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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. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
2. 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
Verse
Prose
Community Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
3. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Emile Zola
Neoclassicism (def)
Meyerhold
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
4. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Sophocles
Dialogue
5. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Casting Director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Vomitories
Lazzi
6. Focused on thought - controversial
Sturm & Drang Movement
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Comedy of Ideas
Director
7. Grammatically based
Theatron
Sophocles
Empathy
Prose
8. 'Father of Realism'
Sense Memory
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Causal Play Structure
Henrik Ibsen
9. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Skene
Empathy
Amateur Theatre
10. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Casting Director
Slapstick
Practical
Components of Concept
11. Humorous - objective view point
Inciting Incident
Comedy
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Meander
12. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Falling Action
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Aesthetic Distance
Neoclassicism (def)
13. Major character at odds with social expectations
Mimesis
Downstage
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Comedy of Manners
14. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Sturm & Drang Movement
Aristophanes
Renaissance
15. 500-1800 people
Comedy of Character
Naturalism
Dialogue
Broadway
16. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Melodrama (def)
Comedy of Character
Emile Zola
17. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Conflict
Meyerhold
Morality Plays
18. Person who embodies a character on stage
Actor
Postmodernism
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Improv
19. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Rehearsal Process
Naturalism
Renaissance
20. A>B>C>D
Improv
University Wits
Miracle Plays
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
21. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Subtext
Comedy
Callbacks
Rehearsal Process
22. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Copyright
Director
Presentational Approach
Producer
23. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Hypokrites
Conflict
Regional Theatre
Non-Profit Theatre
24. Visible light source on stage
William Shakespeare
Auditions
Practical
Anton Chekhov
25. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Non-Profit Theatre
Subplot
Exposition
Front of House
26. A type of performance in which dialogue and action are not planned ahead of time and written down - but are made of on the spot by the actors
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Improv
Empathy
Verse
27. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Rising Action
Avant-Garde
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Printing Press
28. Rhyming
Vomitories
Neoclassicism (def)
Verse
Off-Off-Broadway
29. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Realism and Realistic Developments
Playwright
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Antagonist
30. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Rendering
Plot
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
31. 'Storm and stress'
Sturm & Drang Movement
The Globe
Proscenium Space
Rendering
32. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Sophocles
Auditions
Ground Plan
Meyerhold
33. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Components of Concept
Antiquarianism
34. The standard tool for casting a production
Linear Plot
Auditions
Character
Commercial Theatre
35. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Falling Action
Naturalism
Regional Theatre
Theatron
36. Planned actor movement
Downstage
Reversal
Blocking
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
37. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Pageants
Language
Comedy of Manners
38. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Dramaturg
Antiquarianism
Plot
Language
39. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Aeschylus
Verse
Henrik Ibsen
Casting Director
40. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Melodrama
Cycles
Downstage
Presentational Approach
41. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Community Theatre
Tragicomedy
Falling Action
Aristotle
42. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Character
Callbacks
Thought
Catharsis
43. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Meander
Auditions
Mystery Plays
Blocking
44. 'Storm and stress'
Skene
Broadway
Blocking
Sturm & Drang Movement
45. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Callbacks
Emile Zola
Comedy of Manners
Rehearsal Process
46. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Comedy
Tragicomedy
Amateur Theatre
Euripides
47. Emotional release
Linear Plot
Educational Theatre
Catharsis
Melodrama
48. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Rehearsal Process
Rising Action
Black Box
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
49. A type of performance in which dialogue and action are not planned ahead of time and written down - but are made of on the spot by the actors
Comedy of Manners
Lazzi
Improv
Language
50. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Euripides
Mystery Plays
Aesthetic Distance
Empathy