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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. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Wings
Renaissance
Commercial Theatre
2. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
Casting Director
Conflict
Broadway
3. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Plot
Anton Chekhov
Empathy
Morality Plays
4. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Printing Press
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Situation Comedy
Fourth Wall
5. Medea - The Bacchae
Euripides
Tragedy
Lazzi
Theatron
6. Controls the environment in the theatre
Representational Acting
Designer
University Wits
Tragicomedy
7. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Amateur Theatre
Commedia Dell'Arte
Meyerhold
8. Medea - The Bacchae
Tragedy
Euripides
Reversal
Avant-Garde
9. A group of actors - not just one star
Melodrama
Ensemble
Realism and Realistic Developments
Dramaturg
10. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
Comedy
Front of House
Lazzi
11. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Miracle Plays
Black Box
Dramaturg
Stage Manager
12. Verse
Proscenium Space
Melodrama (def)
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Chorus
13. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Aesthetic Distance
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Euripides
Commercial Theatre
14. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Black Box
Verisimilitude
Variables of Costume Design
University Wits
15. Not many props or detailed scenery
The Box Set
Renaissance
Amateur Theatre
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
16. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Subplot
Naturalism
Aesthetic Distance
Melodrama
17. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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18. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Meyerhold
Regional Theatre
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Copyright
19. Top of stage
Upstage
Melodrama
Amateur Theatre
Proscenium Space
20. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Theatre of Cruelty
Rehearsal Process
Presentational Approach
Wings
21. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Thought
William Shakespeare
Anton Chekhov
Proscenium Space
22. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Casting Director
Proscenium Space
Fourth Wall
Presentational Approach
23. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Commercial Theatre
Subplot
Mystery Plays
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
24. 100-499 people
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Off-Broadway
Protagonist
Ensemble
25. The standard tool for casting a production
Sophocles
Thought
Auditions
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
26. 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)
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Conflict
Discovery
Light Plot
27. Series of short stories
Comedy of Manners
Proscenium Space
Anton Chekhov
Hybrid Theatre
28. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
Rising Action
Rendering
Proscenium Space
29. High point of action
Subplot
Melodrama
Climax
ostume Plot
30. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Ground Plan
Actor
Producer
Tragedy
31. Play reenacting biblical stories
Lazzi
Aristophanes
Anton Chekhov
Mystery Plays
32. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Tragicomedy
Stage Manager
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Emile Zola
33. A>B>C>D
Improv
Representational Approach
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Climax
34. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Lazzi
Empathy
Auditions
Emile Zola
35. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Producer
Dramaturg
Presentational Approach
Pageants
36. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Dramatic Genre
Regional Theatre
37. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Cycles
Aesthetic Distance
Amateur Theatre
Renaissance
38. 'Father of Realism'
Henrik Ibsen
Black Box
Discovery
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
39. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Orchestra
Dramatic Genre
Meander
40. Top of stage
Playwright
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Upstage
Presentational Approach
41. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Light Plot
Community Theatre
Hypokrites
Dramatic Genre
42. Works published before 1923
Catharsis
Public Domain
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
43. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Director
Falling Action
Producer
Regional Theatre
44. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Auditions
Concept
Subplot
Hypokrites
45. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Representational Acting
Chorus
Wings
Aristotle
46. Was poetry for many years
Verisimilitude
Ground Plan
Sense Memory
Language
47. Feel more in stage acting.
Naturalism
Vomitories
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Prose
48. Gas lights - etc.
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Community Theatre
Stage Manager
Renaissance
49. Linear events progress forward in time
Non-Profit Theatre
Exposition
Causal Play Structure
Plato
50. Events that set off a major conflict
Aristophanes
Dialogue
Stage Manager
Inciting Incident