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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. Main character
Protagonist
Melodrama
The Box Set
Discovery
2. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Ground Plan
Plato
Components of Concept
Henrik Ibsen
3. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Rehearsal Process
Actor
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Conflict
4. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Front of House
Chorus
Falling Action
Components of Concept
5. Italians
Reversal
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Emile Zola
Affective Memory
6. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Pageants
The Globe
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Aristotle
7. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Director
Ground Plan
Character
Off-Off-Broadway
8. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Renaissance
Character
Practical
Subplot
9. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Upstage
Improv
Konstantin Stanislavski
Rising Action
10. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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11. The era we are currently in
Naturalism
Slapstick
Broadway
Postmodernism
12. Works published before 1923
Public Domain
Callbacks
Off-Broadway
Rendering
13. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Orchestra
Black Box
Downstage
Improv
14. Based on the lives of the saints
Miracle Plays
Actor
ostume Plot
Rehearsal Process
15. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Rendering
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Exposition
Tragicomedy
16. The first director
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Fourth Wall
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Postmodernism
17. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Affective Memory
Educational Theatre
Representational Acting
Sense Memory
18. Organization of action
Light Plot
Blocking
Plot
Commercial Theatre
19. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Emile Zola
Dramaturg
Auditions
20. Information needed to understand the play
Exposition
Slapstick
Melodrama (def)
Affective Memory
21. Proscenium space
Lazzi
The Box Set
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Plot
22. Proscenium arch/stage
Hypokrites
Wings
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Plato
23. 500-1800 people
Verse
Broadway
Henrik Ibsen
Plot
24. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Subtext
Royalty
Falling Action
Linear Plot
25. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Comedy
Affective Memory
Copyright
Empathy
26. Italians
Hypokrites
Antiquarianism
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Empathy
27. Rhyming
Rendering
Emile Zola
Verse
Designer
28. 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
Dramatic Genre
Verse
Verisimilitude
Improv
29. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Ground Plan
Cycles
Comedy of Ideas
30. Events that set off a major conflict
Neoclassicism (def)
Inciting Incident
William Shakespeare
Ground Plan
31. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Vomitories
Comedy
Commedia Dell'Arte
Naturalism
32. Main character
Hypokrites
Protagonist
Thrust Space
Sophocles
33. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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34. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Non-Profit Theatre
Sophocles
Naturalism
Orchestra
35. Busiest person in the theatre
Melodrama (def)
Stage Manager
Representational Approach
Sense Memory
36. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Dramaturg
Slapstick
Meyerhold
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
37. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Renaissance
Realism and Realistic Developments
Sophocles
38. Imitation of character and action
Fourth Wall
Henrik Ibsen
Mimesis
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
39. Verse
Neoclassicism (def)
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Thrust Space
Situation Comedy
40. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Dramatic Genre
Vomitories
Verisimilitude
William Shakespeare
41. Used alienation to encourage distance
Auditions
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
Aristotle
42. Focused on thought - controversial
Dramatic Genre
Comedy of Ideas
Proscenium Space
Upstage
43. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Verse
The Box Set
Comedy
Skene
44. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Subplot
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Falling Action
Rising Action
45. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Upstage
Representational Acting
Amateur Theatre
46. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Aesthetic Distance
Tragicomedy
Vomitories
Situation Comedy
47. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Eugene Scribe
Casting Director
Comedy of Ideas
Educational Theatre
48. Information needed to understand the play
Off-Broadway
Representational Approach
Exposition
Ensemble
49. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Concept
Protagonist
Konstantin Stanislavski
Tragicomedy
50. 100-499 people
Euripides
Off-Broadway
Black Box
Henrik Ibsen