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Theatre Appreciation
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1. Someone who writes plays
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Playwright
Comedy of Character
Meyerhold
2. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
Antagonist
Practical
Discovery
3. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Plot
Educational Theatre
Cycles
Aesthetic Distance
4. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Miracle Plays
Morality Plays
Naturalism
Producer
5. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Bertolt Brecht
Practical
Meander
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
6. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Concept
Commercial Theatre
Comedy
Skene
7. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Renaissance
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Eugene Scribe
Plot
8. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Sophocles
Exposition
Plato
Tragicomedy
9. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Chorus
Concept
Commedia Dell'Arte
Affective Memory
10. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Proscenium Space
Wings
Renaissance
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
11. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Representational Approach
Practical
Improv
12. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Non-Profit Theatre
Morality Plays
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Pageants
13. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Verisimilitude
Subplot
Components of Concept
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
14. Main character
Protagonist
Character
Meander
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
15. Busiest person in the theatre
Antiquarianism
Ensemble
Cycles
Stage Manager
16. Linear events progress forward in time
Antagonist
Royalty
Ensemble
Causal Play Structure
17. High point of action
Climax
Tragedy
Comedy of Character
Antiquarianism
18. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Director
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Empathy
Comedy
19. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Auditions
Comedy of Character
Black Box
Situation Comedy
20. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Antiquarianism
Tragicomedy
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Commercial Theatre
21. Not many props or detailed scenery
Avant-Garde
Thespis
Renaissance
Slapstick
22. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Language
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Slapstick
Melodrama
23. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Bertolt Brecht
Anton Chekhov
Exposition
24. Works published before 1923
Wings
Thought
Public Domain
Representational Acting
25. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Theatre of Cruelty
Melodrama (def)
Light Plot
Ground Plan
26. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Anton Chekhov
Morality Plays
Public Domain
Empathy
27. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Educational Theatre
Renaissance
Thought
Skene
28. Rhyming
Konstantin Stanislavski
Avant-Garde
Language
Verse
29. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Black Box
Conflict
Fourth Wall
Prose
30. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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31. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Subtext
Thrust Space
Copyright
Black Box
32. Greek - actor
Thrust Space
Stage Manager
Proscenium Space
Hypokrites
33. 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
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Representational Approach
Community Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
34. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Character
Copyright
Black Box
Reversal
35. Greek - actor
Hypokrites
Plot
Discovery
Improv
36. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
Representational Approach
Causal Play Structure
Proscenium Space
37. 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)
Inciting Incident
Printing Press
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Dramaturg
38. Feel more in stage acting.
Mystery Plays
Conflict
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Slapstick
39. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Amateur Theatre
Eugene Scribe
Subplot
Aristophanes
40. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Chorus
Tragicomedy
Subplot
41. Proscenium space
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Comedy of Manners
Rehearsal Process
The Box Set
42. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Meyerhold
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Broadway
Printing Press
43. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Exposition
Representational Acting
Morality Plays
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
44. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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45. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Comedy
Non-Profit Theatre
Concept
46. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Upstage
Ground Plan
Affective Memory
Off-Off-Broadway
47. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Plot
Playwright
Light Plot
Chorus
48. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Front of House
Ground Plan
Neoclassicism (def)
Downstage
49. 'Father of Realism'
Henrik Ibsen
Slapstick
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
University Wits
50. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Subtext
Aesthetic Distance
Miracle Plays
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