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Theatre Appreciation
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1. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Producer
Rendering
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Commedia Dell'Arte
2. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Protagonist
Dramatic Genre
Theatre of Cruelty
Copyright
3. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Rehearsal Process
Antagonist
Euripides
Concept
4. Part of What is included in the text
Community Theatre
Components of Concept
Dialogue
Konstantin Stanislavski
5. Medea - The Bacchae
Comedy of Character
Prose
Euripides
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
6. Humorous - objective view point
Casting Director
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Comedy
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
7. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Slapstick
Comedy
Thought
Neoclassicism (def)
8. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Verse
Comedy
Melodrama (def)
9. 500-1800 people
Broadway
Konstantin Stanislavski
Subplot
Euripides
10. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Regional Theatre
Community Theatre
Concept
Aristotle
11. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Thespis
Subplot
Aristotle
Plato
12. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Discovery
Miracle Plays
Chorus
13. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Rehearsal Process
Printing Press
Conflict
Rendering
14. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Callbacks
Lazzi
Blocking
Avant-Garde
15. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Lazzi
Sense Memory
Realism and Realistic Developments
16. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Educational Theatre
Concept
Dialogue
Chorus
17. Used alienation to encourage distance
Practical
Tragicomedy
Bertolt Brecht
Cycles
18. Verse
Off-Off-Broadway
Euripides
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Off-Broadway
19. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Dramatic Genre
Rising Action
Catharsis
Antiquarianism
20. A fee for each performance
Plot
Off-Off-Broadway
Chorus
Royalty
21. Information needed to understand the play
Commedia Dell'Arte
Conflict
Exposition
Plot
22. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Orchestra
Theatre of Cruelty
Improv
Components of Concept
23. Works published before 1923
The Globe
Royalty
Concept
Public Domain
24. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Director
Regional Theatre
Black Box
Antiquarianism
25. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Neoclassicism (def)
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Public Domain
Comedy of Character
26. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Components of Concept
Commercial Theatre
Naturalism
Aristophanes
27. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Comedy of Ideas
Slapstick
Melodrama
Cycles
28. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Off-Off-Broadway
Stage Manager
Situation Comedy
Public Domain
29. Humorous - objective view point
Dialogue
Comedy
Callbacks
Commedia Dell'Arte
30. Top of stage
Conflict
Upstage
Climax
Ground Plan
31. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Thespis
Aristophanes
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Amateur Theatre
32. Major character at odds with social expectations
Actor
Comedy of Manners
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Henrik Ibsen
33. Someone who writes plays
Amateur Theatre
Playwright
Hybrid Theatre
Discovery
34. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Commercial Theatre
Rendering
Rising Action
Off-Broadway
35. Proscenium space
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
The Box Set
Dramaturg
Black Box
36. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Director
Morality Plays
Representational Approach
Language
37. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Printing Press
Fourth Wall
38. A>B>C>D
Thrust Space
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Avant-Garde
Theatron
39. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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40. 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
Downstage
Avant-Garde
Realism and Realistic Developments
41. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Rehearsal Process
Subtext
Mystery Plays
Callbacks
42. Six elements - catharsis
University Wits
Light Plot
Educational Theatre
Aristotle
43. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Thespis
Konstantin Stanislavski
Meyerhold
44. Grammatically based
Prose
Plot
Rendering
Vomitories
45. Major character at odds with social expectations
Mystery Plays
Slapstick
Comedy of Manners
Emile Zola
46. Was poetry for many years
Language
Sturm & Drang Movement
Thought
Chorus
47. Greek - actor
Hypokrites
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Mystery Plays
Dialogue
48. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Postmodernism
Reversal
Auditions
Tragicomedy
49. The first director
Antiquarianism
Postmodernism
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Casting Director
50. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Antiquarianism
Upstage
Fourth Wall
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
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