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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. A>B>C>D
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Non-Profit Theatre
Avant-Garde
Antagonist
2. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Sophocles
Verisimilitude
Royalty
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
3. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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4. 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
Prose
Broadway
Improv
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
5. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Mimesis
ostume Plot
Director
Designer
6. Focused on thought - controversial
Comedy of Ideas
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Falling Action
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
7. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Comedy
Copyright
Non-Profit Theatre
Euripides
8. 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)
Aristotle
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Cycles
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
9. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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10. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Henrik Ibsen
Hybrid Theatre
Black Box
Dialogue
11. Emotional release
Downstage
Commercial Theatre
Catharsis
Sense Memory
12. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Wings
Anton Chekhov
Melodrama
Callbacks
13. Audience watches from 3 sides
Thrust Space
Tragedy
Off-Broadway
Verse
14. 500-1800 people
Broadway
Naturalism
Subplot
Aesthetic Distance
15. Grammatically based
Prose
ostume Plot
Discovery
Regional Theatre
16. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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17. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Realism and Realistic Developments
Meyerhold
Causal Play Structure
Tragicomedy
18. Rhyming
Verse
Verisimilitude
Comedy of Ideas
Vomitories
19. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Vomitories
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Reversal
Anton Chekhov
20. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Lazzi
Front of House
Vomitories
Practical
21. Person who embodies a character on stage
Actor
Plato
Comedy of Ideas
Mystery Plays
22. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy of Manners
Prose
Playwright
Affective Memory
23. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Bertolt Brecht
Educational Theatre
Discovery
Konstantin Stanislavski
24. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Melodrama
Wings
Realism and Realistic Developments
25. Works published before 1923
Off-Off-Broadway
Public Domain
Upstage
Falling Action
26. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
University Wits
Black Box
Conflict
Konstantin Stanislavski
27. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Lazzi
Rehearsal Process
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
28. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Producer
Plot
Slapstick
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
29. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Downstage
Community Theatre
Konstantin Stanislavski
Amateur Theatre
30. Ideas within the play
Discovery
Realism and Realistic Developments
Thought
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
31. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Black Box
Melodrama
Cycles
Verse
32. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
Verse
Practical
Verisimilitude
33. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Aesthetic Distance
Neoclassicism (def)
Empathy
Eugene Scribe
34. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Dramaturg
Director
Dramatic Genre
Verisimilitude
35. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Reversal
Tragedy
Downstage
Comedy of Manners
36. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Comedy of Character
Wings
Character
Theatre of Cruelty
37. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Inciting Incident
Naturalism
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Downstage
38. Someone who writes plays
Playwright
Vomitories
Eugene Scribe
Plato
39. Events progress forward in time
Affective Memory
Linear Plot
Designer
Ensemble
40. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Discovery
Prose
Protagonist
Meander
41. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Proscenium Space
Bertolt Brecht
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Concept
42. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Representational Acting
Subtext
Thespis
Empathy
43. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Amateur Theatre
Playwright
Rehearsal Process
44. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Neoclassicism (def)
Theatron
Ground Plan
45. Person who embodies a character on stage
Actor
Representational Acting
Community Theatre
The Box Set
46. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Melodrama (def)
Plato
Prose
Miracle Plays
47. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Sturm & Drang Movement
Subplot
Miracle Plays
48. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Renaissance
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Fourth Wall
Affective Memory
49. 100-499 people
Comedy of Manners
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Off-Broadway
Pageants
50. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Comedy of Manners
Auditions
Naturalism
Comedy of Character