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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
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1. Feel more in stage acting.
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Commedia Dell'Arte
Front of House
Components of Concept
2. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Slapstick
Commercial Theatre
Euripides
Theatre of Cruelty
3. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
Aeschylus
Antiquarianism
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
4. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Ensemble
Emile Zola
Practical
Black Box
5. Performs Actions of the Play
Hybrid Theatre
Situation Comedy
Character
Broadway
6. Events progress forward in time
Miracle Plays
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Verisimilitude
Linear Plot
7. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
William Shakespeare
Mimesis
Discovery
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
8. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Black Box
Royalty
Meander
Protagonist
9. Verse
Off-Broadway
Off-Off-Broadway
Situation Comedy
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
10. Focused on thought - controversial
Comedy of Ideas
Falling Action
Verse
Dramaturg
11. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Theatron
Thought
Printing Press
Public Domain
12. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Ensemble
Designer
Variables of Costume Design
13. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Pageants
Konstantin Stanislavski
Dramatic Genre
Upstage
14. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Practical
Empathy
ostume Plot
15. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Subtext
Off-Off-Broadway
Regional Theatre
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
16. Controls the environment in the theatre
Director
Ensemble
Copyright
Designer
17. Six elements - catharsis
Morality Plays
Aristotle
Inciting Incident
Bertolt Brecht
18. Units of action that build emotional intensity
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Rising Action
Thought
Aristotle
19. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
University Wits
Naturalism
Blocking
Neoclassicism (def)
20. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Community Theatre
Sophocles
Neoclassicism (def)
Inciting Incident
21. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mystery Plays
Orchestra
Inciting Incident
Language
22. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Theatron
Producer
Light Plot
Slapstick
23. England's type of theatre
Language
The Globe
Dialogue
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
24. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
University Wits
Printing Press
Copyright
Konstantin Stanislavski
25. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Meyerhold
Lazzi
Representational Approach
Director
26. Based on the lives of the saints
Eugene Scribe
Front of House
Postmodernism
Miracle Plays
27. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Cycles
Catharsis
Dramaturg
Regional Theatre
28. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Subtext
Proscenium Space
Situation Comedy
Neoclassicism (def)
29. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Slapstick
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Ensemble
Fourth Wall
30. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Off-Broadway
Sense Memory
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Melodrama
31. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Dramaturg
University Wits
Front of House
Comedy of Character
32. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Aesthetic Distance
Educational Theatre
Meyerhold
Linear Plot
33. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Language
Realism and Realistic Developments
Aristotle
Playwright
34. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Producer
Theatre of Cruelty
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Auditions
35. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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36. The era we are currently in
Eugene Scribe
Verse
Comedy of Manners
Postmodernism
37. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Empathy
Chorus
Subtext
Skene
38. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Antiquarianism
Tragedy
Inciting Incident
Tragicomedy
39. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
ostume Plot
Comedy of Ideas
Empathy
Printing Press
40. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Ground Plan
Empathy
Chorus
Actor
41. Emotional release
Educational Theatre
Situation Comedy
Catharsis
Prose
42. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Off-Off-Broadway
Amateur Theatre
Proscenium Space
43. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aeschylus
Upstage
Off-Off-Broadway
Antagonist
44. 'Storm and stress'
Sturm & Drang Movement
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Designer
Naturalism
45. Medea - The Bacchae
Discovery
Rendering
Euripides
Representational Approach
46. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Protagonist
Miracle Plays
Reversal
Commedia Dell'Arte
47. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Anton Chekhov
Sturm & Drang Movement
Climax
Meyerhold
48. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Pageants
Thought
Discovery
49. Someone who writes plays
Off-Off-Broadway
Playwright
Printing Press
Rendering
50. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Concept
Subplot
Exposition
Affective Memory