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Theatre Appreciation
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1. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Situation Comedy
Melodrama (def)
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
2. Ideas within the play
Community Theatre
Theatron
Thought
Comedy
3. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Downstage
Dramaturg
Chorus
Thrust Space
4. Medea - The Bacchae
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Euripides
Character
Chorus
5. 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
The Globe
Actor
Improv
Ensemble
6. Greek - actor
Ground Plan
Hypokrites
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Amateur Theatre
7. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Lazzi
Henrik Ibsen
Morality Plays
Emile Zola
8. Part of What is included in the text
Dialogue
Sense Memory
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Representational Acting
9. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Plato
Mystery Plays
Situation Comedy
10. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Language
Cycles
Emile Zola
11. Controls the environment in the theatre
Plot
Proscenium Space
Designer
Comedy
12. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Fourth Wall
Ground Plan
Meander
13. 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)
Vomitories
Tragedy
Situation Comedy
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
14. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Eugene Scribe
Ensemble
15. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Pageants
Community Theatre
16. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Comedy of Manners
Black Box
Melodrama
17. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Subplot
Director
Vomitories
Representational Approach
18. Audience watches from 3 sides
Thrust Space
Hybrid Theatre
Aeschylus
Downstage
19. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Character
Sense Memory
Hybrid Theatre
Rising Action
20. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Public Domain
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Theatron
Cycles
21. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Pageants
William Shakespeare
Comedy of Ideas
Comedy of Character
22. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Designer
Realism and Realistic Developments
Melodrama
Verisimilitude
23. Used alienation to encourage distance
Upstage
Bertolt Brecht
Playwright
Sturm & Drang Movement
24. Proscenium space
The Box Set
Renaissance
Theatron
Situation Comedy
25. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Presentational Approach
Printing Press
Anton Chekhov
26. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Broadway
Exposition
27. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Melodrama (def)
Aesthetic Distance
Fourth Wall
Meyerhold
28. A fee for each performance
Prose
Dramaturg
Cycles
Royalty
29. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Causal Play Structure
Commercial Theatre
30. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Anton Chekhov
Representational Acting
Sense Memory
Subtext
31. The era we are currently in
Components of Concept
Aristotle
Plot
Postmodernism
32. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Representational Approach
Prose
Concept
Amateur Theatre
33. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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34. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Dialogue
Callbacks
Broadway
Sense Memory
35. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Pageants
Tragedy
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
36. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Tragicomedy
Situation Comedy
Blocking
37. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Mimesis
Black Box
Printing Press
Theatron
38. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Dramaturg
Renaissance
Amateur Theatre
Downstage
39. The first director
Hypokrites
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Variables of Costume Design
40. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Skene
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Inciting Incident
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
41. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Director
Pageants
Printing Press
Components of Concept
42. Was poetry for many years
Comedy
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Language
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
43. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Ensemble
Lazzi
Antiquarianism
Regional Theatre
44. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Components of Concept
Comedy of Ideas
Fourth Wall
Callbacks
45. Italians
Variables of Costume Design
Naturalism
Prose
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
46. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Character
Tragicomedy
Thespis
Climax
47. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Tragicomedy
Avant-Garde
Upstage
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
48. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
Broadway
Educational Theatre
Dramatic Genre
49. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Eugene Scribe
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Wings
Aeschylus
50. Humorous - objective view point
Comedy
Melodrama
Community Theatre
Rendering