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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. Focused on thought - controversial
Comedy of Ideas
Euripides
Casting Director
Orchestra
2. Part of What is included in the text
Dialogue
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Representational Approach
Concept
3. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Proscenium Space
Protagonist
Chorus
Mimesis
4. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Commercial Theatre
Linear Plot
Falling Action
Lazzi
5. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
Components of Concept
Designer
The Globe
6. Person who embodies a character on stage
Comedy
Aristophanes
Actor
Plato
7. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Aeschylus
Comedy of Character
Sense Memory
Dramatic Genre
8. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Actor
Inciting Incident
Catharsis
Dramatic Genre
9. Major character at odds with social expectations
Fourth Wall
Comedy of Manners
Konstantin Stanislavski
Skene
10. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Postmodernism
Rising Action
Black Box
University Wits
11. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy of Manners
Representational Acting
University Wits
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
12. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Blocking
Regional Theatre
Emile Zola
13. Events that set off a major conflict
Inciting Incident
Wings
Community Theatre
Wings
14. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Printing Press
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Verisimilitude
15. A group of actors - not just one star
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Aristotle
Ensemble
Aesthetic Distance
16. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Tragedy
Reversal
Antiquarianism
Director
17. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Antagonist
Catharsis
Concept
Pageants
18. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Linear Plot
Black Box
Variables of Costume Design
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
19. Visible light source on stage
Thrust Space
Morality Plays
Practical
Hybrid Theatre
20. Proscenium space
Exposition
Mystery Plays
The Box Set
Comedy of Character
21. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
The Box Set
Theatron
Wings
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
22. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Variables of Costume Design
Mimesis
Subplot
23. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Meyerhold
Practical
Subplot
Amateur Theatre
24. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Subtext
Linear Plot
Orchestra
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
25. The first director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Proscenium Space
Mimesis
Educational Theatre
26. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Non-Profit Theatre
Comedy of Manners
Sense Memory
Wings
27. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
The Globe
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Skene
Dramatic Genre
28. 'Storm and stress'
Designer
Rehearsal Process
Vomitories
Sturm & Drang Movement
29. Linear events progress forward in time
Aesthetic Distance
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Causal Play Structure
Variables of Costume Design
30. Gas lights - etc.
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Prose
Rendering
Chorus
31. Ideas within the play
Director
Konstantin Stanislavski
Aeschylus
Thought
32. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Rendering
Plato
Verse
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
33. Humorous - objective view point
Aristotle
Comedy
Postmodernism
Stage Manager
34. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Realism and Realistic Developments
Theatron
Plato
Theatron
35. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Amateur Theatre
Aristophanes
Off-Broadway
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
36. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Downstage
Tragicomedy
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
37. England's type of theatre
Neoclassicism (def)
Designer
Verse
The Globe
38. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
Emile Zola
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Plot
39. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Variables of Costume Design
Rehearsal Process
Antagonist
Dramaturg
40. Time (play had to take place within a 24 hour period) - place (the whole play must take place in a single location) - and action (single plot)
Practical
Ensemble
Melodrama (def)
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
41. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Slapstick
Auditions
Anton Chekhov
Callbacks
42. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Slapstick
Skene
Postmodernism
43. Someone who writes plays
Playwright
Verse
Royalty
Situation Comedy
44. Gas lights - etc.
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Aristotle
Comedy of Character
45. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Representational Approach
Public Domain
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Conflict
46. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Community Theatre
Aeschylus
Light Plot
Commercial Theatre
47. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Meander
Sense Memory
Konstantin Stanislavski
48. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Light Plot
Comedy of Manners
Inciting Incident
Naturalism
49. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Amateur Theatre
Theatron
50. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Cycles
William Shakespeare
Empathy
Inciting Incident