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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. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
Postmodernism
Prose
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
2. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Sense Memory
Linear Plot
Tragedy
Front of House
3. The standard tool for casting a production
Prose
Affective Memory
Causal Play Structure
Auditions
4. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Pageants
Comedy of Ideas
5. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Sturm & Drang Movement
Discovery
Emile Zola
Playwright
6. Top of stage
Stage Manager
Dramatic Genre
Upstage
Wings
7. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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8. Works published before 1923
The Box Set
Language
Public Domain
Concept
9. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Discovery
Konstantin Stanislavski
Morality Plays
10. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Melodrama (def)
Cycles
ostume Plot
Konstantin Stanislavski
11. Greek - actor
Hypokrites
Sturm & Drang Movement
Concept
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
12. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Commedia Dell'Arte
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Character
Catharsis
13. A group of actors - not just one star
Ensemble
Mimesis
Public Domain
Variables of Costume Design
14. Proscenium arch/stage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Rendering
Front of House
Miracle Plays
15. High point of action
Broadway
Henrik Ibsen
Aristophanes
Climax
16. Focused on thought - controversial
Ground Plan
Dialogue
Comedy of Ideas
Postmodernism
17. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Light Plot
Empathy
Printing Press
Rising Action
18. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Antagonist
Rendering
William Shakespeare
19. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Community Theatre
Falling Action
Rising Action
Aristotle
20. 500-1800 people
Broadway
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Designer
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
21. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Empathy
Dramatic Genre
Printing Press
Broadway
22. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Language
Affective Memory
Amateur Theatre
Commercial Theatre
23. Rhyming
Verse
Aesthetic Distance
Sturm & Drang Movement
Reversal
24. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Playwright
Aristophanes
Realism and Realistic Developments
Sense Memory
25. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Eugene Scribe
Plato
Falling Action
26. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Sophocles
Mystery Plays
Catharsis
Black Box
27. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Light Plot
Thespis
Skene
Melodrama (def)
28. Grammatically based
Aeschylus
Rehearsal Process
Prose
Protagonist
29. The standard tool for casting a production
Auditions
Slapstick
Producer
Verisimilitude
30. A group of actors - not just one star
Upstage
Ensemble
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Hypokrites
31. Was poetry for many years
Aristophanes
Language
Downstage
Dramatic Genre
32. Italians
Orchestra
Meyerhold
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Postmodernism
33. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Commercial Theatre
Comedy of Character
Aristophanes
Emile Zola
34. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Anton Chekhov
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Light Plot
Dramatic Genre
35. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Blocking
Plato
Improv
Downstage
36. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Bertolt Brecht
Educational Theatre
Verisimilitude
Community Theatre
37. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Mimesis
Copyright
Regional Theatre
Empathy
38. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Non-Profit Theatre
Eugene Scribe
Theatre of Cruelty
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
39. Appearance of truth
Prose
Light Plot
Bertolt Brecht
Verisimilitude
40. Appearance of truth
Empathy
Verisimilitude
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Empathy
41. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
ostume Plot
Aristotle
Character
Components of Concept
42. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Aeschylus
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Commercial Theatre
Off-Off-Broadway
43. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Cycles
Representational Acting
Theatron
Plato
44. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Broadway
Chorus
Representational Approach
Improv
45. 'Father of Realism'
Morality Plays
Casting Director
Henrik Ibsen
Broadway
46. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Pageants
Wings
Aeschylus
Off-Off-Broadway
47. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
Hybrid Theatre
Presentational Approach
Prose
48. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Ground Plan
Conflict
49. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Casting Director
Exposition
Melodrama
Presentational Approach
50. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Presentational Approach
Dramatic Genre
Printing Press
Educational Theatre