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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. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Anton Chekhov
Tragicomedy
Rising Action
Verse
2. Ideas within the play
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Downstage
Thought
Linear Plot
3. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Playwright
Neoclassicism (def)
Meyerhold
Plot
4. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Realism and Realistic Developments
Vomitories
Protagonist
Catharsis
5. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Aesthetic Distance
Public Domain
University Wits
Morality Plays
6. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Subtext
Blocking
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
7. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Comedy of Character
Sense Memory
Meander
Henrik Ibsen
8. The era we are currently in
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Subplot
Postmodernism
ostume Plot
9. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Subtext
Designer
Slapstick
Eugene Scribe
10. 500-1800 people
Broadway
Proscenium Space
Theatre of Cruelty
Hybrid Theatre
11. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Downstage
Plato
Neoclassicism (def)
Front of House
12. Focused on thought - controversial
Sophocles
Concept
Comedy of Ideas
Non-Profit Theatre
13. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Thought
Chorus
Antagonist
Naturalism
14. Humorous - objective view point
Mystery Plays
The Box Set
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Comedy
15. Events that set off a major conflict
Off-Broadway
Postmodernism
Inciting Incident
William Shakespeare
16. Major character at odds with social expectations
Antagonist
Antagonist
Amateur Theatre
Comedy of Manners
17. Verse
Discovery
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Subplot
Morality Plays
18. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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19. Grammatically based
Printing Press
Prose
Tragicomedy
Exposition
20. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Community Theatre
Empathy
Postmodernism
Ensemble
21. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Melodrama (def)
Pageants
Exposition
Casting Director
22. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
ostume Plot
Meyerhold
Antagonist
Playwright
23. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Comedy of Character
Skene
Melodrama
Subtext
24. A>B>C>D
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Avant-Garde
Director
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
25. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Emile Zola
The Globe
Stage Manager
University Wits
26. 'Storm and stress'
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Variables of Costume Design
Sturm & Drang Movement
The Box Set
27. The standard tool for casting a production
Hypokrites
Representational Approach
Auditions
Konstantin Stanislavski
28. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Climax
Empathy
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Neoclassicism (def)
29. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Copyright
Subplot
Downstage
30. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Rehearsal Process
Community Theatre
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Eugene Scribe
31. Planned actor movement
Hybrid Theatre
Producer
Blocking
Off-Off-Broadway
32. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Affective Memory
Commedia Dell'Arte
Amateur Theatre
Eugene Scribe
33. Audience watches from 3 sides
Aristotle
Aristophanes
Thrust Space
Meander
34. Proscenium arch/stage
Black Box
Director
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Representational Approach
35. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mystery Plays
Wings
Aristotle
Plato
36. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Conflict
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Tragedy
Konstantin Stanislavski
37. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Regional Theatre
Royalty
Improv
Euripides
38. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Dramatic Genre
Aristophanes
Commercial Theatre
Theatron
39. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Protagonist
Non-Profit Theatre
Comedy of Ideas
40. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Royalty
41. Was poetry for many years
Climax
Language
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Renaissance
42. Busiest person in the theatre
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Bertolt Brecht
Henrik Ibsen
Stage Manager
43. Verse
Variables of Costume Design
Miracle Plays
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Callbacks
44. Greek - actor
Hypokrites
Postmodernism
Regional Theatre
Mystery Plays
45. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Situation Comedy
Non-Profit Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Anton Chekhov
46. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Mimesis
Aeschylus
Bertolt Brecht
Sophocles
47. 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
Antiquarianism
Community Theatre
Fourth Wall
Naturalism
48. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Cycles
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
49. Gas lights - etc.
Fourth Wall
Producer
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Improv
50. Works published before 1923
Postmodernism
Public Domain
Non-Profit Theatre
University Wits