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Theatre Appreciation
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1. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Front of House
Sense Memory
Rehearsal Process
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
2. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Cycles
Vomitories
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Inciting Incident
3. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
Designer
Reversal
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Avant-Garde
4. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Aeschylus
Melodrama (def)
Representational Acting
Variables of Costume Design
5. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Presentational Approach
Euripides
Affective Memory
Sense Memory
6. 'Father of Realism'
Casting Director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Henrik Ibsen
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
7. Gas lights - etc.
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Broadway
Black Box
William Shakespeare
8. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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9. Was poetry for many years
Front of House
Comedy of Manners
Language
Mystery Plays
10. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
The Globe
Slapstick
Amateur Theatre
Ground Plan
11. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Orchestra
Bertolt Brecht
Dramatic Genre
University Wits
12. Works published before 1923
Public Domain
Affective Memory
Rising Action
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
13. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Front of House
Subplot
Representational Approach
Subtext
14. Play reenacting biblical stories
Theatre of Cruelty
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Mystery Plays
Meyerhold
15. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Designer
Antagonist
Off-Off-Broadway
16. Based on the lives of the saints
Miracle Plays
Renaissance
Language
Tragicomedy
17. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Practical
Aristotle
Front of House
Eugene Scribe
18. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Discovery
Miracle Plays
Printing Press
19. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Director
Fourth Wall
Comedy of Ideas
20. Focused on thought - controversial
Plot
Casting Director
Comedy of Character
Comedy of Ideas
21. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Downstage
Meander
Off-Broadway
22. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Black Box
Wings
Casting Director
Sturm & Drang Movement
23. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
Royalty
Lazzi
Non-Profit Theatre
24. Used alienation to encourage distance
Designer
Bertolt Brecht
Community Theatre
Off-Broadway
25. Person who embodies a character on stage
Actor
Melodrama
Ensemble
Mystery Plays
26. Italians
Copyright
Tragicomedy
Subplot
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
27. Verse
Character
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Comedy of Ideas
Downstage
28. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Off-Off-Broadway
Director
Dialogue
Vomitories
29. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Emile Zola
Comedy of Character
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Dramatic Genre
30. Grammatically based
Subtext
Prose
Downstage
Producer
31. Based on the lives of the saints
Miracle Plays
Prose
Callbacks
Reversal
32. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Character
Stage Manager
Melodrama (def)
Subplot
33. Blend of union and non-union actors - sometimes housed in non-traditional locations
Black Box
Hybrid Theatre
Proscenium Space
Copyright
34. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Aeschylus
Chorus
Dramaturg
Improv
35. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Stage Manager
Neoclassicism (def)
Sense Memory
Subtext
36. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Educational Theatre
Designer
Commercial Theatre
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
37. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Meander
Affective Memory
Proscenium Space
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
38. Main character
Hybrid Theatre
Reversal
Protagonist
Conflict
39. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Chorus
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Public Domain
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
40. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Fourth Wall
Variables of Costume Design
Downstage
Mimesis
41. Audience watches from 3 sides
Thrust Space
Black Box
The Box Set
Anton Chekhov
42. Drawn by eccentricities of major character
Comedy of Character
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Prose
Improv
43. The first director
Casting Director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Theatre of Cruelty
Morality Plays
44. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Neoclassicism (def)
Miracle Plays
Skene
Aesthetic Distance
45. Part of What is included in the text
Verisimilitude
Dialogue
Euripides
Pageants
46. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Renaissance
Verse
Proscenium Space
47. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Avant-Garde
Sturm & Drang Movement
Prose
Downstage
48. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Henrik Ibsen
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Aristophanes
49. Medea - The Bacchae
Director
ostume Plot
Euripides
Off-Off-Broadway
50. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Proscenium Space
Eugene Scribe
Ensemble
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