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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
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1. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Pageants
Melodrama
Tragedy
Variables of Costume Design
2. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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3. 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)
Morality Plays
Henrik Ibsen
Meyerhold
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
4. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Meander
Postmodernism
Printing Press
Commercial Theatre
5. Play reenacting biblical stories
Emile Zola
Antiquarianism
Thought
Mystery Plays
6. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Pageants
Discovery
Neoclassicism (def)
Presentational Approach
7. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Hybrid Theatre
Thespis
Meyerhold
Front of House
8. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Naturalism
Amateur Theatre
Slapstick
ostume Plot
9. Appearance of truth
Comedy of Ideas
Practical
Royalty
Verisimilitude
10. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Blocking
Concept
Dialogue
Off-Broadway
11. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Regional Theatre
Dialogue
Slapstick
Plot
12. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Avant-Garde
Conflict
Pageants
Auditions
13. A group of actors - not just one star
Ensemble
Auditions
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Eugene Scribe
14. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Exposition
Non-Profit Theatre
Thrust Space
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
15. Focused on thought - controversial
Representational Acting
Prose
Cycles
Comedy of Ideas
16. Linear events progress forward in time
Regional Theatre
Causal Play Structure
Hypokrites
Verisimilitude
17. Controls the environment in the theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Designer
Fourth Wall
Comedy of Manners
18. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Representational Acting
Conflict
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Amateur Theatre
19. Visible light source on stage
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Practical
The Box Set
Meyerhold
20. High point of action
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Climax
Henrik Ibsen
The Box Set
21. England's type of theatre
Character
Pageants
Copyright
The Globe
22. Medea - The Bacchae
Euripides
Commercial Theatre
Melodrama (def)
Sophocles
23. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Avant-Garde
Playwright
Regional Theatre
Royalty
24. Information needed to understand the play
Exposition
Aeschylus
Downstage
Concept
25. Proscenium space
Subplot
Naturalism
The Box Set
Prose
26. Writer and first actor
Thespis
Henrik Ibsen
Sturm & Drang Movement
Plato
27. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Theatre of Cruelty
Sense Memory
Miracle Plays
28. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Hypokrites
Lazzi
Plato
Emile Zola
29. Events progress forward in time
Emile Zola
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Hypokrites
Linear Plot
30. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Representational Acting
Off-Broadway
Light Plot
Empathy
31. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Skene
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Callbacks
Exposition
32. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Black Box
Educational Theatre
Emile Zola
33. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Off-Broadway
Aesthetic Distance
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Presentational Approach
34. Not many props or detailed scenery
Comedy of Ideas
Renaissance
Reversal
Climax
35. Six elements - catharsis
Climax
Postmodernism
Aristotle
Aesthetic Distance
36. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Commercial Theatre
Non-Profit Theatre
Emile Zola
Pageants
37. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Director
Off-Broadway
Antagonist
Presentational Approach
38. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Off-Broadway
Community Theatre
Comedy of Manners
39. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Melodrama
Stage Manager
Climax
Proscenium Space
40. A>B>C>D
The Globe
Comedy of Manners
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Morality Plays
41. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Sense Memory
Aristotle
Konstantin Stanislavski
Falling Action
42. Information needed to understand the play
Plato
Exposition
Royalty
Bertolt Brecht
43. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Orchestra
Educational Theatre
Thespis
44. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Actor
Fourth Wall
Morality Plays
Linear Plot
45. Top of stage
Neoclassicism (def)
Prose
Upstage
Reversal
46. Someone who writes plays
Playwright
Sophocles
Commedia Dell'Arte
Mimesis
47. 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)
Subtext
Front of House
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Meyerhold
48. Proscenium space
Practical
Commercial Theatre
The Box Set
Vomitories
49. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Regional Theatre
Falling Action
Comedy
Plot
50. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Exposition
Mimesis
Sophocles
Concept
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