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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. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Verisimilitude
Non-Profit Theatre
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Protagonist
2. Medea - The Bacchae
Miracle Plays
Catharsis
Inciting Incident
Euripides
3. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Empathy
Downstage
Thrust Space
4. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Language
Variables of Costume Design
Off-Off-Broadway
5. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Aristophanes
Affective Memory
Skene
Lazzi
6. Works published before 1923
Public Domain
Meander
Inciting Incident
Wings
7. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Naturalism
Theatre of Cruelty
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Commercial Theatre
8. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Cycles
Aesthetic Distance
Theatre of Cruelty
9. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Subplot
Eugene Scribe
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
10. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Front of House
Euripides
Reversal
Vomitories
11. Planned actor movement
Commedia Dell'Arte
Rendering
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Blocking
12. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Reversal
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Aesthetic Distance
Producer
13. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Anton Chekhov
Callbacks
Broadway
14. Emotional release
Character
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Catharsis
Rendering
15. The first director
Melodrama
Protagonist
Components of Concept
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
16. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Verse
Producer
Components of Concept
Realism and Realistic Developments
17. Proscenium space
Affective Memory
Conflict
The Box Set
Language
18. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Stage Manager
Tragicomedy
Subplot
Meyerhold
19. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Practical
Tragedy
Sense Memory
Upstage
20. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Sense Memory
Representational Acting
Eugene Scribe
Theatre of Cruelty
21. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Realism and Realistic Developments
Melodrama (def)
Affective Memory
Rising Action
22. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Empathy
Reversal
Language
Copyright
23. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Catharsis
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Lazzi
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
24. Play reenacting biblical stories
Meander
Linear Plot
Neoclassicism (def)
Mystery Plays
25. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Sophocles
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Antagonist
Upstage
26. Person who embodies a character on stage
Wings
Actor
Mystery Plays
Concept
27. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Tragicomedy
Black Box
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Fourth Wall
28. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Blocking
Discovery
Euripides
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
29. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Ensemble
Meyerhold
Verisimilitude
30. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Regional Theatre
Fourth Wall
Pageants
The Globe
31. Proscenium space
The Box Set
Black Box
Public Domain
Character
32. Major character at odds with social expectations
Chorus
Comedy of Manners
Playwright
Rising Action
33. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Discovery
Representational Acting
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Tragedy
34. The actual meaning of the dialogue behind the words spoken
Regional Theatre
Subtext
Broadway
Bertolt Brecht
35. Used alienation to encourage distance
Stage Manager
Commedia Dell'Arte
Bertolt Brecht
Light Plot
36. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Melodrama
Off-Off-Broadway
William Shakespeare
Miracle Plays
37. Not many props or detailed scenery
Renaissance
Dramaturg
Commedia Dell'Arte
Konstantin Stanislavski
38. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Reversal
Hypokrites
Subtext
Producer
39. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Ground Plan
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Verse
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
40. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Commercial Theatre
Community Theatre
Callbacks
Theatre of Cruelty
41. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Ground Plan
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Emile Zola
42. Busiest person in the theatre
Stage Manager
Sense Memory
Climax
Community Theatre
43. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Orchestra
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Lazzi
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
44. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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45. 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
Improv
Plato
Melodrama (def)
Plot
46. 500-1800 people
Representational Approach
Comedy
Broadway
Theatre of Cruelty
47. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Emile Zola
Off-Broadway
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Theatre of Cruelty
48. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
Realism and Realistic Developments
Naturalism
Practical
49. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Non-Profit Theatre
Proscenium Space
Aristophanes
Casting Director
50. A>B>C>D
Slapstick
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities