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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 person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Bertolt Brecht
Components of Concept
Director
Presentational Approach
2. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Rising Action
Comedy of Manners
Affective Memory
Vomitories
3. 'Father of Realism'
Hybrid Theatre
Thought
Affective Memory
Henrik Ibsen
4. Causes trouble for the main character
Educational Theatre
Catharsis
Commercial Theatre
Antagonist
5. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Catharsis
Discovery
Actor
Melodrama
6. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Rendering
Falling Action
Tragicomedy
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
7. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Dramatic Genre
Off-Off-Broadway
Bertolt Brecht
8. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Public Domain
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Verisimilitude
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
9. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Melodrama
Designer
Subplot
10. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Empathy
Subplot
University Wits
Konstantin Stanislavski
11. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Realism and Realistic Developments
Stage Manager
Upstage
12. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Aesthetic Distance
Neoclassicism (def)
Pageants
Representational Acting
13. A fee for each performance
Tragicomedy
Royalty
Hypokrites
Blocking
14. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Antiquarianism
Lazzi
Downstage
Front of House
15. 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)
Comedy of Character
Skene
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Verisimilitude
16. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Proscenium Space
Euripides
Fourth Wall
Producer
17. Main character
Rising Action
Protagonist
Exposition
Regional Theatre
18. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Representational Acting
Orchestra
University Wits
Concept
19. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Realism and Realistic Developments
Director
Thought
Representational Approach
20. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Variables of Costume Design
Producer
Non-Profit Theatre
21. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Sophocles
Antagonist
Character
Morality Plays
22. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Reversal
Rehearsal Process
Protagonist
Theatre of Cruelty
23. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Community Theatre
Morality Plays
Falling Action
Amateur Theatre
24. High point of action
Light Plot
Slapstick
Climax
Falling Action
25. Focused on thought - controversial
Affective Memory
Copyright
Language
Comedy of Ideas
26. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Eugene Scribe
Morality Plays
Melodrama
Broadway
27. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Hybrid Theatre
Rendering
Variables of Costume Design
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
28. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Lazzi
Community Theatre
Copyright
Regional Theatre
29. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Slapstick
Antiquarianism
Thought
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
30. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Meander
ostume Plot
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Chorus
31. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Representational Approach
Presentational Approach
Avant-Garde
Causal Play Structure
32. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Fourth Wall
Melodrama
Sense Memory
Representational Acting
33. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Dramatic Genre
Falling Action
Front of House
Proscenium Space
34. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Mimesis
Commedia Dell'Arte
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Vomitories
35. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Chorus
Thought
Skene
36. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Avant-Garde
Aristotle
ostume Plot
Non-Profit Theatre
37. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
Bertolt Brecht
Cycles
Subtext
38. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Melodrama
Neoclassicism (def)
Sense Memory
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
39. Person who embodies a character on stage
Actor
Broadway
Comedy
Tragicomedy
40. Feel more in stage acting.
Sturm & Drang Movement
Variables of Costume Design
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
41. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
ostume Plot
Dramaturg
Meander
Non-Profit Theatre
42. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Aristotle
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Aristophanes
Plato
43. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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44. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Realism and Realistic Developments
Thrust Space
Emile Zola
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
45. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Sturm & Drang Movement
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Callbacks
46. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Rendering
Aristophanes
Lazzi
47. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Mimesis
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Thespis
48. Busiest person in the theatre
Subtext
Commercial Theatre
Melodrama
Stage Manager
49. Verse
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Theatre of Cruelty
Thrust Space
50. Person who embodies a character on stage
Public Domain
Avant-Garde
Commedia Dell'Arte
Actor