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Theatre Appreciation
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1. Greek - actor
Practical
Empathy
Hypokrites
Realism and Realistic Developments
2. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Callbacks
Hybrid Theatre
Regional Theatre
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
3. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Dramatic Genre
Linear Plot
Rehearsal Process
Aristophanes
4. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Non-Profit Theatre
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Antiquarianism
Representational Approach
5. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Euripides
Slapstick
Bertolt Brecht
Anton Chekhov
6. Events progress forward in time
Stage Manager
Linear Plot
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Meander
7. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Rendering
Actor
Orchestra
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
8. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Subtext
Non-Profit Theatre
Melodrama
9. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Pageants
Avant-Garde
Plot
Community Theatre
10. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Tragicomedy
Bertolt Brecht
Copyright
Linear Plot
11. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Downstage
Stage Manager
Morality Plays
Sophocles
12. Verse
Commedia Dell'Arte
Antagonist
The Globe
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
13. Not many props or detailed scenery
Exposition
Renaissance
Tragicomedy
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
14. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
ostume Plot
Cycles
Chorus
Concept
15. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Sturm & Drang Movement
Pageants
Sense Memory
Morality Plays
16. High point of action
Reversal
Climax
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
17. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Representational Approach
Antiquarianism
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Meyerhold
18. Busiest person in the theatre
Stage Manager
Skene
Rising Action
Dialogue
19. Imitation of character and action
Slapstick
Stage Manager
Realism and Realistic Developments
Mimesis
20. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Regional Theatre
Callbacks
Falling Action
Front of House
21. Organization of action
Casting Director
Protagonist
Plot
Public Domain
22. 'Storm and stress'
Sturm & Drang Movement
Hypokrites
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Hypokrites
23. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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24. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Front of House
Mimesis
Situation Comedy
Commedia Dell'Arte
25. Main character
Wings
Plot
Components of Concept
Protagonist
26. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Inciting Incident
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Naturalism
Thought
27. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Naturalism
Concept
Producer
Realism and Realistic Developments
28. A>B>C>D
Upstage
Eugene Scribe
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Comedy of Ideas
29. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Casting Director
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Affective Memory
Subtext
30. Based on the lives of the saints
Hybrid Theatre
Miracle Plays
Royalty
Empathy
31. Planned actor movement
Morality Plays
Affective Memory
Character
Blocking
32. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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33. Performs Actions of the Play
Comedy of Manners
Protagonist
Designer
Character
34. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Verse
Components of Concept
Non-Profit Theatre
Blocking
35. 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
Community Theatre
Tragedy
Dramaturg
Meyerhold
36. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Concept
Royalty
Stage Manager
Meyerhold
37. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Realism and Realistic Developments
Falling Action
Melodrama
38. Appearance of truth
Affective Memory
Verisimilitude
Casting Director
Comedy
39. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Fourth Wall
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Protagonist
40. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
ostume Plot
Neoclassicism (def)
Situation Comedy
Tragicomedy
41. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Dramatic Genre
Amateur Theatre
Community Theatre
Melodrama
42. 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
Community Theatre
Avant-Garde
Variables of Costume Design
Meyerhold
43. Medea - The Bacchae
Euripides
Components of Concept
Producer
ostume Plot
44. Events progress forward in time
Regional Theatre
Linear Plot
Educational Theatre
Lazzi
45. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
The Globe
Mimesis
Wings
Light Plot
46. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
The Globe
Casting Director
Representational Acting
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
47. Focused on thought - controversial
Dramaturg
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Comedy of Ideas
The Box Set
48. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Cycles
Skene
Playwright
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
49. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Naturalism
Representational Approach
Sense Memory
Representational Acting
50. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Cycles
Causal Play Structure
Ground Plan
Fourth Wall
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