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Theatre Appreciation
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1. A>B>C>D
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Climax
Actor
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
2. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Falling Action
Slapstick
Konstantin Stanislavski
William Shakespeare
3. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Variables of Costume Design
Non-Profit Theatre
Auditions
4. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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5. A fee for each performance
Rehearsal Process
Proscenium Space
Royalty
Reversal
6. Planned actor movement
Aristophanes
Blocking
Ensemble
Plato
7. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Upstage
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Conflict
The Box Set
8. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Variables of Costume Design
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Empathy
Casting Director
9. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Theatron
Auditions
Conflict
Representational Approach
10. 500-1800 people
Meyerhold
Ensemble
Rehearsal Process
Broadway
11. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aeschylus
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Linear Plot
Aristophanes
12. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Sturm & Drang Movement
Copyright
Ground Plan
13. Organization of action
Plot
Euripides
Plato
William Shakespeare
14. Causes trouble for the main character
Naturalism
Antagonist
Renaissance
ostume Plot
15. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Verse
Melodrama (def)
Subtext
The Globe
16. Italians
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Subplot
Commercial Theatre
Lazzi
17. Six elements - catharsis
Ensemble
Aristotle
Emile Zola
Pageants
18. 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
Community Theatre
Ensemble
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Dramatic Genre
19. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Renaissance
Falling Action
Aristophanes
Eugene Scribe
20. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
ostume Plot
Regional Theatre
Downstage
Affective Memory
21. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Theatre of Cruelty
Verse
Lazzi
22. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Stage Manager
Thrust Space
Sophocles
23. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Cycles
Prose
Concept
Dramaturg
24. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Practical
Thrust Space
Protagonist
Situation Comedy
25. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Postmodernism
William Shakespeare
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Subplot
26. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Antiquarianism
Rehearsal Process
Black Box
Variables of Costume Design
27. Focused on thought - controversial
Hypokrites
Skene
Theatre of Cruelty
Comedy of Ideas
28. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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29. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Hypokrites
Antagonist
Educational Theatre
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
30. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Protagonist
Anton Chekhov
Fourth Wall
Director
31. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Verisimilitude
Copyright
Situation Comedy
Reversal
32. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Slapstick
Plato
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Verisimilitude
33. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
Presentational Approach
Situation Comedy
Renaissance
34. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Vomitories
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Commercial Theatre
35. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Sense Memory
Playwright
Theatre of Cruelty
Wings
36. Visible light source on stage
Verisimilitude
Auditions
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Practical
37. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Proscenium Space
Producer
Lazzi
Dialogue
38. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Community Theatre
Lazzi
Printing Press
39. The first director
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Meyerhold
Aristotle
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
40. Was poetry for many years
Anton Chekhov
Language
Sense Memory
Subplot
41. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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42. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Playwright
Non-Profit Theatre
Rendering
43. Gas lights - etc.
Rising Action
Orchestra
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Dramatic Genre
44. Proscenium space
Empathy
The Box Set
Director
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
45. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Box Set
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Tragedy
Ensemble
46. 'Father of Realism'
Printing Press
Antagonist
Henrik Ibsen
Printing Press
47. Visible light source on stage
Character
Royalty
Practical
Chorus
48. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Inciting Incident
Components of Concept
Improv
Rising Action
49. The era we are currently in
Front of House
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Postmodernism
Realism and Realistic Developments
50. Part of What is included in the text
The Box Set
Dialogue
Vomitories
Pageants
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