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Theatre Appreciation
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1. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Falling Action
Improv
Naturalism
2. Based on the lives of the saints
Regional Theatre
Director
Meyerhold
Miracle Plays
3. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Thespis
Non-Profit Theatre
Empathy
Affective Memory
4. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Antiquarianism
Slapstick
Situation Comedy
Black Box
5. Used alienation to encourage distance
Verisimilitude
Bertolt Brecht
Non-Profit Theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
6. Proscenium space
Mystery Plays
The Box Set
Upstage
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
7. Six elements - catharsis
Reversal
ostume Plot
Aristotle
Off-Broadway
8. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Bertolt Brecht
Language
Dramatic Genre
9. Information needed to understand the play
Callbacks
Exposition
Playwright
Plot
10. The first director
Printing Press
Tragicomedy
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
11. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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12. Person who embodies a character on stage
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Public Domain
Actor
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
13. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Rising Action
Cycles
The Box Set
14. Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Thespis
Antiquarianism
Tragedy
15. Rhyming
Printing Press
Slapstick
Ground Plan
Verse
16. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Regional Theatre
Subtext
Henrik Ibsen
Comedy of Manners
17. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Royalty
Ground Plan
Bertolt Brecht
Rehearsal Process
18. Series of short stories
Postmodernism
Anton Chekhov
Copyright
Commedia Dell'Arte
19. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Actor
Casting Director
Theatron
Konstantin Stanislavski
20. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Components of Concept
Off-Off-Broadway
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
21. A>B>C>D
Variables of Costume Design
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Aeschylus
Comedy of Character
22. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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23. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Character
Ensemble
Vomitories
24. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Callbacks
Designer
Meyerhold
25. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Non-Profit Theatre
Playwright
Reversal
Conflict
26. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Prose
Meander
Comedy of Character
Causal Play Structure
27. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Chorus
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Meyerhold
28. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Antagonist
Plot
Director
29. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Director
Skene
Rendering
Comedy
30. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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31. Writer and first actor
Thespis
Wings
Thought
Verse
32. Medea - The Bacchae
Plot
Euripides
Mimesis
Henrik Ibsen
33. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Downstage
Public Domain
Representational Acting
Casting Director
34. Proscenium space
The Box Set
Comedy of Manners
Subplot
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
35. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Renaissance
Plato
Avant-Garde
Wings
36. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Broadway
Variables of Costume Design
Theatre of Cruelty
University Wits
37. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Director
Mimesis
Designer
Meander
38. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Empathy
Skene
Sophocles
Avant-Garde
39. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Morality Plays
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Konstantin Stanislavski
Improv
40. Controls the environment in the theatre
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Designer
Neoclassicism (def)
Antagonist
41. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Ground Plan
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Verisimilitude
42. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Fourth Wall
Black Box
University Wits
Sense Memory
43. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Prose
Reversal
Amateur Theatre
Meander
44. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Auditions
Light Plot
Auditions
Reversal
45. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Light Plot
Producer
Non-Profit Theatre
William Shakespeare
46. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Front of House
Antagonist
Sophocles
Aristotle
47. Part of What is included in the text
Producer
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Dialogue
Konstantin Stanislavski
48. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Slapstick
Aeschylus
Subplot
49. 100-499 people
Educational Theatre
Off-Broadway
Practical
Hypokrites
50. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Neoclassicism (def)
Catharsis
Causal Play Structure
Theatron
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