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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. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Tragicomedy
Mystery Plays
Comedy
Affective Memory
2. Writer and first actor
Thespis
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Emile Zola
Meyerhold
3. Organization of action
Plot
Conflict
Melodrama (def)
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
4. Naturalism - throw away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Emile Zola
Renaissance
Auditions
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
5. The Clouds - The Frogs - Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Pageants
Proscenium Space
Postmodernism
6. Italians
Protagonist
Slapstick
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
Components of Concept
7. The audience seating are 'sitting place'
Exposition
Downstage
Theatron
Verisimilitude
8. In a proscenium space - spaces offstage to the left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Bertolt Brecht
Wings
Variables of Costume Design
Falling Action
9. 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)
Antagonist
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Producer
10. Collection of mystery plays - performed outdoors - festivals lasted 1-25 days
Cycles
Exposition
Components of Concept
Presentational Approach
11. Actors do not acknowledge the presence of an audience
William Shakespeare
Fourth Wall
Causal Play Structure
Ground Plan
12. A drafting of the set as seen from overhead
ostume Plot
Ground Plan
Playwright
Dramatic Genre
13. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Morality Plays
Broadway
Sophocles
Causal Play Structure
14. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Verse
Black Box
Henrik Ibsen
Director
15. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Stage Manager
Skene
Aristophanes
Lazzi
16. Linear events progress forward in time
Tragicomedy
Causal Play Structure
Plato's Attitude Toward Theatre
Linear Plot
17. Greek - actor
Printing Press
Hypokrites
Plot
Inciting Incident
18. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment
Miracle Plays
Aesthetic Distance
Royalty
The Globe
19. Part of What is included in the text
Dialogue
Theatron
Practical
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
20. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
William Shakespeare
Cycles
Aeschylus
21. Secondary line of action that is included in the plot/story
Proscenium Space
Avant-Garde
Subplot
Tragicomedy
22. Drop in emotional intensity following the climax
Cycles
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Falling Action
Variables of Costume Design
23. A drawing created by the lighting designer showing where each lighting instrument is to be hung
Subplot
Light Plot
Melodrama (def)
Lazzi
24. Suggest - distort - or abstract reality - deliberately incomplete - impossible in real life
Realism and Realistic Developments
Meander
Morality Plays
Presentational Approach
25. Major character at odds with social expectations
Upstage
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Comedy of Character
Comedy of Manners
26. Non-profit and sells a full season theatre
Representational Acting
Thrust Space
Regional Theatre
Rising Action
27. Grammatically based
Henrik Ibsen
Community Theatre
Subtext
Prose
28. Imitation of character and action
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Mimesis
Thrust Space
Rendering
29. A>B>C>D
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Ground Plan
Front of House
Language
30. Visible light source on stage
Practical
Morality Plays
Sense Memory
Tragicomedy
31. Appearance of truth
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
Verisimilitude
Discovery
Empathy
32. 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
Slapstick
Antiquarianism
Front of House
Community Theatre
33. To see something in a 3 dimensional way
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34. High point of action
The Box Set
Representational Acting
Broadway
Climax
35. Exaggerated comedy derived from situations
Situation Comedy
Broadway
Plato
Upstage
36. The person in charge of the financial business and aspects of a production.
Producer
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Anton Chekhov
Who was the Proscenium Invented by?
37. Emile Zola - throws away traditional structure - 'slice of life'
Commercial Theatre
Naturalism
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Wings
38. Practitioners do not rely on theatrical activity for their livelihood
Amateur Theatre
Sturm & Drang Movement
Tragedy
Upstage
39. Series of short stories
Representational Acting
Plot
Anton Chekhov
Slapstick
40. 'Storm and stress'
Sturm & Drang Movement
Royalty
Downstage
Exposition
41. Oedipus - Antigone - added 3rd actor
Sophocles
Producer
Ensemble
Aesthetic Distance
42. The first director
Situation Comedy
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Meander
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
43. Plot - Character - Thought - Language - Music - Spectacle
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44. An entrance to elevated seating for the audience that runs underneath the audience and comes up to empty to the seating area
Vomitories
Practical
Upstage
What Does It Mean to 'See in 3D'?
45. Focused on thought - controversial
Melodrama
Ensemble
Broadway
Comedy of Ideas
46. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Plato
Henrik Ibsen
Concept
Off-Off-Broadway
47. 'The Well Made Play' Credited with writing in between 440-500 plays - featured a melodramatic strategy
Sophocles
Eugene Scribe
Postmodernism
Pageants
48. England's type of theatre
The Globe
Non-Profit Theatre
Representational Approach
Broadway
49. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Which Type of Language Was Used First by Playwrights?
Off-Off-Broadway
Stage Manager
Rendering
50. Imitation of character and action
Melodrama (def)
Rehearsal Process
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
Mimesis