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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. Medea - The Bacchae
Fourth Wall
William Shakespeare
Falling Action
Euripides
2. 100-499 people
Off-Broadway
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Rising Action
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
3. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
ostume Plot
Protagonist
Falling Action
Blocking
4. Feel more in stage acting.
Designer
Thought
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
5. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Off-Off-Broadway
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Antiquarianism
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
6. 'Storm and stress'
Antagonist
Antiquarianism
Sturm & Drang Movement
Light Plot
7. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Light Plot
Meyerhold
Sophocles
Orchestra
8. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Off-Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway
Sophocles
Representational Approach
9. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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10. 100-499 people
Variables of Costume Design
Off-Broadway
Royalty
Amateur Theatre
11. Imitation of character and action
Ground Plan
Casting Director
Mimesis
Skene
12. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Pageants
Skene
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
13. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Dramatic Genre
Anton Chekhov
Proscenium Space
Emile Zola
14. 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
Hybrid Theatre
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Melodrama (def)
15. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Catharsis
Rendering
Subtext
Stage Manager
16. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Naturalism
Thought
University Wits
Tragicomedy
17. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Broadway
Discovery
Designer
Thespis
18. Busiest person in the theatre
The Globe
Stage Manager
Subtext
Tragicomedy
19. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Realism and Realistic Developments
Fourth Wall
Situation Comedy
Representational Approach
20. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Tragicomedy
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Empathy
Components of Concept
21. Visible light source on stage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Auditions
Practical
Actor
22. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Dramaturg
Neoclassicism (def)
Empathy
Chorus
23. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Sturm & Drang Movement
Avant-Garde
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Verse
24. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Mimesis
Ensemble
Causal Play Structure
Ground Plan
25. Events that set off a major conflict
Aristophanes
Aristophanes
Inciting Incident
Prose
26. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Henrik Ibsen
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Comedy of Character
Conflict
27. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Melodrama (def)
Rehearsal Process
Playwright
Climax
28. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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29. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Mimesis
Off-Off-Broadway
Rehearsal Process
30. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Cycles
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Rendering
31. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Vomitories
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Eugene Scribe
Affective Memory
32. England's type of theatre
Thespis
Variables of Costume Design
The Globe
Prose
33. Performs Actions of the Play
Falling Action
Representational Acting
Miracle Plays
Character
34. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Conflict
University Wits
Morality Plays
Educational Theatre
35. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
Practical
Playwright
Reversal
36. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Mystery Plays
Aeschylus
Linear Plot
37. Based on the lives of the saints
Miracle Plays
Climax
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Emile Zola
38. Gas lights - etc.
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Euripides
39. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Dramatic Genre
Thrust Space
Naturalism
40. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Amateur Theatre
Casting Director
Variables of Costume Design
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
41. Organization of action
Linear Plot
Plot
Casting Director
Fourth Wall
42. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Pageants
Melodrama
Public Domain
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
43. Greek - actor
Bertolt Brecht
Components of Concept
Character
Hypokrites
44. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Callbacks
Light Plot
Pageants
45. A group of actors - not just one star
Comedy of Ideas
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Causal Play Structure
Ensemble
46. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Pageants
Auditions
Plato
Conflict
47. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Miracle Plays
Aristotle
Printing Press
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
48. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Dramatic Genre
Commercial Theatre
Mimesis
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
49. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Dramaturg
ostume Plot
Emile Zola
Antagonist
50. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Royalty
Blocking
Slapstick