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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. Performs Actions of the Play
Pageants
Language
Proscenium Space
Character
2. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Discovery
Comedy of Character
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Tragicomedy
3. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Tragicomedy
Theatron
Verisimilitude
4. A picture of the scene from the audience perspective
Reversal
Rendering
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Commercial Theatre
5. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Director
Exposition
Sophocles
Front of House
6. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Rehearsal Process
Downstage
Dramatic Genre
Emile Zola
7. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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8. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Protagonist
Actor
Dramaturg
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
9. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Royalty
Sophocles
Melodrama (def)
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
10. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Realism and Realistic Developments
Verisimilitude
Plato
11. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Chorus
Ground Plan
Orchestra
12. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Orchestra
Subtext
Comedy of Manners
13. Appearance of truth
Hypokrites
Verisimilitude
Orchestra
Actor
14. A group of actors - not just one star
Dramatic Genre
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
Ensemble
Meander
15. Major character at odds with social expectations
Comedy of Manners
Neoclassicism (def)
Community Theatre
Mystery Plays
16. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
University Wits
Proscenium Space
Falling Action
Miracle Plays
17. Plato thought it was harmful to be one thing and act like another
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18. Verse
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Sturm & Drang Movement
Hypokrites
Conflict
19. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Prose
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Naturalism
20. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Naturalism
Emile Zola
Wings
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
21. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Proscenium Space
The Globe
Off-Broadway
Director
22. The first director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Melodrama (def)
Downstage
Konstantin Stanislavski
23. Experimental - popular between 1890's-1960's
Callbacks
Ground Plan
Avant-Garde
Wings
24. High point of action
Stage Manager
Sophocles
Climax
Casting Director
25. Events that set off a major conflict
Affective Memory
Inciting Incident
Orchestra
Renaissance
26. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Vomitories
Comedy of Ideas
Avant-Garde
Miracle Plays
27. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Black Box
Emile Zola
Renaissance
Aeschylus
28. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Affective Memory
29. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Dialogue
Konstantin Stanislavski
Miracle Plays
Lazzi
30. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Aristophanes
Naturalism
Community Theatre
Climax
31. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Aesthetic Distance
Actor
Lazzi
Public Domain
32. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Tragedy
Climax
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Lazzi
33. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Falling Action
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
34. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Producer
Skene
Slapstick
Meyerhold
35. Humorous - objective view point
Thought
Comedy
Printing Press
Situation Comedy
36. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Cycles
Verisimilitude
Realism and Realistic Developments
Renaissance
37. Person who embodies a character on stage
Community Theatre
Actor
Emile Zola
Light Plot
38. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Components of Concept
Empathy
Sturm & Drang Movement
39. Medea - The Bacchae
Language
Callbacks
Postmodernism
Euripides
40. Top of stage
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Thought
Upstage
Sturm & Drang Movement
41. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Downstage
Protagonist
Public Domain
Meyerhold
42. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Commercial Theatre
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Linear Plot
Discovery
43. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Subtext
Variables of Costume Design
Protagonist
Amateur Theatre
44. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Konstantin Stanislavski
Director
Aristophanes
Causal Play Structure
45. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
Cycles
Conflict
Blocking
Plato
46. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Meyerhold
Vomitories
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Community Theatre
47. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Henrik Ibsen
Eugene Scribe
Amateur Theatre
Hypokrites
48. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Theatron
Situation Comedy
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Aeschylus
49. England's type of theatre
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Situation Comedy
Morality Plays
The Globe
50. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Reversal
Affective Memory
Improv
Aesthetic Distance