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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. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Printing Press
Commedia Dell'Arte
Language
Reversal
2. Six elements - catharsis
Light Plot
ostume Plot
Aristotle
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
3. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Realism and Realistic Developments
Eugene Scribe
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Rising Action
4. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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5. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Casting Director
Wings
Mystery Plays
Copyright
6. The first director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Exposition
Comedy of Ideas
Mystery Plays
7. Greek - actor
Representational Acting
University Wits
Hypokrites
Subtext
8. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Protagonist
Mimesis
Printing Press
Black Box
9. Based on the lives of the saints
Antiquarianism
Theatre of Cruelty
Language
Miracle Plays
10. A>B>C>D
Discovery
Sense Memory
Avant-Garde
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
11. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Prose
Antiquarianism
Upstage
12. Writer and first actor
Climax
Royalty
Subtext
Thespis
13. Ideas within the play
Playwright
Thought
Regional Theatre
Sense Memory
14. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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15. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Aesthetic Distance
Auditions
Ensemble
Henrik Ibsen
16. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Causal Play Structure
Auditions
Melodrama
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
17. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Regional Theatre
Empathy
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
18. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Off-Off-Broadway
Concept
Front of House
Director
19. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Regional Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Presentational Approach
20. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
The Box Set
Bertolt Brecht
Eugene Scribe
Mimesis
21. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Konstantin Stanislavski
Lazzi
Rising Action
Comedy of Manners
22. Planned actor movement
Sense Memory
Blocking
University Wits
Exposition
23. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Language
Affective Memory
Comedy of Ideas
Off-Off-Broadway
24. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
Conflict
Commedia Dell'Arte
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
25. Part of What is included in the text
Situation Comedy
Fourth Wall
Subtext
Dialogue
26. Main character
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Falling Action
Protagonist
The Box Set
27. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Tragicomedy
Hybrid Theatre
Lazzi
Chorus
28. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mystery Plays
Hypokrites
Rising Action
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
29. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Meyerhold
Discovery
Sophocles
30. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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31. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Lazzi
Ground Plan
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
32. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Naturalism
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Blocking
Concept
33. 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
Aeschylus
Sturm & Drang Movement
Community Theatre
Actor
34. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Plato
Sturm & Drang Movement
Neoclassicism (def)
Theatron
35. Performs Actions of the Play
Konstantin Stanislavski
Character
Melodrama (def)
Antiquarianism
36. 'Father of Realism'
Hybrid Theatre
Representational Approach
Henrik Ibsen
Eugene Scribe
37. Rhyming
Hybrid Theatre
Dialogue
Antiquarianism
Verse
38. A group of actors - not just one star
Subtext
Ensemble
Educational Theatre
Hybrid Theatre
39. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Dramaturg
Plato
Postmodernism
Falling Action
40. Proscenium arch/stage
Printing Press
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
William Shakespeare
Linear Plot
41. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aeschylus
Playwright
Verse
Designer
42. Was poetry for many years
Printing Press
Language
Eugene Scribe
Melodrama
43. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Ground Plan
Front of House
Sophocles
Representational Approach
44. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rendering
Character
Rising Action
Director
45. Imitation of character and action
Pageants
Plato
Actor
Mimesis
46. 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
Components of Concept
Inciting Incident
Designer
Improv
47. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Comedy
The Box Set
Producer
ostume Plot
48. The era we are currently in
Postmodernism
Presentational Approach
William Shakespeare
Emile Zola
49. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Sense Memory
Naturalism
50. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Affective Memory
Rising Action
Printing Press
Non-Profit Theatre