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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
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1. Part of What is included in the text
Dialogue
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Stage Manager
Presentational Approach
2. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Theatre of Cruelty
Representational Acting
Naturalism
3. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Meyerhold
Sophocles
Downstage
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
4. Imitation of character and action
Wings
Mimesis
Melodrama (def)
Variables of Costume Design
5. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Emile Zola
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Plato
Avant-Garde
6. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Emile Zola
Subtext
Sophocles
Morality Plays
7. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
University Wits
Ground Plan
Practical
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
8. 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
Black Box
Blocking
Theatre of Cruelty
9. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Character
Theatre of Cruelty
Tragedy
10. The first director
Director
Rehearsal Process
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Miracle Plays
11. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Downstage
Conflict
Aristophanes
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
12. Top of stage
Mystery Plays
Meander
Anton Chekhov
Upstage
13. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Language
Theatre of Cruelty
Aesthetic Distance
Dramatic Genre
14. Events that set off a major conflict
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Skene
Inciting Incident
Theatre of Cruelty
15. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Commedia Dell'Arte
University Wits
Callbacks
Aristophanes
16. Used alienation to encourage distance
Auditions
Improv
Broadway
Bertolt Brecht
17. 500-1800 people
Thrust Space
Designer
Broadway
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
18. Imitation of character and action
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Concept
Mimesis
Broadway
19. Busiest person in the theatre
Realism and Realistic Developments
Plato
Stage Manager
Thought
20. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
Anton Chekhov
Eugene Scribe
Theatre of Cruelty
21. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Director
Dramatic Genre
Non-Profit Theatre
Linear Plot
22. High point of action
Climax
Falling Action
Avant-Garde
Melodrama
23. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
Hypokrites
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
24. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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25. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Vomitories
Actor
Light Plot
26. Grammatically based
Prose
Comedy
Director
Conflict
27. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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28. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
University Wits
Miracle Plays
Falling Action
Components of Concept
29. Events progress forward in time
Linear Plot
Downstage
Components of Concept
Postmodernism
30. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Antagonist
Comedy of Manners
Meander
Tragedy
31. Medea - The Bacchae
Discovery
Melodrama
Blocking
Euripides
32. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Antagonist
Reversal
Rising Action
Variables of Costume Design
33. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Pageants
Orchestra
Casting Director
Comedy
34. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Rendering
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Morality Plays
Meander
35. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Bertolt Brecht
Catharsis
Miracle Plays
Front of House
36. 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 Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Thrust Space
Designer
Black Box
37. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
Dramaturg
Concept
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
38. A fee for each performance
Proscenium Space
Fourth Wall
Conflict
Royalty
39. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Protagonist
Producer
Aristophanes
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
40. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Dramaturg
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Ensemble
Copyright
41. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Naturalism
Producer
Discovery
42. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Playwright
Avant-Garde
Hybrid Theatre
43. Not many props or detailed scenery
Variables of Costume Design
Thespis
Plot
Renaissance
44. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
Presentational Approach
Sophocles
Meyerhold
45. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Improv
Dramatic Genre
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Sturm & Drang Movement
46. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Melodrama
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Rehearsal Process
Copyright
47. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Wings
Variables of Costume Design
Falling Action
Commercial Theatre
48. A group of actors - not just one star
Linear Plot
Ensemble
Prose
Thespis
49. Feel more in stage acting.
Thought
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Affective Memory
Sense Memory
50. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
Inciting Incident
Comedy of Manners
Vomitories