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Theatre Appreciation
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performing-arts
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1. 100-499 people
Aesthetic Distance
Commedia Dell'Arte
Off-Broadway
Downstage
2. Gas lights - etc.
Antagonist
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Aristotle
Printing Press
3. Focused on thought - controversial
Aesthetic Distance
Euripides
Comedy of Ideas
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
4. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Blocking
Realism and Realistic Developments
Discovery
Verisimilitude
5. Events that set off a major conflict
Rehearsal Process
Inciting Incident
Playwright
Catharsis
6. 'Father of Realism'
Community Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
Miracle Plays
Rehearsal Process
7. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Melodrama
Thought
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
William Shakespeare
8. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Miracle Plays
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Meander
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
9. 'Storm and stress'
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Sturm & Drang Movement
Wings
Emile Zola
10. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Realism and Realistic Developments
Presentational Approach
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Callbacks
11. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Morality Plays
Director
Rising Action
Skene
12. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Anton Chekhov
Orchestra
Exposition
Auditions
13. The standard tool for casting a production
Eugene Scribe
Designer
Auditions
Exposition
14. Main character
Vomitories
Rendering
Protagonist
Playwright
15. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Public Domain
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Callbacks
Comedy of Manners
16. 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
Subtext
Melodrama (def)
Theatre of Cruelty
17. Organization of action
The Box Set
Naturalism
Konstantin Stanislavski
Plot
18. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Chorus
Rising Action
Dialogue
Comedy of Character
19. Proscenium space
Avant-Garde
Comedy of Manners
The Box Set
Light Plot
20. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Antagonist
Falling Action
Thespis
Skene
21. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Reversal
Avant-Garde
Konstantin Stanislavski
22. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
Verisimilitude
Tragicomedy
Inciting Incident
23. Main character
Front of House
Theatre of Cruelty
Protagonist
Presentational Approach
24. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Miracle Plays
Meander
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Lazzi
25. 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)
Non-Profit Theatre
Public Domain
Comedy of Character
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
26. Part of What is included in the text
Rendering
Dialogue
Character
Aeschylus
27. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Dramatic Genre
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Tragicomedy
28. Visible light source on stage
Meyerhold
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Practical
Ensemble
29. Events progress forward in time
Linear Plot
Commercial Theatre
Plato
Educational Theatre
30. 500-1800 people
Broadway
Downstage
Catharsis
Concept
31. Controls the environment in the theatre
The Globe
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Designer
Chorus
32. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Pageants
Representational Acting
Comedy of Character
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
33. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Comedy of Ideas
Theatron
Components of Concept
Upstage
34. Information needed to understand the play
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Sturm & Drang Movement
Exposition
Catharsis
35. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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36. A>B>C>D
Light Plot
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Rehearsal Process
Printing Press
37. Not many props or detailed scenery
William Shakespeare
Renaissance
Aeschylus
Variables of Costume Design
38. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Casting Director
Theatre of Cruelty
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Henrik Ibsen
39. Events that set off a major conflict
Light Plot
Practical
Inciting Incident
Hypokrites
40. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Protagonist
Black Box
Downstage
Printing Press
41. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Thespis
Sophocles
Comedy
Tragedy
42. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Henrik Ibsen
Comedy of Character
Linear Plot
43. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Naturalism
Chorus
Off-Off-Broadway
Comedy of Manners
44. Used alienation to encourage distance
Front of House
William Shakespeare
Thrust Space
Bertolt Brecht
45. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Non-Profit Theatre
Lazzi
Henrik Ibsen
Ground Plan
46. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Affective Memory
Comedy of Manners
Postmodernism
Commercial Theatre
47. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Downstage
Discovery
Aeschylus
Theatron
48. 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
Amateur Theatre
Community Theatre
Exposition
Meyerhold
49. Series of short stories
Situation Comedy
Lazzi
Slapstick
Anton Chekhov
50. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Royalty
Eugene Scribe
Auditions
Casting Director