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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. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Regional Theatre
Hybrid Theatre
Naturalism
Chorus
2. Controls the environment in the theatre
Neoclassicism (def)
Designer
Dramatic Genre
Comedy
3. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Downstage
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Pageants
Theatre of Cruelty
4. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Antiquarianism
Sense Memory
Wings
5. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
William Shakespeare
Commercial Theatre
Causal Play Structure
Orchestra
6. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Fourth Wall
Copyright
Rendering
7. Feel more in stage acting.
Thought
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Pageants
Off-Broadway
8. Information needed to understand the play
Sturm & Drang Movement
Exposition
Amateur Theatre
Proscenium Space
9. Controls the environment in the theatre
Blocking
Subtext
Designer
Language
10. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Lazzi
Conflict
University Wits
11. Busiest person in the theatre
Theatron
Producer
Printing Press
Stage Manager
12. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Stage Manager
Meyerhold
Euripides
13. Events that set off a major conflict
Thought
Henrik Ibsen
Hypokrites
Inciting Incident
14. Works published before 1923
Lazzi
Callbacks
Blocking
Public Domain
15. 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
Aeschylus
Community Theatre
Ground Plan
Conflict
16. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Verisimilitude
Chorus
Affective Memory
17. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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18. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Sophocles
Discovery
Euripides
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
19. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Casting Director
Producer
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Hybrid Theatre
20. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Antiquarianism
Falling Action
Melodrama (def)
Upstage
21. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Neoclassicism (def)
Climax
Antiquarianism
Non-Profit Theatre
22. 'Storm and stress'
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Proscenium Space
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Sturm & Drang Movement
23. Top of stage
Upstage
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Skene
Hypokrites
24. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Presentational Approach
Fourth Wall
Slapstick
Commercial Theatre
25. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Dialogue
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Variables of Costume Design
26. Series of short stories
Callbacks
Hypokrites
Realism and Realistic Developments
Anton Chekhov
27. Audience watches from 3 sides
Vomitories
Thrust Space
Rising Action
Community Theatre
28. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Dialogue
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Verse
Front of House
29. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Antagonist
Naturalism
Thespis
Euripides
30. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Antiquarianism
Sturm & Drang Movement
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
31. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Aristophanes
Affective Memory
Renaissance
University Wits
32. The standard tool for casting a production
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Auditions
Theatre of Cruelty
Avant-Garde
33. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Presentational Approach
Casting Director
Copyright
Regional Theatre
34. Verse
Casting Director
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Postmodernism
The Box Set
35. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Playwright
Skene
36. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Verisimilitude
Thespis
ostume Plot
Climax
37. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Morality Plays
Off-Off-Broadway
Subtext
Concept
38. A group of actors - not just one star
Ensemble
Affective Memory
Emile Zola
Fourth Wall
39. The standard tool for casting a production
Variables of Costume Design
Auditions
Subtext
Improv
40. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Naturalism
Slapstick
The Globe
Downstage
41. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy of Ideas
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Comedy of Manners
Sturm & Drang Movement
42. Busiest person in the theatre
Stage Manager
Comedy
Comedy of Ideas
ostume Plot
43. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Realism and Realistic Developments
University Wits
Callbacks
44. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Affective Memory
Front of House
Inciting Incident
45. Italians
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
William Shakespeare
Character
Comedy of Character
46. Appearance of truth
Aristophanes
Verisimilitude
Character
ostume Plot
47. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Playwright
Language
Dramatic Genre
Dramaturg
48. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Situation Comedy
Linear Plot
Aeschylus
Concept
49. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Lazzi
Euripides
Climax
Cycles
50. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Producer
Concept
Theatron
Regional Theatre