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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. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Dramaturg
Naturalism
Renaissance
Light Plot
2. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Slapstick
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Downstage
Tragedy
3. 'Father of Realism'
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Playwright
Henrik Ibsen
Naturalism
4. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Comedy of Manners
Plato
Antagonist
Producer
5. Busiest person in the theatre
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Linear Plot
Producer
Stage Manager
6. A>B>C>D
Front of House
Postmodernism
Printing Press
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
7. Gas lights - etc.
Fourth Wall
Theatre of Cruelty
Off-Off-Broadway
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
8. Planned actor movement
Printing Press
Rehearsal Process
The Box Set
Blocking
9. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Catharsis
Chorus
Casting Director
Melodrama (def)
10. Six elements - catharsis
Aristotle
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Proscenium Space
Hybrid Theatre
11. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Melodrama (def)
Dialogue
Concept
Representational Approach
12. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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13. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Hybrid Theatre
Cycles
Proscenium Space
14. Used alienation to encourage distance
Emile Zola
Plato
Bertolt Brecht
Subplot
15. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Hybrid Theatre
Representational Approach
Sense Memory
Melodrama
16. Top of stage
Upstage
Royalty
Off-Off-Broadway
Verisimilitude
17. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Community Theatre
Antagonist
Renaissance
Falling Action
18. Top of stage
Miracle Plays
Upstage
Anton Chekhov
Dramaturg
19. Writer and first actor
Copyright
Melodrama (def)
Thespis
Language
20. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Playwright
Situation Comedy
Emile Zola
Aesthetic Distance
21. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Situation Comedy
Theatron
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Character
22. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Aesthetic Distance
Hybrid Theatre
Aristophanes
Melodrama (def)
23. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Commercial Theatre
Copyright
Plato
24. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Chorus
Commercial Theatre
Community Theatre
Melodrama
25. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
The Globe
Tragedy
Proscenium Space
26. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Representational Approach
Causal Play Structure
Emile Zola
Climax
27. Proscenium space
The Box Set
Thought
Melodrama
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
28. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Exposition
Emile Zola
Educational Theatre
29. Writer and first actor
Thespis
Upstage
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
30. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Antagonist
Ensemble
Rising Action
31. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Meander
Tragicomedy
Plato
Morality Plays
32. Works published before 1923
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Public Domain
Hybrid Theatre
Slapstick
33. Was poetry for many years
Language
Dialogue
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Inciting Incident
34. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Representational Acting
Comedy
Inciting Incident
Light Plot
35. Was poetry for many years
Linear Plot
Language
Meyerhold
Comedy of Manners
36. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Thrust Space
Sense Memory
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Verse
37. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Character
Emile Zola
Anton Chekhov
Meander
38. Based on the lives of the saints
Callbacks
Cycles
Subtext
Miracle Plays
39. Meetings before casting - brainstorming - shaping work into a unified concept
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Morality Plays
Inciting Incident
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
40. Six elements - catharsis
Aesthetic Distance
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Meyerhold
Aristotle
41. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Verse
Copyright
Falling Action
Anton Chekhov
42. 500-1800 people
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Broadway
Catharsis
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
43. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Subplot
Lazzi
Cycles
Subtext
44. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Playwright
Realism and Realistic Developments
45. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Climax
The Box Set
Affective Memory
Konstantin Stanislavski
46. Not many props or detailed scenery
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Callbacks
Renaissance
Ensemble
47. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Slapstick
Comedy of Manners
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Antiquarianism
48. Someone who writes plays
Playwright
Community Theatre
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Callbacks
49. Person who embodies a character on stage
Actor
Wings
Realism and Realistic Developments
Rehearsal Process
50. The standard tool for casting a production
William Shakespeare
Auditions
Amateur Theatre
Upstage