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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. 500-1800 people
Broadway
Rehearsal Process
Meyerhold
Tragedy
2. Controls the environment in the theatre
Light Plot
Falling Action
Designer
Realism and Realistic Developments
3. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
Regional Theatre
Climax
Rehearsal Process
4. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Designer
Proscenium Space
Rehearsal Process
Thought
5. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Postmodernism
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Sophocles
Chorus
6. Audience watches from 3 sides
William Shakespeare
Thrust Space
Melodrama
Dramatic Genre
7. Works published before 1923
Empathy
Public Domain
Protagonist
Commedia Dell'Arte
8. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
Comedy of Character
Theatron
Anton Chekhov
9. Writer and first actor
Callbacks
Thespis
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Sturm & Drang Movement
10. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
Verisimilitude
Actor
Reversal
11. 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
Character
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Affective Memory
12. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Concept
Theatre of Cruelty
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Orchestra
13. Audience watches from 3 sides
Thrust Space
Improv
Empathy
Representational Acting
14. Events progress forward in time
Plot
Linear Plot
Miracle Plays
Non-Profit Theatre
15. Controls the environment in the theatre
Causal Play Structure
Climax
Rehearsal Process
Designer
16. Imitation of character and action
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Skene
The Box Set
Mimesis
17. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Comedy of Manners
Casting Director
Public Domain
18. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Exposition
Situation Comedy
Theatre of Cruelty
Mystery Plays
19. Grammatically based
Sophocles
Copyright
Prose
Blocking
20. Verse
Printing Press
Melodrama
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Mystery Plays
21. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
University Wits
Practical
Thespis
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
22. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Chorus
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Wings
Avant-Garde
23. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Prose
Amateur Theatre
Printing Press
Producer
24. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Eugene Scribe
Morality Plays
Tragedy
Thrust Space
25. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Light Plot
Presentational Approach
Mimesis
Designer
26. Organization of action
Cycles
Comedy of Manners
Plot
Aristotle
27. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
Thespis
Off-Off-Broadway
Ground Plan
28. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Falling Action
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Climax
29. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Mimesis
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Representational Acting
Light Plot
30. Events that set off a major conflict
Inciting Incident
Royalty
University Wits
Aristotle
31. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Presentational Approach
Inciting Incident
Off-Off-Broadway
Concept
32. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Playwright
Director
Sophocles
Designer
33. Not many props or detailed scenery
Emile Zola
Euripides
Representational Approach
Renaissance
34. Ideas within the play
Off-Broadway
Comedy of Manners
ostume Plot
Thought
35. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Upstage
Printing Press
Broadway
36. Grammatically based
Comedy of Character
Tragicomedy
Catharsis
Prose
37. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Lazzi
Rendering
Bertolt Brecht
Emile Zola
38. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Mystery Plays
Light Plot
Theatron
39. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Anton Chekhov
Non-Profit Theatre
Miracle Plays
Character
40. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
Miracle Plays
William Shakespeare
Off-Off-Broadway
41. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Director
Aristophanes
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Designer
42. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Broadway
Off-Off-Broadway
Meander
Konstantin Stanislavski
43. Emotional release
Educational Theatre
Catharsis
Producer
Naturalism
44. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Ground Plan
Verisimilitude
Character
Light Plot
45. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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46. Appearance of truth
Dialogue
Verisimilitude
Tragedy
Light Plot
47. Rejection of neoclassicism -
The Globe
Pageants
Stage Manager
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
48. Proscenium space
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
The Box Set
Subplot
Dramaturg
49. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Meander
Sturm & Drang Movement
Thrust Space
Thought
50. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Hybrid Theatre
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Skene