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Theatre Appreciation
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1. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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2. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Community Theatre
Stage Manager
Auditions
3. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Meander
Vomitories
Ground Plan
Public Domain
4. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Euripides
Aeschylus
William Shakespeare
Plato
5. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Language
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Front of House
6. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Fourth Wall
Avant-Garde
Reversal
Renaissance
7. A second or later round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Bertolt Brecht
Callbacks
Designer
Thespis
8. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Community Theatre
Improv
Prose
Variables of Costume Design
9. Information needed to understand the play
Non-Profit Theatre
Vomitories
Exposition
Concept
10. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Non-Profit Theatre
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Renaissance
Aeschylus
11. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Producer
Ensemble
Comedy of Manners
Renaissance
12. The first director
Comedy of Ideas
Affective Memory
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Comedy of Character
13. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Rendering
Melodrama (def)
Antagonist
Postmodernism
14. Based on the lives of the saints
Ground Plan
Miracle Plays
Ensemble
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
15. Ideas within the play
Thought
Downstage
Chorus
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
16. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Downstage
Presentational Approach
Lazzi
University Wits
17. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Vomitories
Producer
Commedia Dell'Arte
18. Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Variables of Costume Design
Rehearsal Process
Amateur Theatre
19. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Konstantin Stanislavski
Meyerhold
Antiquarianism
Regional Theatre
20. Proscenium arch/stage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Comedy of Ideas
Exposition
Printing Press
21. A fee for each performance
Cycles
Royalty
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
22. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Lazzi
Copyright
Comedy of Character
Causal Play Structure
23. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Sophocles
Catharsis
Stage Manager
Cycles
24. Main character
Linear Plot
Wings
Protagonist
Hypokrites
25. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Concept
Pageants
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Commercial Theatre
26. 100-499 people
Hybrid Theatre
Off-Off-Broadway
Improv
Off-Broadway
27. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Aesthetic Distance
Off-Broadway
Comedy of Character
Proscenium Space
28. Linear events progress forward in time
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Slapstick
Anton Chekhov
Causal Play Structure
29. Visible light source on stage
Community Theatre
Fourth Wall
Practical
William Shakespeare
30. Top of stage
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Upstage
Sturm & Drang Movement
Reversal
31. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Dialogue
Director
32. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Improv
Downstage
Thrust Space
Sense Memory
33. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Fourth Wall
Commercial Theatre
Melodrama (def)
Aesthetic Distance
34. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Reversal
Emile Zola
Bertolt Brecht
Comedy of Character
35. Audience watches from 3 sides
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aesthetic Distance
Thrust Space
36. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Character
Discovery
Aesthetic Distance
Inciting Incident
37. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Comedy of Character
Broadway
ostume Plot
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
38. Play reenacting biblical stories
Fourth Wall
Upstage
Mystery Plays
Verse
39. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Fourth Wall
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Ground Plan
40. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Falling Action
Subtext
Hybrid Theatre
Henrik Ibsen
41. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Falling Action
Vomitories
Sturm & Drang Movement
Linear Plot
42. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Aeschylus
Concept
43. Feel more in stage acting.
Anton Chekhov
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Melodrama (def)
Vomitories
44. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Playwright
Regional Theatre
Slapstick
Empathy
45. Works published before 1923
Public Domain
Amateur Theatre
Educational Theatre
Downstage
46. Proscenium arch/stage
Playwright
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Prose
Cycles
47. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
Representational Approach
Educational Theatre
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
48. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Comedy of Ideas
Amateur Theatre
Konstantin Stanislavski
Eugene Scribe
49. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Verse
Aristotle
Printing Press
50. Stick used to add noise to physical comedy
Sturm & Drang Movement
Verse
Chorus
Slapstick