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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 drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Antiquarianism
Avant-Garde
Ground Plan
Chorus
2. Linear events progress forward in time
Discovery
The Box Set
Slapstick
Causal Play Structure
3. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Reversal
Aristophanes
Antiquarianism
Copyright
4. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Skene
Meyerhold
Callbacks
Playwright
5. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Aesthetic Distance
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Proscenium Space
Light Plot
6. Works published before 1923
Thrust Space
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Public Domain
Pageants
7. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Presentational Approach
Callbacks
Copyright
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
8. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Falling Action
Mimesis
Concept
Dramatic Genre
9. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Sense Memory
Tragedy
Variables of Costume Design
Neoclassicism (def)
10. The standard tool for casting a production
Auditions
Antiquarianism
Realism and Realistic Developments
Plato
11. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Educational Theatre
Plato
Sophocles
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
12. Works published before 1923
Non-Profit Theatre
Public Domain
Vomitories
Sophocles
13. Main character
Ground Plan
Protagonist
Tragicomedy
Anton Chekhov
14. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Representational Approach
Wings
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Subtext
15. Linear events progress forward in time
Proscenium Space
Ground Plan
Subtext
Causal Play Structure
16. Rhyming
Concept
Upstage
Verse
Aristotle
17. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Tragicomedy
Downstage
Melodrama (def)
Blocking
18. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Vomitories
Off-Broadway
Off-Off-Broadway
Chorus
19. Humorous - objective view point
Rising Action
Henrik Ibsen
Comedy
Discovery
20. Imitation of character and action
Emile Zola
Thought
William Shakespeare
Mimesis
21. A group of actors - not just one star
Black Box
Royalty
Ensemble
Off-Off-Broadway
22. Someone who writes plays
Playwright
Emile Zola
Aristotle
Antiquarianism
23. 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
Components of Concept
Linear Plot
Public Domain
24. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Aesthetic Distance
ostume Plot
Meyerhold
Hybrid Theatre
25. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Sense Memory
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Non-Profit Theatre
26. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Broadway
Comedy of Character
Comedy
Bertolt Brecht
27. Part of What is included in the text
Dialogue
Ensemble
Henrik Ibsen
Falling Action
28. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Off-Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway
Concept
Anton Chekhov
29. England's type of theatre
Upstage
Proscenium Space
The Globe
Rising Action
30. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Skene
Amateur Theatre
Realism and Realistic Developments
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
31. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Prose
Verse
Melodrama (def)
Subtext
32. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Bertolt Brecht
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Commedia Dell'Arte
Subplot
33. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Variables of Costume Design
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Affective Memory
Orchestra
34. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Light Plot
Front of House
Hypokrites
Aristotle
35. Writer and first actor
Cycles
Sophocles
Thespis
Commedia Dell'Arte
36. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Reversal
Representational Approach
Presentational Approach
37. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Director
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Wings
Subplot
38. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Hybrid Theatre
Light Plot
Cycles
Ground Plan
39. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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40. Emotional release
Linear Plot
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Catharsis
Aesthetic Distance
41. Main character
Off-Off-Broadway
Components of Concept
Front of House
Protagonist
42. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Morality Plays
Practical
Thought
Ensemble
43. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Educational Theatre
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Commedia Dell'Arte
Comedy of Ideas
44. Events progress forward in time
Melodrama (def)
Linear Plot
Printing Press
Causal Play Structure
45. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Downstage
Front of House
Wings
Public Domain
46. Medea - The Bacchae
Catharsis
Thrust Space
Director
Euripides
47. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Catharsis
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Components of Concept
48. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Ground Plan
Producer
Regional Theatre
49. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Components of Concept
Front of House
Dramaturg
Thrust Space
50. Series of short stories
Cycles
Anton Chekhov
Falling Action
Callbacks