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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
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1. 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
Auditions
Comedy of Ideas
Melodrama (def)
Community Theatre
2. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
University Wits
Skene
3. Based on the lives of the saints
Plot
Thought
Royalty
Miracle Plays
4. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Aristophanes
Affective Memory
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Educational Theatre
5. Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Discovery
Character
ostume Plot
6. 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)
Hybrid Theatre
Ensemble
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Presentational Approach
7. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Dramaturg
Hybrid Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
Off-Off-Broadway
8. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Practical
Comedy
Royalty
9. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Variables of Costume Design
Comedy of Manners
Designer
Vomitories
10. The standard tool for casting a production
Tragicomedy
Practical
Auditions
Actor
11. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Sophocles
Blocking
Downstage
Euripides
12. The era we are currently in
Postmodernism
Aesthetic Distance
Director
Character
13. 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)
Educational Theatre
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Playwright
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
14. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Educational Theatre
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Neoclassicism (def)
15. Events that set off a major conflict
Meyerhold
Inciting Incident
Prose
Variables of Costume Design
16. Ideas within the play
Aristophanes
Amateur Theatre
Thought
Neoclassicism (def)
17. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Printing Press
Catharsis
18. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Light Plot
Educational Theatre
Comedy of Character
Casting Director
19. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Naturalism
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Tragicomedy
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
20. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
William Shakespeare
Melodrama (def)
Aeschylus
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
21. Humorous - objective view point
Off-Off-Broadway
Comedy
Aristotle
Pageants
22. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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23. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Naturalism
Tragedy
Thought
Dramaturg
24. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Subplot
William Shakespeare
Upstage
Auditions
25. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Fourth Wall
Regional Theatre
Subtext
Pageants
26. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Lazzi
Public Domain
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Variables of Costume Design
27. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Hybrid Theatre
Comedy of Manners
Rehearsal Process
Sense Memory
28. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Aristophanes
Rendering
Off-Off-Broadway
Comedy of Character
29. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Mimesis
Realism and Realistic Developments
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Konstantin Stanislavski
30. Medea - The Bacchae
Inciting Incident
Tragedy
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Euripides
31. Person who embodies a character on stage
Theatron
Thespis
Representational Approach
Actor
32. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Representational Acting
ostume Plot
Slapstick
Inciting Incident
33. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Situation Comedy
Improv
Fourth Wall
Aesthetic Distance
34. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
University Wits
Rehearsal Process
Upstage
Thespis
35. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Skene
Conflict
Fourth Wall
Thrust Space
36. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Designer
Concept
Naturalism
Konstantin Stanislavski
37. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Concept
Off-Off-Broadway
38. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Realism and Realistic Developments
Avant-Garde
39. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Melodrama (def)
Representational Approach
Rehearsal Process
Tragedy
40. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Protagonist
Lazzi
Educational Theatre
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
41. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Aristophanes
Conflict
Situation Comedy
Sturm & Drang Movement
42. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Ground Plan
Reversal
Director
Callbacks
43. Greek - actor
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Hypokrites
Black Box
Wings
44. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Dramaturg
Non-Profit Theatre
Conflict
Stage Manager
45. 'Storm and stress'
Black Box
William Shakespeare
Chorus
Sturm & Drang Movement
46. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Black Box
Protagonist
Tragicomedy
Verisimilitude
47. High point of action
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Meyerhold
Thespis
Climax
48. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Causal Play Structure
Amateur Theatre
Reversal
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
49. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Melodrama
Antagonist
Producer
Comedy
50. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Aeschylus
Pageants
Subplot