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Theatre Appreciation
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1. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
The Box Set
Fourth Wall
Thrust Space
Comedy of Manners
2. Ideas within the play
Comedy of Manners
Director
Thought
Pageants
3. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Bertolt Brecht
Orchestra
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
4. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Comedy of Ideas
Improv
Downstage
Chorus
5. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Verse
Aesthetic Distance
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Presentational Approach
6. Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Language
Verse
Designer
7. A group of actors - not just one star
Pageants
Hypokrites
Ensemble
Comedy of Ideas
8. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Dialogue
Bertolt Brecht
Aristophanes
Sophocles
9. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Royalty
Chorus
Rendering
Director
10. Based on the lives of the saints
Dramatic Genre
Miracle Plays
Meyerhold
Royalty
11. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Royalty
Skene
Naturalism
Aeschylus
12. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Front of House
Exposition
The Box Set
Discovery
13. Works published before 1923
Public Domain
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Stage Manager
14. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Black Box
Morality Plays
Verisimilitude
Downstage
15. Audience watches from 3 sides
Thrust Space
Dramatic Genre
Representational Approach
Off-Off-Broadway
16. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Konstantin Stanislavski
Language
Off-Off-Broadway
Public Domain
17. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Vomitories
Black Box
Dramaturg
Rehearsal Process
18. Gas lights - etc.
Community Theatre
Director
Slapstick
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
19. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
The Globe
Subplot
Conflict
Commercial Theatre
20. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Pageants
Renaissance
Dramatic Genre
Conflict
21. Controls the environment in the theatre
Miracle Plays
Printing Press
Designer
Auditions
22. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Conflict
Avant-Garde
Tragedy
23. Feel more in stage acting.
Comedy of Ideas
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Aesthetic Distance
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
24. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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25. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Mimesis
Prose
Eugene Scribe
Aristotle
26. Play reenacting biblical stories
Mystery Plays
Chorus
Fourth Wall
The Globe
27. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Practical
Cycles
Tragicomedy
Designer
28. 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)
Emile Zola
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Antiquarianism
Lazzi
29. A>B>C>D
Dialogue
Community Theatre
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Chorus
30. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Downstage
Empathy
Casting Director
Konstantin Stanislavski
31. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Reversal
Rehearsal Process
Ground Plan
Conflict
32. High point of action
Climax
Comedy of Character
Eugene Scribe
Printing Press
33. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Components of Concept
Plot
Off-Off-Broadway
34. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Meyerhold
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Auditions
Rising Action
35. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Thrust Space
Light Plot
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Melodrama
36. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Callbacks
Antagonist
Comedy of Manners
37. Based on the lives of the saints
ostume Plot
Empathy
Miracle Plays
Downstage
38. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Comedy of Manners
Slapstick
Reversal
39. Performs Actions of the Play
Protagonist
Character
Avant-Garde
Konstantin Stanislavski
40. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Rehearsal Process
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Plot
Affective Memory
41. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Proscenium Space
Sophocles
Meyerhold
42. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
University Wits
Chorus
Falling Action
43. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Avant-Garde
Ground Plan
Downstage
44. Emotional release
Improv
Public Domain
Non-Profit Theatre
Catharsis
45. Events that set off a major conflict
Skene
Renaissance
Inciting Incident
Comedy of Ideas
46. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Verse
Thespis
Conflict
47. England's type of theatre
Protagonist
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
University Wits
The Globe
48. Humorous - objective view point
Sophocles
Slapstick
Auditions
Comedy
49. Used alienation to encourage distance
Antagonist
Morality Plays
Naturalism
Bertolt Brecht
50. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Sense Memory
Inciting Incident
Hybrid Theatre
Antiquarianism
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