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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. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Subtext
Rendering
Realism and Realistic Developments
Tragedy
2. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Representational Acting
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Printing Press
Ensemble
3. Italians
Eugene Scribe
Emile Zola
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Variables of Costume Design
4. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Practical
Avant-Garde
Thespis
5. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Protagonist
Avant-Garde
Melodrama
Sense Memory
6. A>B>C>D
Postmodernism
Anton Chekhov
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Prose
7. The standard tool for casting a production
Auditions
Aristotle
Aeschylus
Blocking
8. Linear events progress forward in time
Dramaturg
Catharsis
Causal Play Structure
Playwright
9. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Orchestra
Tragedy
Casting Director
10. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
The Globe
Auditions
Dramaturg
Presentational Approach
11. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Morality Plays
Aeschylus
Reversal
12. Part of What is included in the text
Aesthetic Distance
Dialogue
Eugene Scribe
Thespis
13. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Konstantin Stanislavski
Euripides
Affective Memory
Thought
14. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Plot
Melodrama (def)
Emile Zola
15. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Cycles
Morality Plays
Conflict
Subplot
16. Someone who writes plays
Chorus
Playwright
Avant-Garde
Realism and Realistic Developments
17. Grammatically based
Wings
Dialogue
Antagonist
Prose
18. Proscenium space
The Box Set
Tragedy
Slapstick
Comedy of Ideas
19. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Climax
Ground Plan
Off-Off-Broadway
Discovery
20. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Dramatic Genre
Naturalism
Cycles
Non-Profit Theatre
21. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Black Box
Protagonist
Ensemble
Lazzi
22. Visible light source on stage
Miracle Plays
Lazzi
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Practical
23. The first director
Proscenium Space
Tragicomedy
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Avant-Garde
24. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Catharsis
William Shakespeare
Language
Callbacks
25. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Proscenium Space
Verse
Wings
26. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Vomitories
Lazzi
Tragicomedy
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
27. The standard tool for casting a production
Mimesis
Auditions
Representational Approach
Tragedy
28. Works published before 1923
Representational Approach
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Meyerhold
Public Domain
29. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Amateur Theatre
Director
Printing Press
Concept
30. Grammatically based
Practical
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Prose
Hypokrites
31. 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
Postmodernism
Community Theatre
Avant-Garde
Rehearsal Process
32. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Anton Chekhov
Realism and Realistic Developments
Black Box
Discovery
33. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Konstantin Stanislavski
Representational Approach
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
34. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Auditions
Commedia Dell'Arte
Emile Zola
Hybrid Theatre
35. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Tragicomedy
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Situation Comedy
36. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Hybrid Theatre
Commercial Theatre
Aristotle
Theatre of Cruelty
37. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Casting Director
Aristotle
Dramatic Genre
Aesthetic Distance
38. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Comedy of Character
Aesthetic Distance
Theatre of Cruelty
Royalty
39. A group of actors - not just one star
Prose
Theatron
Ensemble
Light Plot
40. Visible light source on stage
Off-Off-Broadway
Causal Play Structure
Practical
Dramaturg
41. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Casting Director
Conflict
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Proscenium Space
42. Proscenium space
Rehearsal Process
The Box Set
ostume Plot
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
43. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Reversal
Causal Play Structure
Casting Director
Aristophanes
44. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Producer
Sophocles
Subtext
Educational Theatre
45. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Representational Approach
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Pageants
Climax
46. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Blocking
Discovery
Non-Profit Theatre
Front of House
47. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Avant-Garde
Representational Acting
Regional Theatre
48. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Designer
Actor
Commercial Theatre
Regional Theatre
49. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Blocking
Naturalism
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Postmodernism
50. Linear events progress forward in time
Director
Renaissance
Causal Play Structure
Aristophanes