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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. Play reenacting biblical stories
Climax
Mystery Plays
Protagonist
Antiquarianism
2. A>B>C>D
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Rehearsal Process
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Plato
3. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Sturm & Drang Movement
Non-Profit Theatre
Components of Concept
Verisimilitude
4. 500-1800 people
Broadway
Falling Action
Verisimilitude
Meander
5. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Copyright
Representational Acting
Linear Plot
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
6. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Director
Hypokrites
Presentational Approach
Amateur Theatre
7. England's type of theatre
The Globe
Antagonist
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Comedy
8. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Antiquarianism
Situation Comedy
Director
9. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle
Aristophanes
Prose
Black Box
10. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Empathy
Ground Plan
11. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Subplot
Melodrama
Presentational Approach
Affective Memory
12. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Henrik Ibsen
Verisimilitude
Mystery Plays
Lazzi
13. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Downstage
Neoclassicism (def)
Theatre of Cruelty
Orchestra
14. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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15. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Variables of Costume Design
Meyerhold
Improv
16. Performs Actions of the Play
Aristophanes
Catharsis
Character
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
17. Grammatically based
Prose
Variables of Costume Design
Aeschylus
Plot
18. Events that set off a major conflict
Mimesis
Reversal
Inciting Incident
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
19. A>B>C>D
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Royalty
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
20. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
The Globe
Falling Action
Melodrama
21. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Variables of Costume Design
Rising Action
Director
Black Box
22. Rhyming
Verse
Proscenium Space
Commercial Theatre
Comedy of Character
23. The era we are currently in
Thought
Sophocles
Verse
Postmodernism
24. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Aesthetic Distance
Representational Acting
Blocking
25. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Director
Presentational Approach
Tragicomedy
26. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Prose
Representational Acting
Comedy of Manners
Components of Concept
27. Part of What is included in the text
Hybrid Theatre
The Box Set
Dialogue
Realism and Realistic Developments
28. Gas lights - etc.
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Causal Play Structure
Thespis
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
29. Causes trouble for the main character
Comedy
Antagonist
Copyright
Tragicomedy
30. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Eugene Scribe
Copyright
Comedy
31. Emotional release
Dramatic Genre
Catharsis
Royalty
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
32. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Director
Character
Conflict
Reversal
33. Used alienation to encourage distance
Improv
Off-Off-Broadway
Konstantin Stanislavski
Bertolt Brecht
34. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Dramaturg
Antagonist
Renaissance
Representational Acting
35. Play reenacting biblical stories
Slapstick
Aristophanes
Mystery Plays
Mimesis
36. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Dramaturg
Lazzi
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
37. The standard tool for casting a production
Commercial Theatre
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Eugene Scribe
Auditions
38. Visible light source on stage
Playwright
Light Plot
Slapstick
Practical
39. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Plato
Casting Director
Hybrid Theatre
40. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Vomitories
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Off-Off-Broadway
Plot
41. Imitation of character and action
Theatron
Variables of Costume Design
Mimesis
Comedy of Character
42. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Meyerhold
Off-Broadway
Presentational Approach
Regional Theatre
43. Visible light source on stage
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Broadway
Cycles
Practical
44. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Melodrama
Non-Profit Theatre
William Shakespeare
Konstantin Stanislavski
45. Proscenium arch/stage
Producer
The Box Set
Presentational Approach
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
46. Planned actor movement
Vomitories
Conflict
Blocking
Mystery Plays
47. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Empathy
Aristotle
Naturalism
Comedy of Manners
48. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Realism and Realistic Developments
Dramatic Genre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Melodrama
49. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Affective Memory
Mystery Plays
Neoclassicism (def)
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
50. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Auditions
Dialogue
Emile Zola
Postmodernism