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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. Planned actor movement
Practical
Comedy of Character
Sophocles
Blocking
2. A>B>C>D
Callbacks
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Pageants
3. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Language
Chorus
Casting Director
Causal Play Structure
4. Someone who writes plays
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Plato
Linear Plot
Playwright
5. Performs Actions of the Play
Ensemble
Tragicomedy
Theatron
Character
6. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Wings
Educational Theatre
Affective Memory
Comedy of Manners
7. Writer and first actor
Royalty
Thespis
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Dialogue
8. 'Father of Realism'
Henrik Ibsen
Amateur Theatre
Fourth Wall
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
9. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Falling Action
Off-Off-Broadway
Sophocles
Rising Action
10. High point of action
Climax
Sturm & Drang Movement
Cycles
Comedy
11. Events that set off a major conflict
Inciting Incident
Reversal
Antiquarianism
Community Theatre
12. Organization of action
Commercial Theatre
Plot
Konstantin Stanislavski
Causal Play Structure
13. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Comedy of Manners
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
University Wits
Verse
14. Causes trouble for the main character
Reversal
Antagonist
Character
Tragicomedy
15. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Ground Plan
Morality Plays
Meander
The Globe
16. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Rehearsal Process
Front of House
Theatron
17. Works published before 1923
Orchestra
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Public Domain
Postmodernism
18. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Prose
Chorus
Fourth Wall
Exposition
19. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Morality Plays
Auditions
Comedy
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
20. Was poetry for many years
Language
Comedy of Manners
Commercial Theatre
ostume Plot
21. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Representational Acting
Mystery Plays
Hybrid Theatre
Anton Chekhov
22. Busiest person in the theatre
Concept
Thrust Space
Stage Manager
Pageants
23. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle
Stage Manager
Commercial Theatre
Rehearsal Process
24. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Naturalism
Chorus
Producer
Rising Action
25. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Non-Profit Theatre
Thrust Space
Director
26. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Hybrid Theatre
Amateur Theatre
Morality Plays
Black Box
27. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Upstage
Representational Acting
Antagonist
28. Causes trouble for the main character
Subplot
Commedia Dell'Arte
Antagonist
Commedia Dell'Arte
29. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Auditions
Aristophanes
Printing Press
Skene
30. Gas lights - etc.
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Callbacks
Euripides
31. England's type of theatre
Miracle Plays
Aeschylus
The Globe
Blocking
32. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Stage Manager
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Pageants
33. Ideas within the play
Aristotle
Variables of Costume Design
Climax
Thought
34. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Printing Press
Printing Press
Henrik Ibsen
Commercial Theatre
35. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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36. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Cycles
Aristotle
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Miracle Plays
37. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Linear Plot
Copyright
Reversal
38. A group of actors - not just one star
Ensemble
Upstage
Producer
Plot
39. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Tragedy
Aeschylus
Climax
Slapstick
40. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Variables of Costume Design
Comedy of Ideas
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Comedy of Manners
41. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Front of House
Dramaturg
Producer
42. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Blocking
Light Plot
Producer
Designer
43. Audience watches from 3 sides
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Hybrid Theatre
Neoclassicism (def)
Thrust Space
44. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Avant-Garde
Downstage
Catharsis
William Shakespeare
45. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Verse
William Shakespeare
Verisimilitude
46. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Regional Theatre
Miracle Plays
Plato
Comedy of Ideas
47. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Verisimilitude
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Presentational Approach
48. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Callbacks
Hypokrites
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
49. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Vomitories
Plato
Konstantin Stanislavski
Meander
50. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Components of Concept
Avant-Garde
Broadway
Character