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Theatre Appreciation
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1. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
Proscenium Space
Fourth Wall
Realism and Realistic Developments
2. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Melodrama
Hypokrites
Hybrid Theatre
3. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Regional Theatre
Mystery Plays
Amateur Theatre
Light Plot
4. Events progress forward in time
Meyerhold
Linear Plot
Practical
The Box Set
5. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Meyerhold
Chorus
Playwright
Miracle Plays
6. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Neoclassicism (def)
Royalty
Realism and Realistic Developments
Situation Comedy
7. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Protagonist
Sense Memory
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Improv
8. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Blocking
ostume Plot
Mimesis
9. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Rehearsal Process
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Fourth Wall
Comedy of Manners
10. 'Father of Realism'
Postmodernism
Amateur Theatre
Meyerhold
Henrik Ibsen
11. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Dramaturg
Auditions
Meyerhold
Eugene Scribe
12. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Educational Theatre
Hypokrites
Pageants
Rendering
13. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Comedy of Ideas
Catharsis
Ground Plan
Subtext
14. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Neoclassicism (def)
Director
Off-Off-Broadway
Blocking
15. The standard tool for casting a production
Printing Press
Royalty
Inciting Incident
Auditions
16. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Naturalism
Dramaturg
Sturm & Drang Movement
17. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aesthetic Distance
Anton Chekhov
Slapstick
18. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Plot
Anton Chekhov
Components of Concept
Aristophanes
19. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Plato
Inciting Incident
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Concept
20. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Thought
Rising Action
Conflict
21. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Rehearsal Process
Emile Zola
Non-Profit Theatre
Representational Approach
22. Feel more in stage acting.
Postmodernism
Regional Theatre
Naturalism
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
23. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Chorus
Commercial Theatre
Royalty
Dramaturg
24. Performs Actions of the Play
Aeschylus
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Eugene Scribe
Character
25. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
Wings
Representational Acting
Orchestra
26. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Proscenium Space
Emile Zola
Broadway
27. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Sturm & Drang Movement
Orchestra
Royalty
Front of House
28. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Subplot
Protagonist
Ensemble
29. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Falling Action
Regional Theatre
Falling Action
Plato
30. 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
Thrust Space
Avant-Garde
The Box Set
31. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Inciting Incident
Upstage
Cycles
Fourth Wall
32. Grammatically based
Light Plot
Character
Prose
Theatre of Cruelty
33. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Tragicomedy
Henrik Ibsen
Regional Theatre
Miracle Plays
34. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Melodrama (def)
Conflict
Theatre of Cruelty
Mimesis
35. Series of short stories
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Off-Broadway
Anton Chekhov
Rehearsal Process
36. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Morality Plays
Public Domain
Language
Realism and Realistic Developments
37. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Thrust Space
Auditions
Subplot
Verse
38. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Dialogue
Off-Off-Broadway
Wings
Rising Action
39. Amateur theatre in which shows are created by residents of a particular area who come together without being part of a professional or academic institution
Community Theatre
Royalty
Language
Postmodernism
40. Not many props or detailed scenery
Climax
Renaissance
Black Box
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
41. Audience watches from 3 sides
Public Domain
Plato
Thrust Space
Theatron
42. Someone who writes plays
Playwright
Presentational Approach
Thespis
Wings
43. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Emile Zola
Subtext
Off-Off-Broadway
Tragedy
44. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Sophocles
Representational Acting
Antagonist
Wings
45. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Climax
Sense Memory
Verisimilitude
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
46. Information needed to understand the play
Exposition
Anton Chekhov
Neoclassicism (def)
Lazzi
47. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Linear Plot
Bertolt Brecht
Theatron
Reversal
48. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Front of House
Falling Action
Director
Auditions
49. The era we are currently in
Postmodernism
Climax
Off-Off-Broadway
Sense Memory
50. 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)
Sense Memory
Antagonist
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
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