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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Linear Plot
Konstantin Stanislavski
Light Plot
The Globe
2. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Konstantin Stanislavski
Plato
Cycles
Euripides
3. Top of stage
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Upstage
Antagonist
Designer
4. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aeschylus
Tragicomedy
Mimesis
Commercial Theatre
5. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Exposition
Non-Profit Theatre
Naturalism
Light Plot
6. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Plot
Black Box
Commercial Theatre
Empathy
7. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Naturalism
Sense Memory
Avant-Garde
Tragedy
8. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Antiquarianism
Presentational Approach
Ensemble
9. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Thought
Rising Action
Theatron
Variables of Costume Design
10. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Miracle Plays
Thespis
Copyright
Variables of Costume Design
11. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Hybrid Theatre
Affective Memory
Lazzi
Meander
12. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Regional Theatre
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Antagonist
Realism and Realistic Developments
13. Writer and first actor
Anton Chekhov
Thespis
Royalty
Improv
14. Focused on thought - controversial
Ground Plan
Comedy of Ideas
Mimesis
Educational Theatre
15. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Proscenium Space
Educational Theatre
Anton Chekhov
Cycles
16. Proscenium arch/stage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Affective Memory
Renaissance
Henrik Ibsen
17. 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
Hypokrites
Improv
Thespis
Light Plot
18. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Inciting Incident
Slapstick
Representational Acting
19. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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20. A fee for each performance
Comedy of Manners
Euripides
Royalty
Copyright
21. Appearance of truth
Aeschylus
Rendering
Postmodernism
Verisimilitude
22. Busiest person in the theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Meyerhold
Anton Chekhov
Stage Manager
23. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Linear Plot
Sense Memory
Melodrama
Royalty
24. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Meander
Melodrama
Actor
Tragicomedy
25. High point of action
Presentational Approach
Regional Theatre
Climax
Practical
26. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Prose
Plato
Producer
Chorus
27. 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
Director
Community Theatre
Discovery
Character
28. 100-499 people
Off-Broadway
Situation Comedy
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
29. Works published before 1923
Concept
Vomitories
Off-Broadway
Public Domain
30. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Variables of Costume Design
Proscenium Space
Sense Memory
Affective Memory
31. Medea - The Bacchae
Euripides
Eugene Scribe
Presentational Approach
Producer
32. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Reversal
William Shakespeare
Variables of Costume Design
Copyright
33. Not many props or detailed scenery
Meyerhold
Off-Off-Broadway
Renaissance
Melodrama (def)
34. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Copyright
Theatron
Naturalism
Rehearsal Process
35. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Vomitories
Presentational Approach
Conflict
36. Rhyming
Dramatic Genre
Antagonist
Verse
Proscenium Space
37. Main character
Representational Approach
Sense Memory
Protagonist
Broadway
38. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Orchestra
Avant-Garde
Royalty
Verse
39. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Aristophanes
Fourth Wall
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
40. Feel more in stage acting.
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Melodrama (def)
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Morality Plays
41. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Components of Concept
Producer
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Fourth Wall
42. 'Father of Realism'
Henrik Ibsen
Anton Chekhov
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Upstage
43. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Thespis
Proscenium Space
Sense Memory
Verse
44. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Melodrama (def)
University Wits
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
45. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Subplot
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Mystery Plays
Actor
46. 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
University Wits
Comedy of Ideas
Linear Plot
Improv
47. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Theatre of Cruelty
Aesthetic Distance
Avant-Garde
48. Ideas within the play
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Royalty
Thought
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
49. Events progress forward in time
Antiquarianism
Linear Plot
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Affective Memory
50. Planned actor movement
Cycles
Blocking
Components of Concept
Character