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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. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Thought
Realism and Realistic Developments
Regional Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
2. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Cycles
Thespis
Meander
Euripides
3. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
Light Plot
Neoclassicism (def)
Verisimilitude
4. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Upstage
Community Theatre
Chorus
Black Box
5. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Hybrid Theatre
Discovery
Linear Plot
Dramaturg
6. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
Ground Plan
Aristophanes
Producer
ostume Plot
7. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Black Box
Postmodernism
University Wits
8. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Pageants
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Dramaturg
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
9. Major character at odds with social expectations
Language
Rising Action
Comedy of Manners
Downstage
10. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Dramatic Genre
Comedy of Character
Inciting Incident
Non-Profit Theatre
11. The era we are currently in
Regional Theatre
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Postmodernism
Antagonist
12. Born in Stafford Upon Avon - studied Latin in school - wrote 30 plays
Theatre of Cruelty
Producer
Hybrid Theatre
William Shakespeare
13. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Causal Play Structure
Rising Action
Components of Concept
ostume Plot
14. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Ensemble
Bertolt Brecht
Avant-Garde
Wings
15. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Tragedy
Realism and Realistic Developments
Ensemble
Eugene Scribe
16. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Comedy of Manners
Off-Off-Broadway
Thrust Space
Copyright
17. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Hybrid Theatre
Aristotle
William Shakespeare
Representational Approach
18. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Language
Designer
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Variables of Costume Design
19. Part of What is included in the text
Konstantin Stanislavski
Dialogue
Sturm & Drang Movement
Falling Action
20. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Causal Play Structure
Mystery Plays
Rehearsal Process
Theatron
21. Visible light source on stage
Climax
University Wits
Practical
Casting Director
22. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Casting Director
Verse
Off-Off-Broadway
Tragicomedy
23. Ideas within the play
Thought
Black Box
Aeschylus
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
24. A>B>C>D
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Linear Plot
Director
Printing Press
25. Linear events progress forward in time
Causal Play Structure
Konstantin Stanislavski
Protagonist
Producer
26. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Representational Acting
Casting Director
Antagonist
Plato
27. Ideas within the play
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Fourth Wall
Stage Manager
Thought
28. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Protagonist
Presentational Approach
Naturalism
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
29. Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Subplot
Verse
Sturm & Drang Movement
30. Series of short stories
Commercial Theatre
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Anton Chekhov
Reversal
31. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Reversal
Tragicomedy
Antiquarianism
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
32. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Playwright
Dramatic Genre
Situation Comedy
Aeschylus
33. Used alienation to encourage distance
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Language
Euripides
Bertolt Brecht
34. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Melodrama
Royalty
Actor
Aeschylus
35. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Actor
Postmodernism
Components of Concept
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
36. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Hypokrites
Melodrama
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
37. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Playwright
Upstage
Neoclassicism (def)
Sturm & Drang Movement
38. Works published before 1923
Black Box
Prose
Public Domain
Presentational Approach
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
Character
Callbacks
Community Theatre
Inciting Incident
40. Audience watches from 3 sides
Tragicomedy
Thrust Space
Causal Play Structure
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
41. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Affective Memory
Orchestra
Front of House
Mystery Plays
42. Gas lights - etc.
Anton Chekhov
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Off-Off-Broadway
Components of Concept
43. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Components of Concept
Dramatic Genre
Meander
Verse
44. Performs Actions of the Play
Components of Concept
Character
Comedy
Emile Zola
45. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Designer
Off-Off-Broadway
Aristophanes
Ensemble
46. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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47. The era we are currently in
Postmodernism
Tragedy
Melodrama
Empathy
48. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Producer
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Empathy
Variables of Costume Design
49. 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)
Eugene Scribe
Tragedy
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Vomitories
50. Not many props or detailed scenery
Tragedy
Renaissance
Orchestra
Discovery