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Theatre Appreciation
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1. 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
Thought
Neoclassicism (def)
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Community Theatre
2. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Naturalism
Morality Plays
Wings
Antiquarianism
3. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Verisimilitude
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Downstage
4. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Comedy
Amateur Theatre
Verse
Fourth Wall
5. A>B>C>D
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Prose
Blocking
Ensemble
6. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Printing Press
Verisimilitude
Educational Theatre
7. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Linear Plot
Representational Approach
Front of House
8. Controls the environment in the theatre
Black Box
Naturalism
Designer
Conflict
9. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Affective Memory
Antiquarianism
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Tragedy
10. 500-1800 people
Plato
Broadway
Light Plot
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
11. Feel more in stage acting.
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Sense Memory
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
12. Italians
Actor
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Plot
Climax
13. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Practical
Aesthetic Distance
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Melodrama (def)
14. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Light Plot
Chorus
Anton Chekhov
15. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Subplot
Designer
Postmodernism
Miracle Plays
16. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Black Box
Rehearsal Process
Community Theatre
Linear Plot
17. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Public Domain
William Shakespeare
Presentational Approach
18. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Non-Profit Theatre
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Rendering
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
19. 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)
Variables of Costume Design
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Plato
Konstantin Stanislavski
20. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Tragedy
Vomitories
Cycles
21. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
Amateur Theatre
Exposition
Public Domain
22. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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23. Based on the lives of the saints
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Orchestra
Fourth Wall
Miracle Plays
24. High point of action
Climax
Director
Antiquarianism
Renaissance
25. Greek - actor
Henrik Ibsen
Dramaturg
Rehearsal Process
Hypokrites
26. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Designer
Renaissance
Mystery Plays
Eugene Scribe
27. Focused on thought - controversial
The Box Set
Public Domain
Comedy of Ideas
Protagonist
28. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Components of Concept
Regional Theatre
Mimesis
Orchestra
29. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Thespis
Cycles
Components of Concept
Neoclassicism (def)
30. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Renaissance
Reversal
Tragicomedy
Situation Comedy
31. Writer and first actor
Henrik Ibsen
Emile Zola
Proscenium Space
Thespis
32. Ideas within the play
Thought
Light Plot
Antiquarianism
Callbacks
33. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Proscenium Space
Regional Theatre
Commedia Dell'Arte
34. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Blocking
Slapstick
Theatron
Fourth Wall
35. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Non-Profit Theatre
Wings
Cycles
Character
36. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Eugene Scribe
Rendering
Thespis
37. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Catharsis
Commedia Dell'Arte
Printing Press
Konstantin Stanislavski
38. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Konstantin Stanislavski
Proscenium Space
Anton Chekhov
University Wits
39. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Downstage
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Euripides
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
40. A group of actors - not just one star
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Verisimilitude
Ensemble
Emile Zola
41. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Black Box
Discovery
Falling Action
Renaissance
42. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Naturalism
Antiquarianism
Subplot
43. Was poetry for many years
Reversal
Hypokrites
Black Box
Language
44. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Catharsis
Falling Action
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
45. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Catharsis
Anton Chekhov
Concept
Educational Theatre
46. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Sturm & Drang Movement
Postmodernism
Educational Theatre
Vomitories
47. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Conflict
Inciting Incident
Off-Off-Broadway
Subplot
48. Events progress forward in time
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Naturalism
Sophocles
Linear Plot
49. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
Mystery Plays
Affective Memory
Commedia Dell'Arte
50. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Melodrama
Theatre of Cruelty
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Meyerhold