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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. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Broadway
Henrik Ibsen
Cycles
Commercial Theatre
2. Not many props or detailed scenery
Meander
Renaissance
Regional Theatre
William Shakespeare
3. Gas lights - etc.
Inciting Incident
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Empathy
Presentational Approach
4. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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5. Rhyming
Conflict
Orchestra
Verse
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
6. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Presentational Approach
Upstage
Rehearsal Process
Concept
7. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Regional Theatre
Causal Play Structure
Meyerhold
Subplot
8. Part of What is included in the text
Auditions
Dialogue
Dramatic Genre
Character
9. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Meander
Community Theatre
Black Box
10. Audience watches from 3 sides
Thought
Copyright
Copyright
Thrust Space
11. Controls the environment in the theatre
Concept
Emile Zola
Rehearsal Process
Designer
12. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Concept
Conflict
Representational Acting
Light Plot
13. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Character
Linear Plot
Melodrama
14. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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15. 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
Royalty
Front of House
Community Theatre
Casting Director
16. Visible light source on stage
Anton Chekhov
Sturm & Drang Movement
Verse
Practical
17. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Producer
Character
Broadway
Off-Off-Broadway
18. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Upstage
Ground Plan
Inciting Incident
Climax
19. Humorous - objective view point
Fourth Wall
Mimesis
Comedy
Broadway
20. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Ground Plan
Proscenium Space
University Wits
Representational Approach
21. Grammatically based
Mystery Plays
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Prose
Representational Approach
22. Proscenium space
Blocking
Comedy
The Box Set
Off-Broadway
23. Part of What is included in the text
Off-Off-Broadway
Designer
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Dialogue
24. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Stage Manager
Verse
Vomitories
Henrik Ibsen
25. Appearance of truth
Eugene Scribe
Verisimilitude
Subtext
Verse
26. Humorous - objective view point
Aeschylus
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Eugene Scribe
Comedy
27. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Downstage
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Thespis
28. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Comedy of Manners
Situation Comedy
Konstantin Stanislavski
Eugene Scribe
29. 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
Cycles
The Box Set
Thrust Space
30. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Plato
Presentational Approach
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
31. Emotional release
Orchestra
Catharsis
Amateur Theatre
Royalty
32. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Sophocles
Climax
Plot
Copyright
33. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Public Domain
Euripides
Climax
Aesthetic Distance
34. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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35. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Theatre of Cruelty
Discovery
Comedy of Character
36. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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37. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Falling Action
Stage Manager
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Pageants
38. Person who embodies a character on stage
Actor
Presentational Approach
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Printing Press
39. Series of short stories
Off-Off-Broadway
Callbacks
Anton Chekhov
Aristotle
40. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
Producer
Verse
Konstantin Stanislavski
41. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Off-Off-Broadway
Causal Play Structure
Thrust Space
Representational Approach
42. 'Father of Realism'
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Inciting Incident
Front of House
Henrik Ibsen
43. Information needed to understand the play
Exposition
Comedy of Ideas
Anton Chekhov
Playwright
44. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Realism and Realistic Developments
Neoclassicism (def)
Cycles
Dramaturg
45. Ideas within the play
Pageants
Neoclassicism (def)
Comedy
Thought
46. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Exposition
Hypokrites
Meander
Producer
47. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Skene
Realism and Realistic Developments
Practical
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
48. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Avant-Garde
Dramatic Genre
Realism and Realistic Developments
49. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Fourth Wall
Avant-Garde
Affective Memory
Ground Plan
50. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Thrust Space
Downstage
Plot
Lazzi