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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. Rhyming
Meander
Subtext
Verse
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
2. Focused on thought - controversial
Konstantin Stanislavski
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Amateur Theatre
Comedy of Ideas
3. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Verisimilitude
Euripides
Skene
4. Causes trouble for the main character
Bertolt Brecht
Antagonist
Printing Press
Components of Concept
5. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
ostume Plot
Ground Plan
Rehearsal Process
Sophocles
6. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Conflict
Rehearsal Process
Mimesis
Public Domain
7. Person who embodies a character on stage
Causal Play Structure
Regional Theatre
Actor
Wings
8. Feel more in stage acting.
Rendering
Ground Plan
Affective Memory
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
9. Works published before 1923
Chorus
Thrust Space
Public Domain
Upstage
10. Used alienation to encourage distance
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Bertolt Brecht
Mystery Plays
Auditions
11. Italians
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Miracle Plays
Tragedy
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
12. Was poetry for many years
Language
University Wits
Comedy of Character
Producer
13. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Euripides
Theatron
Antiquarianism
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
14. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Commedia Dell'Arte
Representational Acting
The Box Set
15. Medea - The Bacchae
Community Theatre
Euripides
Vomitories
Aesthetic Distance
16. Controls the environment in the theatre
Comedy of Ideas
Inciting Incident
Eugene Scribe
Designer
17. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Lazzi
Chorus
Climax
Realism and Realistic Developments
18. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Realism and Realistic Developments
Variables of Costume Design
Dramaturg
19. Events progress forward in time
Presentational Approach
Meyerhold
Components of Concept
Linear Plot
20. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
The Box Set
Realism and Realistic Developments
Comedy of Character
ostume Plot
21. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Downstage
Anton Chekhov
Postmodernism
Actor
22. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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23. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Improv
Comedy of Character
Aesthetic Distance
Realism and Realistic Developments
24. Based on the lives of the saints
Protagonist
Blocking
Mimesis
Miracle Plays
25. Main character
Comedy of Ideas
Protagonist
The Box Set
Representational Approach
26. Verse
William Shakespeare
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Fourth Wall
Representational Approach
27. High point of action
Climax
The Globe
Meander
Upstage
28. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Producer
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Copyright
29. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Comedy of Ideas
Melodrama (def)
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
30. Six elements - catharsis
Playwright
Director
Bertolt Brecht
Aristotle
31. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Off-Off-Broadway
Broadway
Aesthetic Distance
Improv
32. Writer and first actor
William Shakespeare
Euripides
Antiquarianism
Thespis
33. Greek - actor
Aristotle
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Hypokrites
Thespis
34. Proscenium arch/stage
Black Box
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
William Shakespeare
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
35. 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)
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Mimesis
Black Box
36. Feel more in stage acting.
Naturalism
Language
Eugene Scribe
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
37. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Orchestra
Theatre of Cruelty
Exposition
Callbacks
38. England's type of theatre
Comedy of Manners
Off-Off-Broadway
The Globe
Linear Plot
39. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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40. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Lazzi
Falling Action
Ensemble
41. 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)
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Chorus
Royalty
Playwright
42. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Plato
Commercial Theatre
Rising Action
Vomitories
43. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Printing Press
Neoclassicism (def)
Orchestra
Comedy of Character
44. Top of stage
Upstage
Vomitories
Neoclassicism (def)
Antagonist
45. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Dramatic Genre
Upstage
Educational Theatre
Subtext
46. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Naturalism
Vomitories
Printing Press
Variables of Costume Design
47. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Practical
Casting Director
Aesthetic Distance
48. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Protagonist
Meyerhold
Postmodernism
49. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Casting Director
Aristophanes
ostume Plot
Auditions
50. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Morality Plays
Realism and Realistic Developments
Thrust Space
Causal Play Structure