
Skene
10. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Naturalism
Designer
Regional Theatre
11. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Catharsis
Ground Plan
Climax
Conflict
12. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Tragicomedy
Plot
Melodrama (def)
13. Was poetry for many years
Language
Falling Action
Eugene Scribe
Linear Plot
14. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Meander
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Lazzi
Naturalism
15. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Non-Profit Theatre
Affective Memory
Rising Action
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
16. 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)
Commedia Dell'Arte
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Practical
Skene
17. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Representational Acting
Comedy of Character
Eugene Scribe
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
18. Rhyming
Miracle Plays
Representational Acting
Verse
Mimesis
19. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Antagonist
Slapstick
Upstage
Affective Memory
20. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Plot
Konstantin Stanislavski
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Affective Memory
21. High point of action
Pageants
Linear Plot
Plot
Climax
22. Major character at odds with social expectations
Theatre of Cruelty
Comedy of Manners
Components of Concept
Proscenium Space
23. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Conflict
ostume Plot
Discovery
Rendering
24. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Linear Plot
Thought
Miracle Plays
25. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Callbacks
Pageants
William Shakespeare
26. Top of stage
Rehearsal Process
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Upstage
Concept
27. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Linear Plot
Avant-Garde
Off-Off-Broadway
Melodrama
28. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Exposition
Chorus
Discovery
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
29. Linear events progress forward in time
Theatron
Causal Play Structure
Mimesis
Educational Theatre
30. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Melodrama
Eugene Scribe
Printing Press
31. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Realism and Realistic Developments
Dialogue
Regional Theatre
Thought
32. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Concept
Presentational Approach
Rendering
Thespis
33. Emotional release
Melodrama
Plot
Lazzi
Catharsis
34. Organization of action
Plot
Components of Concept
Producer
Dramatic Genre
35. Works published before 1923
Plato
Ground Plan
Public Domain
Causal Play Structure
36. Proscenium arch/stage
The Globe
Light Plot
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Broadway
37. Humorous - objective view point
Representational Approach
Comedy
Antagonist
Regional Theatre
38. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Fourth Wall
Inciting Incident
Language
39. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Tragicomedy
Situation Comedy
Sophocles
40. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Concept
Casting Director
Comedy of Manners
Comedy of Manners
41. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Dramaturg
Avant-Garde
Theatre of Cruelty
Components of Concept
42. Based on the lives of the saints
Plot
Meander
Black Box
Miracle Plays
43. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Mimesis
Aristophanes
Konstantin Stanislavski
44. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Catharsis
Proscenium Space
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Hybrid Theatre
45. 'Father of Realism'
Henrik Ibsen
Tragicomedy
Miracle Plays
Comedy
46. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Verse
Educational Theatre
Meyerhold
Broadway
47. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Discovery
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Upstage
Naturalism
48. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Auditions
Avant-Garde
Tragedy
Reversal
49. Play reenacting biblical stories
Proscenium Space
Tragicomedy
Mystery Plays
Miracle Plays
50. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Black Box
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Thespis
Pageants
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