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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. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Rehearsal Process
Situation Comedy
Rehearsal Process
Sophocles
2. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Downstage
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Royalty
Mimesis
3. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
The Globe
Copyright
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Character
4. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Comedy
Affective Memory
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Off-Off-Broadway
5. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Playwright
Light Plot
Educational Theatre
6. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Practical
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Producer
Improv
7. Focused on thought - controversial
Thought
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Meyerhold
Comedy of Ideas
8. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Variables of Costume Design
Melodrama
Sense Memory
Community Theatre
9. Play reenacting biblical stories
Amateur Theatre
Mystery Plays
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Henrik Ibsen
10. Greek - actor
Sturm & Drang Movement
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Anton Chekhov
Hypokrites
11. Linear events progress forward in time
Front of House
Comedy of Ideas
Causal Play Structure
Sturm & Drang Movement
12. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Character
Components of Concept
Reversal
Antiquarianism
13. Someone who writes plays
Meyerhold
Playwright
Avant-Garde
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
14. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
Front of House
Amateur Theatre
Concept
15. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Tragedy
Language
Director
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
16. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Rising Action
Callbacks
Affective Memory
Subplot
17. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Representational Approach
Royalty
Auditions
18. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Chorus
Non-Profit Theatre
Falling Action
Non-Profit Theatre
19. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Broadway
Broadway
Thespis
Avant-Garde
20. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Subplot
Emile Zola
Royalty
Comedy
21. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Verse
Printing Press
Situation Comedy
Proscenium Space
22. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Actor
Improv
Linear Plot
23. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Printing Press
Hypokrites
Stage Manager
Catharsis
24. Top of stage
Upstage
Causal Play Structure
The Box Set
Bertolt Brecht
25. Feel more in stage acting.
Dramaturg
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Practical
26. Emotional release
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Front of House
Catharsis
Miracle Plays
27. The first director
Antiquarianism
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Avant-Garde
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
28. A chart that records the items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Reversal
ostume Plot
Thespis
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
29. The first director
Thespis
Casting Director
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
30. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Proscenium Space
Hypokrites
Plot
Public Domain
31. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Designer
Mystery Plays
Emile Zola
Realism and Realistic Developments
32. Gas lights - etc.
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Callbacks
Language
Antiquarianism
33. Main character
Protagonist
Prose
Comedy of Ideas
Falling Action
34. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Theatre of Cruelty
Rising Action
Components of Concept
Tragedy
35. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Blocking
Aeschylus
Character
36. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Representational Approach
Melodrama
University Wits
Proscenium Space
37. The era we are currently in
Postmodernism
Neoclassicism (def)
ostume Plot
Theatre of Cruelty
38. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Cycles
Designer
Subplot
Meyerhold
39. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Chorus
Variables of Costume Design
Slapstick
Components of Concept
40. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Variables of Costume Design
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Sophocles
Representational Approach
41. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Eugene Scribe
Designer
William Shakespeare
The Box Set
42. Rhyming
Blocking
Avant-Garde
Verse
Sophocles
43. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle
Morality Plays
Konstantin Stanislavski
Royalty
44. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Educational Theatre
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Mystery Plays
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
45. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Anton Chekhov
Amateur Theatre
Regional Theatre
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
46. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Protagonist
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Realism and Realistic Developments
Tragedy
47. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Reversal
Causal Play Structure
Theatre of Cruelty
Dramatic Genre
48. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Hybrid Theatre
Royalty
ostume Plot
49. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Components of Concept
Konstantin Stanislavski
Melodrama (def)
Hybrid Theatre
50. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Morality Plays
Off-Broadway
Components of Concept