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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. High point of action
Bertolt Brecht
Climax
Broadway
Printing Press
2. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Conflict
Dialogue
Mimesis
Thespis
3. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Wings
Meander
Skene
Aristotle
4. Writer and first actor
Producer
Thespis
Tragedy
Community Theatre
5. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Chorus
Dramaturg
Wings
Auditions
6. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Printing Press
Protagonist
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Subplot
7. A fee for each performance
Sophocles
Royalty
Renaissance
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
8. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Exposition
Plato
Casting Director
9. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Meyerhold
Aesthetic Distance
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
10. Feel more in stage acting.
Casting Director
Chorus
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Community Theatre
11. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Actor
Skene
12. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Stage Manager
Emile Zola
Thespis
Copyright
13. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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14. A group of actors - not just one star
Ensemble
Theatron
Discovery
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
15. Proscenium space
Subplot
The Box Set
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Emile Zola
16. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Hypokrites
Reversal
Hybrid Theatre
Affective Memory
17. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Rendering
Playwright
Light Plot
18. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
William Shakespeare
Falling Action
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Dialogue
19. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle
Melodrama (def)
Tragicomedy
Empathy
20. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Plato
Producer
Renaissance
21. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Verisimilitude
Tragedy
Public Domain
Comedy
22. Proscenium arch/stage
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Naturalism
Subplot
23. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Thespis
Variables of Costume Design
Practical
Regional Theatre
24. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Producer
Realism and Realistic Developments
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
25. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Orchestra
Mystery Plays
Dramaturg
Broadway
26. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Dramaturg
Hypokrites
Concept
27. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Regional Theatre
The Globe
Aeschylus
Public Domain
28. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Situation Comedy
Downstage
Comedy of Character
Hybrid Theatre
29. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Antiquarianism
Tragicomedy
Community Theatre
30. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Printing Press
Verisimilitude
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Empathy
31. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Neoclassicism (def)
Stage Manager
Producer
32. Linear events progress forward in time
Theatron
Rehearsal Process
Causal Play Structure
ostume Plot
33. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Aristophanes
Variables of Costume Design
Non-Profit Theatre
34. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Printing Press
Comedy of Ideas
Ground Plan
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
35. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Affective Memory
Thrust Space
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Discovery
36. Medea - The Bacchae
Euripides
Aesthetic Distance
Dramatic Genre
Rendering
37. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Renaissance
Community Theatre
Chorus
William Shakespeare
38. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Director
Dramaturg
Light Plot
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
39. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Catharsis
Thespis
Melodrama
Causal Play Structure
40. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Commedia Dell'Arte
Naturalism
Copyright
Meyerhold
41. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Callbacks
Light Plot
Dialogue
Casting Director
42. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Downstage
Realism and Realistic Developments
Hybrid Theatre
Melodrama
43. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aeschylus
Renaissance
Fourth Wall
Auditions
44. The standard tool for casting a production
Proscenium Space
Commedia Dell'Arte
Plot
Auditions
45. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Mimesis
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Sophocles
ostume Plot
46. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Commercial Theatre
Dramatic Genre
Royalty
47. Someone who writes plays
Improv
Concept
Ground Plan
Playwright
48. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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49. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Aeschylus
Dramaturg
Catharsis
50. The first director
Prose
Light Plot
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aesthetic Distance