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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.
Producer
Lazzi
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Plato
2. Italians
Educational Theatre
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Causal Play Structure
Sturm & Drang Movement
3. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Aesthetic Distance
Subtext
Downstage
Public Domain
4. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Ground Plan
Comedy
Regional Theatre
Subtext
5. The first director
Ensemble
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Off-Off-Broadway
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
6. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Presentational Approach
Commercial Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
Morality Plays
7. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Orchestra
Educational Theatre
Representational Approach
Melodrama (def)
8. Series of short stories
Aeschylus
Rising Action
Anton Chekhov
Eugene Scribe
9. Writer and first actor
Light Plot
Aesthetic Distance
Thespis
Callbacks
10. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Public Domain
Non-Profit Theatre
Concept
Ground Plan
11. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Miracle Plays
Cycles
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Educational Theatre
12. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Chorus
Components of Concept
Avant-Garde
Amateur Theatre
13. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Commedia Dell'Arte
Plato
Auditions
Skene
14. Six elements - catharsis
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Aristotle
Causal Play Structure
Tragicomedy
15. Information needed to understand the play
Thrust Space
Aristophanes
ostume Plot
Exposition
16. Main character
Subplot
Falling Action
Copyright
Protagonist
17. 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)
Community Theatre
Falling Action
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Conflict
18. Top of stage
Concept
Upstage
Melodrama
Empathy
19. 500-1800 people
Aeschylus
Climax
Playwright
Broadway
20. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Thespis
Slapstick
ostume Plot
Sophocles
21. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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22. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Pageants
Commedia Dell'Arte
Comedy of Ideas
23. Events that set off a major conflict
Inciting Incident
Subtext
Rehearsal Process
Ensemble
24. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Naturalism
Plato
Meander
Tragedy
25. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Dialogue
Postmodernism
Sense Memory
Wings
26. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Black Box
Royalty
Comedy of Character
27. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Affective Memory
Components of Concept
Rising Action
Dramatic Genre
28. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Blocking
Melodrama
Aristotle
Director
29. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Black Box
Rehearsal Process
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Educational Theatre
30. Was poetry for many years
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Emile Zola
Language
Royalty
31. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Improv
Light Plot
Henrik Ibsen
Aeschylus
32. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Public Domain
Rendering
Representational Approach
Printing Press
33. Feel more in stage acting.
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Orchestra
Rendering
Royalty
34. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Eugene Scribe
Blocking
Director
35. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Royalty
Casting Director
Representational Approach
Representational Acting
36. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
William Shakespeare
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Theatron
37. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Konstantin Stanislavski
Comedy
Thespis
38. Feel more in stage acting.
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Designer
Inciting Incident
Empathy
39. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Rendering
Callbacks
Hybrid Theatre
Variables of Costume Design
40. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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41. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Community Theatre
Concept
Naturalism
Affective Memory
42. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Royalty
Printing Press
Community Theatre
Neoclassicism (def)
43. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Upstage
Reversal
Euripides
Components of Concept
44. 'Father of Realism'
Thrust Space
Chorus
Printing Press
Henrik Ibsen
45. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Subplot
Aristophanes
Sophocles
Affective Memory
46. Was poetry for many years
Wings
Language
Realism and Realistic Developments
Producer
47. Top of stage
Chorus
Anton Chekhov
Skene
Upstage
48. Italians
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Downstage
Dramatic Genre
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
49. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Vomitories
Tragicomedy
Dramaturg
Meander
50. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Downstage
Sense Memory
Exposition
Skene