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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. Stock characters (servants - masters - lovers)
Lazzi
Eugene Scribe
Conflict
Eugene Scribe
2. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Subplot
Commedia Dell'Arte
Antagonist
Comedy
3. Experimented with symbolism in an unconventional setting
Skene
Realism and Realistic Developments
Cycles
Meyerhold
4. Person who embodies a character on stage
Actor
Comedy of Ideas
Euripides
Variables of Costume Design
5. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Theatre of Cruelty
Antagonist
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
6. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Vomitories
Variables of Costume Design
Tragicomedy
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
7. Person who embodies a character on stage
Neoclassicism (def)
Actor
Thrust Space
Aristotle
8. 100-499 people
Off-Broadway
Subplot
Sophocles
Antiquarianism
9. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Public Domain
Aeschylus
Affective Memory
Aristotle
10. Ideas within the play
Verisimilitude
Slapstick
Thought
Stage Manager
11. In the middle ages - wagons with scenery used in professional staging
Pageants
Dramatic Genre
Representational Approach
Thrust Space
12. What characters do - what characters say about themselves - what others say about them
Improv
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Affective Memory
Linear Plot
13. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Aeschylus
Theatre of Cruelty
Dramaturg
Mimesis
14. 'Father of Realism'
Renaissance
Henrik Ibsen
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Thespis
15. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Meander
Orchestra
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Verse
16. Amateur theatre in which shows are created by residents of a particular area who come together without being part of a professional or academic institution
Konstantin Stanislavski
Commercial Theatre
Sophocles
Community Theatre
17. A group of performers working together vocally and physically
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Inciting Incident
Protagonist
Chorus
18. Linear events progress forward in time
William Shakespeare
Causal Play Structure
Dialogue
Comedy
19. The first director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Producer
Sturm & Drang Movement
Comedy of Character
20. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Subplot
Commercial Theatre
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Aristophanes
21. Events that set off a major conflict
Stage Manager
Commedia Dell'Arte
Inciting Incident
Falling Action
22. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Konstantin Stanislavski
Concept
Conflict
Proscenium Space
23. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Aristophanes
Eugene Scribe
Realism and Realistic Developments
Theatre of Cruelty
24. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
Upstage
Broadway
Amateur Theatre
Affective Memory
25. Was poetry for many years
Naturalism
Language
Casting Director
Inciting Incident
26. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Sense Memory
Eugene Scribe
Tragicomedy
Emile Zola
27. Performs Actions of the Play
Sturm & Drang Movement
Theatre of Cruelty
Character
Sense Memory
28. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Sophocles
Euripides
Director
Neoclassicism (def)
29. Play reenacting biblical stories
Aeschylus
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Mystery Plays
Melodrama (def)
30. 'Storm and stress'
Naturalism
Designer
Sturm & Drang Movement
Rendering
31. Series of short stories
Anton Chekhov
Off-Broadway
Commedia Dell'Arte
Callbacks
32. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Lazzi
Rehearsal Process
Comedy of Manners
Aesthetic Distance
33. Production of plays in schools at primary - secondary - undergraduate - and graduate levels
Educational Theatre
Difference Between Stage & Film Acting
Components of Concept
Renaissance
34. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Verse
Representational Acting
Wings
Sense Memory
35. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Playwright
The Globe
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Tragedy
36. Works published before 1923
The Box Set
Public Domain
Euripides
Aristophanes
37. Relates to the emotional response that the play creates
Dramatic Genre
Climax
Verisimilitude
Anton Chekhov
38. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Playwright
Postmodernism
Melodrama
Off-Broadway
39. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Commercial Theatre
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Sophocles
Character
40. Occurs when a line of action suddenly veers to the opposite
The Globe
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Reversal
Sophocles
41. Top of stage
Upstage
Melodrama
Avant-Garde
Proscenium Space
42. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Falling Action
Regional Theatre
Sophocles
Technical Developments of the 19th Century
43. Recognizes plays as intellectual property of the playwright
Plato
Empathy
Postmodernism
Copyright
44. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Avant-Garde
Naturalism
Blocking
Empathy
45. Ideas within the play
Thought
Playwright
Orchestra
Subplot
46. Emotional release
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Catharsis
Melodrama (def)
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
47. Audience watches from 3 sides
Casting Director
Thrust Space
Subtext
Royalty
48. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Community Theatre
Fourth Wall
Realism and Realistic Developments
Morality Plays
49. Main character
Protagonist
Affective Memory
Melodrama
Exposition
50. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Language
Theatron
Stage Manager
Producer