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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'
Prose
Henrik Ibsen
Hypokrites
Aeschylus
2. Focused on thought - controversial
Playwright
Comedy of Ideas
Affective Memory
Concept
3. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Theatre of Cruelty
ostume Plot
Casting Director
Upstage
4. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Chorus
Eugene Scribe
Tragicomedy
5. Performs Actions of the Play
Black Box
Character
Auditions
Verisimilitude
6. Medea - The Bacchae
Casting Director
Euripides
Dramaturg
Proscenium Space
7. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Dialogue
Amateur Theatre
Regional Theatre
Aeschylus
8. Part of What is included in the text
Emile Zola
Subplot
Euripides
Dialogue
9. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
The Globe
Skene
Sophocles
Chorus
10. Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Educational Theatre
Tragedy
Aeschylus
11. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Melodrama (def)
Public Domain
Protagonist
Printing Press
12. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aeschylus
Reversal
Dramaturg
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
13. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Character
Commercial Theatre
Protagonist
14. England's type of theatre
Anton Chekhov
The Globe
Henrik Ibsen
Regional Theatre
15. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Sophocles
Wings
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Variables of Costume Design
16. Information needed to understand the play
Exposition
Variables of Costume Design
Ensemble
Copyright
17. Focused on thought - controversial
Hybrid Theatre
Plato
Printing Press
Comedy of Ideas
18. Rejection of neoclassicism -
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Improv
Public Domain
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
19. Italians
Emile Zola
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Sense Memory
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
20. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Causal Play Structure
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
21. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Plato
Language
22. 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
Falling Action
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Auditions
23. Busiest person in the theatre
Hypokrites
Stage Manager
Skene
Improv
24. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Commercial Theatre
Skene
Printing Press
25. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aeschylus
Subtext
Avant-Garde
Off-Broadway
26. Works published before 1923
Cycles
Public Domain
Sense Memory
Anton Chekhov
27. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Antagonist
Renaissance
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
28. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Front of House
Rehearsal Process
Ensemble
The Globe
29. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Miracle Plays
Emile Zola
Meander
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
30. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Conflict
Skene
Off-Off-Broadway
Sturm & Drang Movement
31. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Presentational Approach
Sense Memory
Representational Acting
Mystery Plays
32. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Vomitories
Neoclassicism (def)
Educational Theatre
33. Events progress forward in time
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Linear Plot
Commedia Dell'Arte
Aesthetic Distance
34. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Language
Ground Plan
Tragedy
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
35. Proscenium space
Situation Comedy
Aeschylus
The Box Set
Sophocles
36. Top of stage
Upstage
Casting Director
Rendering
The Globe
37. Ideas within the play
Thought
Anton Chekhov
Hypokrites
Concept
38. Main character
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Protagonist
Dramatic Genre
Morality Plays
39. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Regional Theatre
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Vomitories
Concept
40. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Hypokrites
Subtext
Reversal
University Wits
41. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Rendering
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Aesthetic Distance
Theatre of Cruelty
42. Events that set off a major conflict
Mystery Plays
Anton Chekhov
Commedia Dell'Arte
Inciting Incident
43. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Sense Memory
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Variables of Costume Design
Realism and Realistic Developments
44. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Miracle Plays
Light Plot
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Reversal
45. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Sense Memory
Educational Theatre
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Representational Acting
46. High point of action
Antiquarianism
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Climax
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
47. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Stage Manager
Conflict
Postmodernism
Character
48. Grammatically based
Eugene Scribe
Copyright
Prose
Components of Concept
49. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Dialogue
Naturalism
Commedia Dell'Arte
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
50. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Practical
Representational Approach
Lazzi
Pageants