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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. 'Father of Realism'
Theatre of Cruelty
Henrik Ibsen
Thespis
Auditions
2. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Designer
Actor
Theatron
Ensemble
3. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Eugene Scribe
Hybrid Theatre
Miracle Plays
Light Plot
4. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Verisimilitude
Comedy of Character
Postmodernism
Non-Profit Theatre
5. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Commedia Dell'Arte
Mimesis
Amateur Theatre
6. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Affective Memory
Affective Memory
Royalty
7. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Dialogue
Aeschylus
Vomitories
8. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Plot
Linear Plot
Comedy of Character
Ground Plan
9. Main character
Antagonist
Protagonist
Aristophanes
Public Domain
10. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Eugene Scribe
Director
Vomitories
Meander
11. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Downstage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Theatre of Cruelty
Antiquarianism
12. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Causal Play Structure
Cycles
Auditions
Theatre of Cruelty
13. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Presentational Approach
Thespis
Morality Plays
Wings
14. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Stage Manager
Emile Zola
Rehearsal Process
Avant-Garde
15. Humorous - objective view point
Meander
Dialogue
Upstage
Comedy
16. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Subplot
Bertolt Brecht
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Printing Press
17. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Sophocles
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Situation Comedy
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
18. 'Storm and stress'
Conflict
Sturm & Drang Movement
Rising Action
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
19. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Melodrama (def)
Concept
Callbacks
20. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
Meyerhold
Variables of Costume Design
Sturm & Drang Movement
21. Ideas within the play
Bertolt Brecht
ostume Plot
Falling Action
Thought
22. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Subplot
Rendering
Broadway
Ground Plan
23. 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
Off-Broadway
Community Theatre
Improv
Dramatic Genre
24. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Regional Theatre
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Dramaturg
Mimesis
25. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Hybrid Theatre
Proscenium Space
Dialogue
Light Plot
26. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Subtext
Royalty
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Konstantin Stanislavski
27. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Educational Theatre
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Community Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
28. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
The Box Set
Mystery Plays
Orchestra
Character
29. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
The Globe
Discovery
Ground Plan
Rising Action
30. Top of stage
Inciting Incident
Upstage
Anton Chekhov
Royalty
31. Rhyming
Verse
Non-Profit Theatre
Lazzi
Causal Play Structure
32. Audience watches from 3 sides
Printing Press
Meander
Producer
Thrust Space
33. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Off-Broadway
Emile Zola
Comedy of Manners
Regional Theatre
34. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Comedy of Character
The Globe
Rendering
Wings
35. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Conflict
ostume Plot
Sophocles
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
36. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Upstage
Improv
Euripides
Pageants
37. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Regional Theatre
Off-Off-Broadway
Auditions
Cycles
38. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Discovery
Mystery Plays
39. 100-499 people
Producer
Sophocles
Off-Broadway
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
40. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
The Globe
Comedy of Character
Affective Memory
Hypokrites
41. Medea - The Bacchae
Euripides
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Dramaturg
Plot
42. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Actor
Sense Memory
Commedia Dell'Arte
Linear Plot
43. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Plato
Public Domain
Linear Plot
Avant-Garde
44. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Rising Action
Postmodernism
Realism and Realistic Developments
Callbacks
45. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Upstage
The Box Set
Front of House
Renaissance
46. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Renaissance
Copyright
Verse
Ensemble
47. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Catharsis
Non-Profit Theatre
Off-Off-Broadway
Actor
48. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Subplot
Amateur Theatre
Ground Plan
Protagonist
49. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Proscenium Space
Aeschylus
Designer
University Wits
50. Focused on thought - controversial
Comedy of Ideas
Off-Broadway
Aesthetic Distance
Producer
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