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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. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Sophocles
Climax
Upstage
2. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Light Plot
Realism and Realistic Developments
Slapstick
Skene
3. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Blocking
Dramaturg
Naturalism
Vomitories
4. Used alienation to encourage distance
Bertolt Brecht
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Miracle Plays
Thought
5. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
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6. Busiest person in the theatre
Stage Manager
Character
Comedy of Character
Protagonist
7. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Copyright
Verisimilitude
Thought
Downstage
8. Feel more in stage acting.
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Ensemble
Presentational Approach
Black Box
9. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Conflict
Components of Concept
Commercial Theatre
Verse
10. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Anton Chekhov
Non-Profit Theatre
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Subtext
11. 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)
Exposition
Chorus
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Miracle Plays
12. Part of What is included in the text
Casting Director
Eugene Scribe
Dialogue
Fourth Wall
13. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Practical
Henrik Ibsen
Melodrama
Representational Approach
14. Silhouette - color - texture - accent
Neoclassicism (def)
Inciting Incident
Comedy of Manners
Variables of Costume Design
15. Audience watches from 3 sides
Thrust Space
Verse
Sense Memory
Fourth Wall
16. A specialist in finding actors for specific roles
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Casting Director
Slapstick
Reversal
17. Italians
Thespis
Comedy
Proscenium Space
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
18. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Representational Approach
Off-Broadway
Lazzi
Ground Plan
19. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Components of Concept
Fourth Wall
Sense Memory
Downstage
20. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Empathy
Front of House
Lazzi
Renaissance
21. Information needed to understand the play
Exposition
Renaissance
Representational Acting
Wings
22. Proscenium space
The Box Set
Chorus
Front of House
Conflict
23. Controls the environment in the theatre
Designer
Mystery Plays
Upstage
Representational Acting
24. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Sturm & Drang Movement
Designer
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Off-Off-Broadway
25. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Aesthetic Distance
Antiquarianism
Sophocles
Affective Memory
26. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
Commercial Theatre
Vomitories
Sense Memory
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
27. Was poetry for many years
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Hypokrites
Avant-Garde
Language
28. Writer and first actor
Thespis
Stage Manager
Broadway
Comedy of Manners
29. Emotional identification - sense of identification with the character
Euripides
Empathy
Tragedy
Components of Concept
30. Not many props or detailed scenery
Ensemble
Renaissance
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Community Theatre
31. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Presentational Approach
The Box Set
Verse
32. Reality (violence happens offstage) - morality (needs to teach a moral lesson) - and universality
Downstage
Meyerhold
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Subtext
33. A group of educated men from Oxford and Cambridge Who wrote and performed for the professional public theatre
Cycles
Off-Broadway
University Wits
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
34. Planned actor movement
Blocking
Renaissance
Aeschylus
Thought
35. Historically accurate costumes and scenery
Antiquarianism
Orchestra
Meander
Blocking
36. Thomas Aquinas - literature can be dispersed at a faster rate
Community Theatre
Playwright
Printing Press
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
37. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Tragedy
Rehearsal Process
Fourth Wall
Plato
38. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Improv
Skene
Light Plot
Representational Acting
39. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Verisimilitude
Dramaturg
Non-Profit Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
40. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Dramatic Genre
Non-Profit Theatre
Cycles
Aeschylus
41. Practical considerations - atmosphere - visual images.
Dialogue
Tragicomedy
Royalty
Representational Approach
42. Linear events progress forward in time
Realism and Realistic Developments
Causal Play Structure
Skene
Mystery Plays
43. Was poetry for many years
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Language
Skene
Off-Off-Broadway
44. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Aristophanes
Theatron
Antagonist
Subtext
45. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Proscenium Space
Practical
Cycles
Pageants
46. Moscow arts theatre - ensemble acting - psychological evaluation of character
Henrik Ibsen
Konstantin Stanislavski
Ground Plan
Blocking
47. Fast paced - uses reversal and discovery
Components of Concept
Melodrama (def)
Non-Profit Theatre
Miracle Plays
48. Does not acknowledge the presence of an audience
Situation Comedy
Representational Acting
Vomitories
Meyerhold
49. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Comedy of Ideas
Orchestra
Aristophanes
Hybrid Theatre
50. Top of stage
Thrust Space
William Shakespeare
Upstage
Downstage