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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. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Non-Profit Theatre
Rehearsal Process
Aeschylus
Auditions
2. Busiest person in the theatre
Morality Plays
Practical
Stage Manager
Slapstick
3. Top of stage
Upstage
Sophocles
The Box Set
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
4. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Verisimilitude
Broadway
Aesthetic Distance
Discovery
5. Imitation of character and action
Plot
Mimesis
Protagonist
Discovery
6. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Falling Action
Linear Plot
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Proscenium Space
7. Grammatically based
Aeschylus
Verse
Commercial Theatre
Prose
8. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Tragicomedy
Fourth Wall
Black Box
Designer
9. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Prose
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Slapstick
University Wits
10. 100-499 people
Antagonist
Blocking
Off-Broadway
Skene
11. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Prose
Linear Plot
Causal Play Structure
12. Medea - The Bacchae
Euripides
Aeschylus
Pageants
Postmodernism
13. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Empathy
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Dialogue
Causal Play Structure
14. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Morality Plays
Protagonist
Skene
Antagonist
15. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Melodrama (def)
Amateur Theatre
Miracle Plays
Broadway
16. Medea - The Bacchae
Commercial Theatre
Euripides
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Sense Memory
17. Audience watches from 3 sides
Printing Press
Proscenium Space
Thrust Space
Auditions
18. Audience watches from 3 sides
Falling Action
Thrust Space
Subplot
Playwright
19. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Educational Theatre
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Emile Zola
20. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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21. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Light Plot
Meander
Callbacks
22. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Aeschylus
Pageants
Comedy of Character
Dramaturg
23. Visible light source on stage
Thought
Language
Practical
Melodrama
24. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle
Sense Memory
Tragicomedy
Sophocles
25. Information needed to understand the play
Exposition
Neoclassicism (def)
Naturalism
Realism and Realistic Developments
26. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Tragedy
Sophocles
Discovery
Theatre of Cruelty
27. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Royalty
Antiquarianism
Representational Acting
Public Domain
28. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Representational Acting
Blocking
Naturalism
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
29. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
Bertolt Brecht
Renaissance
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
30. Part of What is included in the text
Renaissance
Comedy of Manners
Dialogue
Commercial Theatre
31. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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32. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Protagonist
Blocking
Neoclassicism (def)
Amateur Theatre
33. Top of stage
Emile Zola
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Upstage
Downstage
34. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Miracle Plays
Representational Acting
Practical
Melodrama (def)
35. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Ground Plan
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Prose
University Wits
36. 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
Improv
Rendering
Dialogue
Public Domain
37. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mystery Plays
Antiquarianism
Renaissance
Prose
38. Planned actor movement
Rising Action
Anton Chekhov
Playwright
Blocking
39. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
Concept
Melodrama (def)
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
40. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Climax
Henrik Ibsen
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
41. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Regional Theatre
Aeschylus
Auditions
Konstantin Stanislavski
42. Performs Actions of the Play
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Realism and Realistic Developments
Callbacks
Character
43. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Aristophanes
Stage Manager
Representational Approach
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
44. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
ostume Plot
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Producer
45. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Prose
Mystery Plays
Aesthetic Distance
Commercial Theatre
46. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Plato
Chorus
Non-Profit Theatre
Eugene Scribe
47. Appearance of truth
Lazzi
Non-Profit Theatre
Aristotle
Verisimilitude
48. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Subtext
Prose
Melodrama (def)
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
49. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Verse
Black Box
Auditions
Konstantin Stanislavski
50. Used alienation to encourage distance
Royalty
Components of Concept
Bertolt Brecht
Miracle Plays