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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. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Aesthetic Distance
Skene
Climax
Hybrid Theatre
2. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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3. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Vomitories
Meyerhold
Language
Representational Approach
4. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Orchestra
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Plato
5. Causes trouble for the main character
Comedy of Manners
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Downstage
Antagonist
6. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aeschylus
Inciting Incident
Aesthetic Distance
Off-Off-Broadway
7. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Tragicomedy
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Exposition
8. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
The Box Set
Melodrama (def)
Plato
Broadway
9. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Commedia Dell'Arte
Linear Plot
Melodrama (def)
Conflict
10. Visible light source on stage
Reversal
Printing Press
Practical
Comedy of Manners
11. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Bertolt Brecht
Thought
Black Box
12. Someone who writes plays
Playwright
Printing Press
Public Domain
Front of House
13. Events that set off a major conflict
Melodrama
Inciting Incident
Aristophanes
Concept
14. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Representational Approach
Theatre of Cruelty
Chorus
Front of House
15. Imitation of character and action
Black Box
Mimesis
Naturalism
Concept
16. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Comedy of Ideas
Wings
Proscenium Space
Amateur Theatre
17. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Wings
Regional Theatre
Melodrama
Front of House
18. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Slapstick
Lazzi
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
19. Greek - actor
Slapstick
Stage Manager
Rehearsal Process
Hypokrites
20. Series of short stories
Representational Approach
Producer
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Anton Chekhov
21. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Miracle Plays
Exposition
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Postmodernism
22. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Inciting Incident
Black Box
Subplot
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
23. Emotional release
Theatre of Cruelty
Melodrama (def)
Henrik Ibsen
Catharsis
24. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Dramaturg
Director
Subtext
Anton Chekhov
25. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
Black Box
Inciting Incident
Anton Chekhov
26. Italians
Dialogue
Community Theatre
Off-Broadway
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
27. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Euripides
Producer
Avant-Garde
28. A group of actors - not just one star
Sturm & Drang Movement
Emile Zola
Ensemble
Melodrama (def)
29. Appearance of truth
Meyerhold
Verisimilitude
Falling Action
Morality Plays
30. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Vomitories
Upstage
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Dialogue
31. 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
Verisimilitude
Black Box
Improv
Melodrama (def)
32. Emotional release
Verse
Eugene Scribe
Public Domain
Catharsis
33. Events progress forward in time
Linear Plot
Antiquarianism
Downstage
Renaissance
34. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Broadway
Fourth Wall
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Off-Off-Broadway
35. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Black Box
Meyerhold
Components of Concept
36. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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37. Events progress forward in time
Linear Plot
Presentational Approach
Aeschylus
Avant-Garde
38. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Ground Plan
Sophocles
Morality Plays
Aeschylus
39. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Catharsis
Miracle Plays
Auditions
40. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
Tragicomedy
Miracle Plays
Non-Profit Theatre
41. Top of stage
Aristotle
Upstage
Morality Plays
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
42. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Empathy
Regional Theatre
Thought
ostume Plot
43. Busiest person in the theatre
Antagonist
Designer
Stage Manager
Verse
44. Six elements - catharsis
Public Domain
Aristotle
Hybrid Theatre
Naturalism
45. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Affective Memory
Aesthetic Distance
Producer
46. Writer and first actor
Variables of Costume Design
Thespis
Verisimilitude
Empathy
47. 500-1800 people
Rehearsal Process
Comedy of Manners
Broadway
Copyright
48. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Emile Zola
Theatron
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Falling Action
49. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
University Wits
Conflict
Subplot
Aeschylus
50. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy of Manners
Fourth Wall
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Euripides