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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. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
Orchestra
Upstage
Affective Memory
2. Major character at odds with social expectations
Postmodernism
Comedy of Manners
Melodrama (def)
Playwright
3. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Melodrama
Commercial Theatre
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
4. Based on the lives of the saints
Miracle Plays
Dramatic Genre
Black Box
Downstage
5. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Verisimilitude
Comedy of Ideas
Commercial Theatre
Variables of Costume Design
6. Linear events progress forward in time
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Commedia Dell'Arte
Causal Play Structure
Situation Comedy
7. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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8. Feel more in stage acting.
Prose
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Hypokrites
Plato
9. 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
Plato
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Community Theatre
Anton Chekhov
10. 'Father of Realism'
Konstantin Stanislavski
Producer
Henrik Ibsen
Comedy of Character
11. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Pageants
Emile Zola
Cycles
Commedia Dell'Arte
12. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Antiquarianism
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Playwright
Wings
13. Visible light source on stage
Plot
Theatre of Cruelty
Educational Theatre
Practical
14. 500-1800 people
Orchestra
Amateur Theatre
Broadway
Tragedy
15. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Meyerhold
Konstantin Stanislavski
Aristotle
Presentational Approach
16. Information needed to understand the play
Exposition
Anton Chekhov
Plato
Sturm & Drang Movement
17. Proscenium space
The Box Set
Aeschylus
Bertolt Brecht
Subplot
18. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Hypokrites
Verse
Theatron
Conflict
19. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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20. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Upstage
Eugene Scribe
Dramatic Genre
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
21. Greek - actor
Eugene Scribe
Hypokrites
Meyerhold
Thespis
22. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Rendering
Ensemble
The Globe
23. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Postmodernism
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
24. Humorous - objective view point
Dramatic Genre
Comedy
Tragicomedy
Director
25. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Verse
Reversal
Aeschylus
26. Proscenium arch/stage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Rehearsal Process
Meander
ostume Plot
27. Imitation of character and action
University Wits
Henrik Ibsen
Mimesis
Off-Off-Broadway
28. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Melodrama
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Sophocles
Konstantin Stanislavski
29. Performs Actions of the Play
Character
Thrust Space
Sense Memory
Conflict
30. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Slapstick
Emile Zola
Hybrid Theatre
31. 'Storm and stress'
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Sturm & Drang Movement
Ground Plan
Falling Action
32. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Eugene Scribe
University Wits
Dialogue
Comedy of Manners
33. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Dramaturg
Empathy
Thrust Space
34. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Commercial Theatre
Skene
Catharsis
Community Theatre
35. High point of action
Situation Comedy
Printing Press
Callbacks
Climax
36. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Downstage
Commercial Theatre
Conflict
Off-Off-Broadway
37. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Plato
Ground Plan
Commercial Theatre
Concept
38. High point of action
Climax
Components of Concept
Theatre of Cruelty
Meander
39. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Inciting Incident
Printing Press
Rehearsal Process
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
40. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Inciting Incident
Amateur Theatre
Mimesis
Situation Comedy
41. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Director
Aeschylus
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
42. The standard tool for casting a production
Upstage
Off-Off-Broadway
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Auditions
43. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Sense Memory
Empathy
Mimesis
Front of House
44. 100-499 people
Commedia Dell'Arte
Off-Broadway
Climax
Prose
45. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Mimesis
Henrik Ibsen
Slapstick
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
46. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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47. Grammatically based
Prose
Character
Bertolt Brecht
Subtext
48. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Aeschylus
Renaissance
Meyerhold
Bertolt Brecht
49. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Falling Action
Aristotle
Hypokrites
Pageants
50. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Non-Profit Theatre
Thought
Verisimilitude
Front of House