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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
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1. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Affective Memory
Regional Theatre
Prose
2. Events that set off a major conflict
Inciting Incident
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Light Plot
Theatron
3. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Miracle Plays
The Box Set
Broadway
Black Box
4. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Front of House
Melodrama (def)
Henrik Ibsen
5. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Anton Chekhov
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Thought
Producer
6. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Henrik Ibsen
Rendering
Inciting Incident
Sophocles
7. 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
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Konstantin Stanislavski
Light Plot
8. Series of short stories
Morality Plays
Verisimilitude
Broadway
Anton Chekhov
9. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Commercial Theatre
Comedy of Manners
Konstantin Stanislavski
Inciting Incident
10. Someone who writes plays
Representational Acting
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Upstage
Playwright
11. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Commercial Theatre
Amateur Theatre
Melodrama
Eugene Scribe
12. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Off-Broadway
Comedy of Ideas
Designer
Amateur Theatre
13. Person who embodies a character on stage
Sophocles
Naturalism
Amateur Theatre
Actor
14. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Naturalism
Subplot
ostume Plot
15. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Public Domain
Theatre of Cruelty
Stage Manager
Regional Theatre
16. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Protagonist
Chorus
Causal Play Structure
Naturalism
17. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Vomitories
Designer
Language
Rendering
18. Busiest person in the theatre
Stage Manager
Vomitories
Falling Action
Linear Plot
19. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Rendering
Melodrama (def)
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Improv
20. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Comedy of Character
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Melodrama
Rising Action
21. Works published before 1923
Commedia Dell'Arte
Regional Theatre
Falling Action
Public Domain
22. 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
Pageants
Blocking
Presentational Approach
Community Theatre
23. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Representational Acting
Commercial Theatre
Comedy of Ideas
Callbacks
24. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Sense Memory
Fourth Wall
Director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
25. Main character
Sturm & Drang Movement
Improv
Community Theatre
Protagonist
26. 'Father of Realism'
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Public Domain
Affective Memory
Henrik Ibsen
27. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
Causal Play Structure
Sense Memory
Hybrid Theatre
28. Performs Actions of the Play
Falling Action
Character
Tragicomedy
Skene
29. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Aeschylus
Antiquarianism
Commedia Dell'Arte
30. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Conflict
Director
Aristophanes
31. Part of What is included in the text
Dialogue
Actor
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
32. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Light Plot
Conflict
Reversal
Rising Action
33. England's type of theatre
The Globe
Inciting Incident
Aesthetic Distance
Meander
34. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Neoclassicism (def)
Naturalism
Educational Theatre
35. Causes trouble for the main character
Sturm & Drang Movement
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Aristophanes
Antagonist
36. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Miracle Plays
Ensemble
Educational Theatre
Catharsis
37. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Theatron
Catharsis
Postmodernism
Vomitories
38. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Downstage
Naturalism
Components of Concept
39. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Climax
Vomitories
Representational Acting
Comedy of Ideas
40. Top of stage
Actor
Off-Off-Broadway
Upstage
Presentational Approach
41. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Amateur Theatre
Sense Memory
Wings
Lazzi
42. 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
Improv
Callbacks
Dramatic Genre
Upstage
43. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Comedy of Ideas
Front of House
Comedy of Manners
Theatron
44. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Postmodernism
Verse
Antiquarianism
Plato
45. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Discovery
Front of House
Euripides
Antagonist
46. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Lazzi
Ground Plan
Practical
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
47. Used alienation to encourage distance
Commercial Theatre
Empathy
Bertolt Brecht
Non-Profit Theatre
48. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Lazzi
Morality Plays
Eugene Scribe
Sturm & Drang Movement
49. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Rendering
Plot
University Wits
Avant-Garde
50. High point of action
Theatre of Cruelty
Antagonist
Climax
Improv
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