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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. 'Father of Realism'
Realism and Realistic Developments
Thrust Space
Stage Manager
Henrik Ibsen
2. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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3. 'Storm and stress'
Reversal
Commercial Theatre
Sturm & Drang Movement
Aesthetic Distance
4. 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
Slapstick
Presentational Approach
Mimesis
5. Six elements - catharsis
Ensemble
Aristotle
Eugene Scribe
William Shakespeare
6. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Empathy
Emile Zola
Chorus
7. The era we are currently in
Hypokrites
Postmodernism
Front of House
Representational Approach
8. 100-499 people
Catharsis
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Off-Broadway
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
9. Emotional release
Ground Plan
Affective Memory
Catharsis
Linear Plot
10. A fee for each performance
Meyerhold
Royalty
Stage Manager
Callbacks
11. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Commercial Theatre
Avant-Garde
Dialogue
Light Plot
12. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Melodrama (def)
Components of Concept
Avant-Garde
Proscenium Space
13. Series of short stories
Miracle Plays
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Anton Chekhov
Comedy of Ideas
14. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
ostume Plot
Cycles
Dialogue
Blocking
15. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Eugene Scribe
Language
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Antiquarianism
16. Grammatically based
Thespis
Falling Action
Comedy of Manners
Prose
17. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Commedia Dell'Arte
Non-Profit Theatre
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Comedy
18. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Konstantin Stanislavski
Sophocles
Thought
Off-Off-Broadway
19. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Subplot
ostume Plot
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
20. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Commedia Dell'Arte
Slapstick
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Miracle Plays
21. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Skene
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Inciting Incident
Aristotle
22. Ideas within the play
Proscenium Space
Thought
Director
Broadway
23. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Henrik Ibsen
Comedy of Manners
Broadway
Tragedy
24. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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25. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Henrik Ibsen
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Callbacks
Theatron
26. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Anton Chekhov
27. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Language
Improv
Variables of Costume Design
Skene
28. England's type of theatre
The Globe
Designer
Aeschylus
Aristophanes
29. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Theatre of Cruelty
Language
Tragicomedy
Euripides
30. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Dramaturg
Off-Off-Broadway
Realism and Realistic Developments
Emile Zola
31. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Concept
Aeschylus
Actor
Avant-Garde
32. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Casting Director
Aristophanes
Comedy of Manners
Aristotle
33. Rhyming
Printing Press
Verse
Climax
Comedy of Manners
34. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
Mimesis
The Box Set
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
35. Performs Actions of the Play
Hypokrites
Off-Off-Broadway
Henrik Ibsen
Character
36. Verse
Royalty
Postmodernism
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Light Plot
37. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Downstage
Melodrama
Ground Plan
38. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Climax
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Plot
39. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Downstage
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Verse
Sturm & Drang Movement
40. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Meander
Off-Off-Broadway
Copyright
Affective Memory
41. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Actor
Subtext
Thespis
42. Medea - The Bacchae
Situation Comedy
Representational Acting
Naturalism
Euripides
43. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Rendering
Mimesis
Representational Approach
Hybrid Theatre
44. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Aristophanes
Plato
Off-Off-Broadway
Melodrama
45. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Stage Manager
Regional Theatre
University Wits
The Box Set
46. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Dramaturg
Inciting Incident
Chorus
Fourth Wall
47. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Theatron
Thespis
Aeschylus
Lazzi
48. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Dramaturg
Neoclassicism (def)
Dramatic Genre
Affective Memory
49. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Front of House
Rendering
Practical
Light Plot
50. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Konstantin Stanislavski
Aesthetic Distance
Wings
Discovery