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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. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Causal Play Structure
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Vomitories
Antagonist
2. Italians
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
ostume Plot
Dialogue
Vomitories
3. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Plato
Orchestra
Commercial Theatre
Conflict
4. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Exposition
Mimesis
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Linear Plot
5. 100-499 people
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Off-Broadway
Antiquarianism
Auditions
6. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Realism and Realistic Developments
Presentational Approach
Anton Chekhov
Proscenium Space
7. Major character at odds with social expectations
Commedia Dell'Arte
Comedy of Manners
Theatron
Stage Manager
8. 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
Community Theatre
Vomitories
Slapstick
Dialogue
9. Top of stage
Upstage
Commedia Dell'Arte
University Wits
Educational Theatre
10. Person who embodies a character on stage
Black Box
Actor
Proscenium Space
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
11. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Naturalism
Black Box
Affective Memory
Renaissance
12. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Exposition
University Wits
Rising Action
13. Verse
Proscenium Space
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Educational Theatre
Improv
14. 'Father of Realism'
Representational Acting
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Callbacks
Henrik Ibsen
15. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Verisimilitude
Vomitories
Dialogue
Commercial Theatre
16. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
ostume Plot
Proscenium Space
Off-Broadway
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
17. Rhyming
Components of Concept
Thespis
Rising Action
Verse
18. Organization of action
Plot
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Dialogue
Pageants
19. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
William Shakespeare
Hybrid Theatre
Thought
20. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Rendering
Miracle Plays
Comedy of Character
Director
21. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Aesthetic Distance
Lazzi
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
ostume Plot
22. Part of What is included in the text
University Wits
Affective Memory
Dialogue
Hybrid Theatre
23. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
William Shakespeare
Emile Zola
Non-Profit Theatre
Verse
24. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Tragicomedy
Orchestra
Light Plot
Pageants
25. Someone who writes plays
Commedia Dell'Arte
Non-Profit Theatre
Skene
Playwright
26. Greek - actor
Climax
Hypokrites
Hybrid Theatre
Producer
27. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
Director
Antagonist
Designer
28. Emotional release
Plato
Anton Chekhov
Off-Broadway
Catharsis
29. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Ground Plan
Melodrama (def)
Plato
30. Grammatically based
Cycles
Fourth Wall
Rising Action
Prose
31. Italians
Community Theatre
Representational Approach
Verisimilitude
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
32. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Subtext
Representational Acting
Tragicomedy
Exposition
33. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Wings
Rendering
Hybrid Theatre
Thrust Space
34. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Dialogue
Regional Theatre
Educational Theatre
35. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Morality Plays
Blocking
Discovery
Upstage
36. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Meander
Regional Theatre
Lazzi
Theatre of Cruelty
37. Audience watches from 3 sides
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Improv
Thrust Space
ostume Plot
38. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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39. A fee for each performance
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Royalty
Comedy
40. Humorous - objective view point
Prose
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Comedy
Situation Comedy
41. Works published before 1923
Ground Plan
Copyright
Situation Comedy
Public Domain
42. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Practical
Verse
Aristophanes
Educational Theatre
43. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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44. Medea - The Bacchae
Protagonist
Euripides
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Designer
45. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Proscenium Space
Hybrid Theatre
Sense Memory
Theatron
46. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Dramatic Genre
Front of House
Tragedy
Fourth Wall
47. A fee for each performance
Auditions
Verse
Commedia Dell'Arte
Royalty
48. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Commedia Dell'Arte
Black Box
Conflict
Naturalism
49. Busiest person in the theatre
Stage Manager
Antiquarianism
Aesthetic Distance
Director
50. Not many props or detailed scenery
Linear Plot
Pageants
Renaissance
Printing Press