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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. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Thespis
Public Domain
Theatron
Sense Memory
2. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Cycles
Downstage
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Character
3. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Commercial Theatre
Naturalism
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Avant-Garde
4. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Royalty
Sturm & Drang Movement
Morality Plays
Representational Acting
5. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Orchestra
Meyerhold
Royalty
Dramaturg
6. Ideas within the play
Fourth Wall
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Thought
Commercial Theatre
7. 'Storm and stress'
Character
Konstantin Stanislavski
Avant-Garde
Sturm & Drang Movement
8. Linear events progress forward in time
Chorus
The Globe
Causal Play Structure
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
9. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Causal Play Structure
Morality Plays
Antagonist
10. Rhyming
Dramatic Genre
Tragicomedy
Hypokrites
Verse
11. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Conflict
ostume Plot
Thought
William Shakespeare
12. Series of short stories
Falling Action
Concept
Anton Chekhov
The Globe
13. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Morality Plays
Reversal
The Globe
Vomitories
14. Based on the lives of the saints
Designer
Inciting Incident
Miracle Plays
Thrust Space
15. Organization of action
Situation Comedy
Plot
The Box Set
Copyright
16. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Bertolt Brecht
Chorus
Realism and Realistic Developments
Reversal
17. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
Stage Manager
Components of Concept
Actor
18. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Practical
Empathy
Comedy of Manners
19. Performs Actions of the Play
Non-Profit Theatre
Director
Character
Meyerhold
20. Italians
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Comedy of Ideas
Orchestra
Upstage
21. 100-499 people
Off-Broadway
ostume Plot
Henrik Ibsen
Wings
22. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Verse
Community Theatre
Avant-Garde
Tragedy
23. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Character
Thrust Space
24. A fee for each performance
Variables of Costume Design
Catharsis
Variables of Costume Design
Royalty
25. Verse
Broadway
Meyerhold
Anton Chekhov
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
26. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Tragicomedy
Lazzi
Rendering
Non-Profit Theatre
27. Busiest person in the theatre
Stage Manager
Aesthetic Distance
The Box Set
Dramatic Genre
28. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Blocking
Verisimilitude
Theatre of Cruelty
29. Rejection of neoclassicism -
ostume Plot
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Prose
Commedia Dell'Arte
30. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Climax
Cycles
Rendering
Aesthetic Distance
31. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle
Verisimilitude
Plot
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
32. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Hybrid Theatre
Subtext
Regional Theatre
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
33. Main character
Rendering
Melodrama
Vomitories
Protagonist
34. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Sophocles
Naturalism
Callbacks
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
35. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Lazzi
Empathy
Rendering
Printing Press
36. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Meander
Verisimilitude
Meander
Realism and Realistic Developments
37. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Blocking
Empathy
Non-Profit Theatre
Character
38. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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39. 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
Community Theatre
Thought
University Wits
Variables of Costume Design
40. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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41. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Light Plot
Hypokrites
Non-Profit Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
42. Grammatically based
Prose
Emile Zola
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Catharsis
43. Information needed to understand the play
Rehearsal Process
Henrik Ibsen
Exposition
Subtext
44. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Stage Manager
Melodrama (def)
Playwright
Auditions
45. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Empathy
Callbacks
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Fourth Wall
46. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Orchestra
Inciting Incident
Theatre of Cruelty
Language
47. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Playwright
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Empathy
Downstage
48. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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49. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Sophocles
Broadway
Naturalism
Printing Press
50. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Thought
Presentational Approach
Slapstick