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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 financial business and aspects of a production.
Rehearsal Process
Thrust Space
Sturm & Drang Movement
Producer
2. A>B>C>D
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Hybrid Theatre
Public Domain
Producer
3. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Aristophanes
Mystery Plays
Auditions
Amateur Theatre
4. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Antiquarianism
Dramatic Genre
Ensemble
5. Causes trouble for the main character
The Box Set
Antagonist
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
6. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Melodrama (def)
Theatron
Cycles
Meyerhold
7. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Theatre of Cruelty
Tragicomedy
Rendering
Skene
8. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Renaissance
Playwright
Front of House
Printing Press
9. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Broadway
Blocking
Components of Concept
Theatron
10. Someone who writes plays
Reversal
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Playwright
Subtext
11. 'Storm and stress'
Auditions
Improv
Sturm & Drang Movement
Neoclassicism (def)
12. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Rising Action
Theatre of Cruelty
Non-Profit Theatre
Avant-Garde
13. Proscenium arch/stage
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Language
Front of House
14. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Language
Eugene Scribe
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Rendering
15. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Aeschylus
Realism and Realistic Developments
Community Theatre
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
16. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Lazzi
Public Domain
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
University Wits
17. The era we are currently in
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Postmodernism
Thrust Space
Copyright
18. Based on the lives of the saints
Tragedy
Pageants
Printing Press
Miracle Plays
19. Six elements - catharsis
Climax
Verisimilitude
Aristotle
Melodrama (def)
20. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Slapstick
Realism and Realistic Developments
Avant-Garde
Concept
21. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
William Shakespeare
Meander
Regional Theatre
Empathy
22. Greek - actor
Playwright
Eugene Scribe
Climax
Hypokrites
23. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Renaissance
Amateur Theatre
Dramatic Genre
Rehearsal Process
24. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Prose
Representational Approach
Regional Theatre
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
25. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Public Domain
Sturm & Drang Movement
Components of Concept
Playwright
26. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Commercial Theatre
Chorus
Emile Zola
Educational Theatre
27. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Tragicomedy
Off-Off-Broadway
Producer
Miracle Plays
28. High point of action
Cycles
Inciting Incident
Catharsis
Climax
29. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Wings
Commercial Theatre
Comedy of Ideas
Linear Plot
30. Verse
Melodrama
Representational Approach
Antagonist
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
31. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Tragicomedy
Light Plot
The Box Set
Stage Manager
32. Part of What is included in the text
Antiquarianism
Anton Chekhov
Subplot
Dialogue
33. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Ensemble
Representational Acting
Meander
Naturalism
34. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Verisimilitude
Subtext
Representational Approach
Concept
35. Series of short stories
Concept
Catharsis
Anton Chekhov
Exposition
36. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Non-Profit Theatre
Upstage
Subplot
Prose
37. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Aristophanes
Components of Concept
Linear Plot
Climax
38. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Slapstick
Skene
Falling Action
Theatre of Cruelty
39. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
Sophocles
Blocking
Tragicomedy
40. 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)
Empathy
Melodrama
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Practical
41. Imitation of character and action
Variables of Costume Design
Mimesis
Chorus
Konstantin Stanislavski
42. Visible light source on stage
Cycles
Comedy of Manners
Renaissance
Practical
43. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Falling Action
Representational Approach
ostume Plot
Rehearsal Process
44. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Subtext
Aesthetic Distance
Comedy of Ideas
Downstage
45. 'Father of Realism'
Mimesis
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Euripides
Henrik Ibsen
46. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Plot
William Shakespeare
Protagonist
Affective Memory
47. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Variables of Costume Design
Euripides
Situation Comedy
Proscenium Space
48. Someone who writes plays
Comedy
Playwright
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Thought
49. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Chorus
Language
Playwright
Empathy
50. Grammatically based
Prose
Antagonist
Off-Broadway
Representational Approach