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Theatre Appreciation
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1. Feel more in stage acting.
Thrust Space
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Ensemble
Public Domain
2. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Variables of Costume Design
Wings
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Discovery
3. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Community Theatre
Plato
Community Theatre
Empathy
4. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Rising Action
Wings
Neoclassicism (def)
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
5. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Konstantin Stanislavski
Public Domain
Cycles
Commedia Dell'Arte
6. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Sense Memory
Morality Plays
Actor
The Globe
7. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Thespis
Sturm & Drang Movement
Subtext
Aristotle
8. Controls the environment in the theatre
Pageants
Proscenium Space
Meander
Designer
9. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Tragedy
Aeschylus
Ground Plan
Exposition
10. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Practical
Front of House
Affective Memory
Naturalism
11. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Skene
Blocking
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Melodrama
12. Person who embodies a character on stage
Auditions
Hybrid Theatre
Actor
Exposition
13. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Affective Memory
Educational Theatre
Ground Plan
Orchestra
14. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Meander
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Aesthetic Distance
15. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Commercial Theatre
Broadway
Bertolt Brecht
Orchestra
16. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Pageants
Orchestra
Rising Action
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
17. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Non-Profit Theatre
Fourth Wall
Wings
ostume Plot
18. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Realism and Realistic Developments
Discovery
Printing Press
19. Used alienation to encourage distance
Improv
Bertolt Brecht
Director
Black Box
20. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
The Box Set
Amateur Theatre
Rendering
Dramatic Genre
21. Events that set off a major conflict
Inciting Incident
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Realism and Realistic Developments
University Wits
22. A type of performance in which dialogue and action are not planned ahead of time and written down - but are made of on the spot by the actors
Improv
Comedy
Cycles
Auditions
23. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Tragedy
Emile Zola
Comedy
24. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Presentational Approach
Amateur Theatre
Tragicomedy
25. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Off-Broadway
Avant-Garde
Discovery
Cycles
26. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Callbacks
Casting Director
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Henrik Ibsen
27. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Vomitories
Mimesis
Representational Acting
28. Audience watches from 3 sides
Rendering
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Thrust Space
Anton Chekhov
29. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Components of Concept
University Wits
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
30. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
ostume Plot
Theatron
Components of Concept
Aristotle
31. A type of performance in which dialogue and action are not planned ahead of time and written down - but are made of on the spot by the actors
Improv
Printing Press
Aristophanes
Avant-Garde
32. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Rehearsal Process
Konstantin Stanislavski
Stage Manager
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
33. A>B>C>D
Causal Play Structure
Bertolt Brecht
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Linear Plot
34. Rhyming
Avant-Garde
Conflict
Commedia Dell'Arte
Verse
35. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
The Globe
Printing Press
Callbacks
Aesthetic Distance
36. Series of short stories
Climax
Tragicomedy
Lazzi
Anton Chekhov
37. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Blocking
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Verse
Conflict
38. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Callbacks
Meyerhold
Causal Play Structure
Proscenium Space
39. Not many props or detailed scenery
Morality Plays
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Renaissance
Conflict
40. The standard tool for casting a production
Anton Chekhov
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Auditions
Printing Press
41. Italians
Light Plot
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Aristotle
Black Box
42. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Comedy of Character
Components of Concept
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
University Wits
43. Writer and first actor
Thespis
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
ostume Plot
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
44. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Stage Manager
Henrik Ibsen
Neoclassicism (def)
Aristophanes
45. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Conflict
Rehearsal Process
Producer
Aesthetic Distance
46. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Thrust Space
Producer
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Cycles
47. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Sophocles
Dialogue
Non-Profit Theatre
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
48. Top of stage
Aristotle
Dialogue
Upstage
Producer
49. Rhyming
Discovery
Verisimilitude
Verse
William Shakespeare
50. 'Storm and stress'
Off-Off-Broadway
Comedy of Manners
Sturm & Drang Movement
Black Box
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