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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. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Representational Approach
Commedia Dell'Arte
Reversal
2. Focused on thought - controversial
Comedy of Ideas
Sturm & Drang Movement
Rehearsal Process
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
3. The first director
Causal Play Structure
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Wings
Ground Plan
4. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Subplot
Melodrama (def)
Antiquarianism
Verisimilitude
5. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Rehearsal Process
Chorus
William Shakespeare
Mimesis
6. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Ensemble
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Plot
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
7. 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)
Variables of Costume Design
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Non-Profit Theatre
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
8. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Mimesis
Variables of Costume Design
Light Plot
Morality Plays
9. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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10. Used alienation to encourage distance
Sense Memory
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Bertolt Brecht
Verse
11. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Rendering
Anton Chekhov
Skene
Commedia Dell'Arte
12. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
Chorus
Comedy of Manners
Prose
13. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Prose
Tragicomedy
Representational Approach
Verisimilitude
14. Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Regional Theatre
Neoclassicism (def)
Callbacks
15. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Educational Theatre
Dramaturg
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Pageants
16. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Cycles
Verisimilitude
Theatron
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
17. Humorous - objective view point
Non-Profit Theatre
Royalty
Comedy
Community Theatre
18. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Orchestra
Anton Chekhov
Thespis
Theatre of Cruelty
19. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Aesthetic Distance
Chorus
Fourth Wall
Designer
20. Main character
Ground Plan
Sophocles
Protagonist
Fourth Wall
21. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Cycles
Naturalism
Broadway
22. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Rendering
Concept
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Melodrama
23. Visible light source on stage
Thespis
Causal Play Structure
Practical
Plot
24. A group of actors - not just one star
Thought
Ensemble
Inciting Incident
Actor
25. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Language
Black Box
Ensemble
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
26. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Reversal
Subtext
Tragicomedy
Royalty
27. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Meander
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Educational Theatre
Realism and Realistic Developments
28. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Situation Comedy
Designer
Rising Action
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
29. Amateur theatre in which shows are created by residents of a particular area who come together without being part of a professional or academic institution
University Wits
Community Theatre
Printing Press
Empathy
30. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Concept
Pageants
31. Someone who writes plays
Sophocles
Playwright
Rehearsal Process
Commercial Theatre
32. Emotional release
Front of House
Educational Theatre
Catharsis
Dramaturg
33. England's type of theatre
Falling Action
The Globe
University Wits
William Shakespeare
34. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Thrust Space
Sophocles
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
35. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Representational Acting
Commedia Dell'Arte
Aesthetic Distance
Comedy of Character
36. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Conflict
William Shakespeare
Plato
Language
37. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Meander
Front of House
Comedy of Ideas
Reversal
38. Part of What is included in the text
Thrust Space
Dialogue
Postmodernism
Practical
39. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Mimesis
Printing Press
University Wits
Aeschylus
40. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Discovery
Playwright
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Aristophanes
41. Performs Actions of the Play
Language
Prose
Character
Educational Theatre
42. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Light Plot
Aeschylus
Community Theatre
Playwright
43. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Printing Press
Cycles
Postmodernism
Euripides
44. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Director
Thrust Space
Reversal
Konstantin Stanislavski
45. Proscenium space
Subtext
The Box Set
Thought
Presentational Approach
46. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Neoclassicism (def)
Plato
Upstage
Lazzi
47. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Plot
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Variables of Costume Design
Representational Approach
48. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy of Manners
Director
Skene
Eugene Scribe
49. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Black Box
Reversal
Slapstick
50. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Verisimilitude
Verisimilitude
Hybrid Theatre
Comedy of Character