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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. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Concept
Konstantin Stanislavski
Printing Press
Renaissance
2. 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)
Commercial Theatre
Producer
Situation Comedy
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
3. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Aesthetic Distance
Hybrid Theatre
Rehearsal Process
Falling Action
4. 'Father of Realism'
Plot
Henrik Ibsen
Comedy of Character
Linear Plot
5. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Plot
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Presentational Approach
Casting Director
6. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
Commedia Dell'Arte
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Light Plot
7. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Antiquarianism
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Konstantin Stanislavski
Inciting Incident
8. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Stage Manager
Chorus
Designer
Producer
9. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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10. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Slapstick
Aristophanes
Eugene Scribe
Theatre of Cruelty
11. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Avant-Garde
Regional Theatre
Tragedy
University Wits
12. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Discovery
Hypokrites
Subplot
13. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Cycles
Linear Plot
Actor
Dialogue
14. Italians
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Renaissance
15. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Plot
Representational Approach
Prose
Fourth Wall
16. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Representational Acting
Sturm & Drang Movement
Theatron
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
17. A fee for each performance
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Meyerhold
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Royalty
18. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Educational Theatre
Meyerhold
Thrust Space
Comedy of Character
19. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Morality Plays
Pageants
Mystery Plays
Plato
20. Proscenium space
Eugene Scribe
Commercial Theatre
The Box Set
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
21. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Rising Action
Comedy
Miracle Plays
Wings
22. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Aesthetic Distance
Verse
Variables of Costume Design
23. Feel more in stage acting.
Pageants
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Concept
24. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Character
Presentational Approach
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
25. Play reenacting biblical stories
Postmodernism
Community Theatre
Mystery Plays
Components of Concept
26. Imitation of character and action
Catharsis
Rendering
Dialogue
Mimesis
27. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Off-Off-Broadway
Climax
ostume Plot
Situation Comedy
28. Writer and first actor
Thespis
Catharsis
Antagonist
Cycles
29. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Falling Action
Postmodernism
Reversal
Antagonist
30. Emotional release
Catharsis
Falling Action
Meyerhold
Front of House
31. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Eugene Scribe
Presentational Approach
Melodrama
Orchestra
32. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Proscenium Space
Light Plot
Falling Action
Renaissance
33. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Neoclassicism (def)
Morality Plays
Vomitories
Cycles
34. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Rehearsal Process
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Catharsis
35. Gas lights - etc.
Inciting Incident
Downstage
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
36. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Front of House
Light Plot
Avant-Garde
37. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Ground Plan
Aeschylus
Amateur Theatre
Skene
38. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Lazzi
Emile Zola
Non-Profit Theatre
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
39. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Front of House
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Community Theatre
The Box Set
40. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Plot
William Shakespeare
Dramaturg
Fourth Wall
41. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Components of Concept
Presentational Approach
Black Box
Dramatic Genre
42. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Rehearsal Process
Downstage
Prose
Light Plot
43. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Plato
Comedy of Character
Konstantin Stanislavski
Antagonist
44. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Plot
Meander
Representational Approach
Comedy
45. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Orchestra
Front of House
Morality Plays
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
46. Performs Actions of the Play
Verse
Character
Avant-Garde
Dramaturg
47. Six elements - catharsis
Commercial Theatre
Aristotle
Rising Action
Conflict
48. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Printing Press
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Callbacks
49. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Hypokrites
Tragedy
Catharsis
Reversal
50. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Antiquarianism
Meander
Ground Plan
Sense Memory