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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. Visible light source on stage
Black Box
Practical
Affective Memory
Conflict
2. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Morality Plays
Avant-Garde
Empathy
Plato
3. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Upstage
The Box Set
Copyright
Aristophanes
4. Imitation of character and action
Situation Comedy
Mimesis
Comedy
Lazzi
5. Linear events progress forward in time
Miracle Plays
Affective Memory
Variables of Costume Design
Causal Play Structure
6. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Sense Memory
Dialogue
Community Theatre
Orchestra
7. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Empathy
Practical
Euripides
8. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Rehearsal Process
Slapstick
Chorus
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
9. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Concept
Variables of Costume Design
Director
Empathy
10. Rhyming
Sturm & Drang Movement
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Mystery Plays
Verse
11. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Henrik Ibsen
Non-Profit Theatre
Emile Zola
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
12. Writer and first actor
Postmodernism
ostume Plot
Thespis
Naturalism
13. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Meander
Royalty
Meyerhold
14. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Empathy
Thespis
Light Plot
Comedy of Character
15. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Aristotle
Rendering
Stage Manager
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
16. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Off-Broadway
Callbacks
Verse
Concept
17. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
Non-Profit Theatre
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
18. Feel more in stage acting.
Fourth Wall
Printing Press
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
19. 500-1800 people
Theatron
Ensemble
Broadway
Dramaturg
20. A group of actors - not just one star
Catharsis
Ensemble
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Copyright
21. Main character
Fourth Wall
Theatron
Protagonist
Dialogue
22. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Rising Action
Reversal
Cycles
Aristophanes
23. Planned actor movement
Blocking
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Falling Action
Rising Action
24. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Callbacks
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Producer
Printing Press
25. Verse
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Naturalism
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Chorus
26. Greek - actor
Thespis
Antiquarianism
Regional Theatre
Hypokrites
27. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mystery Plays
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Commercial Theatre
Stage Manager
28. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Situation Comedy
Hybrid Theatre
Callbacks
Chorus
29. A fee for each performance
Aristophanes
Wings
Royalty
Aesthetic Distance
30. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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31. Medea - The Bacchae
Representational Acting
Euripides
Lazzi
Royalty
32. Person who embodies a character on stage
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Hybrid Theatre
Actor
Meander
33. The era we are currently in
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
ostume Plot
Postmodernism
Concept
34. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Prose
Community Theatre
Naturalism
35. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
University Wits
Eugene Scribe
Tragedy
Lazzi
36. Imitation of character and action
Improv
Henrik Ibsen
Front of House
Mimesis
37. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Linear Plot
Representational Approach
Orchestra
38. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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39. Verse
Plot
Public Domain
Climax
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
40. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Affective Memory
Commercial Theatre
Representational Acting
Downstage
41. 'Storm and stress'
Front of House
Dramatic Genre
Sturm & Drang Movement
Director
42. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mystery Plays
Wings
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Presentational Approach
43. Information needed to understand the play
Aesthetic Distance
Exposition
Avant-Garde
Tragicomedy
44. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Auditions
Sense Memory
Skene
Aristophanes
45. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Comedy of Manners
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Sense Memory
Proscenium Space
46. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Realism and Realistic Developments
Comedy
Blocking
Fourth Wall
47. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Verse
William Shakespeare
Cycles
Reversal
48. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Thrust Space
The Globe
Light Plot
Representational Acting
49. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Mystery Plays
Chorus
Wings
Morality Plays
50. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Climax
Meander
Aristophanes