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Theatre Appreciation
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1. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Dramaturg
Commedia Dell'Arte
Meander
2. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Mystery Plays
Hypokrites
Skene
Antiquarianism
3. High point of action
Comedy
Climax
Broadway
Hypokrites
4. Focused on thought - controversial
Empathy
Producer
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Comedy of Ideas
5. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
Mimesis
Lazzi
Meyerhold
6. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Affective Memory
Chorus
Off-Broadway
7. 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)
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
The Box Set
Sophocles
8. Ideas within the play
Thought
Stage Manager
Comedy of Character
Subtext
9. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Melodrama
Callbacks
The Box Set
Pageants
10. Information needed to understand the play
Avant-Garde
Exposition
William Shakespeare
Mimesis
11. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
Community Theatre
Downstage
University Wits
12. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Character
Aeschylus
Melodrama (def)
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
13. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Amateur Theatre
Comedy of Ideas
Casting Director
Representational Approach
14. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
The Globe
Situation Comedy
Lazzi
15. Organization of action
Plot
Slapstick
Presentational Approach
Aeschylus
16. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Black Box
Pageants
Subtext
Proscenium Space
17. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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18. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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19. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Ground Plan
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
University Wits
20. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Renaissance
Orchestra
Henrik Ibsen
Avant-Garde
21. Emotional release
Reversal
Practical
Sophocles
Catharsis
22. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Variables of Costume Design
Antiquarianism
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Aristotle
23. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Theatre of Cruelty
Improv
Light Plot
Commercial Theatre
24. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Concept
Cycles
Konstantin Stanislavski
Components of Concept
25. Was poetry for many years
Slapstick
Meander
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Language
26. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Anton Chekhov
Amateur Theatre
Lazzi
Blocking
27. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Concept
Emile Zola
Empathy
Dramatic Genre
28. Performs Actions of the Play
Theatron
Casting Director
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Character
29. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Downstage
Thrust Space
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Thrust Space
30. 'Storm and stress'
Sturm & Drang Movement
Non-Profit Theatre
Plot
The Box Set
31. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Aristotle
Skene
Comedy of Manners
Rising Action
32. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Hypokrites
Orchestra
Morality Plays
33. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Director
Dramatic Genre
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Rising Action
34. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
ostume Plot
Comedy of Manners
The Box Set
35. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Concept
Producer
Falling Action
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
36. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Rehearsal Process
Callbacks
Director
Comedy of Character
37. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
Aeschylus
Thrust Space
Miracle Plays
38. Series of short stories
Dramaturg
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Antagonist
Anton Chekhov
39. 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
Fourth Wall
University Wits
Community Theatre
Fourth Wall
40. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Front of House
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Skene
Linear Plot
41. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Thought
Konstantin Stanislavski
Thespis
Language
42. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Konstantin Stanislavski
Meyerhold
Climax
43. Information needed to understand the play
ostume Plot
Comedy of Character
Exposition
Proscenium Space
44. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
The Box Set
Slapstick
Empathy
Upstage
45. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
Off-Off-Broadway
ostume Plot
Dramatic Genre
46. Grammatically based
Prose
Slapstick
Proscenium Space
Dramaturg
47. Planned actor movement
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Linear Plot
Blocking
Presentational Approach
48. Writer and first actor
Thespis
Printing Press
Representational Acting
Avant-Garde
49. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Melodrama
Representational Acting
Rehearsal Process
Hybrid Theatre
50. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Producer
Rehearsal Process
Off-Off-Broadway
Orchestra
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