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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. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Off-Off-Broadway
Concept
Presentational Approach
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
2. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Neoclassicism (def)
Sense Memory
Skene
Meander
3. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
ostume Plot
Wings
Exposition
Bertolt Brecht
4. Italians
Proscenium Space
Verisimilitude
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Tragedy
5. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Verisimilitude
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Thespis
Konstantin Stanislavski
6. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
Dialogue
Renaissance
Empathy
7. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Realism and Realistic Developments
Conflict
Comedy of Ideas
Antiquarianism
8. Medea - The Bacchae
ostume Plot
Euripides
Causal Play Structure
Director
9. Humorous - objective view point
Catharsis
Linear Plot
Comedy
Proscenium Space
10. Proscenium space
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Thespis
The Box Set
Aeschylus
11. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Slapstick
Dialogue
Affective Memory
Morality Plays
12. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Representational Approach
Subtext
Dialogue
Light Plot
13. The era we are currently in
Subplot
Miracle Plays
Postmodernism
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
14. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Proscenium Space
Vomitories
Broadway
Amateur Theatre
15. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Hypokrites
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Rehearsal Process
16. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Prose
Eugene Scribe
Aesthetic Distance
Printing Press
17. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Regional Theatre
Language
Fourth Wall
Affective Memory
18. England's type of theatre
Comedy of Manners
Hypokrites
The Globe
Theatre of Cruelty
19. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Miracle Plays
Empathy
Theatron
Discovery
20. Major character at odds with social expectations
Plot
Comedy of Manners
Tragedy
Vomitories
21. A fee for each performance
Blocking
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Royalty
Improv
22. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Comedy of Manners
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Postmodernism
Mimesis
23. Performs Actions of the Play
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Tragedy
Royalty
Character
24. Writer and first actor
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Thespis
Improv
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
25. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Comedy of Character
Concept
William Shakespeare
Front of House
26. Rhyming
Orchestra
The Box Set
Causal Play Structure
Verse
27. Performs Actions of the Play
Commercial Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Linear Plot
Character
28. A>B>C>D
Thrust Space
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Sense Memory
Avant-Garde
29. Works published before 1923
Public Domain
Fourth Wall
Conflict
Mystery Plays
30. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Affective Memory
Situation Comedy
Variables of Costume Design
Falling Action
31. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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32. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Proscenium Space
Renaissance
Printing Press
William Shakespeare
33. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Improv
Ensemble
Ground Plan
Empathy
34. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Improv
Character
Causal Play Structure
35. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Royalty
Improv
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Naturalism
36. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Meander
Dramatic Genre
Discovery
Presentational Approach
37. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Comedy of Character
Copyright
Copyright
Comedy
38. A fee for each performance
Presentational Approach
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Theatre of Cruelty
Royalty
39. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Mystery Plays
Miracle Plays
Melodrama (def)
40. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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41. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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42. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Hybrid Theatre
Upstage
Meander
Tragedy
43. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Mystery Plays
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Rising Action
44. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Hybrid Theatre
Inciting Incident
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Protagonist
45. Verse
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Rising Action
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Emile Zola
46. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Antiquarianism
Cycles
Antagonist
Theatre of Cruelty
47. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Affective Memory
Neoclassicism (def)
Lazzi
Renaissance
48. Gas lights - etc.
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Comedy of Character
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Front of House
49. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Bertolt Brecht
Aristophanes
Melodrama
Emile Zola
50. Rhyming
Melodrama (def)
Concept
Konstantin Stanislavski
Verse