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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. Linear events progress forward in time
Rendering
Meyerhold
Improv
Causal Play Structure
2. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Subplot
Tragicomedy
Ensemble
Comedy of Character
3. 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
Sturm & Drang Movement
Naturalism
Dramatic Genre
4. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Verse
Sophocles
Subplot
Front of House
5. High point of action
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Climax
Theatre of Cruelty
Henrik Ibsen
6. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Melodrama (def)
Rising Action
Climax
Melodrama
7. Based on the lives of the saints
Public Domain
Non-Profit Theatre
Comedy
Miracle Plays
8. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Verse
Dramatic Genre
Postmodernism
9. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Off-Off-Broadway
Commercial Theatre
Ground Plan
Lazzi
10. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Language
Tragedy
Affective Memory
Orchestra
11. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Language
Wings
Dialogue
12. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Naturalism
Comedy of Manners
Eugene Scribe
Vomitories
13. Focused on thought - controversial
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Sophocles
Comedy of Ideas
Melodrama (def)
14. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
The Globe
Regional Theatre
Slapstick
15. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Plato
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Producer
16. 'Storm and stress'
Playwright
Slapstick
Anton Chekhov
Sturm & Drang Movement
17. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Proscenium Space
Climax
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Character
18. Proscenium space
Reversal
Mystery Plays
The Box Set
Non-Profit Theatre
19. A group of actors - not just one star
Melodrama (def)
Lazzi
Ensemble
Royalty
20. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Aristophanes
Tragedy
Inciting Incident
21. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
ostume Plot
Presentational Approach
Discovery
Eugene Scribe
22. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Emile Zola
Naturalism
Theatre of Cruelty
23. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Educational Theatre
Melodrama
Tragicomedy
Verisimilitude
24. Someone who writes plays
University Wits
Euripides
Cycles
Playwright
25. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
Black Box
Causal Play Structure
Plot
26. The first director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Avant-Garde
Sense Memory
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
27. Emotional release
Catharsis
Theatre of Cruelty
Aristophanes
Climax
28. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Producer
Cycles
29. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Lazzi
The Globe
Konstantin Stanislavski
Actor
30. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Sense Memory
Meander
Fourth Wall
Comedy of Manners
31. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Sense Memory
Conflict
Postmodernism
Sophocles
32. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Sophocles
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Concept
33. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Aeschylus
Hybrid Theatre
Situation Comedy
Sturm & Drang Movement
34. Not many props or detailed scenery
Chorus
Causal Play Structure
Renaissance
Lazzi
35. A fee for each performance
Royalty
Lazzi
Dramatic Genre
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
36. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Falling Action
Auditions
Discovery
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
37. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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38. The first director
Amateur Theatre
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Postmodernism
Concept
39. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Realism and Realistic Developments
Protagonist
Fourth Wall
Improv
40. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Konstantin Stanislavski
Lazzi
Educational Theatre
Playwright
41. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Cycles
Sophocles
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Hybrid Theatre
42. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Avant-Garde
Light Plot
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Skene
43. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle
William Shakespeare
Mimesis
Practical
44. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Naturalism
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Empathy
Comedy of Character
45. Top of stage
Emile Zola
Upstage
Henrik Ibsen
Printing Press
46. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Lazzi
Wings
Designer
Comedy of Manners
47. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Comedy of Character
Aristotle
Sophocles
Meyerhold
48. Visible light source on stage
Practical
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Orchestra
Postmodernism
49. Works published before 1923
Linear Plot
Rising Action
Thrust Space
Public Domain
50. Rhyming
Prose
Stage Manager
Verse
Climax