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Theatre Appreciation
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1. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Avant-Garde
Front of House
Plot
Wings
2. Audience watches from 3 sides
Thrust Space
Designer
Situation Comedy
Causal Play Structure
3. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Antagonist
Slapstick
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Conflict
4. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Affective Memory
Slapstick
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
5. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Downstage
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Emile Zola
Ground Plan
6. 'Storm and stress'
Language
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Falling Action
Sturm & Drang Movement
7. Series of short stories
Ground Plan
Public Domain
Anton Chekhov
William Shakespeare
8. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Situation Comedy
Subplot
Callbacks
9. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Plato
Catharsis
Eugene Scribe
Light Plot
10. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Dramaturg
Ground Plan
Protagonist
11. Person who embodies a character on stage
Non-Profit Theatre
Actor
Representational Acting
Exposition
12. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Off-Off-Broadway
Linear Plot
Dramaturg
Mimesis
13. Causes trouble for the main character
Language
Meander
Antagonist
University Wits
14. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Empathy
Meyerhold
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Renaissance
15. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Comedy of Character
Inciting Incident
Situation Comedy
Improv
16. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Light Plot
Konstantin Stanislavski
Rehearsal Process
Character
17. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Theatre of Cruelty
Actor
Realism and Realistic Developments
Character
18. Rhyming
Educational Theatre
Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Euripides
19. Not many props or detailed scenery
Tragedy
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Renaissance
Copyright
20. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Aristotle
Educational Theatre
Morality Plays
Antiquarianism
21. Someone who writes plays
Melodrama
Components of Concept
Rising Action
Playwright
22. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Hypokrites
Comedy of Ideas
Producer
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
23. Part of What is included in the text
Meander
Comedy of Manners
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Dialogue
24. Based on the lives of the saints
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Miracle Plays
Mimesis
25. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Off-Broadway
Konstantin Stanislavski
Components of Concept
26. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Reversal
Avant-Garde
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Inciting Incident
27. Events progress forward in time
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Linear Plot
Naturalism
Neoclassicism (def)
28. 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
Meyerhold
Community Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Black Box
29. Audience watches from 3 sides
Euripides
Plato
Protagonist
Thrust Space
30. Gas lights - etc.
Improv
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Ground Plan
Theatre of Cruelty
31. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Educational Theatre
Producer
Hybrid Theatre
Designer
32. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
Off-Off-Broadway
Anton Chekhov
Representational Approach
33. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
Casting Director
Variables of Costume Design
University Wits
34. Proscenium space
Melodrama (def)
The Box Set
Regional Theatre
Antiquarianism
35. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Comedy
Melodrama (def)
Dialogue
Morality Plays
36. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Sophocles
Light Plot
Components of Concept
Wings
37. Works published before 1923
Designer
Eugene Scribe
Public Domain
Catharsis
38. 'Father of Realism'
Broadway
Henrik Ibsen
Downstage
Tragedy
39. Events progress forward in time
Front of House
Naturalism
Linear Plot
Downstage
40. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Educational Theatre
Aristophanes
Royalty
41. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Casting Director
Theatron
Downstage
42. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Light Plot
Rendering
Regional Theatre
Royalty
43. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Hybrid Theatre
Meyerhold
Theatre of Cruelty
Proscenium Space
44. Proscenium arch/stage
Variables of Costume Design
Actor
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
William Shakespeare
45. A type of performance in which dialogue and action are not planned ahead of time and written down - but are made of on the spot by the actors
Improv
Inciting Incident
Realism and Realistic Developments
Avant-Garde
46. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Ground Plan
Skene
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Antiquarianism
47. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Comedy of Character
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Dialogue
Thrust Space
48. England's type of theatre
Conflict
The Globe
Playwright
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
49. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Tragedy
Catharsis
Eugene Scribe
50. 500-1800 people
Dialogue
Plot
Eugene Scribe
Broadway
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