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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. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Dramatic Genre
Blocking
Cycles
Melodrama
2. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Dialogue
Plato
Commedia Dell'Arte
Dramaturg
3. Works published before 1923
Community Theatre
Public Domain
Dialogue
Broadway
4. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Naturalism
Amateur Theatre
Eugene Scribe
Printing Press
5. 'Storm and stress'
Skene
Falling Action
Sturm & Drang Movement
Public Domain
6. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Aristophanes
Meander
Black Box
Thrust Space
7. Causes trouble for the main character
Thrust Space
Antagonist
Sturm & Drang Movement
Commedia Dell'Arte
8. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Lazzi
Practical
Aesthetic Distance
Skene
9. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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10. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Downstage
Vomitories
Royalty
Front of House
11. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Wings
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Meyerhold
Aristophanes
12. Top of stage
Slapstick
Morality Plays
Upstage
Educational Theatre
13. Controls the environment in the theatre
Tragicomedy
Community Theatre
Designer
Auditions
14. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Bertolt Brecht
Sophocles
Comedy of Ideas
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
15. Medea - The Bacchae
Meander
Euripides
Comedy of Ideas
Rising Action
16. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Verisimilitude
Language
Meander
Concept
17. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Plot
Aeschylus
Naturalism
Pageants
18. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Components of Concept
Euripides
Skene
Practical
19. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Non-Profit Theatre
Comedy of Character
Broadway
Sturm & Drang Movement
20. Gas lights - etc.
Downstage
Producer
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
21. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Conflict
Eugene Scribe
Callbacks
Pageants
22. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Eugene Scribe
Prose
Meyerhold
Dramatic Genre
23. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Thespis
Language
Producer
Tragicomedy
24. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Affective Memory
Prose
Commercial Theatre
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
25. Was poetry for many years
Tragedy
Subtext
Language
Actor
26. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Stage Manager
Comedy
27. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Melodrama
Plot
Hypokrites
Black Box
28. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Non-Profit Theatre
Exposition
Aristophanes
Subplot
29. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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30. Linear events progress forward in time
Subtext
Causal Play Structure
Non-Profit Theatre
Skene
31. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Copyright
Catharsis
Falling Action
Broadway
32. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Sense Memory
Vomitories
Off-Broadway
Theatron
33. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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34. Grammatically based
Downstage
Prose
Black Box
Sophocles
35. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Mimesis
Falling Action
Director
Theatron
36. The first director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Community Theatre
Educational Theatre
Upstage
37. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Designer
Dramaturg
Meander
Presentational Approach
38. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Comedy of Ideas
Designer
39. The first director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Tragedy
Commedia Dell'Arte
Postmodernism
40. Imitation of character and action
Prose
Practical
Mimesis
Blocking
41. Audience watches from 3 sides
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
ostume Plot
Realism and Realistic Developments
Thrust Space
42. Humorous - objective view point
Aristotle
Theatre of Cruelty
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Comedy
43. Movement of art and literature in 16th century - based on Greek and Roman works
Comedy of Manners
Playwright
Wings
Neoclassicism (def)
44. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Amateur Theatre
Black Box
Pageants
ostume Plot
45. High point of action
Climax
Royalty
Verisimilitude
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
46. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Copyright
Cycles
Eugene Scribe
Aesthetic Distance
47. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Avant-Garde
Lazzi
Subplot
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
48. 'Father of Realism'
Inciting Incident
Causal Play Structure
Henrik Ibsen
University Wits
49. A>B>C>D
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Affective Memory
Plato
Dramatic Genre
50. Part of What is included in the text
Dialogue
Presentational Approach
Affective Memory
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?