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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. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Practical
Thespis
Fourth Wall
Subplot
2. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Falling Action
Copyright
Meyerhold
William Shakespeare
3. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Cycles
Dialogue
Realism and Realistic Developments
Dramaturg
4. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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5. 'Father of Realism'
Commedia Dell'Arte
Henrik Ibsen
Bertolt Brecht
Subtext
6. Person who embodies a character on stage
Morality Plays
Actor
Verse
Postmodernism
7. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Front of House
Antagonist
Meander
Konstantin Stanislavski
8. Series of short stories
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Protagonist
Anton Chekhov
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
9. A fee for each performance
Dramatic Genre
Royalty
Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
10. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Meander
Theatron
Commedia Dell'Arte
Neoclassicism (def)
11. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Discovery
Mimesis
Conflict
12. Part of What is included in the text
Rehearsal Process
Causal Play Structure
Dialogue
Designer
13. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Character
Components of Concept
Morality Plays
Dialogue
14. Performs Actions of the Play
Off-Broadway
Theatre of Cruelty
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Character
15. Someone who writes plays
Rising Action
Dramatic Genre
Playwright
Renaissance
16. 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
Mystery Plays
Royalty
Avant-Garde
Improv
17. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Discovery
Aristotle
Causal Play Structure
Naturalism
18. Feel more in stage acting.
Chorus
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Theatre of Cruelty
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
19. Linear events progress forward in time
Public Domain
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Causal Play Structure
Eugene Scribe
20. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Theatre of Cruelty
Emile Zola
Dialogue
Falling Action
21. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Comedy of Ideas
Designer
Director
22. Imitation of character and action
Catharsis
Character
Mimesis
Reversal
23. Grammatically based
Affective Memory
Actor
Prose
ostume Plot
24. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Naturalism
Regional Theatre
Exposition
Subplot
25. Feel more in stage acting.
Bertolt Brecht
ostume Plot
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Rendering
26. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Printing Press
Pageants
Callbacks
Light Plot
27. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Royalty
Anton Chekhov
Representational Approach
ostume Plot
28. The first director
Meyerhold
Mystery Plays
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Rehearsal Process
29. 100-499 people
Stage Manager
Meyerhold
Off-Broadway
Director
30. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Front of House
Amateur Theatre
Commedia Dell'Arte
Sophocles
31. Appearance of truth
Actor
The Box Set
Causal Play Structure
Verisimilitude
32. Greek - actor
Sense Memory
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Hypokrites
Community Theatre
33. Works published before 1923
Thespis
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Components of Concept
Public Domain
34. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Dramatic Genre
ostume Plot
Melodrama (def)
Theatre of Cruelty
35. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Neoclassicism (def)
Exposition
Chorus
Prose
36. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Sense Memory
Melodrama
Dramatic Genre
Wings
37. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
Off-Off-Broadway
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Causal Play Structure
38. Information needed to understand the play
Postmodernism
Subplot
Community Theatre
Exposition
39. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Light Plot
Downstage
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Casting Director
40. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Konstantin Stanislavski
Morality Plays
Slapstick
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
41. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Hypokrites
Amateur Theatre
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Melodrama (def)
42. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Ground Plan
Euripides
Royalty
43. Proscenium arch/stage
Verisimilitude
The Box Set
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
44. Not many props or detailed scenery
Aristotle
Off-Off-Broadway
Language
Renaissance
45. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Hypokrites
Presentational Approach
Naturalism
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
46. Medea - The Bacchae
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Theatre of Cruelty
Falling Action
Euripides
47. Planned actor movement
Regional Theatre
Dramaturg
Blocking
Presentational Approach
48. 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)
Representational Acting
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Theatre of Cruelty
Hypokrites
49. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Emile Zola
The Globe
Melodrama
Naturalism
50. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Subtext
Variables of Costume Design
Melodrama